What happens
Chester A. Riley, a struggling family man, decides to get a college education after his children encourage him. He is steered away from UCLA by a stranger and enrolls at the Pacific Institute of Technology, a school promising a diploma in only three months. His family pays the fees, and Riley studies hard for his final exams. The series is The Life of Riley, first broadcast on September 6, 1947, with William Bendix in the lead as Riley and Paula Winslowe as his wife Peg.
Los Angeles, the Riley family home and the Pacific Institute of Technology
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Peg Riley, Junior, Babs, Digger O'Dell, Dean Baxter, Mr. Stevenson, Mabel
Listen for: Riley's enrollment at the Pacific Institute of Technology and his family's reaction to his plans
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.