What happens
Vic and Sade is a daytime radio serial, and this episode, Accounting for Spondulicks, first aired on 1942-03-03 on NBC, CBS and Mutual, with Bernardine Flynn and Bill Idelson in the leads. Sade and Russ sit down to reckon up how much money was spent on a shopping trip downtown. Russ tallies coins and bills from each hand, and the two argue over the figures, with Sade insisting she has been careful and Russ questioning her arithmetic. As they retrace the afternoon, store by store, the amounts they remember keep shifting, and the household's small disagreement over pennies and a few purchases grows into a running argument. The recording breaks off before the matter is settled.
A small-town household, with a shopping trip downtown and the family's kitchen and home as the place where the spending is reckoned up.
Characters: Sade, Russ, Vic, Ruthie
Listen for: Russ's step-by-step count of coins and bills, and the repeated correcting of the totals as Sade retraces the afternoon's stops.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.