The Life of Riley

7.5

1949•30m

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

26 Episodes • Premiered 1949

1. Tonsils

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

2. Babs and Simon Step Out

3. Egbert's Chemistry Set

4. The French Professor

5. Nervous Breakdown

6. Assistant Manager

7. Riley's Birthday Gift

8. 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.

9. Junior Falls for Teacher

10. Night School

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

11. 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.