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The Life of Riley

Season 1 1949 - 1950

  • 1949-10-04T05:00:00Z on NBC
  • 30m
  • 13h (26 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy
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!"

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1949-10-04T05:00:00Z

1x01 Tonsils

Series Premiere

1x01 Tonsils

  • 1949-10-04T05:00:00Z30m

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

1949-10-11T05:00:00Z

1x02 Babs and Simon Step Out

1x02 Babs and Simon Step Out

  • 1949-10-11T05:00:00Z30m

1949-10-18T05:00:00Z

1x03 Egbert's Chemistry Set

1x03 Egbert's Chemistry Set

  • 1949-10-18T05:00:00Z30m

1949-10-25T05:00:00Z

1x04 The French Professor

1x04 The French Professor

  • 1949-10-25T05:00:00Z30m

1949-11-01T05:00:00Z

1x05 Nervous Breakdown

1x05 Nervous Breakdown

  • 1949-11-01T05:00:00Z30m

1949-11-08T05:00:00Z

1x06 Assistant Manager

1x06 Assistant Manager

  • 1949-11-08T05:00:00Z30m

1949-11-15T05:00:00Z

1x07 Riley's Birthday Gift

1x07 Riley's Birthday Gift

  • 1949-11-15T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1949-11-29T05:00:00Z

1x09 Junior Falls for Teacher

1x09 Junior Falls for Teacher

  • 1949-11-29T05:00:00Z30m

1949-12-06T05:00:00Z

1x10 Night School

1x10 Night School

  • 1949-12-06T05:00:00Z30m

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

1949-12-13T05:00:00Z

1x11 Prom Dress

1x11 Prom Dress

  • 1949-12-13T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1949-12-20T05:00:00Z

1x12 Junior's Birthday Party

1x12 Junior's Birthday Party

  • 1949-12-20T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1949-12-27T05:00:00Z

1x13 The Boarder

1x13 The Boarder

  • 1949-12-27T05:00:00Z30m

1950-01-03T05:00:00Z

1x14 Peg's Birthday

1x14 Peg's Birthday

  • 1950-01-03T05:00:00Z30m

1950-01-10T05:00:00Z

1x15 Junior Drops Out

1x15 Junior Drops Out

  • 1950-01-10T05:00:00Z30m

1950-01-17T05:00:00Z

1x16 Riley's Firstborn

1x16 Riley's Firstborn

  • 1950-01-17T05:00:00Z30m

1950-01-24T05:00:00Z

1x17 Insurance

1x17 Insurance

  • 1950-01-24T05:00:00Z30m

1950-01-31T05:00:00Z

1x18 The Gambler

1x18 The Gambler

  • 1950-01-31T05:00:00Z30m

1950-02-07T05:00:00Z

1x19 Acting Lessons

1x19 Acting Lessons

  • 1950-02-07T05:00:00Z30m

1950-02-14T05:00:00Z

1x20 Valentine's Day

1x20 Valentine's Day

  • 1950-02-14T05:00:00Z30m

1950-02-21T05:00:00Z

1x21 Home Sweet Home

1x21 Home Sweet Home

  • 1950-02-21T05:00:00Z30m

1950-02-28T05:00:00Z

1x22 South American Job

1x22 South American Job

  • 1950-02-28T05:00:00Z30m

1950-03-07T05:00:00Z

1x23 Riley's Quarrel

1x23 Riley's Quarrel

  • 1950-03-07T05:00:00Z30m

1950-03-14T05:00:00Z

1x24 Junior and the Bully

1x24 Junior and the Bully

  • 1950-03-14T05:00:00Z30m

1950-03-21T05:00:00Z

1x25 The Banned Book

1x25 The Banned Book

  • 1950-03-21T05:00:00Z30m

1950-03-28T05:00:00Z

1x26 Five Dollar Bill

1x26 Five Dollar Bill

  • 1950-03-28T05:00:00Z30m
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