+ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.20.1942 | smelly cuts rushs hair |
+ Rush's hair has been cut by Smelly Clark. Five other amateur barbers try to undo the damage. The ... | |
| 11.21.1939 | smelly clarks christmas presents |
Smelly Clark's plans to get many Christmas presents. The program's opening, closing and commercials ... | |
| 03.25.1940 | smelly clarks big date |
+ The story of Smelly Clark's new girlfriend. Some of the organ themes have been deleted | |
| 11.23.1945 | sleeping in the courthouse yard |
+ Oxydol, Camay. Uncle Fletcher plans to sleep tonight in the courthouse yard. Dwight Twentysixler ... | |
| 02.04.1944 | sleepers beware |
+ Mr. Sludge is sleeping on the living room davenport, a temptation for anyone with a pencil and an ... | |
| 10.01.1943 | sewing buttons |
+ Crisco. Another letter from Aunt Bess, and Russell is most reluctant to read it. Sade insists. Th... | |
| 09.25.1944 | saving bluetooth from tragedy |
+ Russell describes the problems of Blue-tooth Johnson with the opposite sex. The body of the show ... | |
| 06.04.1937 | sades trip to dwight |
+ The body of show plus the closing organ theme only. Sade is going to Dwight tomorrow at 5:00 A.M. ... | |
| 10.27.1944 | sades thimble club |
+ Well Sir, it’s late afternoon as we approach the small house half way up the next block now, and... | |
| 10.08.1941 | sades surprise gift washrags |
+ Sade's surprise gift of washrags must be returned to Yamilton's. Vic must do it. The organ theme... | |
| 11.04.1941 | sades surprise gift slippers |
+ Ivory Flakes. Sade plans to return the "E-Z" slippers that she's received as a Christmas gift; an... | |
| 04.26.1939 | sades new luggage |
+ Sade gets a suitcase as a present. The program's open, close and commercials have been deleted | |
| 08.10.1944 | sade struggles with a letter |
+ Sade has trouble writing a letter declining an invitation to a Thanksgiving dinner...in August. ... | |
| 07.14.1944 | sade short changed |
+ Ivory Flakes. Has Sade been short-changed at the store? Mathematical computations follow | |
| 09.22.1939 | sade provides names of wildflowers |
+ Sade needs the names of six wildflowers for her next Thimble Club meeting. Vic is expected to come... | |
| 07.26.1944 | sade pleads to see a movie |
+ Ivory Flakes. Should the Gooks attend the cinema tonight? There's a Gloria Golden movie playing, ... | |
| 07.04.1944 | sade plays rummy |
+ Ivory Flakes. Sade joins the family game of rummy, but not many cards get played | |
| 09.05.1944 | sade owed money |
+ It’s seven-thirty in the evening as we enter the small house half way up on the next block and h... | |
| 01.09.1940 | sade muses on her friendship with ms scott |
+ Sade chatters on about Mis' Scott while Vic and Rush try to copy columns of figures. She's very ch... | |
| 06.22.1944 | sade beats the christmas card rap |
+ Pressure to purchase Christmas cards is being applied on the Gook family. Mom's got brains | |
| 08.02.1944 | sade asks vic to evict mr overholt |
+ Sade wants Vic to help Miss Harris evict her roomer, Mr. Overholt. Vic very reluctantly agrees | |
| 09.14.1942 | sade and ruthie come out even |
+ Sade and Ruthie Stembottom have been shopping again. Who owes who what? It looks like a draw | |
| 08.22.1946 | sade and ms kesler fight | ||
| N/A | sleepers beware | ||
| N/A | sade volunteers rush for a pageant |
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