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Riley Drives a Cab for Babs Boyfriend

The Life of Riley · December 30, 1949 · 29 min · 4,529 words

The transcript of “Riley Drives a Cab for Babs Boyfriend”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast December 30, 1949. 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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Oh Riley, don't make any plans for a week from tonight. A week from tonight? Why not? Well, we've been invited to dinner at the guillotine. Oh, okay, but tell them we can't get that too early because the life of Riley program is going on one hour later starting next week, and you know me, I never miss it.

Oh, it's the life of Riley when it's lapsed blue ribbon you drink. The finest beer served anywhere so left a glass of spanking. Oh, it's the west or north or south. There's nothing like it at all.

You live in the life of Riley when for best the living of all, when for best blue ribs. Blue ribbons, finest beers served, anywhere, proudly presents the life of Riley, starring William Bendix as Riley.

Well, Christmas has come and gone, and the Riley's had barely settled down into their normal routine when the approach of the New Year's Eve brought with it new problems. Knowing Chester A. Riley as we do, we can expect that the birth of a new year will find Riley a very nervous midwife.

Hey, Peg, when's New Year's Eve, Friday? No, no, this year at Saturday. And guess what, Saturday, yeah? Say, Dumpling, this New Year's Eve, let's not go out. Let's just spend a quiet evening home for a change, eh?

For a change? You haven't taken me out on a New Year's Eve in ten years. I have so. What about last year? I blew you to a seven-course dinner, didn't I? Fifty's, eighty-nine cents special.

And afterwards we had a very entertaining time down on Pershing Square. Standing on a street corner watching the police arrest Jay Walker's is not my idea of entertainers. But you're very hard to please. Anyway, this New Year's Eve.

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