What happens
Vic and Sade is a daytime serial about a small-town family. In this episode, Leland Richards, a fourteen-year-old boy staying at the Cook house, is lonely because his mother has gone away for a short time and he does not know when she will return. Sade and Dottie Brain try to cheer him up. Uncle Fletcher arrives and tries to get Leland to join in card games and storytelling, but Leland keeps declining. Bernardine Flynn and Bill Idelson are the lead actors. The series first aired in the early 1940s, and this episode's original air date is February 27, 1943.
The living room of the Cook house in a small town, early evening.
Characters: Sade, Dottie Brain, Leland Richards, Uncle Fletcher
Listen for: Listen for Sade and Dottie's attempts to cheer up Leland, and Uncle Fletcher's rambling stories and card-game suggestions.
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.