What happens
Chester A. Riley becomes caught up in a football pool, placing bets on college games during the season and drawing his son Junior into the wager. When his boss Carl Stevenson learns that Riley's picks keep winning, Stevenson promotes him to a special assistant role, and Riley's home life and his work at the plant are affected. The Life of Riley is a radio comedy from 1947, broadcast on the Blue Network and ABC and NBC, with William Bendix as Riley and Paula Winslowe as his wife Peg. The episode centers on the household's reactions to the gambling and the strain it puts on family and work.
Riley's home and the aircraft plant where Riley works, in the 1940s, during college football season.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Peg Riley, Junior, Carl Stevenson, Millie, Gillis
Listen for: Riley's attempts to get a raise and the football pool picks that Stevenson comes to depend on.
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.