+ 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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04.08.1940 | can bluetooth sue the bijou |
+ Blue-Tooth Johnson is considering suing the management of the Bijou Theatre. Can he collect heavy... | |
06.01.1941 | callin long distance |
+ Uncle Fletcher tries to make a long distance phone call to Sade's sister Bess. It’s about eight... | |
10.31.1941 | broken alarm clocks |
+ Vic has ruined another two alarm clocks and has his eye on two more! The program open and close h... | |
09.29.1944 | brighteyed and eager |
+ The last show of the series, which would return to the air August 21, 1945. A planned visit downt... | |
09.29.1941 | bright kentucky hotel speaker | ||
03.31.1943 | brainfeebles house warming |
+ Chuck and Dottie Brainfeeble are planning on a housewarming...for sixty people! Aren't you giddy?... | |
10.31.1939 | bluetooth under the davenport |
+ What is that strange noise coming from the Davenport? It's Blue-Tooth Johnson hiding underneath it... | |
03.19.1940 | bess letter grocery list on top |
+ Bess has written another letter, which is read to the family by Sade. It's just delightful, as is ... | |
01.25.1941 | beautiful beautiful wallpaper |
+ Mr. Erickson has sneakily left beautiful, beautiful wallpaper samples. Sade is none-too-pleased w... | |
08.14.1940 | bacon sandwiches |
+ Rush tells the strange story of Rooster's plans to open a restuarant selling only bacon sandwiches... | |
11.11.1943 | b b baugh |
+ The body of the show only. Uncle Fletcher wants to sell Stingerberry Jam, an invention of B. B. ... | |
04.19.1944 | b b baugh and the new dentist |
+ The case of the brother of B. B. Baugh who plans to extract the teeth of fifty Lodge Brothers fo... | |
09.13.1944 | aunt besses 6th letter |
+ Sade insists that Vic and Rush read a letter from her sister Bess. Ham! Ham! The program's open, ... | |
06.15.1944 | aunt besses 5th letter |
+ Uncle Fletcher recalls Ray Speltcher, inventor of the electric toothpick. Sade is determined to r... | |
10.26.1946 | august invoices | ||
09.01.1944 | arranging the honeymoon |
+ Uncle Fletcher plans to go on the honeymoon for his landlady! The body of the show only, no open ... | |
03.18.1943 | appelrot picks on dottie |
+ sade is angry that Miss Applerot insulted Dottie Brainfeeble in Yamilton's Department Store | |
03.03.1942 | accounting for spondulicks |
+ Rush has accompanied Sade on a shopping trip as official book keeper, and has failed miserably | |
01.22.1941 | a vey pleasant noon hour | ||
12.03.1945 | a slow dull tiresome evening |
+ Sade complains about a dull evening. Suddenly, Jimmy Custard, the City Callistorker, and Mr. Spr... | |
07.18.1944 | a sale at yamiltons |
+ Irvory Flakes. Sade is describing the fantastic sale at Yamilton's Department Store. This show is... | |
06.13.1939 | a porch collapses |
+ Crisco. The porch of a house on Center Street has collapsed. Rotten Davis has taken responsibility... | |
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... | |
N/A | car ride to chenoa | ||
N/A | bulletin board monitor |
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