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The Life of Riley

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!"

Oct 4, 19491 seasons26 episodesEndedEN

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Jackie Gleason

Chester A. Riley

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Rosemary DeCamp

Peg Riley

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Lanny Rees

Junior Riley

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Gloria Winters

Babs Riley

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Seasons

Season 1

26 episodes

Premiered Oct 4, 1949

Episodes

1–6 of 26

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Ep 1

Tonsils

Oct 4, 1949

30m

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

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Ep 2

Babs and Simon Step Out

Oct 11, 1949

30m

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.

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