32-09-10 Is Rush Going to Stay?

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY AND BERNARDINE FLYNN

• Sade greets Vic as he arrives home.  She'd seen him stop and chat with Harry Plink, who told him a joke that "wasn't a ladies' story".  She saw him smile at Mis' Bucksaddle – doesn't understand why men find her attractive. She expects Rush and Squirt rode their bikes up to the lake and won't be back in time to eat with them.  Besides lots of housework, Sade's been thinking – she got a letter from Rush's mother, Mary Meadows.
• Seems Mary Meadows' sister, Flory (Florence) married a man from Colorado eight or nine years ago. Somebody left him a lot of money. They never had children, and they'd be willing to take Rush in, seeing as how Vic and Sade "ain't got much to do with" (she's afraid Vic is going to lose his job and won't be able to support Rush.)  Vic greets Steve Croucher going by, and then Mr. Clem as he passes.
• Mary didn't suggest it outright but Sade fears Mary thinks Rush would be better off with folk who can give him advantages money affords.  Vic tells her Rush wouldn't be any happier than he is with them.  He says Mary's just testing Sade to see how she feels about it.  Sade thinks it might have been better if they hadn't taken Rush at all.
  (Jonathan Spicer walks past.)
• Sade sat down to answer Mary's letter in a hurry, but then couldn't think of what to say. Vic brings up the possibility he'll be laid off – says white collar execs will be the first to go.  He'd still be on the payroll, but might only work one or two weeks in a month.  It's the guys in overalls that get the actual work done.
• Vic's saying if he gets laid off, they couldn't do right by Rush.
• Sade thinks he means they should send Rush to Flory. Vic says no, there should be no whooping, hollering, or crying if and until things do get bad.  He just wants to be prepared.  He asks Sade to give him a good laugh.  She does. - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason 

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Some of these early episodes just don't feel like they are a part of the Vic and Sade we know. This is one of them.

There are no crazy stories, just the depressed and worried couple sitting on the front porch.

Another thing - there are many characters in this episode that are never heard from again.

There's a Steve Croucher in this episode; he must be the son of Emil Croucher, the grocer.

32-07-08 Sade Outfoxes Vic On Adoption

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY AND BERNADINE FLYNN

• Sade's mother has rearranged the furniture. Vic bumped into it, and he wants Sade to know her mother has caused him injury.
•  Her mother has also destroyed the picture on the mantle of Vic wearing Mable's hat. Sade tried but couldn't prevent the destruction.  He's in a foul mood, and ready to nix the proposed adoption.  Sade waylays Vic with a request that he teach her solitaire, which he's eager to do.
• Sade interjects – piece by piece – info that an old schoolmate, Mary Meadows and her family are in bad shape.  Mary hinted that the Gooks could take one of her four kids (2 boys, 2 girls – oldest boy is Victor, age 9).
•  Vic thinks Mary wants to shove off one of her kids on them.  He's surprised the boy's name is Victor. Sade hints she thinks the boy was named for him, and he's mildly interested.
• Back to the solitaire game, Sade mentions Victor's kind of a rough-neck – pitcher on his school baseball team, and he tends to clutter up a house with bats, balls, and things.
• Vic softens, tells Sade to write and have Mary send the boy to visit.  Sade: "I already have. He's coming next week."
• Vic blusters opposition. Sade points out all the mistakes he's made in the card game. - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason