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Spring Fever

The Life of Riley · April 24, 1948 · 29 min · 4,330 words

The transcript of “Spring Fever”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast April 24, 1948. 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's new, it's amazing, it's Prell, P-R-E-L-L, Proctor & Gamble's new radiant cream shampoo in the handy tube. Prell brings you the life of Riley. The shampoo that removes unsightly dandruff in as little as three minutes and leaves hair radially clean, radially lovely presents the life of Riley with William Bendig's as Riley.

All over town these days, there's a new feeling in the air that warm, makes you glad to be alive, springtime feeling. And there are new sounds in the air too, springtime sounds of romance, as thousands of hearts are expressing themselves in the universal language of love.

There's a robin, and then there's the romantic call of the bullfrog in the pond. Are you, don't think that's romantic? Well, it's plain to see you're not a lady bullfrog. And spring has even taken over at the Riley house.

Observe 16-year-old Babs, as she grazes dreamily at the photograph of her latest love. Oh yes, I do love you. I adore you, my beloved. For you I defy my family, give up my career and willingly spend my life as your wife.

Mrs. Carey Grant. And with all the spring romance in the air, it's only natural that the head of the house should also be feeling the season. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You, I'm home, Dumplin. I'm in the kitchen there.

All right. Mm-hmm. Hello, Dumplin. And how's my sweet beautiful little wife? Well, what's come over you, Riley? Well, it's springtime, Peggy Pie. And it always affects me this way. Every spring I get a hollow feeling, right here in the pit of my stomach.

Oh. You do? Yeah. Throw some more meatballs in that pot. I'll need them to fill up the hollow. Oh, that was a great dish. Hey, I could eat this every day. Is there any more meatballs in the pot there?

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