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!"
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Directors
- Abby Berlin (20 episodes)
- Jean Yarbrough (6 episodes)
- Leslie Goodwins (1 episodes)
Writers
- Dick Conway (24 episodes)
- Roland MacLane (24 episodes)
- Harry Clork (16 episodes)
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- 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.
- The character 'Chester Riley' was ranked #30 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" (20 June 2004 issue).
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