The Life of Riley (1949)

10/04/1949 (EN) • 30m

Comedy

Overview

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!"

Top Billed Cast

Gloria Winters

Babs Riley

26 Episodes

Rosemary DeCamp

Peg Riley

26 Episodes

Jackie Gleason

Chester A. Riley

26 Episodes

Bob Jellison

Waldo Binny

26 Episodes

Lanny Rees

Junior Riley

26 Episodes


Last Season

Season 1

1949 | 26 Episodes

Season 1 of The Life of Riley premiered on October 4, 1949.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

English

Keywords

sitcom

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