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Vic and Sade

Networks
NBC Blue (as its archives name them)
Heard
1937–1946
Episodes
896
Language
English

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Vic and Sade was the most popular show of its kind in the history of radio, won numerous awards and was atop the ratings for many years running. For the majority of its time on the air it was presented in fifteen minute episodes without continuing plot. It 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 cast

Vic - Art Van Harvey Sade - Bernadine Flynn Rush - Bill Idelson Uncle Fletcher - Clarence Hartzell Russell Miller - David Whitehouse

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. Some 3500 episodes in all. The recordings you find here are all that have survived.

Part 1 of 5

Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 9

  1. Decoration Day Parade

    · 10 min

  2. Sades Trip to Dwight

    · 9:19

  3. (xx) Sade's Trip to Dwight

    · 9:19

  4. Congress and The Supreme Court

    · 5:33

  5. Congress & the Supreme Court

    · 5:33

  6. Official Host

    · 10 min

  7. Vics New Hat

    · 10 min

  8. (xx) Vic's New Hat

    · 10 min

  9. (xx) A Letter To Walter (date approximate)

    · 13 min

  10. (xx) Mr. Gumpox Offers Sade a Stall (date approximate)

    · 10 min

  11. (xx) Vic's Geographical Trip (date approximate)

    · 9:59

  12. Lodge Regalia Out on Loan

    · 11 min

  13. Flower Garden Arranger

    · 11 min

  14. Mr Ericksons House Repairs

    · 11 min

  15. (xx) Mr. Erickson's House Repairs

    · 11 min

  16. Mr Erickson's House Repairs

    · 11 min

  17. Speaking Acquaintances

    · 10 min

  18. Rush Draws List of Acquaintances

    · 10 min

  19. Rotten Davis Telephones

    · 10 min

  20. Rotten Davis Phones

    · 9:27

  21. Sades New Luggage

    · 9:44

  22. (xx) Sade's New Luggage

    · 9:44

  23. The Davises Are Asleep Upstairs

    · 10 min

  24. Overnight Guests (aka Davises Asleep Upstairs)

    · 10 min

  25. Grandpa Snyders Christmas Cards

    · 9:34

  26. (xx) Grandpa Snyder's Christmas Cards

    · 9:34

  27. Grandpa Snyder Christmas Cards

    · 9:34

  28. YY Flirch Tries to Call

    · 12 min

  29. Y Y Flirch Tries to Phone Vic

    · 9:38

  30. A Porch Collapses

    · 9:27

  31. Porch Collapses Rotten Takes Blame

    · 13 min

  32. Porch Collapses - Rotten Takes Blame

    · 9:27

  33. Two Tons of Coal

    · 9:52

  34. & 1939-08-30 (aka 2 eps from 1937)

    · 24 min

  35. Preselected School Clothes

    · 9:27

  36. Rush..Resigns & 1939-10-06 Hopewood (aka 1939 Show 3 of 3) (18m 46s)

    · 19 min

  37. (xx) Rush Tenders His Resignations (date approximate)

    · 9:36

  38. Rush - I Hereby Resign from.. (09m 36s) (aka Sep 1943 Rush-Russell Tenders Resignation)

    · 9:36

  39. Office Work at Home Magnifying Glass

    · 9:32

  40. Office Invoices Magnifying Glass

    · 13 min

  41. Office Inv. & 1939-09-22 Wildflowers (aka 1939 Show 2 of 3) (19m 19s)

    · 19 min

  42. (xx) Office Work at Home - Magnifying Glass

    · 9:32

  43. Office Invoices Work at Home (Magnif Glass)

    · 9:32

  44. Wildflowers

    · 9:50

  45. Double Feature in Hopewood

    · 9:14

  46. Five Christmas Card Salesmen

    · 9:22

  47. Blue tooth Under the Davenport

    · 9:16

  48. (xx) Bluetooth Under the Davenport

    · 9:16

  49. Blue-Tooth Under Gook Davenport

    · 9:16

  50. Charleys Fish Snapshot

    · 9:20

  51. Charlie Razorscum's Fish Picture

    · 14 min

  52. (xx) Charley's Fish Snapshot

    · 9:20

  53. Charlie R's Fish Picture (aka Charley R's Fish Snapshot)

    · 9:20

  54. Smelly Makes a Speech

    · 9:07

  55. Tearing Down a Three storey Brick Building

    · 9:08

  56. (xx) Tearing Down a Three Story Brick Building

    · 9:08

  57. Rush House Destroyer (aka Rush Destroys 3-Storey Brick Bldg)

    · 9:08

  58. Smelly Clarks Christmas Presents

    · 11 min

  59. (xx) Smelly Clark's Christmas Presents

    · 11 min

  60. Smelly Clark Solicits Gifts (aka SC Christmas Presents)

    · 11 min

  61. (xx) Rush Is Getting on in Years (date approximate)

    · 9:42

  62. (xx) Sade Volunteers Rush for a Pageant (date approximate)

    · 9:44

  63. (xx) Vic's Christmas Card List (date approximate)

    · 9:53

  64. Rush Is Getting on in Years

    · 9:42

  65. Vic's Christmas Card List

    · 9:53

  66. (xx) Hank's Two Hundred Dollar Wardrobe (date approximate)

    · 9:06

  67. (xx) Ice Cream and Salted Peanuts at Midnight (date approximate)

    · 8:42

  68. (xx) Mrs. Appelrot Rearranges The Furniture (date approximate)

    · 9:53

  69. (xx) Vic's Photograph With RJ Konk (date approximate)

    · 11 min

  70. Painted Portrait of Big Dipper

    · 9:24

  71. Sade Muses on Her Friendship with Mis Scott

    · 10 min

  72. Boys Copy Numbers Sade Tells Gossip

    · 14 min

  73. Boys Copy #s Sade Tells Gossip (aka Sade Muses on Friendship w Mis' Scott)

    · 10 min

  74. (xx) Sade Muses on Her Friendship with Mrs. Scott

    · 10 min

  75. Vegetable Garden

    · 10 min

  76. Gumpox vs Donahue

    · 5:37

  77. Gumpox Versus Donahue

    · 12 min

  78. (xx) Gumpox vs. Donahue

    · 5:37

  79. RJ Konks Improved Portrait

    · 9:43

  80. R J Konk's Improved Portrait

    · 13 min

  81. (xx) RJ Konk's Improved Portrait

    · 9:43

  82. YY Flirch Elected Best Looking Man

    · 9:44

  83. Y Y Flirch Best Looking Man

    · 13 min

  84. YY Flirch Best Looking Man

    · 9:44

  85. Mr Donahue Gets a Promotion

    · 9:09

  86. Mr Donahue Gets Promotion

    · 9:09

  87. (xx) Mr. Donahue Gets a Promotion

    · 9:09

  88. Rushs Good Looks

    · 7:56

  89. Rush's Good Looks (partial Recording)

    · 10 min

  90. (Inc) Rush's Good Looks (organ music starts at 1m 09s-cuts off early)

    · 7:56

  91. (xx) Rush's Good Looks

    · 7:56

  92. Deep Currents of School Life

    · 10 min

  93. High School Gossip

    · 11 min

  94. A Letter From Aunt Bess Grocery List

    · 9:41

  95. Bess Letter Grocery List on Top

    · 14 min

  96. Bess Letter - Grocery List on Top (aka Letter From Aunt Bess-Grocery List on)

    · 9:41

  97. (xx) A Letter from Aunt Bess - Grocery List

    · 9:41

  98. Smelly Clarks Big Date

    · 9:30

  99. (xx) Smelly Clark's Big Date

    · 9:30

  100. Vic Fakes the Cornet

    · 9:28

Where it comes from 18

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Vic and Sade (1)

    Old Time Radio · Paul Rhymer · 76 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  2. Vic and Sade (2)

    Old Time Radio · Paul Rhymer · 72 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  3. Vic and Sade (3)

    Old Time Radio · Paul Rhymer · 74 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  4. Vic and Sade (4)

    Old Time Radio · Paul Rhymer · 75 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  5. Vic and Sade - 324 episodes of the Old Time Radio show

    Old Time Radio · 161 episodes here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  6. Vic & Sade (pg 02) 1940-1941 (122 Eps)

    Old Time Radio · 82 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  7. Vic and Sade 1942

    Old Time Radio · 25 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  8. Vic & Sade (pg 03) 1942-1947 197 Eps

    Old Time Radio · 45 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  9. Vic and Sade (5)

    Old Time Radio · Paul Rhymer · 12 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  10. Vic & Sade (pg 01) 1937-1939 46 Eps

    Old Time Radio · 23 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  11. Vic and Sade OTR

    Old Time Radio · 169 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  12. Vic and Sade 1941

    Old Time Radio · 21 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  13. Vic and Sade 1944

    Old Time Radio · 14 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  14. Vic and Sade 1943

    Old Time Radio · 10 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  15. Vic and Sade 1945-1957

    Old Time Radio · 34 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  16. Vic and Sade 430310 New Neighbors Doing the Dishes

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  17. Vic and Sade 431011 Victor R Gook Fontenelle

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  18. Vic And Sade

    Listeners' uploads · Radiorick62 · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

6 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.

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