Rush enjoys discussing a few of Vic's friends with Sade. Vic enters and is in a particularly sunny disposition after a victory with Ike Nicefur. Feeling on top of the world, an electric clock gets Vic's attention, but Sade warns him not to touch it. Sade has to leave the room to tend to other matters, but will Vic be a good little boy, and keep ...…

Victor Gook has just arrived home from the office, and reads through the afternoon mail. Sade is a little perturbed as Vic looks through the latest catalog of goodies from the lodge. Though he's eyeing the latest way to spend money on the lodge goodies, and claims that he isn't, Sade gets her defenses up. Rush enters to do some bragging at his ...…

Audio is a bit mushy with some record noise. Russel is at home getting cleaned up after a day of playing outdoors. Sade isn't home, and Vic is worried that supper won't be ready on time. He has invited BB Baugh for supper, and is afraid that the supper plans won't be enough to make a good impression. BB Baugh is an inventor, an accomplished mus ...…

Wellsir, it's afternoon in the small house halfway up the next block. Vic is trying to catch up on work that he brought home from the office. Rush arrives to shout through the house in search of Sade, and announce his plans to hang out with Bluetooth Johnson. To add to the distractions to his thoughts, Vic has to deal with the ringing phone. Ru ...…

Audio doesn't have the best resolution, but is OK. Rush talks with Vicwhen uncle Fletcher pops in. Their minor argument takes a back seat to Fletcher as he complains about his landlady. What is the terrible run in with Miss Keller all about this time? Sade learns how his meals are layed out for him. All he wants is to prepare his meals for hims ...…

For some time now Vic has been away on an inspection tour for his company. Today we find Rush in the middle of a teenage drama. Sade insists that he meet her at 3pm at Yamiltons to shop for his school clothes. Rush agonizes over the embarrassment of a boy of his age having to have his mom pick out his school clothes, as if he were a little kid ...…

Vic, Sade, and Rush get ready to spend the evening of looking at the Razorscums photo album. An activity that the menfolk don't particularly enjoy. An activity that would equate to watching a slide show, or home movie of a friend, or relatives Summer vacation trip. Thrilling, and invoking good memories to the friend, but boring for others who d ...…

Audio is high in static, and low in audio level. Sade runs the show with Rush and making preparations for the evening game of 500. The neighbors are having trouble with their doorbell, and Sade has Vic phone the Donahues with advice on how to repair the doorbell. Seeing his chance to spring into action, and show off his mechanical prowess, Vic ...…

Keith makes another guest appearance with Jim bo Mason over at his Vic and Sadecast. Comments on the episode come after the feature. Check it out: The Overnightscape Underground your late night radio trip slightly updated notes, found elsewhere on this website: All the Gook family members have gathered on the front steps, and we find Sade askin ...…

A guest appearance by Keith to help Jimbo Mason, and his Vic and Sade Cast. Our added comments are at the end of the feature. Find more at: The Overnightscape Underground your late night radio trip Specifically: Vic and Sadecast 068 – Exalted Big Dipper Day (11/6/17) Here's an update to my show notes I have for this episode elsewhere on the sit ...…

Audio is a bit mushy. Russell tells how he's bright eyed and eager, then visitors begin popping in. The Gooks are all on the way downtown to take care of business of their own. Uncle Fletcher enters to tell about his own mission to take care of. He waxes poetic in telling about meeting up with his friends, shooting pool, hanging oujt in the Bri ...…

Both Vic and Sade have important gossip, but neither can get the other to listen. Russell enters with his own news, and that Vic has another DUN from Kleabergers. Why doesn't he just pay his bill? Vic always seems to owe the store a few dollars, but complains that as much business he does in the store the floating 4 dollars ought not to require ...…

As Russell goes over his algebra homework, Sade enters to rush him off to his room. Fletcher is to visit with important adult news that needs to be discussed in private. He gets a reprieve when Fletcher grants him permission to remain. The news is delievered in melodramatic fashion, long and drawn out. The bridegroom of the upcoming wedding has ...…

After a game of football in Tapman's vacant lot, Russell comes home to take part in the conversation about a box of letters that was left by uncle Fletcher. Sade muses at Fletcher's idea that the box of letters would make a good gift for Russell to inherit. What kind of historical significance does it carry? Russell reads a few literary snapsho ...…

In the small house halfway up the next block, we find Russell begging permission to talk on the phone. His important rreasons aren't good enough for Sade to allow it. He wants to have a crowd of his friends over for a serious meeting. What's the serious topic at hand? What kind of thin ice is Bluetooth Johnson on? Vic and Sade make light of the ...…

Russel talks to Bluetooth Johnson on the phone when Vic comes in in a happy mood. What's the happy news that Vic is eager to share. It's important enough of a matter to nudge Russell off the telephone? so all the family can hear. Sade phones the Stembottoms to arrange for a game of 500, but instead of calling him Fred, she repeatedly calls him ...…

The date draws closer, and Fletcher gets choked up as he expects the bridegroom to come in from the Chicago and Alton train. He's still trying to get Sade to take in yet another stranger, but she won't do it. Will his guilt trips wear her down? Hank Gutstop has been working at the Bright Kentucky Hotel has house detective, and stays in the brid ...…

In the small house halfway up the next block, Sade has troubling news. She has committed the serious infraction of opening the mail for another person. It seems that there's a person in town named Reverend Vincent Cook, and when she recieved the letter by mistake, she opened it. Vic is nonchallant about it. It seems that he has done the same th ...…

Vic has come home for lunch early with sudden developments at work. Uncle Fletcher has important word of his own for him. Sade and Vic figure it has to do with the upcoming wedding of Fletcher's landlady, and speculate on what important thing it might be this time. Fletcher makes sure that they can meet in private, and without distractions. Tha ...…

Audio is a little staticky, but OK. Russell arrives home to find that Vic is a little disgruntled. What's the matter? What is all the hollering about? It seems that Vic has committed himself to a greeting card business, but it's not for Christmas cards. He has a pile of birthday cards that someone from the office sweet talked him into taking of ...…

The Gooks sit in the living room, reading a passage of their favorite literature. Vic reads from a business article, and Sade from a romance story from the newspaper. Russell and uncle Fletcher enter with their own items of interest. In his own way, Fletcher takes the bull by the horns, thinking his preoccupied self importance is a given for hi ...…

Sade sews as Russell reads to Vic from his 3rd Lt Stanley book. Stirring adventures of romance with Lady Margret, and the swashbuckling hero who shoots the heads off snakes that attack. At the same time, Vic has news about his friend Hank Gutstop. The latest scheme to repay his debts to Vic is to work it off around the house. Will Sade go for t ...…

Sade enjoys the weather on the back porch as Vic comes home. She has a letter from her sister Bess, and gives it to Vic to read. Russell arrives home, offering a distraction for Vic in telling about Bluetooth Johnson finding money, having an itchy knee, and other trivial details. Vic reads the letter to himself, claiming he read it all, but Sad ...…

In the small house halfway up the next block, Sade enters as Vic broods with Russell about an unpleasant incident with Fred Stembottom. Often Fred will invite Vic and Sade over to play cards, but actually wants Vic to help with some bit of manual labor. This time it's not a matter of pouring concrete floors, or building walls, but doing car rep ...…

Audio quality is a bit murky, but OK. As Sade talks on the telephone, Vic enters to toss in a bit of his flowery silly talk and learn about the plans for another game of 500 with the Stembottoms. As silly as Vic can be when he's in high spirits, Sade may be a little embarrassed, but she'd rather have him silly than brooding. Vic and Sade begin ...…

Audio has an overbearing hum that makes it a little difficult to hear. Uncle Fletcher and Vic talk about the fancy box that Fletcher holds in his hands. What might it hold? Fletcher insists that Vic guess at it's contents like a giddy schoolboy. Of course it's a wedding present for Fletcher's landlady, but what is there about it that makes it s ...…

Audio is a little weak, and has a low hum. Vic leaves to go back to work after lunch, but Sade has a list of things for him to do on an errand after work. She keeps Vic talking in hushed tones, since Mr Donahue is trying to sleep next door. Among the errands, Sade mentions a woman who called to remind Vic about Moonbeam chimes. What are these S ...…

Audio has a low rumble to it that overpowers the audio. Sade recounts to Vic about the number of her friends who owe her money, and their excuses they give her for not paying her back. There's bills to pay to the brick mush man, the need to borrow a few cents for a postage stamp, or simply dropping a few coins on the floor and losing them as th ...…

Preparations continue for the wedding of uncle Fletcher's landlady. He enters to bust in on Vic and Sade's conversation about it. The intruding Fletcher announces how it isn't his habit to intrude, and bust in on people at lunch time. That would just be intolerable, and rude. What's the reason that Fletcher broke in so unceremoniously today? Af ...…

Wedding preparations for Fletcher's landlady are discussed between Sade and Russel, but are interupted by the high spirits of Vic. Fletcher enters, and Sade makes sure that Vic and Russell give up their comforts so that Fletcher gets the best seat on the porch swing. Oblivious to the outpouring of hospitality bestowed on him, and the inconvenie ...…

Vic arrives home from work and joins Sade on the front porch swing. She tells that she and Rush have been shopping for clothes, well at least she has been picking out clothes. Rush is less than joyful as he sits around back, moping. Sade wouldn't let him pick out his own clothes, fering the fashion choices that Rush would make. Rush only comes ...…

Sade busies herself in house work, but is held back by Russell, and his lack of interest in dusting. Vic enters with more distractions He's excited to share that the Kitchenware Quarterly wants to feature him with a picture in an article. Sade has to stop to help Vic find a snapshot of him to submit. Without Sade on hand to crack the whip, Russ ...…

Uncle Fletcher's visit lingers on, and we find him swapping stories to Vic. The two begin to argue about which of them is more long winded in their story telling habits. Sade manages to break up the tension, before telling about her stressful day of housekeeping. It seems that uncle Fletcher has been under foot as she has tried to get the house ...…

Sade tells Vic that Fletcher will be staying with them a little longer as their house guest. Although he has spent plenty of time going to and fro to his apartment only 3 blocks up the street. Are there developments in the undercurrents surrounding the matter of his landlady getting married. Things that might have scandalous outbreaks? Russell ...…

The Gook family gather to discuss the fact that uncle Fletcher hasn't been around lately. He wants to stop by for a much needed rest, after being worn to a frazzle at his chore of being a busy body. Vic feigns worry and panic at Fletchers arrival. The self important Fletcher pitches back into the casual joking from Vic and Russsell. Fletcher ha ...…

Normally the driving force for writing letters to relatives and friends, Sade experiences a spell of writers block. Vic sympathizes, but is encouraging as he listens to some of Sade's false starts in her letter. Can she spice it up a little? Sade is at such a loss for words and news that she resorts to talking about politics. A topic that she i ...…

On the way home from the Bijou, Vic talks to Russell about the movie they just saw. Why can't they make movies like they used to? You know, before these modern times of 1944. Sade has news about Mr Gumpox losing his false teeth. After having a giggle over the wierd event, she recruits the guys to help search for the dentures. How did they fall ...…

Sade asks Vic to show her how to play Rummy, despite being able to play the complicated game of 500, she still needs help in Rummy. She has a mind like teflon when it comes to card games, and Vic has to go through the rules of Rummy in detail as they attempt a hand. He doesn't get far before Sade goes off on tangents of gossip. Vic plays his pa ...…

Sade is as giddy as a schoolgirl when Russel comes home. She has been chatting on the phone with her lady friends, and lost all track of time. Busy with a new dress pattern, household chores, and telephone calls, she has simply forgotten to cook dinner. Will she convince Russell and Vic to fend for themselves? The hungry cavemen could eat a hor ...…

In the small house halfway up the next block we find Russell on the telephone, trying to collect a debt from his pal Smelly Clark. Vic enters in his usual high spirits, and promises some juicy gossip if Russel will get off the phone. He milks the moment as he slowly spills the beans at being left in charge of the Kitchenware plant. The two make ...…

In the aftermath of a wild night of playing 500 with the Stembottoms, Vic and Sade share a little about their evening with their friends. Russell had been out with a group of 8 friends, but enters in a melanchollie mood. While the sleepy Vic does all he can to stay awake, Russel tells about the career moves of his circle of buddies. With the le ...…

Sade has a pressing task for Vic, but it's one that he doesn't much care for. He doesn't want to get involved in other people's affairs. After over committing herself to help out an acquaintence, the pressure of local society weighs heavy on Sade, and even more so when Vic flatly refuses to help. Russel enters, and when he hears of the eviction ...…

Vic enters on a rainy day to find that Sade is worried over keeping her menfolk from catching pneumonia in the rainy and wet weather. After getting a new pair of overshoes, Russel is to have Vic's old ones passed down to him. Will Russel go for the over sized gunboats that Vic has for him? Why doesn't Russel have his own overshoes to wear? Emba ...…

Russel talks with Sade about the postcard he gets every week from his Sunday School teacher, telling that he was missed in class. He hasn't missed Sunday School in a long time. Vic enters to have a lunch of beef puncles, and with news that ought to make Sade particularly happy. Instead, the check that Hank Gutstop paid towards his many loans fr ...…

On the way home, Vic and Russel discuss a few of the amazing feats of Russel's friends. On arriving home they find Sade with a serious problem. The matter of a dented garbage can has her upset. There's nothing like a little mystery for some hometown sleuthing to solve. Vic doesn't seem to take the matter quite as seriously, but despite his mann ...…

As Sade tries to make small talk with Vic, he tries out talking with a foreign accent. Sade claims that Vic is being transparent by his silly behavior, and suspects that he's feeling guilty over a misdeed. Is she right? Has she put all his suspicious pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle to solve a mystery? Judging from Vic's blushing face, his ...…

Eager for outside entertainment, Sade tries to talk Vic into going to see a movie. He's picky about what he watches on the silver screen, and the one Sade wants to see is one filled with some of Vic's most despised actors, actresses, and topics. Russel pops in to worry about changes to his hair style. Will he have any encouraging words about th ...…

Russel shares a few dramatic moments from his latest 3rd Lt Stanley book, as Vic ads his own commentary to the quality of the melodramatic fiction. Vic's absurd come backs are in full swing, even as Sade enters with disturbing news about her friends and neighbors. The conbersation switches to examine the curiosity of Mr Donahue's dread of vacat ...…

Sade has returned from a day on her feet, and tells Russel about it. She is just worn to a frazzle. Russel tips her off about a meeting between Vic and Hunky J Sponger. When Vic enters, he's not in his usual high spirits. What's the trouble? What's the big job that Vic has to concentrate on and tackle? Robert and Slobert Hink are at it again. T ...…

Sharing the latest adventure from his hero, 3rd Lt Stanely, Russel has his recitation to Vic interupted whehn Sade enters. Sade manages to break in to tell how important and uppity uncle Fletcher is feeling at the change in his life lately. As if on cue, Fletcher enters to revel in telling about his new living quarters at the Butler Hotel. His ...…