+ Vic and Sade was an American radio program created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to 1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957. During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one of the most popular series of its kind, earning critical and popular success: according to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the majority of its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute episodes without a continuing storyline. The central characters, known as "radio's home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van Harvey), his wife Sade (Bernadine Flynn) and their adopted son Rush (Bill Idelson). The three lived on Virginia Avenue in "the small house halfway up in the next block." The program was presented with a low-key ease and naturalness, and Rhymer's humorous dialogue was delivered with a subtleness that made even the most outrageous events seem commonplace and normal. Vic and Sade was technically a "soap opera," in time slots slanted toward an audience of housewives, and sponsored by food items and cleaning products. Rhymer evidently felt some pressure from the sponsor's advertising agencies to include more romance and human interaction into his scripts, like the other daytime dramas on the air. Rhymer complied in his own dry way, by adding ridiculous touches (his romantic lead, Dwight Twentysixler, always speaks with his "mouth full of shingle nails"!) and oddball characters (Orville Wheeney, the slow-witted gas-meter man; Jimmy Custard, the crochety town official who never quite makes clear what he does; Mr. Sprawl, the frail old man who dotes on "peanuts with chocolate smeared on the outsides"). Vic and Sade went off the air September 29, 1944 but was brought back several times. In 1945, the cast was augmented to include many characters who were previously only talked about. In 1946 it was a summer replacement series, now in a half-hour format and played in front of a live studio audience. Later that year it became a sustaining (unsponsored) feature on the Mutual network.-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Vic And Sade
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| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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| 11.30.1943 | sweet esther wisconsin |
+ Uncle Fletcher tells the story of Virgil Dejectedly, Vic plans a trip to Sweet Esther, Wiscconsin... | |
| 11.30.1943 | vic to visit sweet est |
+ Well sir it’s about 7.30 in the evening as we join our friends at the small house half way up th... | |
| 11.29.1943 | a garbage wagon pass |
+ Vic tries to avoid a conversation with Uncle Fletcher, who's just gotten a garbage wagon pass. The... | |
| 11.27.1943 | garbage wagon pass |
+ It’s about the middle of the afternoon as we enter the small house half way up on the next block... | |
| 11.26.1943 | christmas present |
+ Vic has to select the boss' Christmas gift, his fellow workers haven't been much help. The body o... | |
| 11.26.1943 | christmas suggestions for the boss |
+ Vic has to select the boss' Christmas gift, his fellow workers haven't been much help. The body o... | |
| 11.19.1943 | pom pom cordova |
+ What's happening with Pom Pom Cordova and Lolita DiRienzi? Sade wants to know! Vic is a musical m... | |
| 11.15.1943 | ike kneesuffers snapshots |
+ Crisco. Vic and Russell show Sade a pile of photographs of unknown people with fanciful descripti... | |
| 11.12.1943 | uncle fletchers packing problems |
+ The body of the show only. Sade tries to read a letter from Aunt Bess. Uncle Fletcher is off to D... | |
| 11.11.1943 | stingyberry jam |
+ The body of the show only. Uncle Fletcher wants to sell Stingerberry Jam, an invention of B. B. B... | |
| 11.11.1943 | b b baugh |
+ The body of the show only. Uncle Fletcher wants to sell Stingerberry Jam, an invention of B. B. ... | |
| 11.10.1943 | phone call interrupt |
+ It’s two minutes past ten o’clock in the morning as our scene opens now and here in the kitche... | |
| 11.10.1943 | eight million jobs |
+ The body of the show only. Sade has set herself many household tasks, but answering the telephone... | |
| 11.08.1943 | essay on birds |
+ Russell's essay about birds. The body of the show only. Well sir, its early evening as our scene ... | |
| 11.03.1943 | watch fob collection |
+ The watch fob collection of Uncle Fletcher. The body of the show only. The program's open and clo... | |
| 10.27.1943 | thimble club meeting |
+ Crisco. Members of Sade's Thimble Club have taken over the house, keeping the menfolk outside. Th... | |
| 10.26.1943 | honorary lodge member |
+ Crisco. Pom Pom Cordova has been granted an honorary membership in "The Sacred Stars Of The Milky... | |
| 10.11.1943 | victor r gook fontonelle |
+ Crisco. B. B. Baugh has composed a song for Vic, "The Victor R. Gook Fontanelle." The organ theme... | |
| 10.01.1943 | sewing buttons |
+ Crisco. Another letter from Aunt Bess, and Russell is most reluctant to read it. Sade insists. Th... | |
| 09.20.1943 | 50 photos of vic |
+ Crisco. Vic has purchased fifty copies of a dental photograph of his teeth! The program's organ t... | |
| 08.20.1943 | picking up vic in freds car |
+ Crisco. It seems like everyone wants to go down to the train station to meet Vic. The organ theme... | |
| 07.23.1943 | changes to the regalia |
+ Sponsored by: Ivory Flakes, Crisco, Drene Shampoo (local Chicago). Vic is being instructed by the... | |
| 07.12.1943 | gumpoxs lodge regalia |
+ Vic is furious with Gumpox the garbage man, for wearing discarded Lodge clothes. The program's op... | |
| 06.08.1943 | front porch swing |
+ Vic and Sade are on the porch deciding whether or not to put up the porch swing. Excellent writin... | |
| 04.12.1943 | dotties new dress |
+ A visit to the Brainfeebles...where Chuck has a cowboy outfit. Bing! Bing! Bing! The organ themes... |
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