What happens
Chester A. Riley and his wife Peg search for five dollars missing from the cream jug, where Riley had hidden four five-dollar bills for a fur piece. Riley suspects his son Junior, who has a new basketball and no explanation for it. Riley grows angry at Junior, insists on punishing him, and forbids him to play in the championship basketball game. Peg and daughter Babs plead for the boy. The episode is a half-hour comedy of the Life of Riley series, first broadcast on January 28, 1945, with William Bendix as Riley.
The Riley family kitchen and living room in their California bungalow, 1945
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Peg Riley, Babs Riley, Junior Riley, Marilyn Morris, Digby O'Dell
Listen for: Riley's escalating accusations against Junior, and the revelation about the missing money in the family ring.
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.