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The most popular show of its kind in the
history of radio. During its fourteen-year-run on radio,
Vic and Sade, won
numerous awards and were atop the ratings for many years running. According
to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the
majority of its time on the air it was presented in fifteen minute episodes
without continuing plot. From June 27, 1946 to October 26, 1946 the shows
were presented in 30 minutes weekly episodes. In July of 1949, on Monday
nights there were three ½-hour episodes for television. In the Spring of
1957 there were seven 15-minute episodes for television on Thursday night.
The show featured the three voices of the main characters only but their
world was peopled by countless characters with whom the listener became
intimately acquainted. When the actor who played Vic became ill, a second
male character, Uncle Fletcher, was added to the cast. And, when the actor
who played Rush was called into service during WWII, another young voice was
added to take his place.
The central characters, known as "radio's home folks," were accountant
Victor Rodney Gook, played by Art Van Harvey, his wife Sade played by
Bernadine Flynn, and their adopted son Rush, played by 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.
Additional cast members included: Uncle Fletcher played by Clarence
Hartzell, and Russell Miller played by David Whitehouse. Some of those
unvoiced characters were Bess and Walter, Sade’s sister and her husband and
Fred and Ruthie Stembottom enjoyed playing Five Hundred with Vic and Sade.
Some of Sade's other friends include, among others: Mis' Brighton, Mis'
Trogel, and Mis' Appelrot. Others too numerous to include are Vic’s work
associates and lodge buddies, Rush's friends, Russell's friends, the
townsfolk and the neighbors.
The series was written by Paul Rhymer for the entire length of the program's
run, which ran steadily from 1932 to 1944, then again in 1945 and 1946, with
television stints in 1949 and 1957. Despite such high praise, 2000 disc
recordings of the show were destroyed just before 1940 and some 1200 have
been lost since that time. Today only about 330 original recordings have
survived. It is estimated that Rhymer wrote more than 3500 scripts for the
show.
One of those fun tidbits we all love, is the town in which Vic and Sade
lived. It is unnamed, but is actually a vaguely fictionalized Bloomington,
Illinois.
You have over 320 episodes and
over 55 hours, so sit back, relax, laugh,
reminisce and listen to the goings on in "the small house halfway up in
the next block."
Here is the list episodes presented for your
listening pleasure.
37-05-28 Decoration Day Parade
37-06-04 Sade's Trip to Dwight
37-11-28 Congress and The Supreme Court
38-03-03 Official Host
38-11-30 Vic's New Hat
39-01-02 Lodge Regalia Out on Loan
39-01-16 Flower Garden Arranger
39-03-08 Mr. Erickson's House Repairs
39-04-03 Speaking Acquaintances
39-04-25 Rotten Davis Telephones
39-04-26 Sades New Luggage
39-05-11 The Davis's Are Asleep Upstairs
39-06-01 Grandpa Snyder's Christmas Cards
39-06-05 YY Flirch Tries to Call
39-06-13 A Porch Collapses
39-07-05 Two Tons of Coal
39-08-30 Preselected School Clothes
39-09-06 Office Work at Home Magnifying Glass
39-09-22 Wildflowers
39-09-xx Rush Tenders His Resignations
39-10-06 Double Feature in Hopewood
39-10-30 Five Christmas Card Salesmen
39-10-31 Blue-tooth Under the Davenport
39-11-06 Charley's Fish Snapshot
39-11-07 Smelly Makes a Speech
39-11-14 Tearing Down a Three-storey Brick Building
39-11-21 Smelly Clarks Christmas Presents
39-12-xx Rush Is Getting on in Years
39-xx-xx A Letter To Walter
39-xx-xx Mr. Gumpox Offers Sade a Stall
39-xx-xx Sade Volunteers Rush for a Pageant
39-xx-xx Vic's Christmas Card List
39-xx-xx Vic's Geographical Trip
40-01-02 Painted Portrait of Big Dipper
40-01-09 Sade Muses on Her Friendship with Mis Scott....
40-01-12 Vegetable Garden
40-01-19 Gumpox Donahue
40-01-22 RJ Konk's Improved Portrait
40-01-24 YY Flirch Elected Best Looking Man
40-02-02 Mr. Donahue Gets a Promotion
40-02-20 Rush's Good Looks
40-02-27 Deep Currents of School Life
40-03-19 A Letter From Aunt Bess Grocery List
40-03-25 Smelly Clarks Big Date
40-03-27 Vic Fakes the Cornet
40-03-29 No Trip to Chicago
40-04-04 Rush Makes a Call on a Girl
40-04-08 Can Blue-tooth Sue the Bijou
40-04-10 Nicer to Sleep over for Two Weeks
40-04-15 Milton's Dirt in Fruit Jars
40-04-17 Vic's Heart-shaped Face
40-05-03 Engine Cab Ride to Chicago
40-05-06 Working on Hank Gutstops Debts Rush
40-05-15 Vic's Picture Not In Quarterly
40-05-27 Mis Scott Getting Too Chummy
40-05-29 Nicer the Goader
40-06-02 Mr. Chinbunny Wants to Smoke Cigars Rush....
40-06-13 Hank Gutstop is Healthy
40-06-14 Last Day of School
40-06-17 Mr. Sludge to Sleep Overnight
40-06-18 June Christmas Card Pressure
40-06-19 Vic's Wide Brimmed Hat
40-06-21 The Royal Throne Barbershop
40-06-24 Mr. Gumpox Blows Kisses
40-07-01 Ruthie Has Secrets
40-07-04 Mr. Sludge Calls His Mother
40-07-22 Mr. Donahue Asks for a Demotion
40-07-23 Razorscums Photograph Album
40-08-14 Bacon Sandwiches
40-09-xx Sleepers Beware Rush
40-10-23 Hot Soup
40-11-19 Man Caught in a Revolving Door
40-12-17 A Bijou Lifetime Pass
40-12-23 A Letter From Aunt Bess 1937
40-12-31 Howard Has a New Harness
40-12-xx HK Fleeber's Forty-eight Teeth
40-xx-xx Hanks Two-hundred Dollar Wardrobe
40-xx-xx Ice Cream and Salted Peanuts at Midnight
40-xx-xx Mis Appelrot Rearranges The Furniture
40-xx-xx Vic's Photograph With RJ Konk
41-01-21 Death of Bernice
41-01-22 A Very Pleasant Noon Hour
41-01-23 The All-Star Marching Team
41-01-24 Mr. Ruebush Has to Wait
41-01-25 Beautiful Beautiful Wallpaper
41-02-03 Wallpapering at Midnight
41-02-07 Landlady's Photos
41-02-11 Fred Considers Joining the Lodge
41-02-16 A Manual For Wives of Sky Brothers
41-02-24 Uncle Fletcher To Meet One O'clock Train ...
41-02-25 Ladies Auxiliary Marching Team
41-03-14 Marching Team Pictures
41-03-18 Mis Keller to Join the Thimble Club
41-03-25 Muddled Shopping Money
41-03-27 Hanks Weather Service
41-03-31 Rush Wants His Interest
41-03-xx Thirteen Guests
41-04-04 Mr. Breep's Birthday Dinner
41-04-23 Sweet Dreams Mr. Donahue
41-04-xx Five Dollars For Shopping
41-04-xx Forty Pounds of Golf Clubs
41-04-xx Fourteen Days in Grovelman
41-04-xx Vic Wins a Broad-brimmed Hat
41-05-02 Vic's Picture on Quarterly Cover
41-05-08 Mr. Erickson Gives the House as a Gift
41-05-12 Exalted Big Dipper Day
41-05-13 Souvenirs and Mementos
41-05-16 Door Stops
41-05-21 The Key Collection
41-05-30 A Phone Call from Homer U McDancy
41-05-xx Bulletin Board Monitor
41-06-01 Uncle Fletcher Telephones Aunt Bess
41-06-03 The Hammock
41-06-04 Grand Old Lady
41-06-09 Letter Writing Plot
41-06-30 Who's Who In Kitchenware
41-07-01 Uncle Fletchers Easy Chair
41-07-xx Fred's Concrete Partition
41-08-26 A Man In The House
41-09-09 Christmas Presents For The Boss
41-09-17 Uncle Fletcher Cleans House
41-09-29 Bright Kentucky Hotel Speaker
41-10-08 Sades Surprise Gift Washrags
41-10-09 Its Algebra Uncle Fletcher
41-10-10 Fred's Tires
41-10-14 Cornet Lessons
41-10-31 Broken Alarm Clocks
41-11-04 Sades Surprise Gift Slippers
41-11-05 Vic's Christmas Gift List
41-11-20 A Miserable Object of Public Ridicule
41-11-xx Car Ride To Chenoa
41-11-xx Playing Hooky
41-12-01 Winnie and her man
41-12-08 The Bottom Buffet Drawer
41-12-12 Christmas Shopping for Mr. Buller
41-12-25 North Dakota River Bottom Revel
41-12-xx Christmas Present Money
41-12-xx Stacey Yop and Doctor Socker's
41-xx-xx Icebergs
41-xx-xx Uncle Fletchers Trip to Dixon
42-02-11 Fred Will Budget For Vic
42-02-13 The Prize Clock
42-02-17 Hank Gutstop Hostess
42-02-18 Edith Suggin's Visit
42-02-19 Uncle Fletchers Room is Being Painted
42-02-24 Rawhide Shoestrings
42-02-25 Donahue's Doorbell
42-02-26 First to Put up the Porch Swing
42-03-03 Accounting for Spondulick's
42-03-04 The Room Warming
42-03-05 Tornado Gook
42-03-09 A Letter from Aunt Bess Uncle Fletcher ...
42-03-12 Little Tiny Petite Pheasant Feather Tea Shoppy...
42-03-xx Mis Appelrot's Petition
42-04-06 The Scrap Drive
42-04-20 Gravy Boat
42-05-15 Mentioned in Dispatches
42-06-08 A Letter from Aunt Bess Sleepy
42-07-16 A Gross Of Gravels
42-08-06 Sades Christmas Cards
42-08-09 Rush Treats Sade to the Movies
42-08-18 Cleaning the Attic
42-08-24 Rush's School Clothes
42-09-14 Sade and Ruthie Come Out Even
42-09-15 The Silent March
42-10-01 Cherry Phosphates
42-10-12 Mayor Wants to Joins the Lodge
42-10-20 Fred's Concrete Floor
42-10-27 Christmas Suggestions for the Boss
42-11-20 Smelly Cuts Rush's Hair
42-12-07 Miss Neagel Tears Up Lee Street
42-xx-xx Going to Carberry
42-xx-xx Lodge Speech Rehearsal
42-xx-xx Mr. Chinbunny Eats Ice Cream
42-xx-xx The Thunder Storm
42-xx-xx Vic's Inspection Tour
42-xx-xx Washrag Collection
43-01-04 Honorary Titles
43-01-07 Fred Considers Joining the Lodge
43-01-23 Robert and Slobert Call Long Distance
43-02-15 Dottie's Letter From Chuck
43-02-16 Leland Richards is Coming
43-02-27 Leland Richards is Homesick
43-03-05 Vic Entertains Dottie
43-03-10 Chuck and Dottie Wash Dishes
43-03-18 Appelrot Picks on Dottie
43-03-31 Brainfeeble's House Warming
43-04-12 Dottie's New Dress
43-06-08 Front Porch Swing
43-07-12 Gumpox's Lodge Regalia
43-07-23 Changes to the Regalia
43-08-20 Picking Up Vic in Fred's Car
43-09-20 Fifty Photos of Vic
43-09-xx Russell Tenders His Resignations
43-10-01 A Letter From Aunt Bess Sewing Buttons
43-10-11 Victor R. Gook Fontonelle
43-10-26 Honorary Lodge Member
43-10-27 Thimble Club Meeting
43-11-03 Watch Fob Collection
43-11-08 Essay on Birds
43-11-10 Eight Million Jobs
43-11-11 Stingyberry Jam
43-11-12 Uncle Fletchers Packing Problems
43-11-15 Ike Kneesuffer's Snapshots
43-11-19 Caribbean Dream Flute
43-11-26 Christmas Suggestions for the Boss
43-11-29 A Garbage Wagon Pass
43-11-30 Sweet Esther Wisconsin
43-12-02 Cleaning the Bookcase
43-12-16 The Color of Gumpox's Eyes
43-12-27 Invoice Preparations
44-01-24 Vic Sleeping On the Couch
44-01-25 Missouri State Home for the Tall
44-02-03 Sixty Pairs of Pants
44-02-04 Sleepers Beware Russell
44-02-25 The History of Plant Number Fourteen
44-03-01 Hank Gutstop Throws a Party
44-03-07 Hank Gutstops Proposition
44-03-17 Vic's Cancelled Trip
44-03-20 Mysterious Skulker's
44-04-03 Ted Stembottom
44-04-05 Hyena Grease
44-04-07 The Solo March
44-04-19 BB Baugh and the New Dentist
44-05-01 Lodge Holiday Visits
44-05-30 Lolita di Rienzis Suggestion
44-06-02 Mr. Chinbunny Wants to Smoke Cigars Russell
44-06-07 Elk Skin Shoelaces
44-06-09 The Lunges Are Coming
44-06-12 Professor Russell
44-06-13 Prettiest Eye Contest
44-06-14 Deadman's Trick
44-06-15 A Letter from Aunt Bess Listen Please
44-06-16 Piercing Blue Eyes
44-06-19 Five-hundred Bijou Tickets
44-06-20 No More Pretty Boy
44-06-21 Rishigan Fishigan's Secret
44-06-22 Sade Beats The Christmas Card Rap
44-06-23 Lodge Telescope
44-06-26 Thimble Club Bazaar
44-06-27 Uncle Fletcher Gets a Job Offer
44-06-28 A Letter From Mr. Buller
44-06-29 War Bond Visitor
44-06-30 Russell Stays with Milton Welch
44-07-04 Sade Plays Rummy
44-07-05 Visiting Dignitaries
44-07-06 Where to Hide the Ritual
44-07-07 A Letter from Yellow Jump
44-07-10 A Collection of Personal Treasures
44-07-11 Don't Scrape Off The Watts
44-07-12 A Phone Call from Yellow Jump
44-07-13 Uncle Fletcher Miffed with Sade
44-07-14 Sade Short Changed
44-07-17 Summer Maneuvers
44-07-18 A Sale at Yamilton's
44-07-19 Uncle Fletchers New Lodging
44-07-20 Uncle Fletcher Talks Business
44-07-24 Robert and Slobert Are Scoundrels
44-07-25 Mr. Donahue Hates Vacations
44-07-26 Sade Pleads to See a Movie
44-07-27 Vic's Foreign Accent
44-07-28 Garbage Box Mystery
44-07-31 Hank Cuts His Debt to Vic
44-08-01 Rotten Old Overshoes
44-08-02 Sade Asks Vic To Evict Mr. Overholt
44-08-03 Russell Reminisces about the Old Days
44-08-04 Vic is Boss for a Day
44-08-07 Vic and Russell Fix Their Own Dinner
44-08-08 Russell in Charge of Howard
44-08-09 Mr. Gumpox Has Lost His Dentures
44-08-10 Sade Struggles with a Letter
44-08-11 Uncle Fletcher Rests Body and Brain
44-08-14 Uncle Fletcher Prolongs His Stay
44-08-15 Vacation from a Vacation
44-08-16 A Dandy Picture of Vic
44-09-01 Arranging the Honeymoon
44-09-04 Out of Town Wedding Guests
44-09-05 Money Owed Sade
44-09-06 Muted Silver Moonbeam Chimes
44-09-07 The Wedding Present
44-09-08 Vic's Business Trip
44-09-11 Honeymoon Guide
44-09-12 Fred's Car Repairs
44-09-13 A Letter from Aunt Bess Ham Ham
44-09-14 Working on Hank Gutstops Debts Russell
44-09-15 The Wedding Ring
44-09-18 Vic's Greeting Cards
44-09-19 Vic to be Best Man
44-09-20 Reverend V Cook
44-09-21 Groom Arriving
44-09-22 Vic's Unheard News
44-09-25 Saving Blue-tooth from Tragedy
44-09-26 A Box of Letters
44-09-27 Groom Disappears
44-09-28 A Dun From Kleeburger's
44-09-29 Bright-eyed and Eager
45-03-18 The Stillness of an Afternoon is Broken Russell
45-11-19 Unwanted Samaritan
45-11-20 Corkle's Borrow a Cup of Sugar
45-11-21 Jimmy Custard
45-11-23 Sleeping In The Courthouse Yard
45-11-26 Sweetcorn McBlock
45-11-27 Parade of Interruptions
45-11-29 Uncle Fletcher Arranges Phone Calls
45-11-30 Dwight Twentysixler's Scrapbook
45-12-03 A Slow Dull Tiresome Evening
45-12-04 Orville Wheeney Gets Fired
45-12-05 Mis Harris And Dwight Are Engaged
45-12-06 Rainy Day Fun
45-12-07 Sacred Stars Convention
46-06-27 The Piano Lesson
46-07-04 Woman's auxiliary
46-07-11 Vic the Irish Policeman
46-07-18 Midsummer Madness
46-07-25 Moving to Peoria
46-08-01 L Vogel Drum
46-08-08 The Honeymoon Couple
46-08-22 Sade and Mis Kesler Fight
46-08-29 Pre-arranged Meals
46-09-19 Uncle Fletchers Landlady Farming Him Out
46-10-10 Mr. Z Moves In
46-10-26 August Invoices
57-xx-xx Lodge Catalogue
57-xx-xx Ushering at the Bijou
95-04-25 re-enactment Ordering Underwear By Mail
95-04-25 re-enactment Rush Brings Home a Dog
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