What happens
Chester A. Riley, a stern father, objects to his 16-year-old daughter Babs seeing Simon, a 22-year-old bubble gum seller he finds unsuitable. After Riley throws Simon out, Babs and Simon slip away with a suitcase of greeting card samples, and Riley's neighbor Waldo Binnie proposes a plan to make Riley change his approach. This is an episode of The Life of Riley, first broadcast on November 24, 1945, on the Blue Network and ABC, NBC, starring William Bendix, Paula Winslowe, Hans Conried and Alan Reed.
A family home in Los Angeles, and the surrounding neighborhood, around the time of Christmas.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Babs, Simon Vanderhopper, Waldo Binnie, Digger O'Dell, Peg
Listen for: Riley's exasperated reactions to Simon, and the chocolate factory story Simon tells at dinner.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.