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The Life of Riley
Overview
Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is!"
Key Crew
Producer: Irving Brecher
Top Cast
Gloria Winters
Babs Riley
Rosemary DeCamp
Peg Riley
Jackie Gleason
Chester A. Riley
Bob Jellison
Waldo Binny
Lanny Rees
Junior Riley
Seasons
Season 1 (1949)
No overview available.
26 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Tonsils
1949-10-04Riley has to go to the hospital to have his tonsils out.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 2: Babs and Simon Step Out
1949-10-11Episode 3: Egbert's Chemistry Set
1949-10-18Episode 4: The French Professor
1949-10-25Episode 5: Nervous Breakdown
1949-11-01Episode 6: Assistant Manager
1949-11-08Episode 7: Riley's Birthday Gift
1949-11-15Episode 8: Riley, Gillis, and Vanderhopper, Inc.
1949-11-22Riley thinks that Babs' boyfriend Simon has money, after he finds his bank book. Riley talks Simon into going into business with him and quits his job. He then finds out that Simon's bank book was a fake as he was using it for his accounting class.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 9: Junior Falls for Teacher
1949-11-29Episode 10: Night School
1949-12-06Riley decides to go to night school and gets caught helping a friend cheat who's trying to become a American citizen.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 11: Prom Dress
1949-12-13Babs doesn't want to go to a school dance because she doesn't have a nice dress. Riley buys a used dress, but the former owner of the dress is a snob at school who tells Babs that the dress used to be hers.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 12: Junior's Birthday Party
1949-12-20Riley plans a birthday party for son Junior but can't get anyone to come to the party because another boy's birthday is the same day.
Runtime: 30 min
