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Riley and Gillis Spend a Week at the Lake

The Life of Riley · June 28, 1947 · 30 min · 4,278 words

The transcript of “Riley and Gillis Spend a Week at the Lake”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast June 28, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Life of Riley plays The Life of Riley free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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It starts with D and ends with T, that's Dref. Frutchen Gamble's Subsied Miracle, 2000 years newer than soap. Dref brings you the life of Riley. Dref, D-R-E-F-T, Dref. America's largest selling brand for washing silks, thylons, woolens, dishes, presents the life of Riley with William Bendix as Riley.

Although holding down a job and raising a family is no easy assignment, it's something a man with average intelligence can usually contend with. But this is the story of Chester A. Riley, whose nervous system around this time of the year begins to show signs of strain.

It's just after dinner and we find Riley about to stretch out comfortably in his easy chair and relax. Oh gosh, you look worn out, Daddy. Boy, am I tired. So I'll keep my underwear as starch to write cave in.

Oh, I'll wait pod. Don't sit down there. Why not? I've got my model airplane there, and I can't move it. Oh, okay, okay I'll sit in this chair Daddy my knitting don't sit here don't sit there I Work all day to make my ends meet and at night. I can't even sit out

It's time you kids realize I'm entitled to a little respect around here I'll move the knitting daddy. Don't get any rest if I hadn't have married your mother She's the only one around here that realizes how hard I work all day and when I come home I like to sit down and relax.

Don't sit down. I want you to fix the pilot light in the stove. I fixed that pilot light yesterday. Well, it went out again. The kitchen's full of gas. Impossible. I don't smell any gas.

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