Romance
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1937–1957
- Surviving broadcasts
- 348
- Genre
- comedy
Let's see what's happening at the small house halfway up the next block. This upload contains 324 episodes of the great Old Time Radio comedy, Vic and Sade, starring Art Van Harvey, Bernadine Flynn, Bill Idleson, David Whitehouse and Clarence Hartzell.
1944 · 41943 · 11942 · 11941 · 21940 · 21939 · 11937 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 45 of 45
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: vic-and-sade-1946-10-10-xx-mr.-zee-moves-in
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 21 years on the air, with 14 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 1937, in original transmission order.
- 1. Vic and Sade 1937-05-28 (xx) Decoration Day Parade · 28 May 1937
- 2. Vic and Sade 1939-09-06 (xx) Office Work at Home - Magnifying Glass · 6 Sep 1939
- 3. Vic and Sade 1940-03-27 (xx) Vic Fakes the Cornet · 27 Mar 1940
- 01
Vic and Sade 1937-05-28 (xx) Decoration Day Parade
28 May 1937 · 10 min
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.
- 02
Vic and Sade 1939-09-06 (xx) Office Work at Home - Magnifying Glass
6 Sep 1939 · 9 min
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.
- 03
Vic and Sade 1940-03-27 (xx) Vic Fakes the Cornet
27 Mar 1940 · 9 min
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.
- 04
Vic and Sade 1940-12-17 (xx) A Bijou Lifetime Pass
17 Dec 1940 · 9 min
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.
- 05
Vic and Sade 1941-03-14 (xx) Marching Team Pictures
14 Mar 1941 · 9 min
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.
- 06
Vic and Sade 1941-10-14 (xx) Cornet Lessons
14 Oct 1941 · 10 min
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.
- 07
Vic and Sade 1942-03-09 (xx) A Letter from Aunt Bess - Uncle Fletcher
9 Mar 1942 · 10 min
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.
- 08
Vic and Sade 1943-03-31 (xx) Brainfeeble's House Warming
31 Mar 1943 · 9 min
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.
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 NBC
NBC in 1937–1957
Other series the network carried while Vic and Sade was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Vic and Sade
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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