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Babs and the Stevenson's Nephew

The Life of Riley · December 9, 1949 · 27 min · 3,823 words

The transcript of “Babs and the Stevenson's Nephew”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast December 9, 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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It's new, it's amazing, it's proud. Procter and Gamble's new radiant cream shampoo in the handy tube. Prowl brings you the life of Riley. Well, the shampoo that removes dandruff in as little as three minutes and leaves hair radiantly clean radiantly lovely, Prowl presents the life of Riley with William Bendix as Riley.

Chester A. Reilly is a man who doesn't feel he's doing his duty as a husband and father unless he's worrying about something. This week his wife hasn't given him any cause for alarm. His son Junior's been behaving himself.

So it's his daughter Babz has turned to bear the brunt of Reilly's fatherly concern. I'm home, Dumplin. Oh hello, dear. How is the movie? Great. Children of today. Wonderful picture. I love a movie that's really up to the minute.

How cool is it? Rudolf Valentino and Pearl White. And stars, that picture must have been made 30 years ago. Oh, it still holds good for today. It shows what happens when kids ain't brought up right.

There's one scene when a boy no older than our junior hits his father on the head with an ax and then robs him. I want Junior to go see that picture. He'll learn a lot.

Well, I doubt if he'd like it. He only likes Western. Yeah, believe me, a picture like that makes a father worry about his kid's future. Man, you don't have to worry about our children. That's because I brought him up right.

that are running around the streets all hours of the night like other kids are juniors in bed and beds is in a room reading a good book so bad didn't know yes sir thank heaven we got nothing a word where is she out out so late at night how could you let a young girl like that

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