Vic and Sade: Old-Time Radio Comedy

Vic Gooch and his young friend Rush Cook sit in the Gooch living room one evening while Rush compiles a long list of people he enjoys a speaking acquaintance with, meaning anyone he merely says hello to. Vic is amused by the length of the list and the ridiculous numbers Rush claims. The talk turns to Ruthie, who reveals that she has bumped into Miss Harris many times over eight years yet never been introduced to her, and feels too shy to speak. Vic and Rush keep trading absurd figures and names as the conversation wanders. The episode is...

Vic and Sade is an NBC daytime serial from 1939, here starring Bernardine Flynn and Bill Idelson. In this episode, Vic Goodkind and his son Rush receive word from their landlord, Mr. Erickson, that he wants the house repaired. Mr. Erickson proposes that the family take on the repairs together as a family party, with his daughter and himself joining in. Vic and Rush react to the offer with growing dismay, and the episode ends with the family still weighing the scheme.

With Vic Goodkind, Rush Goodkind, Mr. Erickson, Sade Goodkind.

Listen for: Mr. Erickson's proposal...

Rush Gook, a high school student, sits at the library table in the Gook family's living room with an algebra textbook but is restless and inclined to quit studying. His mother Sade and father Vic listen as he talks of making a million dollars in business, and his talk turns to planning flower gardens for paying customers. Sade and Vic press him about his study habits, and Rush answers back, defending himself and his plans. Their evening at home brings the family's usual bickering over money, schoolwork and each other's opinions.

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Vic Good is about to leave for a special evening lodge meeting, where an official from Chicago is in town. He needs his ceremonial regalia and a memorized greeting, so he sends his son Rush and young Sade on a scramble around town and through the house to gather the pieces. Each piece of the outfit turns out to have been loaned to a neighbor for a Christmas decoration or costume, and Vic's frustration grows as the hunt goes on. Meanwhile his wife Sade has to phone a friend to cancel a card game, and Vic tries to pass...

Victor Goodt and his wife Sade are at home one evening, with their son Rush sitting nearby over his algebra book. Victor plans to go downtown the next afternoon to buy a new hat, and the couple argue about whether he can choose one himself or needs Sade along. Victor complains that clerks treat him like a child, while Sade insists on supervising. Rush keeps trying to tell a rambling joke about Smelly Clark's uncle and a fish dinner in Peoria, but his parents keep cutting in. The evening is interrupted when the Doncydoodles arrive for a game of 500...

Rush Gook, the teenage son of Victor Gook, wants to be reinstated as official host of an upcoming party at the family home on Virginia Avenue, which his mother has taken over. In the kitchen, he pitches his plans to his father, including doctors and nurses on a platform, a fire department call, a policeman, and tattooing guests. Victor listens and tries to judge whether the ideas are practical. The story is part of the Vic and Sade radio serial, first broadcast on March 3, 1938, and featuring Bernardine Flynn and Bill Idelson in the lead roles.

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Victor Gook, a city official in a small town, learns that a business trip to Chicago will keep him away from home over Decoration Day weekend, just when he is in charge of the town's parade. He tells his wife Sade and his son Rush that the parade is fully planned in his notes, and he tries to reach Mayor Simmons to explain his absence. Attempts to arrange a return train and a late-afternoon parade meet with objections from his family, and the mayor's office proves hard to reach. Vic and Sade is a daytime radio comedy of the 1930...