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The Life of Riley is an American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, as well as two different television series, and a comic book.
The Life of Riley started as a radio program starring William Bendix on the Blue Network (ABC) from January 16, 1944 to June 8, 1945 later moving to NBC from September 8, 1945 to June 29, 1951.
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- 1953-01-02
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1953 -1958. 6 Seasons. NBC. Comedy. Watchlist. Where to Watch. Life at 1313 Blueview Terrace was never easy, thanks to bumbling Chester A. Riley, an Archie Bunker without the attitude whose...
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The Life of Riley: With Rosemary DeCamp, Jackie Gleason, Lanny Rees, Sid Tomack. 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.
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- 1948
- Comedy
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The 1950s family television program The Life of Riley offered one of situation comedy's original "dopey dads" as a protagonist, and was successful in laying the foundation for later working-class sitcoms such as The Honeymooners and Roseanne.
The series was a television adaptation of the radio series "The Life of Riley" (1944-1951). Protagonist Chester Riley lived in Los Angeles, California and worked as a riveter at the company "Stevenson Aircraft and Associates".
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The Life Of Riley starred former motion-picture heavyweight William Bendix as the mildly tormented and befuddled Chester A. Riley, who lived at 1313 Blueview Terrace in a working-class neighbourhood in California and worked as a riveter for Stevenson Aircraft and Associates for $59 a week.