+ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08.30.1939 | preselected school clothes |
+ Rush is as mad as a wet hen. He was not allowed to select his own back-to-school clothes. The orga... | |
| 08.29.1946 | prearranged meals |
+ Uncle Fletcher decides to show his landlady how violent he is by wrecking the Gook's front porch.... | |
| 11.19.1943 | pom pom cordova |
+ What's happening with Pom Pom Cordova and Lolita DiRienzi? Sade wants to know! Vic is a musical m... | |
| 06.16.1944 | piercing blue eyes |
+ Vic has been told that he has "piercing blue eyes," by Lolita DiRienzi of all people | |
| 08.20.1943 | picking up vic in freds car |
+ Crisco. It seems like everyone wants to go down to the train station to meet Vic. The organ theme... | |
| 11.10.1943 | phone call interrupt |
+ It’s two minutes past ten o’clock in the morning as our scene opens now and here in the kitche... | |
| 11.27.1945 | parade of iterruptions |
+ Sade complains that she can't get her cleaning finished because of many interruptions. Jimmy Cus... | |
| 01.02.1940 | painted portrait of big dipper |
+ A heavy hammer has fallen on the head of Smelly Clark. Vic's lodge has offered him the chance to h... | |
| 09.04.1944 | out of town wedding guests |
+ Uncle Fletcher has definite ideas about who Sade should invite to the wedding. The body of the sh... | |
| 12.04.1945 | orville wheeney gets fired |
+ Mr. Korkle and Orville Weeney stop by with the bad news. Orvile has been fired from his job at th... | |
| 03.03.1938 | official host |
+ Rush describes his ambitious plans for Sade's upcoming party. Doctors, nurses, firemen, and a tatt... | |
| 09.06.1939 | office invoices magnifying glass |
+ Vic is trying to get some work done. Rush is a considerable distraction. The organ themes, bridges... | |
| 12.25.1941 | north dakota river bottom revel |
+ A "North Dakota River Bottom Revel." A visit from eight of Vic's friends. "They swoop in amid a s... | |
| 03.29.1940 | no trip to chicago |
+ Sade is planning to attend Ruthie Stembottom's party tomorrow. Vic would like to attend a lodge me... | |
| 06.20.1944 | no more pretty boy |
+ Enough! No more being a pretty boy for Leroy Snow. "With spectacles and braces, he'll be homely as... | |
| 04.10.1940 | nicer to sleep over for two weeks |
+ Nicer Scott is planning to spend two weeks with the Gooks...next August! Rush's worst fears are al... | |
| 05.29.1940 | nicer the goader |
+ Rush has been fighting with Nicer Scott...and with good reason! The organ themes, bridges and syst... | |
| 03.20.1944 | mysterious skulkers |
+ Who is huddled in the alley by the garbage box? They're two friends of Uncle Fletcher: Roy Deject... | |
| 09.06.1944 | muted silver moonbeam |
+ Sade discovers that Vic was interested in buying "Muted Silver Moonbeam Chimes." The open, close,... | |
| 09.06.1944 | muted silver moonbeam chimes | ||
| 03.25.1941 | muddled shopping money |
+ Sade tries to reconstruct her financial dealings with Ruthie Stembottom after a shopping expediti... | |
| 05.27.1940 | ms scott getting too chummy |
+ Mis' Scott, Sade's next door neighbor, is getting too neighborly. Rush finally finishes his story... | |
| 03.18.1941 | ms keller to join the thimble club |
+ Uncle Fletcher asks Sade to let his landlady join the "Thimble Club | |
| 12.05.1945 | ms harris and dwight are engaged |
+ Is Miss Harris and Dwight Twentysixler going to get married? Uncle Fletcher feels that he's resp... | |
| N/A | playing hooky |
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