The Life of Riley (1949)
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!"
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Episode 1 - Tonsils
Release Date: 1949-10-04Riley has to go to the hospital to have his tonsils out.
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Episode 2 - Babs and Simon Step Out
Release Date: 1949-10-11 -
Episode 3 - Egbert's Chemistry Set
Release Date: 1949-10-18 -
Episode 4 - The French Professor
Release Date: 1949-10-25 -
Episode 5 - Nervous Breakdown
Release Date: 1949-11-01 -
Episode 6 - Assistant Manager
Release Date: 1949-11-08 -
Episode 7 - Riley's Birthday Gift
Release Date: 1949-11-15 -
Episode 8 - Riley, Gillis, and Vanderhopper, Inc.
Release Date: 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.
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Episode 9 - Junior Falls for Teacher
Release Date: 1949-11-29 -
Episode 10 - Night School
Release Date: 1949-12-06Riley decides to go to night school and gets caught helping a friend cheat who's trying to become a American citizen.
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Episode 11 - Prom Dress
Release Date: 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.
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Episode 12 - Junior's Birthday Party
Release Date: 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.
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Episode 13 - The Boarder
Release Date: 1949-12-27 -
Episode 14 - Peg's Birthday
Release Date: 1950-01-03 -
Episode 15 - Junior Drops Out
Release Date: 1950-01-10 -
Episode 16 - Riley's Firstborn
Release Date: 1950-01-17 -
Episode 17 - Insurance
Release Date: 1950-01-24 -
Episode 18 - The Gambler
Release Date: 1950-01-31 -
Episode 19 - Acting Lessons
Release Date: 1950-02-07 -
Episode 20 - Valentine's Day
Release Date: 1950-02-14 -
Episode 21 - Home Sweet Home
Release Date: 1950-02-21 -
Episode 22 - South American Job
Release Date: 1950-02-28 -
Episode 23 - Riley's Quarrel
Release Date: 1950-03-07 -
Episode 24 - Junior and the Bully
Release Date: 1950-03-14 -
Episode 25 - The Banned Book
Release Date: 1950-03-21 -
Episode 26 - Five Dollar Bill
Release Date: 1950-03-28