Based on Otter Log dated Nov 01, 2005
Note: There are quite a few incomplete Vic and Sade files, including those that are obvious fragments and others that are missing only the last few lines of dialogue (which may not be so obvious to the listener). This page will include a Last Line to help determine if a file is, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, complete. These Last Lines are from my own files. If anyone has a file that has dialogue beyond what I have transcribed, please feel free to add it to that line. Also, this is a series being prepared for certification and if you are willing to provide the file to the group, please click on “Suggestions” (top left under Main.SideBar?). From there you can send a private email to a Wiki Administrator. All help is greatly appreciated. Lisa Fittinghoff
Note: The First Lines come from the dialogue that follows the announcer setting the scene. The 1945 shows begin with a snippet (teaser) of dialogue before the standard introduction. These teasers are noted below the First and Last Lines. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 37/05/28
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Decoration Day Parade
First Line : Vic: “You’re home, Sade?” Sade: “Yeah.” Rush: “He knows I’m home. I give him an airy wave of the hand-“ Vic: “Anybody call me on the telephone?”
Last Line : Sade: “What’s the piece gonna say?” Vic: “Uh, meet at Mulberry Street at ten o’clock. Line up and march out to the cemetery.”
Note: Missing opening commercial, last commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 10:45 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 37/06/04
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Sade’s Trip to Dwight
First Line : [from the kitchen] Sade: “Vic?” Vic: “Yes?” Sade: “I was over at Donahue’s. Saw you come up the alley and hurried home to catch you before you went away again.”
Last Line : Sade: “You can actually drive all them seventy-four miles at nice decent speed and be back by breakfast time?” Rush: “Sure.” Sade: [laughs] “Well, I don’t know.”
Note: Missing opening commercial, last commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 9:12 128/44 John Liska
Date Aired : 37/07/07
Episode Number : ----
Available : NO
Title/Plot/Host: Smelly’s Tonsil Operation
Date Aired : 37/11/28
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Congress and the Supreme Court
First Line : Vic: “Your sweet face is painted with a happy leer. I apprehend you think you’ve won the game.” Rush: “I have won the game. Look here.” Vic: “Hey, hey.” Sade: “You fellas done with your rummy?” Vic: “Uh, Dry Rot just blundered into an accidental victory.”
Last Line : Sade: “Marryin’ one of the Hunkerman girls. Marie.” Vic: “Mm.” Sade: “Rush.” Rush: “Yeah?” Sade: “Your feet.”
Note: Show fragment running 5:15. Very poor audio. Richard Cohen has found a clear copy of this same show fragment within a file called recollections_at_30_561024_18_s from an NBC series called “Recollections at 30″ with announcer Ed Herlihy. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 38/03/03
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Official Host
First Line : Rush: “About through there, Gov?” Vic: “I am through with the actual labor. All I have to do now is copy some figures neatly on a sheet of paper.”
Last Line : Vic: “Well, if your mother gets home before I do, tell her I’ve done.” Rush: “Okay.” Vic: “So long.” Rush: “So long. Hello, Rooster?”
Note: Missing final commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 11:31 128/44 John Liska
According to ads in the Chicago Daily Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, dated March 20, 1938, Crisco ran a six-week contest from March 21st through May 1st. Contestants were to finish the sentence “Crisco is my favorite shortening because….” Winners to be announced on Vic and Sade. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 38/07/31
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: How Radio Works
First Line : “Vic: This, kiddo, is a broad-… Louie Johnson?(quoting Dick Judge)
Last Line :
According to an ad in the Los Angeles Times, dated October 2, 1938, Crisco ran a six-week contest from October 3rd through November 13th. Contestants were to finish the sentence “I like today’s finer, creamier Crisco because….” Winners to be announced on Vic and Sade. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 38/11/30
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Vic’s New Hat
First Line : Sade: “Want to meet me downtown tomorrow afternoon?” Rush: “What for?” Sade: “Talkin’ to your father.” Vic: “Are you referrin’ to the purchase of a hat?”
Last Line : [doorbell ringing] Sade: “Go let ‘em in, Rush.” Rush: “What?” Sade: “Mr. and Mrs. Stembottom’s at the door. Go let ‘em in. Don’t just stand there.”
Note: Missing opening commercial, final commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 9:49 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/01/02
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Lodge Regalia out on Loan
First Line : [from the kitchen] Vic: “Hey.” Rush: “In here, Gov.” Vic: “Your mother home?” Rush: “She’s asleep.” Sade: “I’m not, either.” Rush: “Well you look-“ Vic: “Is she upstairs?”
Last Line : Vic: “Read!” Sade: “Uh, Hank? Uh. Hick dignitis apolrum dumb cluck simian hobo. Queas agricola apew hunk. Sim spittle in slob dumb cornucopia itch.”
Note: Missing opening commercial, final commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 11:06 128/44 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/01/16
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Flower Garden Arranger
First Line : Sade: “Hey, I’m liable to go into business and make a million dollars.” Vic: “You rave, woman.” Sade: “No, but that’s the truth. What would you do if I earned a million dollars? Ask to borrow some of it?”
Last Line : Rush: “Well, people, I got sixteen remarks bottled up. I might as well make ‘em all in a row and catch up with the conversation. You been talkin’ about flowers, Mom. Here’s my opinion.”
Note: Missing opening commercial, final commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 10:31 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/03/08
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Mr Erickson’s House Repairs
First Line : Rush: “I was the only one in the class that got the correct answer. What I done was make an equation where I let x equal the number of nails in the keg and y equal the number of nails in the gunny sack.”
Last Line : Sade: “Vic, haven’t we got a daisy of a landlord, though?” Vic: “Yes.” Sade: “Haven’t we got a daisy of a landlord, though?”
Note: Missing opening commercial, final commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 10:42 128/44 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/04/03
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Rush Draws List of Acquaintances
First Line : Vic: “You’re most industrious this evening, smoke screen.” Rush: “Yeah.” Vic: “What’s the nature of your occupation?” Rush: “I’m making a list of the individuals with whom I enjoy a speaking aquaintance.”
Last Line : Sade: “Ain’t that the darnedest thing, though?” Vic: “Uh, about Ruthie and Ma Harris? Yeah.” Sade: Ain’t that the darnedest thing?”
Note: File is complete. Lisa Fittinghoff: A few things about this file bother me and I need others to verify or dispute my concerns. For instance, the first commercial stars Mrs. Isabella Beech. She wouldn’t show up in Crisco commercials until the summer of 1942. Also, if you listen to the first Crisco commercial in the show file dated 42/08/06 “Christmas Cards COD,” you’ll hear it’s the same commercial. Ed Roberts is the announcer in this file, but in 1939 it was Ralph Edwards doing the announcing. I haven’t found any other 1939 file that includes an Ivory Flakes commercial, as this file does at the end of the show. I don’t dispute the date of this file, only the commercials that I believe have been added to it. Were the ads edited on recently or is this a transcription from 1942 with this 1939 episode being repeated with updated commercials?
Note: Best mp3 known is 15:08 64/22 John Liska
According to ads in the Ada Evening News of Ada, Oklahoma, dated April 7, 1939, and the Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Journal, dated April 20, 1939, Crisco ran two contests, the first from March 13 to April 2, the second from April 10 to April 20. Contestants were to write slogans about the new Gyro-Churned Crisco. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 39/04/25
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Rotten Davis Phones
First Line : Sade: “Hey, you better get up from there.” Vic: “What’s this?” Sade: “Come on, before you drop off to sleep.” Vic: “I’m reading the paper.”
Last Line : Rush: “Mister Davis and his friend, Miss Radburn, have come to call.” Sade and Vic [talking over each other]: “Well, tell them to come right in.”
Note: Missing opening commercial, final commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 9:27 128/44 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/04/26
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Sade’s New Luggage
First Line : Rush: “It come about as close to being a fight as anything I ever seen in my life. Leroy Snow referred to Milton Welch as a halfwit. Milton referred to Leroy as a cheapskate. Leroy doubled up his fist. Milton Welch removed his hat and overcoat.”
Last Line : Vic: “Well?” Rush: “Well?” Vic: “Mom’s goin’ to Carberry.” Rush: “Yeah. Mom’s goin’ to Carberry.”
Note: Missing opening commercial, final commercial and announcer’s wrap up.
Note: Best mp3 known is 9:45 128/44 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/05/11
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Overnight Guests
First Line : Vic: “Know what time it is?” Rush: “Getting on for twelve.” Vic: “Or more romantically, midnight. Tomorrow’s a school day, isn’t it, my friend?”
Last Line : Rush: “Yeah, takes mom to keep the wheels on the track. Wouldn’t be anything like this happen if she was on deck.”
Note: Missing opening commercial, final commercial and announcer’s wrap up. According to Richard Cohen there is a file with more dialogue available. The dialogue should end with Vic saying, “Shall we retire?…Move over Roper, you big halfwit.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 9:57 128/44 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/06/01
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Grandpa Snyder Xmas Cards
First Line : Rush: “I had three put outs in a row to my credit in the fourth inning and three in a row in the fifth. Talk about your red hot corner. Third base was sure the red hot corner this afternoon. I must have handled twenty separate and distinct grounders.”
Last Line : Rush: “Back to kisses again here.” Vic: “That so?” Rush: [reading] “Give me a kiss or I’ll telephone the police. May the blessings of Christmas never cease.”
Note: Ralph Edwards announces that Crisco is offering double the cost of your ingredients if not satisfied with Crisco’s performance. Offer ends July 1, 1939.
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:23 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/06/05
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Yy Flirch Tries to Phone Vic
First Line : Vic: “Are you in a trance, pocket watch?” Rush: “I’m trying to figure something out.” Vic: “When I greeted you joyously your rejoinder was sluggish and preoccupied.”
Last Line : Vic: “Hello, there Y.Y., you old horse thief. In hock agricola sim spittle hunk. Ad nauseum cornucopia dumb cluck itch.”
Note: After the end of the show, Ralph Edwards encourages the audience to stay tuned for “Pepper Young’s Family.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 15:10 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/06/13
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Porch Collapses Rotten Takes Blame
First Line : Sade: “I win.” Vic: “Let’s see your cards.” Sade: [tired sound] Vic: “Sure you win. Got three queens, three deuces and the four, five, six and seven of hearts.”
Last Line : Vic: “You seem to have had just about as satisfactory an evening as Rotten did.” Rush: “I had a delightful evening.” Vic: “Hm.” Rush: “A delightful evening.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 12:56 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/07/05
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Two Tons of Coal #1
First Line : [Vic and Rush talking excitedly over each other] Sade: “Oh, now what’s this…hey, stop, will ya…mercy.” Vic: “You were jokin’ all the time, weren’tcha?” Sade: “Not jokin’ a bit.”
Last Line : Sade: [laughs] “I’m a lady with lots of responsibility. I’ve got two little boys to look after and watch over. Two little tiny helpless boys.”
Note: Announcer Ralph Edwards states that Proctor and Gamble is offering 5-piece Cannon Mills luncheon sets, the same being used at George Jessel’s Little Old New York Restaurant at the New York World’s Fair.
Note: Best mp3 known is 14:29 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/08/30
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Rush Mad Preselected School Clothes
First Line : Sade: “Willie out in back?” Vic: “Yeah.” Sade: “What doing?” Vic: “Sitting on the steps.” Sade: “He’s mad.” Vic: “So I gathered. I was at pains to wish him a jolly good afternoon and received only a sullen rejoinder.”
Last Line : Sade: “Come in the house with me. You can help, grind the meat and crack the English walnuts.” Vic: [yawning] “Okay.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:00 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/09/06
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Office Invoices Magnifying Glass
First Line : Vic: “Yes? Who is it?” Rush: “That you, Gov? I never knew you were home.” Vic: “Plant eleven, nine car loadens. Plant three, twelve car loadens.”
Last Line : [phone and doorbell ringing] Rush: “Hey, Blue-Tooth, I couldn’t find the magnifying glass. Wait for me a minute, will ya? Okay.” Vic: “Oh, my.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:06 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/09/22
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Sade Provides Names of Wildflowers
First Line : Sade: [on the phone] “Ruthie, it completely slipped my mind. Completely slipped my mind. Yes. Sure. Well, I’m glad you remembered, lady. Vic and Rush are still here and I can get the information from ‘em before they have to go back to school and the office.”
Last Line : Sade: “You’re some farm boy, you are.” Vic: “Ain’t poinsettias wildflowers?” Sade: “Some wonderful farm boy.”
Note: Ralph Edwards announces that next Monday, September 25th, will be the start of Crisco’s Slogan Contest.
Note: Best mp3 known is 12:49 32/11 John Liska
According to an ad in the Los Angeles Times, dated September 24, 1939, there will be two Crisco Slogan Contests. The first begins September 25th and ends October 15th. The second begins October 23rd and ends November 12th. According to the contest rules, the $5,000 winner will be announced on “Vic and Sade” and “This Day Is Ours.” Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 39/10/06
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Double Feature in Hopewood
First Line : Vic: “Your mother in the house?” Rush: “Living room.” Vic: “You were cruel to drag me away from my game of indoor horseshoes.”
Last Line : [horn honking] Rush: “Goodbye, Mom.” Sade: “Goodbye.” Rush: “Goodbye, Gov.” Vic: “Oh.” Rush: Have a dandy time.”
Note: Ralph Edwards mentions that the Slogan Contest is in full swing.
Note: Best mp3 known is 12:05 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/10/30
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Five Xmas Card Salesmen
First Line : Vic: “Sade, [exhausted sigh] you may produce the sheaf of wires, letters, postal cards and cablegrams as delivered by the mailman.” Sade [laughs] “Golly. Rush, out on the buffet.”
Last Line : Sade: [reading] “Wasn’t it the poet Coleridge who said, ‘Love is a diamond studded necklace on the throat of humanity.’”
Note: Announcement of the winner of Crisco’s first Slogan Contest which ended October 15th. A wire from the winner, Mrs. Julian Holman, is read. Ralph Edwards reminds the public that Crisco’s second Slogan Contest is ongoing.
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:07 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/10/31
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Blue-Tooth Under Gook Davenport
First Line : Sade: “You makin’ that noise?” Vic: “No. You are, ain’t ya?” Sade: “No.” Vic: “I thought it was your chair creaking.” Sade: “Uh, uh.” Vic: “Perhaps we have mice.”
Last Line : Sade: “I said get him out.” Rush: “You absolutely insist?” Sade: “Yeah.” Rush: “All right, Blue-Tooth, the jig is up.”
Note: Ralph Edwards urges the audience to turn in tomorrow to get information on Crisco’s Slogan Contest which is in full swing.
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:10 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/11/06
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Charlie R’s Fish Picture
First Line : Sade: “You fellas scrub your hands good after handlin’ that coal?” Vic: “Sure” Sade: “How ‘bout you, Willie?” Rush: “Hands as clean as toast.”
Last Line : Rush: “Mr. Razorscum, people.” Vic: “Hello there, Charlie.” Sade: “Come in, Charlie.”
Note: Continuation of the Crisco Slogan Contest. Ralph Edwards says the second and final Slogan Contest will close midnight, Sunday, November 12th. A telegram is read (different from the one read on 39/10/30) from the first Slogan Contest winner, Mrs. Julian Holman.
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:35 32′11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/11/07
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Smelly Makes a Speech
First Line : Rush: “By George, I was impressed as a horse.” Vic: “Smelly never impressed me particularly.” Rush: “Are you prejudiced at Smelly?”
Last Line : Rush: “Fellas, you all know me. I am Smelly Clark. I am strong. I am smart. I am good looking.”
Note: Ralph Edwards urges the audience to tune in tomorrow for information on Crisco’s second Slogan Contest.
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:37 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/11/14
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Rush House Destroyer
First Line : Sade: “You’ll break that.” Rush: “Nah.” Sade: “Will too. It’s gettin’ old. Can’t stand such treatment.” Rush: “I never land on it in a vital spot, Mom. My body hits it at an angle where the springs can absorb the shock.”
Last Line : Sade: “Rush Gook, the individual aged fourteen years that tore down a three-story brick building single handed.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:04 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/11/21
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Smelly Clark Solicits Gifts
First Line : Rush: “Mom, remember the other day me saying I thought I could reasonably expect to receive twenty presents this Christmas?” Sade: “Uh, uh.” Rush: “I was tellin’ Gov, but you happened to be in the room.”
Last Line : Sade: [on the phone] “Well, uh, tell me more about Miss Dover. She’s leaner these days, huh? Really?”
Note: Missing opening commercial, final commercial and announcer’s wrap up. Echoey sound.
Note: Best mp3 known is 10:40 128/44 - Echo from over-editing. John Liska
Date Aired : 39/12/xx
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Rush Is Getting on in Years
First Line : Sade: “How’s everything with you?” Rush: “Pretty fair.” Sade: “Where you been since dinner?” Rush: “Dozen different places.” Sade: “Rooster Davis come along and hollered outside shortly after you left.”
Last Line : Rush: “I’ll see if I can get this poor old body up off the davenport.” Sade: “Yes, see if you can.” Rush: “Boy, I’m gettin’ on in years.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:08 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/12/xx
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Vic’s Christmas Card List
First Line : Sade: “That great big list of fellas?” Vic: “Oh, thunder, Sade. Every doggone year we go through the same old tiresome business. I don’t send out Christmas cards for the sheer boyish pleasure of it.”
Last Line : Vic: “Exalted Big Dipper of the Nonchalant Neptune Chapter of the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way, Lacrosse, Wisconsin.” Sade: “Well, why is he entitled to a fifteen cent Christmas card?”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:45 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/xx/xx
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Mr Gumpox Offers Sade a Stall
First Line : Vic: “Corporal Johnson, old chum, I’d like to nip an idea of yours in the bud.” Sade: “What’s this now?” Vic: “I had a brief chat with soda fountain just now.”
Last Line : Sade: [on the phone] “Fred, Vic and Rush are hollerin’ their heads off for strawberry ice cream. Yes, strawberry.”
Note: This show is probably from September of 1939. The term “Sure-Mix” Crisco started to show up in newspaper ads and in the Vic and Sade ads in mid-to-late September (in prior Vic and Sade ads they spoke of a million dollar gyrochurn process, but there’s no mention of the term “Sure-Mix” Crisco). Because Ralph Edwards states in the show’s last ad, “So why don’t you do what so many other good cooks have done in the last few days and change to new ‘Sure-Mix’ Crisco,” I believe this show was broadcast in the early days of the product’s release, before the October/November contests. Thanks to Richard Cohen for his notes on this show. Lisa Fittinghoff
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:47 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/xx/xx
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Rush I Hereby Resign from
First Line : Sade: “Are you really studyin’ there, Rush, or just foolin’ around?” Rush: “I am certainly not foolin’ around.” Sade: “Glad to hear it.”
Last Line : Vic: “They want you to join?” Rush: “Yeah.” Sade: “You’re gonna join?” Rush: “Oh, sure. I always join stuff when I get a chance.”
Note: Could this show be from early October of 1939? Ralph Edwards announces that “one whole week in Crisco’s big all-cash Slogan Contest has gone by.” He also states, “Now this contest is solely to introduce Sure-Mix Crisco” and “So, send your first slogans today.” The term “Sure-Mix” Crisco began showing up in ads in September 1939. A note from a previous Crisco contest winner, Mrs. G.W. Strong, is read. Lisa Fittinghoff
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:37 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 39/xx/xx
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Sade Volunteers Rush for Pageant
First Line : Sade: “Thought you were in bed and asleep.” Rush: “Uh, uh.” Sade: “You’re not hungry?” Rush: “No.” Sade: “What you come down here for then?”
Last Line : Sade: “Well, uh, don’t forget to turn out the lights.” Rush: “I’ll make certain they are extinguished.” Sade: “Well, good night.” Rush: “Good night, mother.”
Note: Ralph Edwards offers a Crisco holiday spice cake recipe. Is this show from December? Besides “Vic and Sade,” it’s possible this cake was advertised on two other P&G shows, “This Day is Ours” and “The Right to Happiness.” Lisa Fittinghoff
Note: Best mp3 known is 14:14 32/11 John Liska
From The New York Times “News and Notes of the Advertising Field” dated December 16, 1939: “The Proctor and Gamble Company has scheduled advertising in 125 newspapers in this country, Canada and Hawaii, as well as announcements on its three network radio programs, to promote a special spice cake recipe offer for its Sure-Mix Crisco.” There are ads in the Chicago Daily Tribune dated December 7, 1939, and the Los Angeles Times dated December 8, 1939, telling consumers that the Holiday Spice Cake recipe is available from their grocer. I’ve also found Crisco advertisements for the Holiday Spice Cake in: The Lima News, Lima, OH, December 7, page 8; The Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, December 8, page 48; The Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan, WI, December 8, page 9; The Oshkosh Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI, December 8 and 15, page 18. I cannot find any Crisco ads mentioning this cake before December. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 39/xx/xx
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Vic’s Geographical Trip
First Line : Sade: “Your father feels jolly about something.” Rush: “You can tell by his elastic step, huh?” Sade: “Yeah, and that kinda halfway smug look on his face.”
Last Line : Vic: “What?” Rush: [quoting] “‘V. R. Gook of this city was absent on business last week.’ [pause] ‘V. R. Gook of this city was absent on business last week.’”
Note: Sade and Rush are on the front porch in the swing, so it’s unlikely that this is a winter or early spring show. Sade says “It’s too hot a day to be squeezed to a pulp.” Also, Vic was out of town for a week and Art Van Harvey would take a vacation in August, so this is very likely from August of 1939. Thanks to Richard Cohen for his notes on this show. Lisa Fittinghoff
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:54 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/01/02
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: No Painted Portrait of Big Dipper
First Line : Vic: “Did ya read this letter from lodge headquarters?” Sade: “Yes.” Vic: “Quite a proposition they advance.” Sade: “Them lodge fellas up there in Chicago must lay awake nights figuring up stuff to grab a person’s money.”
Last Line :Rush: “The most dramatic moment of my entire career.” Sade: “Um.” Rush:”Threw himself on the ground.” Sade: “Um.” Rush: “And cried like a little baby.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 12:49 32/11John Liska
Date Aired : 40/01/09
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Boys Copy Numbers Sade Tells Gossip
First Line : Rush: “Almost finished, Gov?” Vic: “No, darn it, I struck some snags. What time is it?” Rush: “Almost six-thirty.” Vic: “What time we supposed to be ready?”
Last Line : Sade: <laughing> “Nuh-heh-heh. I had a nice, sociable gossip all by myself.” Vic: “Nuh.” Sade: “Well, <exhales> let’s go.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:47 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/01/12
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Vegetable Garden
First Line : Sade: “Why I thought you’d be delighted. And look at your faces. Jaws dropped down on your chests nine feet.” Vic: “I don’t see why my jaw should drop. The matter doesn’t affect me.”
Last Line : Vic: <Sarcastic> “Somebody knock me over with a feather.” Sade: “Yes, somebody knock me over with a feather.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:51 32/11 John Liska
Note : This episode is sometimes mis-dated 40/09/12.
Date Aired : 40/01/19
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Gumpox vs Donahue
First Line : Vic: “Why do you sit and look sluggishly at your cards?” Rush: “Figuring out something.” Vic: “At this rate I’ll be an old man before the game is over.”
Last Line : Sade: “He was fit to be tied.” Rush: “He-he. Howard was fit to be tied.” Sade: “How do you mean?” Rush : “Howard the Horse.”
Note: Has opening commercial, but my copy of the show runs out before the end. Total file is 7:38. Lisa Fittinghoff
Note: Best mp3 known is 7:28 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/01/22
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: R J Konk’s Improved Portrait
First Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “Third-Lieutenant Stanley turned to the crowd of excited spectators, and executed a low, graceful bow. Then he wiped his mouth with a blue silk handkerchief, adjusted his necktie and prepared to give Lady Margaret fourteen kisses.”
Last Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “The handsome young officer gazed around the arena. The carcasses of the mighty Kings of Beasts lay in grotesque positions. Third-Lieutenant Stanley gazed upward and beheld Lady Margret, still clinging to the trapeze. ‘Come down!’ he screamed, ‘and I’ll give you 47 kisses!’”
Note: Best mp3 known is 12:43 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/01/24
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Y Y Flirch Best Looking Man
First Line : [from the living room] Vic: “You, Sade?” Sade: “Yes.” Vic: “I’m home.” Rush: “We know it. Saw your rubbers on the back porch.” Vic: “I’m home, Sade.”
Last Line : Vic: “Well you can take your good looks and throw them in the creek Flirch. Good-Bye Flirch.” <Hangs-Up> “So much for Flirch.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:14 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/01/xx
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Title/Plot/Host: Mr Donahue Gets Promotion
First Line : [from the kitchen] Sade: “Vic!” Vic: “Hi-ta-hi.” Sade: “Mr. Donahue got the new job.” Vic: “Did he?” Sade: “They called up from the roundhouse with the news only about ten minutes ago.”
Last Line : Sade: “I feel so good for Mr. & Mrs. Donohue.” Vic: “Um.” Sade: “They’re fine, fine people. Deserve everything they get.” Vic: “Yeah.” Sade: “Hello, Lady? Guess what??”
Note: Best mp3 known is 12:51 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/02/20
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Title/Plot/Host: Rush’s Good Looks (partial Recording)
First Line : Rush: “-You’re not proud and pleased girls up at high school are struck by my good old skull?” Sade: “No. Vic, hop up and call Fred and Ruthie.”
Last Line : Rush: “Well, that was all Leland. Just wanted to get rid of a little steam. Ok, Leland. You Bet. You..” (file cuts out).
Note: After the announcer’s introduction there is dead air, followed by organ music. At 5:48 the dialogue begins.
Note: Best mp3 known is 10:08 32/11. File has definitely been masticated by some amateur editor. John Liska
Date Aired : 40/02/27
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Title/Plot/Host: High School Gossip
First Line : Sade: “Willie, I was talking to Miss Call this afternoon and she said Mr. Chinbunny got bawled out for letting ‘em print his picture in the newspaper week before last or whenever it was.”
Last Line : Sade: “Uh-heh-heh. I guess school ain’t a place where children sit around and recite their lessons, peaceful and quiet.” Rush: “Ah, no.” Sade: “Um.” Rush: “Wheels within wheels.” Sade: “Hm.” Rush: “Crossed wires. A seethin’ river of human emotions.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:37 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/03/19
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Title/Plot/Host: Bess Letter Grocery List on Top
First Line : Vic: “That a new Third-Lieutenant Stanley book you got there?” Rush: “Yeah, borrowed it off from Blue-Tooth Johnson this afternoon.” Vic: “What’s the title?”
Last Line : Vic: “Uh..” Sade: “Wasn’t that a lovely, long, interestin’ letter?” Vic: “Uhh.” Sade: “I have to get busy and answer it soon.” Vic: “ehhh…” Sade <yawns grandly> “Boy. Let’s go to the picture show.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:42 32/11John Liska
Note: Ralph Edwards mentions Crisco’s all-cash contest where contestants complete the sentence, “I like new Sure-Mix Crisco for cakes because….” Crisco is providing a recipe for a pineapple coconut layer cake to inspire contestants.
According to ads in the Chicago Daily Tribune and the Los Angeles Times on March 10, 1940, the first Crisco contest would run from March 11th-31st and the second contest would run from April 8th-28th. The ad gives the recipe for a pineapple coconut cake. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 40/03/25
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Title/Plot/Host: Smelly Clark’s Big Date
First Line : Sade: “What’s your watch say?” Vic: “Huh?” Sade: “Look and see what time it is.” Vic: “Clock on the blink?” Sade: “I guess so. Something’s eatin’ it. Acts like it goes awhile and then stops awhile.”
Last Line : Vic: “Guess I’ll stroll up to bed then.” Rush: “Know what?” Vic: “What?” Rush: “Think I’ll look around for a lady friend.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:43 32/11 John Liska
Note: Crisco’s contest still on-going, but closing at midnight Sunday, March 31st.
Date Aired : 40/03/27
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Title/Plot/Host: Vic Fakes the Coronet
First Line : Rush: “Why don’tcha wait for me when I holler?” Sade: “I wasn’t going to stand out in the alley and freeze to death.” Rush: “I’d have walked home with ya.”
Last Line : Rush: “A little higher.” Vic: [singing] “D?” Rush: “Yeah.” Vic: “See, kiddo? It’s not hard to play the coronet.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:22 32/11 John Liska
Note: Ralph Edwards reminds the audience that there are only four days left to enter the contest.
Date Aired : 40/03/29
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Title/Plot/Host: No, Vic, No Trip to Chicago
First Line : Vic: “Where’s your mother?” Rush: “In the other room. Or upstairs, maybe. Hey, you want to hear some interesting facts and figures about darkest Africa?”
Last Line : Sade: “If they’re nice.” Rush: “If they’re nice. Matches, prunes, eggs, canned corn.” Sade: “Mm, hm. Now you better scoot.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:33 32/11 John Liska
Note: Last mention of the contest before it closes.
Date Aired : 40/04/04
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Title/Plot/Host: Rush Must Make a Call on a Girl
First Line : Sade: “Yes. [laughs] Ah, forget it, Mis’ Skimple. I told Harold I’d give him candy and I have to make good on my promise. Didn’t go to any expense at all.”
Last Line : Sade: “Oh, what’s the matter with your life?” Rush: “It won’t be worth livin’. It won’t be worth livin’.” Sade: “Come on, fellas.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 12:50 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/04/08
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Title/Plot/Host: Can Blue-Tooth Sue the Bijou
First Line : Sade: “Let’s not play anymore.” Vic: “You tired?” Sade: [tired sound of assent] Vic: “A fine thing to do, beat a guy and then quit.” Sade: [laughs] That was all the only game out of the whole caboodle I won.”
Last Line : Rush: “Well, we didn’t pay our way in.” Vic: “You didn’t?” Rush: “No.” Sade: “You sneaked in the show?” Rush: “We sneaked in the show.”
Note: At the end of the show, announcer James Fleming states that “Next Monday, April 8th, starts Crisco’s second exciting all-cash contest…tune in next Monday, April 8th, at the same time for full details.” This show is most likely from Friday, April 5th. I am assuming James Fleming was substituting for Ralph Edwards, the regular announcer. Lisa Fittinghoff
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:26 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/04/10
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Title/Plot/Host: Nicer to Sleep Over for Two Weeks
First Line : Rush: “By George, it’s a horrible thing to contemplate.” Sade: “Oh, contemplate wantaplate.” Rush: “Mis’ Scott hasn’t mentioned it to you?”
Last Line : Sade: “No trouble at all. Only too glad to oblige. No, you send him right on over. Rush’s bed is plenty big enough for both of the boys.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:23 32/22 John Liska
Note: James Fleming promotes Crisco’s second big all-cash contest for completing the sentence, “I like new Sure-Mix Crisco for cakes because….” Crisco continues to provide their pineapple coconut layer cake recipe as inspiration.
Date Aired : 40/04/15
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Title/Plot/Host: Milton’s Dirt in Fruit Jars
First Line : Rush: “Mom not around, huh?” Vic: “Uh, uh. Didn’t she say something at the dinner table this noon about going shopping with Ruthie?”
Last Line : Vic: “I expect ya to trot to the grocery store without puttin’ up big arguments. I expect ya…What’s the matter?” Rush: [near tears] “Nothin’.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:30 32/11 John Liska
Note: The audio cuts out during the announcer’s intro to the scene. No mention of the Crisco contest. Announcer Melvin Allen asks the audience, “Don’t forget to listen to Crisco’s Vic and Sade Monday,” so this must have been a Friday show. April 15th, 1940, was a Monday, so this date cannot be correct. It might have been the 12th, but there’s no mention of the contest. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 40/04/17
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Title/Plot/Host: Vic’s Heart Shaped Face
First Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “Third-Lieutenant Stanley realized with dismay that he and Lady Margaret were completely surrounded by counterfeitin’ South Sea islanders. ‘Have courage, sweetheart,’ he muttered.”
Last Line : Vic: “Gonna sit here and grin and smirk and flirt and make goo goo eyes at myself into that mirror until you wish you’d never heard of a heart-shaped face.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 12:09 32/22 John Liska
Note: File cuts off after Vic’s final line. Missing final commercial and announcer’s wrap up. Announcer Ralph Edwards states, “Yes, there’s another first prize of five thousand dollars in Crisco’s second big all-cash contest…and you’re going to have fun entering this easy new contest, too.” Same sentence as in the first contest, “I like new Sure-Mix Crisco for cakes because….” Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 40/05/03
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Title/Plot/Host: Engine Cab Ride to Chicago
First Line : Vic: “Holy smokes, Sade, the thing is ridiculous.” Sade: “Why, I don’t see why you say that. You’ll save all that train fare, you’ll ride to Chicago free and you’ll have oceans of fun.”
Last Line : Vic: “Paperweight old stone bruise?” Rush: “Yeah?” Vic: “Will you bring papa a glass of cold water?”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:38 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/05/06
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Title/Plot/Host: Working out Hank’s Indebtedness
First Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “Third-Lieutenant Stanley contemplated the oscillating head of the deadly cobra without fear. ‘That pesky reptile better not bite me,’ he remarked to Lady Margaret.”
Last Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “‘Give me three kisses before I choke the next counterfeitin’ cannibal,’ bellowed the handsome young officer. They were given with a will.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:27 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/05/15
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Title/Plot/Host: Vic’s Picture Totally Mislabelled
First Line : Sade: “Both you and your father expressly asked for beef punkles. Beef punkles require ages and ages to get tender, so don’t complain about the delay.”
Last Line : Sade: “Vic?” Vic: “Doggone that doggone doggone luck.” Sade: “Vic?” Vic: “What?” Sade: “Let’s go eat our dinner.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:34 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/05/27
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Title/Plot/Host: Mis’ Scott Getting Too Chummy
First Line : Sade: “All through?” Rush: “Yeah, at last.” Sade: “You studied real well. Almost two solid hours.” Rush: “That long?” Sade: “Well, you got home from Blue-Tooth Johnson’s house at eight-thirty.”
Last Line : Rush: “I expect us three people are what you call a contented family. Everybody likes everybody.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:22 32/11 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/05/29
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Title/Plot/Host: Nicer the Goader
First Line : Sade: “Did you hit him?” Rush: “It wasn’t a very hard hit.” Sade: “But you did hit him.” Rush: “More of a shove than a blow.” Vic: “Your mother has warned you on several previous occasions to lay off Nicer, hasn’t she, ink stain?”
Last Line : Vic: “How ‘bout a hand or two of rummy, peanut brittle?” Rush: “Fine, fine.” Vic: “Fish the cards out of the library table drawer.”
Note: Best mp3 known is 13:30 32/22 John Liska
Date Aired : 40/06/02
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Title/Plot/Host: Teaching Cigar Smoking to Chinbunny
First Line : Sade: [laughs] “Oh, ish.” Vic: “What’s the matter?” Sade: “Oh, this trashy novel of Rush’s.” Vic: “Third-Lieutenant Stanley?” Sade: “Yeah.” Vic: “Third-Lieutenant Stanley’s a baboon.”
Last Line : Rush: “Finally he says with intense admiration, ‘You’re a sport, Chinbunny. You’re a real sport.’”
Note: Melvin Allen announces the five thousand dollar prize winner in Crisco’s second and final all-cash contest which closed midnight April 28th.
Date Aired : 40/06/13
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Title/Plot/Host: Short Bio Of Little Dipper
First Line : Vic: “I can’t get anywhere with this.” Sade: “What is it you’re doing?” Vic: “Trying to fix up a biography of Hank Gutstop.” Sade: “Oh, for mercy sake.”
Last Line : Sade: “Barbershop fella?” Vic: “Yeah, doggone it.” Sade: “What’s the matter?” Vic: “Hank Gutstop is sick.”
Note : This episode is sometimes mis-dated as 40/07/13.
Date Aired : 40/06/14
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Title/Plot/Host: Freedom Last Day of School
First Line : Sade: “I expect you wanna be by yourself.” Vic: “Maybe I could concentrate better, kiddo.” Sade: “All right. I’ll take my sewin’ upstairs.”
Last Line : Rush: “Rush Gook on the end of the wire. Why, Rooster! [to his parents] Rooster Davis.” Vic and Sade: “Hm.” Rush: “How are ya, fella? Me, too. I’m walkin’ on air.”
Date Aired : 40/06/17
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Title/Plot/Host: Mr Sludge to Sleep Overnight at Gooks
First Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “Third-Lieutenant Stanley winked, smirked and adjusted his cravat. ‘Where are those couple kisses you promised me,’ he cried. Lady Margaret pinkened.”
Last Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “Lady Margaret revived from her swoon and rose to a sitting position. ‘How ‘bout those couple kisses?’ roared the handsome young officer. They were given with a will.”
Date Aired : 40/06/18
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Title/Plot/Host: June Xmas Card Pressure
First Line : Sade: “What on earth’s this?” Rush: “Christmas card sample book.” Sade: “Where’d it come from?” Rush: “Ain’t it yours?” Sade: “Mine?”
Last Line : Rush: “Here’s a pretty good one. [reading aloud] During the Yultide season we eat lots of goose and cranberry sause and take chances on gettin’ fat. Get off my foot, you son of a gun, or I’ll hit you in the head with this baseball bat.”
Date Aired : 40/06/19
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Title/Plot/Host: Vic’s Wide Brimmed Hat
First Line : Sade: “I never heard of anything so fishy.” Vic: “You are unwontedly incredulous, Dr. Sleetch.” Sade: “I’ll say I am. Why on earth would Kleeburgers make you a present of a hat?”
Last Line : Sade: “The hat’ll have to go back.” Vic: “Will it?” Sade: “Yes. The hat’ll have to go back. Wish you’d take it off. Makes ya look like a peeled onion.”
Note: Record skips several times right after the first lines.
Date Aired : 40/06/21
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Title/Plot/Host: Hank’s Job Royal Throne Barbershop
First Line : Vic: “Hi-ta-hi.” Sade: “Hi. You been talking on the telephone all this time?” Vic: “Yep. How’s the temperature out here?” Sade: “Much cooler than inside. We just about roasted while we were doing the dishes.”
Last Line : Vic: “What was the message?” Rush: “I quit my job.” Vic: “I quit my job?” Rush: “I quit my job.”
Date Aired : 40/06/24
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Title/Plot/Host: Mr Gumpox Blows Kisses
First Line : Vic: “I gather from the way your little heart-shaped face lights up you won a glorious victory.” Rush: “Three queens, three jacks and the four, five, six and seven of hearts.”
Last Line : Vic: “How does the garbage man go when he sees a lady?” Rush: “He goes [he blows a kiss].”
Date Aired : 40/07/01
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Title/Plot/Host: Ruthie Has Secrets
First Line : Sade: “Salted peanuts even under the davenport.” Vic: “Well, Fred’s the guilty party. He was throwin’ ‘em up in the air and catchin’ ‘em in his mouth.”
Last Line : Vic: “Hey! Wallpaper, awaken! Fire! Murder! Cyclone! Earthquake!” Rush: [sleepily] “Ooh.”
Note: About 30 seconds into the first commercial Melvin Allen starts to have difficulty speaking. There are uncharacteristic pauses in his delivery. At 52 seconds another announcer steps in and finishes the commercial. Allen returns for the episode’s introduction and final commercial.
Date Aired : 40/07/04
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Title/Plot/Host: Mr Sludge Calls His Mother
First Line : Vic: “Why can’t I go in?” Sade: “Mr. Sludge is usin’ the telephone.” Vic: “Well?” Sade: “He’s talkin’ long distance to his mother and sister in Pontiac. I told him he could have privacy.”
Last Line : Sade: “You had a lovely long chat with your mother and sister, didn’tcha? Here, take my handkerchief. Yours is soakin’, soppin’ wet.”
Note: Very poor sound. Missing opening commercial, part of announcer’s introduction and final commercial. File runs 8:18. Although the sound is poor and the announcer’s portion is very small, I would guess this is Mel Allen. Reviewing the show content, Richard Cohen has pointed out that Vic is working, which is very unlikely if it’s the 4th, plus there is no mention at all of the holiday. I’ve noted that the weather is nice enough for Vic to be working on the porch steps, plus he tells Sludge, “Warm day,” so this may have been a late spring or summer show. Is it possible it was repeated on the 4th, thus explaining the date of the file? This show, on occasion, has been listed as possibly coming from 1939. Richard has found that in the 39/06/05 show “Y.Y. Flirch Tries to Phone Vic,” Vic hardly knows Sludge. It isn’t until 1940 that Sludge has gained a reputation for being timid and crying easily. Also, he noticed that in three shows, 40/05/27 “Miss Scott Getting Too Chummy,” 40/06/17 Mr. Sludge to Sleep Overnight at Gooks,” and 40/07/04 “Mr. Sludge Calls His Mother,” Sludge’s age is consistently revealed as 43. Lisa Fittinghoff
The announcer on this episode sounds to me like Ralph Edwards, whose announcing on Vic and Sade, to my understanding, ended in early April, 1940. With no other clues, I can’t narrow down the date, but the July 4, 1940 date seems unlikely, if not impossible. Any ideas?Louie Johnson?
The New York Times’ “Today on the Radio” section for Thursday, July 4, 1940, lists Vic and Sade running on WJZ at 10:15 a.m. and on WEAF at 3:45 p.m. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 40/07/22
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Title/Plot/Host: Mr Donahue Asks for Demotion
First Line : Rush: “Nobody can say for a fact oranges are more delicious than bananas, can they?” Vic: “No.” Rush: “Well, Nicer Scott said it for a fact.” Vic: “Did you paste him one upside the snoot?”
Last Line : Sade: “Well, let’s hop to the kitchen, Willie, and see what we have to have from the grocery store.”
Date Aired : 40/07/23
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Title/Plot/Host: Sade Shows Razorscum Album
First Line : Sade: “Is your father still in the kitchen?” Rush: “I guess so. Unless he went down the basement.” Sade: “Vic!” Rush: [laughs] “He may have tried to run out on you.”
Last Line : Sade: “All right, uh, this fella on the next page here is Melvin Razorscum. See his oblong head?”
Date Aired : 40/08/14
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Title/Plot/Host: Bacon Sandwiches
First Line : Rush: “Mom!” Sade: “Hey, don’tcha be coming in that front door with your muddy feet.” Rush: “I’m not.” Sade: “Go ‘round to the back.”
Last Line : Sade: “I got things to do.” Rush: “Well, it’s been a pleasant chat.” Sade: [yawns] “Yeah.”
Note: I’ve come across 2 versions of this show. First version starts off with the Announcer’s opening, then a commercial with the O’Brien Family. Second Version Starts with a rather sickly version of the theme, the Announcer’s opening, then a commercial with Mrs. Beech. I’m of the opinion the second version is the proper one. John Liska
According to my research, “Mrs. Beech” ‘s duties on the program occured only during the second half of 1942. Also, The announcer is unmistakably Mel Allen (any 1950′s to 1960′s New York Yankees fan would back me up on that) and his duties as announcer ran for one full year beginning in early May, 1940. This episode contains one of my favorite announcer spoonerisms where Mel says “it’s apple tie pime” and then chuckles at his own mistake. Louie Johnson?
Date Aired : 40/09/xx
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Title/Plot/Host: Mr Sludge Grows a Moustache
First Line : Rush: “Leland Richards claims he’s gonna give Annabelle Hemstreet a gunny sack full of marshmallows on her birthday.” Vic: “Does Leland admire Annabelle?”
Last Line : Sade: “See my troubles are just beginnin’. I thought I had two men. Find out I got two five-year-olds. Come on.”
Date Aired : 40/10/27
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Title/Plot/Host: Hot Soup
First Line : Vic: “This is the kind of weather that puts pep in a guy.” Sade: “Gettin’ colder out?” Vic: “Much. Atmosphere is charged with icy invigoration.” Sade: “How’s your sniffles?”
Last Line : Rush: “No, Miss Call.” Vic: “Is she carryin’ somethin’? Rush: [laughs] “Uh, huh” Vic: “Hot soup?” Rush: “Hot soup.”
Date Aired : 40/11/19
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Title/Plot/Host: Man Caught in Revolving Door
First Line : Vic: “Sade, I have issued my ultimatum for the last time. Repair above stairs, if you please, and pack your valise.” Sade: “That joke gets tiresome.” Vic: “Don’t try to brazen it out, madam.”
Last Line : Vic: “I can see the brick mush man as plain as day.” Sade: “All right, fellas.” Vic: “Meat done?” Sade: “Should be. Let’s go to the kitchen.”
Date Aired : 40/12/17
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Title/Plot/Host: A Bijou Lifetime Pass
First Line : Sade: “Who pays for this baboon?” Vic: “Beg pardon?” Sade: “Do we pay for this baboon?” Vic: “What baboon, my dear?” Sade: “Didn’tcha see what tonight’s paper stated about ‘em buying a new baboon for Miller Park?”
Last Line : Sade: “Do us taxpayers have to shell out money for this baboon they’re buyin’ for Miller Park Zoo?” Vic: “Sure.” Sade: “Well, nobody asked me if I wanted a baboon.”
Date Aired : 40/12/23
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Title/Plot/Host: Bess’ Letter from 1937
First Line : Vic: [from the kitchen] “Hi-ta-hi, ho-ta-ho!” Sade: “I got a bone to pick with him.” Rush: “Gov?” Sade: “Yep.” Rush: “Hi!” Vic: “Greetings, Dr. Sleetch. Is your mother home or is she downtown spendin’ all my money?”
Last Line : Sade: “August 9th, 1937.” Vic: “Hm.” Sade: “August 9th, 1937.” Vic: “Hm.” Sade: “Poor Bess.”
Date Aired : 40/12/31
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Title/Plot/Host: Howard Has a New Harness
First Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “Third-Lieutenant Clinton Stanley showed no trace of fear as he watched the slow approach of the counterfeitin’ South Sea islanders. Lady Margaret, on the other hand, was frantic with apprehension.”
Last Line : Rush: [reading aloud] “‘Hey you, how ‘bout that good ol’ hug and kiss?’ cried Third-Lieutenant Stanley suddenly, and the beautiful woman trotted across the clearing, her china blue eyes aglow.”
Date Aired : 40/12/xx
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Title/Plot/Host: H K Fleeber’s 48 Teeth
First Line : Vic: “Doggone it.” Sade: “What’s the trouble?” Vic: “I’m not gettin’ anywhere.” Sade: “Can’t think of anything to say?” Vic: “Well there isn’t much [record skip] say. You can say the whole thing in one sentence.”
Last Line : Vic: “Teeth may come and teeth may go, but ladies and gentlemen take off your hat to H. K. Fleeber of Grovelman, South Carolina.”
Note: Announcer Lyle Van states, “…and there we leave Crisco’s Vic and Sade until Monday,” so this was a Friday show. Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 40/xx/xx
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Title/Plot/Host: Applerot Shoves Sade Around
First Line : [from upstairs] Sade: “Who’s that? You, Rush?” Rush: “Yeah. When didja move the furniture?” Sade: “This afternoon. You by yourself?”
Last Line : Sade: “Ol’ darn people comin’ in my own house and doin’ exactly what they please. Look at this room. Look at it!” Rush: “Ah, Mom.”
Note: Ralph Edwards is announcing and the last show I can find with him doing in the announcing is 40/05/06 “Working Out Hank’s Indebtedness.” This show belongs somewhere between January and early May. [[~Lisa Fittinghoff
Date Aired : 40/xx/xx
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Title/Plot/Host: Hank’s $200 Wardrobe
First Line : Sade: “What did Hank Gutstop want?” Vic: “Oh, did he telephone here?” Sade: “Yeah.” Vic: “And ya told him where I was?”
Last Line : Rush: “Gov, can I have a dime?” Vic: “No.” Rush: “Mom?” Sade: “What?” Rush: “Can I have a
