+ 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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06.08.1942 | 4th letter from bess |
+ Sade insists on reading another gem of a letter from her sister Bess...and Vic is overjoyed! A fu... | |
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... | |
06.19.1944 | 500 bijou tickets |
+ Garbargeman Mr. Gumpox has found five hundred tickets to the Bijou theatre in the trash. An ethica... | |
02.03.1944 | 60 pairs of pants |
+ Russell needs his parents' signature on a document stating that he's owned sixty pairs of pants ... | |
12.17.1940 | a bijou lifetime pass |
+ Rush has an opportunity to buy a lifetime pass to the Bijou Theatre. The organ themes, bridges an... | |
09.26.1944 | a box of letters |
+ Russell reads Uncle Fletcher's old letters. A funny show that sneaks up on you. The body of the s... | |
07.10.1944 | a collection of personal treasures |
+ Sade is reluctant to play checkers with Vic | |
08.16.1944 | a dandy picture of vic |
+ Ivory Flakes. Vic needs yet another photograph of himself for the Kitchenware Dealers Quarterly | |
09.28.1944 | a dun from kleeburgers |
+ Dash. Sade reads a letter from Aunt Bess. Vic decides to dun Kleeberger's Haberdashery! The progr... | |
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... | |
07.16.1942 | a gross of gavels |
+ "A Gross Of Gravels." Fred Stembottom plans to whittle 144 of them for Sade | |
12.23.1940 | a letter from aunt bess |
+ A letter from Aunt Bess, written more than four years ago, is found in Vic's coat pocket...unread... | |
06.28.1944 | a letter from mr buller |
+ A letter from Mr. Buller is read by Russell, at least the first sentence of the letter | |
07.07.1944 | a letter from yellow jump |
+ Is Uncle Fletcher planning to move to the Bright Kentucky Hotel? Another letter has arrived by Y... | |
08.26.1941 | a man in the house |
+ Uncle Fletcher decides to be the protector of the house in Vic's absence. A great example of the ... | |
02.16.1941 | a manual for wives of sky brothers |
+ Sade gets an ad for a book from Vic's lodge with some really good advice! It's a "manual for wive... | |
11.20.1941 | a miserable object of public ridicule |
+ Nicer Scott has been telling everyone that Rush Gook eats with a baby's knife and fork. Rush is h... | |
05.30.1941 | a phone call from homer u mcdancy | ||
07.12.1944 | a phone call from yellow jump |
+ Uncle Fletcher has very important family news. His landlady has received a telephone call from he... | |
06.13.1939 | a porch collapses |
+ Crisco. The porch of a house on Center Street has collapsed. Rotten Davis has taken responsibility... | |
07.18.1944 | a sale at yamiltons |
+ Irvory Flakes. Sade is describing the fantastic sale at Yamilton's Department Store. This show is... | |
12.03.1945 | a slow dull tiresome evening |
+ Sade complains about a dull evening. Suddenly, Jimmy Custard, the City Callistorker, and Mr. Spr... | |
N/A | 14 days in grovelman | ||
N/A | 40 pounds of golf clubs | ||
N/A | a letter to walter |
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