+ 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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04.05.1944 | hyena grease |
+ Uncle Fletcher reveals a valuable secret: Roy Dejectedly's hidden formula for Hyena Grease | |
12.31.1940 | howard has a new harness |
+ Mr. Gumpox's horse has an expensive new harness. Was it Uncle Fletcher who sent the anonymous gif... | |
10.23.1940 | hot soup |
+ The entire neighborhood is certain Victor Gook is sick and needs hot soup. The program has also b... | |
01.04.1943 | honorary titles |
+ Vic is considering the purchase of honorary titles from the Lodge. The organ themes are not on th... | |
10.26.1943 | honorary lodge member |
+ Crisco. Pom Pom Cordova has been granted an honorary membership in "The Sacred Stars Of The Milky... | |
09.11.1944 | honeymoon guide |
+ Uncle Fletcher is smarting under the burden of his landlady's wedding. The body of the show only... | |
02.05.1944 | history of plant |
+ It’s late afternoon as we enter the small house half way up on the next block and here in the ki... | |
03.27.1941 | hanks weather service |
+ Hank Gutstop has a neat idea. He is selling a weather service for $1 per month. An announcement ... | |
03.07.1944 | hank gutstops proposition |
+ Hank Gutstop has offered Uncle Fletcher a job getting thrown out of the hotel at which he's the d... | |
03.01.1944 | hank gutstop throws a party |
+ Where is Vic eating tonight? In the Bridal Suite of the Butler House Hotel! As the guest of Hank... | |
02.17.1942 | hank gutstop hostess |
+ Hank Gutstop's new job is hostess at the Little Tiny Petite Pheasant Feather Shoppy...believe it... | |
06.13.1940 | hank gutsop is healthy |
+ Vic's lodge has instructed him to write a short biography of Hank Gutstop, "The Exalted Little Dip... | |
07.31.1944 | hank cuts his debt to vic |
+ Ivory Flakes. Mrs. Victor Gook has been invited to play a free game of rotation pool, with all th... | |
07.12.1943 | gumpoxs lodge regalia |
+ Vic is furious with Gumpox the garbage man, for wearing discarded Lodge clothes. The program's op... | |
01.19.1940 | gumpox vs donahue |
+ Sade relates the tale of how Howard (Mr. Gumpox's horse) ate Mr. Donahue's lunch. The first 7:48 o... | |
09.27.1944 | groom disappears |
+ Uncle Fletcher is upset because Harry Feedburn has disappeared. The program's open, close and com... | |
09.21.1944 | groom arriving |
+ The body of the show only. Uncle Fletcher is going to meet Harry Feedburn's train. He's wearing h... | |
04.20.1942 | gravy boat |
+ A poem about olives and pickles. Bernardine Flynn, Billy Idelson | |
06.01.1939 | grandpa snyders christmas cards |
+ Crisco. Grandpa Snyder has been selling Christmas cards. Several samples of the verses are recited... | |
06.04.1941 | grand old lady |
+ Crisco, Lava Soap. Vic has hidden the evening paper, which had named Sade, "The Grand Old Lady" o... | |
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... | |
N/A | ice cream and salted peanuts at midnight | ||
N/A | hanks 200 dollar wardrobe | ||
N/A | h k fleebers 48 teeth | ||
N/A | going to carberry |
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