+ 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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02.15.1943 | dotties letter from chuck |
+ Dottie Brainfeeble is visiting and laughing loudly at a letter from Chuck...much to the annoyance... | |
05.16.1941 | door stops |
+ Uncle Fletcher is planning to present the Gooks with a four foot section of railroad track...for ... | |
07.11.1944 | dont scrape off the watts |
+ Sade has purchased a monstrous big electric light bulb at the sale at Yamilton's. Sade is concern... | |
02.25.1942 | donahues doorbell |
+ Mrs. Donahue's doorbell won't stop ringing...Vic to the rescue | |
01.21.1941 | demise of bernice |
+ Bernice, the sister of Howard has just died. Howard being the horse of Mr. Gumpox, the garbage ma... | |
02.27.1940 | deep currents of school life |
+ "High school is a seething river of human emotions | |
05.28.1937 | decoration day parade |
+ The opening organ theme and the body of the show only. Vic has to take a sudden trip to Chicago. W... | |
01.21.1941 | death of bernice |
+ Bernice, the sister of Howard has just died. Howard being the horse of Mr. Gumpox, the garbage ma... | |
06.14.1944 | deadmans trick |
+ Uncle Fletcher visits the Gooks to take a nap. He plans to work the "Dead Man's Trick" tonight at... | |
10.14.1941 | coronet lessons |
+ Alf Musherton plays cornet in the Sewage Disposal Worker's Band. He's determined to fulfill his l... | |
11.28.1937 | congress and the supreme court | ||
12.02.1943 | cleaning the bookcase | ||
08.18.1942 | cleaning the attic |
+ Sade and Rush are cleaning up the attic when Uncle Fletcher joins them | |
12.02.1943 | clean out bookcase |
+ Russell and Sade decide to clean out the bookcase. The body of the show only. It’s late afterno... | |
03.10.1943 | chuck and dottie wash dishes |
+ The Gooks' new neighbors are doing the dishes...and laughing uproariously. It's Dottie and Chuck ... | |
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... | |
10.27.1942 | christmas suggestions for the boss |
+ What to get the boss for Christmas? Let's see what's in the suggestion box! The plot line suggest... | |
12.12.1941 | christmas shopping for mr buller |
+ Vic's boss has given him $20 and told him to have Sade go Christmas shopping for him. It's an ext... | |
09.09.1941 | christmas presents for the boss |
+ Once again, Vic has been selected to buy Mr. Ruebish a Christmas present on behalf of the office ... | |
11.26.1943 | christmas present |
+ Vic has to select the boss' Christmas gift, his fellow workers haven't been much help. The body o... | |
08.06.1942 | christmas cards c o d |
+ The program begins with a public service announcement about price ceilings to prevent inflation. ... | |
10.01.1942 | cherry phosphates |
+ Rotten Davis has been treating everyone to free cherry phosphates...he has a 50-gallon barrel of... | |
11.06.1939 | charleys fish snapshot |
+ Mr. Razorscum is certain that he's lost a photograph of a fish in the Gook home. The organ themes,... | |
07.23.1943 | changes to the regalia |
+ Sponsored by: Ivory Flakes, Crisco, Drene Shampoo (local Chicago). Vic is being instructed by the... | |
N/A | christmas present money |
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