Word: philco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 30 years ago, TIME noted that "7,000,000 radio fans would find life harder to bear without Vic and Sade." Now, for all of us who regularly turned to the RCA Little Nipper or Philco Super Heterodyne ("No stoop, no squat, no squint"), it is time for nostalgic celebration. Vic, Sade and Rush Gook are back, along with Uncle Fletcher, Blue Tooth Johnson, Mr. Gumpox, and all those great everyday people who lived somewhere west of Dismal Seepage, Ohio, and east of Sweet Esther, Wis. As for the young, who may have wondered about cryptic...
...mother apparently does not. The rating is only one of many piquant curiosities about Going Home. Another is how it ever got made. Except for the above scene, the script by Lawrence B. Marcus is the sort of thing that might have shown up years ago on Philco TV Playhouse as "strong adult drama." Indeed, the director-producer of Going Home, Herbert B. Leonard, served a lengthy apprenticeship in television. Too lengthy, perhaps. Both he and Marcus never develop their characters, as if they thought nuance could be provided with a twist of the fine-tuning knob...
Anyone who has read Irvin Faust's short stories and novels knows how this former high school guidance counselor tenderizes human defect and deficiency. Faust's best characters, the Puerto Rican janitor in Roar Lion Roar, the questing professor in The Steagle, the transistor-radio addict in Philco Baby, are consumed by a world of mass-produced trivia and popular mythology...