What happens
Chester A. Riley worries about his 16-year-old daughter Babs, who spends her evenings with Simon Vanderhopper, a young man Riley considers a loafer. Riley's wife Peg defends the couple's outings, and Riley discovers Simon has been borrowing money from Babs. When Babs announces she will quit school to go to work, Riley and Simon scheme to change her mind, with Simon urging Riley to use psychology. Babs has taken a job, and her father sets out to bring her back to the classroom. The series is The Life of Riley, first broadcast on January 24, 1948 on the Blue Network and NBC, with William Bendix as Riley and Paula Winslowe as Peg.
The Riley family home, and the family's neighborhood, in Los Angeles.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Babs Riley, Peg Riley, Simon Vanderhopper, Digger O'Dell
Listen for: Riley's mounting frustration as he tries to get Babs back to school, and Simon's advice about psychology.
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.