What happens
Chester A. Riley, a dissatisfied aircraft worker's family man in the Life of Riley series, sees a drugstore window offering a new Hudson to whoever guesses closest to the number of beans in a bowl. Riley decides to enter, and his son Junior is recruited to watch the bowl at the store. William Bendix stars as Riley, with Paula Winslowe and Alan Reed in the cast. The episode was broadcast on November 10, 1950, on the Blue Network and NBC.
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Characters: Riley, Mrs. Riley, Junior, Babs, Mr. Lockhart, Mrs. Lockhart, Mr. Roberts, Digger
Listen for: Riley's scheme to count the beans and the new Hudson contest.
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.