The Life of Riley was a 30-minute family sitcom that started airing on CBS radio on April 12, 1941. It starred William Bendix as the lead character Chester A. Riley, a simple aircraft plant worker with a very complicated life. "What a revoltin' development this is!" was Riley's famous line in the show, which he usually utter after getting into one mess after another.
Due to its popularity, the show lasted for a decade, with the last episode aired on June 29, 1951. A total of 320 episodes were produced during its entire run. It also has a movie and TV adaptation in the 1950s. The movie adaption was a flop in terms of ratings, although it ironically received the very first Emmy Award. The TV adaptation (with also starred Bendix), on the other hand, was a success, producing more than 200 episodes in its six season run.
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Please enjoy these 243 old time radio episodes:
| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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| 12.13.1947 | life of riley (179) babs is blackballed at the soroity | ||
| 12.06.1947 | life of riley (178) the greatest man i know | ||
| 11.29.1947 | life of riley (177) thanksgiving with the gillises | ||
| 11.22.1947 | life of riley (176) win a buick contest guess the number of beans in the bowl |
+ Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Ivory Snow. Are the Riley's ever going to get a car? There's a conte... | |
| 11.15.1947 | life of riley (175) riley in school play | ||
| 11.08.1947 | life of riley (174) junior and babs put on anniversary party | ||
| 11.01.1947 | life of riley (173) the football pool card |
+ , AFRS rebroadcast. Junior picks a pretty good football pool, which gets Riley a promotion. The d... | |
| 10.25.1947 | life of riley (172) the ragamuffin ball |
+ Like millions of other families, the Chester A Riley's are worrying about the cost of living. Righ... | |
| 10.18.1947 | life of riley (171) the community chest drive |
+ Sponsored by: Prell, Ivory Snow. Riley is collecting for the Community Chest...sort of. Riley als... | |
| 10.11.1947 | life of riley (170) riley the cop |
+ Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Ivory Snow. A flashback story: Riley the cop. + Tonight Mr. and Mr... | |
| 10.04.1947 | life of riley (169) riley gets a promotion old age sets in | ||
| 09.27.1947 | life of riley (168) venus with a radio in her stomach, art object for the piano | ||
| 09.20.1947 | life of riley (167) junior wants to run away from home |
+ Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Ivory Snow. Junior runs away from home, which leads to many complica... | |
| 09.13.1947 | life of riley (166) babs has two dates |
+ Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Ivory Snow. Riley sticks his nose into Babs' social life. Will she b... | |
| 09.06.1947 | life of riley (165) riley enrolls at pip instead of ucla |
+ Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Ivory Snow. Riley enrolls at a phoney engineering school: "P. I. T."... | |
| 07.05.1947 | life of riley (164) riley thinks peg is leaving him | ||
| 06.28.1947 | life of riley (163) riley and gillis spend a week at the lake |
+ Sponsored by: Dreft, Prell. Riley and Gillis go on vacation in the woods without their wives, and... | |
| 06.21.1947 | life of riley (162) babs almost gets a job in san francisco | ||
| 06.14.1947 | life of riley (161) junior wins the soap box derby |
+ Sponsored by: Dreft, Prell. Riley's bragging gets Junior disqualified from the Soap Box Derby. Th... | |
| 05.31.1947 | life of riley (159) the accident insurance policy |
+ Sponsored by: Dreft, Prell. Riley sprains his ankle and files for benefits under his new accident... | |
| 05.10.1947 | life of riley (156) model son, the mother's day speech |
+ Sponsored by: Dreft, Prell. Riley's mother makes a batch of delicious doughnuts, which leads Rile... | |
| 05.03.1947 | life of riley (155) launching babs in society |
+ Sponsored by: Dreft, Prell. Babs has to put together a dinner party for her home economics teache... | |
| 04.26.1947 | life of riley (154) simon the waiter blackmails riley |
+ Sponsored by: Dreft, Prell. Riley is being blackmailed by Babs' boyfriend Simon, after being seen... | |
| 04.19.1947 | life of riley (153) riley, the boxer junior, the coward | ||
| 04.12.1947 | life of riley (152) real life soap opera, `marriage can be beautiful' |
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