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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 8 of 9

  1. MISS KORKELL, STRONG

    · 15 min

  2. Miz Korkell, Strong Lady

    · 15 min

  3. (xx) Corkles Borrow a Cup of Sugar

    · 10 min

  4. JIMMY CUSTARD, CITY

    · 14 min

  5. (xx) Jimmy Custard

    · 10 min

  6. Five Sleeping Beauties

    · 15 min

  7. (xx) Sleeping In The Courthouse Yard

    · 10 min

  8. SWEET CORN, A SHATTE

    · 15 min

  9. Sweet Corn, Shattered Bullfinch

    · 14 min

  10. (xx) Sweetcorn McBlock

    · 10 min

  11. SADES PARADE OF INT

    · 15 min

  12. Sade's Parade of Interruptions

    · 15 min

  13. (xx) Parade of Interruptions

    · 10 min

  14. (xx) Uncle Fletcher Arranges Phone Calls

    · 10 min

  15. Dwight Twentysixlers Scrapbook

    · 10 min

  16. (xx) Dwight Twentysixler's Scrapbook

    · 10 min

  17. Dull Evening Comes to Life

    · 14 min

  18. (xx) A Slow Dull Tiresome Evening

    · 10 min

  19. Orville Fired and Hired

    · 15 min

  20. (xx) Orville Wheeney Gets Fired

    · 10 min

  21. Mis Harris And Dwight Are Engaged

    · 10 min

  22. Engagement!

    · 15 min

  23. (xx) Miss Harris and Dwight Are Engaged

    · 10 min

  24. Rainy Day Fun in the Kitchen

    · 14 min

  25. (xx) Rainy Day Fun

    · 10 min

  26. THERES GOING TO BE

    · 14 min

  27. There's Going to Be a Great Day

    · 14 min

  28. (xx) Sacred Stars Convention

    · 11 min

  29. PIANO LESSONS

    · 18 min

  30. (xx) The Piano Lesson

    · 20 min

  31. Womans auxiliary

    · 26 min

  32. WOMENS AUXILIARY

    · 21 min

  33. Women's Auxilliary

    · 29 min

  34. (xx) Woman's Auxiliary

    · 26 min

  35. Police Chief Cullerson

    · 29 min

  36. (xx) Vic the Irish Policeman

    · 28 min

  37. Mid-summer Madness

    · 29 min

  38. (xx) Midsummer Madness

    · 26 min

  39. (xx) Moving to Peoria

    · 27 min

  40. L Vogel Drum

    · 25 min

  41. Drum the Bum, Visitation Officer

    · 29 min

  42. (xx) L. Vogel Drum

    · 25 min

  43. (xx) The Honeymoon Couple

    · 26 min

  44. Sade and Mis Kesler Fight

    · 26 min

  45. Sade and Miz Kessler Fight

    · 29 min

  46. (xx) Sade and Mrs. Kesler Fight

    · 26 min

  47. Pre arranged Meals

    · 25 min

  48. UNCLE FLETCHERS PRE

    · 23 min

  49. Uncle Fletcher's Pre-arranged Meals

    · 25 min

  50. (xx) Prearranged Meals

    · 25 min

  51. Uncle Fletchers Landlady Farming Him Out

    · 28 min

  52. Uncle Fletcher Is Farmed Out

    · 29 min

  53. OFFICE WORK AT HOME

    · 28 min

  54. Vic Brings Home Work

    · 29 min

  55. Mr Z Moves In

    · 33 min

  56. MR ZEE THE HANDYMAN

    · 27 min

  57. Mr Zee, the Handyman

    · 15 min

  58. (xx) Mr. Zee Moves In

    · 33 min

  59. (xx) August Invoices

    · 32 min

  60. LODGE CATALOG

    · 13 min

  61. USHERING AT THE BIJO

    · 13 min

  62. re enactment Rush Brings Home a Dog

    · 12 min

  63. VS 39 12 Rush Is Getting on in Years

    No date given · 9:42

  64. VS 39 A Letter To Walter

    No date given · 13 min

  65. VS 39 Mr Gumpox Offers Sade a Stall

    No date given · 10 min

  66. VS 39 Vics Christmas Card List

    No date given · 9:53

  67. VS 39 Vics Geographical Trip

    No date given · 9:59

  68. VS 40 09 Sleepers Beware Rush

    No date given · 9:41

  69. VS 40 Vics Photograph With RJ Konk

    No date given · 11 min

  70. VS 41 03 Thirteen Guests

    No date given · 9:54

  71. VS 41 04 Five Dollars For Shopping

    No date given · 9:21

  72. VS 41 04 Forty Pounds of Golf Clubs

    No date given · 9:32

  73. VS 41 04 Fourteen Days in Grovelman

    No date given · 9:29

  74. VS 41 05 Bulletin Board Monitor

    No date given · 9:57

  75. VS 41 07 Freds Concrete Partition

    No date given · 9:53

  76. VS 41 11 Car Ride To Chenoa

    No date given · 11 min

  77. VS 41 11 Playing Hooky

    No date given · 11 min

  78. VS 41 12 Christmas Present Money

    No date given · 11 min

  79. VS 41 12 Stacey Yop and Doctor Sockers

    No date given · 11 min

  80. VS 41 Icebergs

    No date given · 5:55

  81. VS 41 Uncle Fletchers Trip to Dixon

    No date given · 10 min

  82. VS 42 03 Mis Appelrots Petition

    No date given · 11 min

  83. VS 42 Going to Carberry

    No date given · 9:57

  84. VS 42 Lodge Speech Rehearsal

    No date given · 9:48

  85. VS 42 Mr Chinbunny Eats Ice Cream

    No date given · 12 min

  86. VS 42 The Thunder Storm

    No date given · 9:45

  87. VS 42 Vics Inspection Tour

    No date given · 11 min

  88. VS 42 Washrag Collection

    No date given · 10 min

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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    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 (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

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

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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