The Life of Riley

📊 Series Specifications

Network NBC
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 26
Original Language EN

The Life of Riley (1949)

⭐ 4.0 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 26 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

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!"

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Tonsils

Riley has to go to the hospital to have his tonsils out.

E2 Babs and Simon Step Out

Riley's insistence that Babs has nothing to do with Simon comes between him and Babs. He forbids her to see him, then when she sneaks around behind his back, he chases Simon off. Both his wife and daughter are very upset with him.

E3 Egbert's Chemistry Set
E4 The French Professor
E5 Nervous Breakdown
E6 Assistant Manager
E7 Riley's Birthday Gift
E8 Riley, Gillis, and Vanderhopper, Inc.

Riley 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.

E9 Junior Falls for Teacher
E10 Night School

Riley decides to go to night school and gets caught helping a friend cheat who's trying to become a American citizen.

E11 Prom Dress

Babs 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.

E12 Junior's Birthday Party

Riley 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.

E13 The Boarder
E14 Peg's Birthday
E15 Junior Drops Out
E16 Riley's Firstborn
E17 Insurance
E18 The Gambler
E19 Acting Lessons

Babs and her boyfriend have foolishly spent their money on an acting school con. Riley and Gillis are determined to go to the phony school and demand the kids' money be returned, but they didn't expect the teacher to be a gorgeous blonde.

E20 Valentine's Day
E21 Home Sweet Home
E22 South American Job
E23 Riley's Quarrel
E24 Junior and the Bully
E25 The Banned Book
E26 Five Dollar Bill