What happens
Chester A. Riley worries constantly about his daughter Babs, whose boyfriends he finds unsuitable. When his co-worker Gillis's son, Stevenson's nephew Leonard, is singled out by the plant boss, Riley arranges a date for Babs with him. Complications multiply as Babs tries to juggle the dates and Riley keeps interfering. The episode, from The Life of Riley, aired on December 9, 1949 on the Blue Network/ABC and NBC, starring William Bendix, Paula Winslowe, Hans Conried and Alan Reed.
The Riley home and the aircraft plant where Riley works, with a drugstore and a funeral parlor visited along the way.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Babs Riley, Peg Riley, Gillis, Leonard Stevenson, Mr. Stevenson, Bruce Taylor, Minerva
Listen for: Riley's escalating fatherly overprotection and the mix-ups over which boy Babs is dating.
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.