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Comic Books

The Life of Riley · November 5, 1948 · 29 min · 4,406 words

The transcript of “Comic Books”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast November 5, 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 proud Yes, Procter and Gamble's new radiant cream shampoo in the handy tube Now brings you the life of Riley Who that removes unsightly dandruff in as little as three minutes leaves hair more radiantly clean radiantly lovely presents the life of Riley with William Bendix as Riley In the childhood of Chester Ray Riley, and perhaps yours as well, the boyhood dream was

to follow the stirring adventures of the literary heroes of that time. Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Jim Hawkins of Treasure Island, Robin Hood, and other stalwarts of the printed page. Today, the modern American boy is moved just as strongly by literary jurors was his father.

Only now his heroes behave just a bit differently. Hey, uh, West Junior. Out in the yard playing with Eggbrook Gillis. Oh, with Eggbrook, good. Oh, I wish Junior wouldn't spend so much time with that egg bird.

Hey, what are you talking about? Look at them out there in the, uh, they're playing like little angels. Riley. Yeah, what's the matter? Take another look. Your little angels, Ty and Gillis's little angel to a tree.

Haha. Yeah. Junior probably got that out of Tom Sawyer. Well, why'd he gather enough those logs? Right. Yes, he's gonna make a raft like, like an huckleberry fin. But Riley, he's piling them up around Eggburg.

Well, we're sure as to hide him. He must have been reading Robin Hood. Riley, look, he lit a match. He's touching it to the logs. Holy smoke, he's been reading a cookbook. Junior, put that match out.

Let Eggburg go. Don't you know that firewood costs good money? Well, I wasn't going to lie to him, Pa. We're just pretending it's just a game. Yeah, well, find some other game. Jules wouldn't like it if we sent Eggburg home on a platter with an apple stuck in his mouth.

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