What happens
Chester A. Riley is a candidate for president of his lodge, the BPLA, and votes are about to be cast. Confident of victory, Riley is at home reading A Tale of Two Cities when his son Junior shows him a recording machine. Later, Pointy Kinsella visits Riley with a tearful story about his marriage breaking up, and Riley begins to plan an unusual move. The Life of Riley is a comedy series, and this 1945 episode airs on the Blue Network/ABC and NBC with William Bendix as Riley and Paula Winslowe as his wife.
The Riley home and the BPLA lodge in Los Angeles, on the evening of a lodge election.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Junior, Peg Riley, Pointy Kinsella, Felix, Mulee Durkin, Max, Digby O'Dell
Listen for: Riley's unexpected reasons for changing his plans as the election approaches.
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.