Vic and Sade
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “vic-and-sade-1946-10-10-xx-mr.-zee-moves-in”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1943–1956
- Surviving broadcasts
- 196
- Genre
- romance
Theater of Romance ran on the CBS network as a filler show between 1943 and 1957. It substituted from time to time for such shows as Gunsmoke , Life with Luigi , Lux Radio Theater , and many others. Producers, directors, and actors changed constantly through the years. Even the locale changed from New York to Los Angeles in 1945. Romance featured such stars as Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Shirley Temple, and many other Hollywood stars, often binding the story lines with the films in which the stars were currently being featured. The themed stories often revolved around historical fiction as well, and…
1956 · 21955 · 21954 · 11952 · 11951 · 11946 · 11945 · 21944 · 11943 · 1
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 14 years on the air, with 5 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. ep019 Lady Hamilton · 23 Aug 1943
- 2. Lady Hamilton · 8 Aug 1944
- 3. The Informer · 26 Jun 1945
- 01
ep019 Lady Hamilton
23 Aug 1943 · 29 min
Broadcast 23 August 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Lady Hamilton
8 Aug 1944 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
The Informer
26 Jun 1945 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
ep131 No Time For Comedy
20 Nov 1945 · 24 min
Broadcast 20 November 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
Woman In The Window
26 Mar 1946 · 22 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
The China Run
16 Jul 1951 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
The Bachelor
18 Dec 1952 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
The Postmistress of Laurel Run
4 Sep 1954 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
8 Aug 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 8 Aug 1944.
Charlotte Greenwood
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1943–1956
Other series the network carried while Romance was on the air.
Same seasons
romance on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The romance anthology
One love story a week, self-contained, played for feeling rather than plot. Romance and Love Story Magazine treated emotion as a genre with its own craft.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Romance
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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