What happens
Chester A. Riley, a restless young man, tells his friend Al Miller about his days as a rookie policeman in Brooklyn, before he married Peggy Barker. Riley hopes to impress Peggy's stern father, Mr. Barker, by joining the force, and he is proud of his new uniform. Assigned to guard Mr. Barker's fur store, Riley soon faces his first serious test. This episode of The Life of Riley, broadcast on October 11, 1947, stars William Bendix as Riley, with Paula Winslowe as his wife Peggy and Alan Reed as Mr. Barker.
Brooklyn, New York, in the years before Chester and Peggy Riley married, and at Mr. Barker's fur store and the local police precinct.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Peggy Riley, Al Miller, Mr. Barker, Margaret Barker, Hugo Hockinson, Digger O'Dell, Lieutenant Harris
Listen for: Riley's efforts to win Peggy's father's approval as a new policeman, and the scene in which he is left guarding the fur store.
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.