Riley’s penchant for turning mere trouble into near disaster through his well-intentioned bumbling was often aided or instigated by his best friend, Jim Gillis … and radio listeners howled with laughter!Created by Irving Brecher, the popular family sitcom The Life of Riley featured the comic misadventures of Chester A. Riley, an inept blue-collar factory worker and father of two, played by screen actor William Bendix. Riley’s wife, Peg, tried in vain to pr...

Riley’s penchant for turning mere trouble into near disaster through his well-intentioned bumbling was often aided or instigated by his best friend, Jim Gillis … and radio listeners howled with laughter!Created by Irving Brecher, the popular family sitcom The Life of Riley featured the comic misadventures of Chester A. Riley, an inept blue-collar factory worker and father of two, played by screen actor William Bendix. Riley’s wife, Peg, tried in vain to pr...

Created by Irving Brecher, The Life of Riley starred William Bendix as Brooklyn-born Chester A. Riley, a family man who worked as a wing riveter at the fictional Cunningham Aircraft plant in California. The stories were usually set at home, where Riley would cheerfully disrupt life with his malapropisms and ill-timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a popular catch phrase: “What a revoltin’ development this is!” Trouble usually arose ...

William Bendix is back as Brooklyn expatriate and aircraft riveter Chester A. Riley. This well-meaning, if lunk-headed, family man is fiercely loyal, profoundly loving, and impossibly stubborn.Riley struggles to get ahead at work, struggles to be a role model for his son, struggles to read the tea leaves of his daughter's love life…all while his wife Peg (Paula Winslowe) struggles to talk some sense in to him.Featuring the voice stylings of John Brown as both neighbor Gillis (the wisecrack...

You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout we're telling you why! A Great Radio Christmas is coming to town! Pour yourself an egg nog, break out the ribbon candy, and tune in for a whole stocking-full of radio favorites celebrating the holiday season.These classic broadcasts bring you lots of laughs, lots of heart, and even a wintry dash of thrills, mystery, and adventure! From Chester A. Riley to Sgt. Joe Friday, radio's legends are waiting at your Christmas fireside!Ep...

An orange glow peeks through the window on a crisp October night. Is it a jack-o'-lantern? Or, is it the radio dial? It's both!This collection of radio's happiest Halloween moments is replete with good old-fashioned haunted houses, costume parties, cemeteries, tricks and treats. Have fun with favorites like Jack Benny, Hal Peary, William Bendix, Ozzie & Harriet, Lucille Ball, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, and Boris Karloff.This wholesome, family-oriented on-air All Hallows' Eve comedy c...

Actor and singer Dick Powell, after many musicals for the Warner Brothers and Fox studios, embarked on a new career as a hard-boiled tough guy when he was cast as Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe in the 1944 film Murder, My Sweet. Powell got the opportunity to further flex his new tough-guy muscles in the medium of radio, starring in the role of investigator Richard Rogue in the crime drama Rogue’s Gallery. In this collection, Powell portrays Rogue with a charming lack of care a...

You can't join the army when you're three feet tall and made of wood -- but honorary Sergeant Charlie McCarthy found a way to help the war effort by entertaining on the home front!Here are some of Charlie's funniest wartime escapades from 1943 -- many of which have never before been available! Oh, and Edgar Bergen's around, too -- that guy who somehow makes us believe that Charlie, Mortimer, and Effie are real.Regulars Don Ameche, Dale Evans, and Ray Noble are on hand, along with guest sta...

No problem's so big, no dilemma so perplexing that Chester A. Riley can't find a way to make it just a little bit worse! Even in sunny Southern California there's always a revoltin' development or two to keep radio's favorite blue-collar dad behind the eight ball!William Bendix stars in sixteen laugh-packed half hours as the bumbling paterfamilias, with Paula Winslowe as his long-suffering wife Peg and John Brown as the unforgettable Digger O'Dell (the friendly undertaker)!Episodes Include...

Family life in wartime America could be fun…if you had a sense of humor! Here's William Bendix as the clamorous-yet-caring father and "revoltin'" riveter Chester A. Riley, who always seemed to end up on the silly side of things!Through 16 digitally restored and remastered episodes from 1944, Riley cozies up to the boss, competes with the neighbors, and causes all manner of comic calamity. Paula Winslow, Conrad Binyon, Sharon Douglas, and John Brown co-star, as the Riley family soldiers on ...

He's just a regular guy with a regular family and a regular job, but when he gets into trouble…oh brother, what a revoltin' development it is!Here comes William Bendix as radio's favorite working stiff Chester A. Riley, with Paula Winslowe as his ever-patient wife Peg, and John Brown as the funereal Digger O'Dell! Whether he's catching dogs or collecting rent, negotiating with neighbors or figuring out females, he gives it his Brooklyn best!Episodes Include: The Dog Catcher 05-07-44; Riley...