+ 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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09.07.1944 | the wedding present | ||
09.15.1944 | the wedding ring |
+ Ivory Flakes. Uncle Fletcher is busy helping his landlady with her marriage preparations | |
06.26.1944 | thimble club bazaar |
+ Sade has addressed a note to the "boys." A technical discussion follows as to who will mow the law... | |
10.27.1943 | thimble club meeting |
+ Crisco. Members of Sade's Thimble Club have taken over the house, keeping the menfolk outside. Th... | |
N/A | thimble club plans visits |
+ Well sir, the evening meal has been over only a little while as we enter the small house half way ... | |
03.12.1942 | tiny petite pheasant feather tea shoppe |
+ Vic is going to have lunch with his boss from the Kitchenware factory, at the Little Tiny Petite ... | |
03.05.1942 | tornado gook |
+ There's a story about "Tornado Gook" in the Kitchenware magazine, but there are also a few inacc... | |
01.01.1972 | tribute part 1 | ||
01.02.1972 | tribute part 2 | ||
07.05.1939 | two tons of coal |
+ Crisco (Canon Luncheon Set premium). The Donahues have offered the Gooks two free tons of coal, ev... | |
11.29.1945 | uncle fletcher arranges phone calls |
+ Uncle Fletcher receives a phone call or two...or three | |
09.17.1941 | uncle fletcher cleans house |
+ Sade plans to clean and dust today, and Uncle Fletcher is determined to help her. He does create... | |
06.27.1944 | uncle fletcher gets a job offer |
+ Uncle Fletcher is angry. He's been offered a job as piano player at the music counter of the five... | |
07.13.1944 | uncle fletcher miffed with sade |
+ Uncle Fletcher stops by to use the Gook's atlas. This will show Sade | |
08.14.1944 | uncle fletcher prolongs his stay |
+ Uncle Fletcher is extending his visit at the Gook house. He needs his rest | |
08.11.1944 | uncle fletcher rests body and brain |
+ Uncle Fletcher needs a rest. He's only made of flesh and blood | |
07.20.1944 | uncle fletcher talks business |
+ Ivory Flakes. Uncle Fletcher is planning to move to the Butler House Hotel next week | |
06.01.1941 | uncle fletcher telephones aunt bess |
+ Uncle Fletcher tries to make a long distance phone call to Sade's sister Bess | |
02.24.1941 | uncle fletcher to meet 1 oclock train |
+ Crisco. Uncle Fletcher is planing to meet the 1:00 A.M. train and pick up Mis' Trogel. He's plann... | |
07.01.1941 | uncle fletchers easy chair |
+ Uncle Fletcher's easy chair...and all the people who have sat in it. An unwelcome gift for Sade!... | |
09.19.1946 | uncle fletchers landlady farming him out |
+ Uncle Fletcher is up in arms when he learns his landlady is spending the winter in Dismal Seepag... | |
07.19.1944 | uncle fletchers new lodging |
+ Ivory Flakes. The program opening has been deleted. "Startling developments have occured." Uncle ... | |
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... | |
02.19.1942 | uncle fletchers room is being painted |
+ Uncle Fletcher has come for a visit while his room is being redecorated | |
N/A | thirteen guests |
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