The Life of Riley

The Life of Riley

1949 · 1 season · 26 eps · ★ 8.0 · Comedy

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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!"

Directed by Herbert I. Leeds · Written by Irving Brecher

Network: NBC

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