Wrestling Matches & Lies (Aired February 21, 1948)
The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, was a popular radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film and continued as a long-running television series during the 1950s. The show began as a proposed Groucho Marx radio series, The Flotsam Family, but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for the comedian. Then producer Irving Brecher saw Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in the movie The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942). The Flotsam Family was reworked with Bendix cast as blundering Chester A. Riley, riveter at a California aircraft plant, and his frequent exclamation of indignation---"What a revoltin' development this is!"---became one of the most famous catch phrases of the 1940s. The radio series also benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby "Digger" O'Dell (John Brown), "the friendly undertaker."
THIS EPISODE:
February 21, 1948. NBC network. Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Ivory Snow. You should always tell the truth. Riley has been to the Wrestling Matches, And Lies to Peg about going! William Bendix, Irving Brecher (producer), Alan Lipscott (writer), Reuben Ship (writer), Ken Niles (announcer), Lou Coslowe (music), Tommy Cook, Paula Winslowe, John Brown. 29:21.
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