+ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.10.1943 | eight million jobs |
+ The body of the show only. Sade has set herself many household tasks, but answering the telephone... | |
| 06.07.1944 | elk skin shoelaces |
+ Sade is playing hooky from work, Uncle Fletcher is going to have his shoelaces changed...he uses ... | |
| 05.03.1940 | engine cab ride to chicago |
+ Vic's going to Chicago on business. Sade suggests he ride in the locomotive with Mr. Donohue. Vic ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| 05.12.1941 | exalted big dipper day |
+ Next Saturday is "National Exalted Big Dipper Day." The lodge ritual required of Sade is describe... | |
| 09.07.1944 | fancy box |
+ Vic and Uncle Fletcher discuss the contents of a strange box...a wedding gift. The body of the s... | |
| 02.26.1942 | first to put up the porch swing |
+ The Gook's are the first in town to put up their porch swing...even though it's only February | |
| 10.30.1939 | five christmas card salesmen |
+ Crisco (the winner of the $5000 slogan contest is announced). Sade has received five letters...fro... | |
| 05.30.1941 | five men from maine |
+ Rush has gotten a long distance phone call from Homer U. McDansey, who invites Vic to visit five ... | |
| 01.16.1939 | flower garden arranger |
+ Sade has a plan to make a million dollars by arranging her neighbor's flower gardens. Bernardine F... | |
| 01.16.1939 | flower garden biznes |
+ Sade has a plan to make a million dollars by arranging her neighbor's flower gardens. It’s early... | |
| 02.11.1941 | fred considers joining the lodge |
+ Vic is annoyed because Fred Stembottom thinks he might decide to join "The Sacred Stars Of The Mi... | |
| 01.07.1943 | fred considers joining the lodge |
+ Vic is perturbed because Fred Stembottom thinks he might decide to join the "Sacred Stars Of The ... | |
| 02.11.1942 | fred will budget for vic |
+ The body of the show only. Fred Stembottom is bringing over a blackboard to lecture on the art of... | |
| 09.12.1944 | freds car repairs |
+ The Gooks have been invited to visit the Stembottoms to work on Ted's car. The body of the show o... | |
| 10.20.1942 | freds concrete floor |
+ Fred Stembottom is up to his old tricks...trying to get Vic to help him pour concrete by temptin... | |
| 10.10.1941 | freds tires |
+ Fred Stembottom has told Sade what to get Ruthie and himself for Christmas...an automobile tire!... | |
| 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... | |
| 07.28.1944 | garbage box mystery |
+ Ivory Flakes. Another slab of concrete has broken loose from the garbage box. Mr. Erickson, the l... | |
| 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... | |
| 06.04.1941 | grand old lady |
+ Crisco, Lava Soap. Vic has hidden the evening paper, which had named Sade, "The Grand Old Lady" o... | |
| 06.01.1939 | grandpa snyders christmas cards |
+ Crisco. Grandpa Snyder has been selling Christmas cards. Several samples of the verses are recited... | |
| N/A | five dollars for shopping | ||
| N/A | freds concrete partition | ||
| N/A | going to carberry |
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