What happens
Chester A. Riley, a California factory worker, is angry after a Universal Studios film called The Life of Riley portrays a foolish version of his character. He threatens to sue the studio, and his family reacts with exasperation. William Bendix plays Riley, with Paula Winslowe as his wife Peg. The episode is part of the long-running radio comedy series The Life of Riley, first broadcast on March 4, 1949, over the Blue Network and NBC. Riley's sudden plan to travel to Cincinnati for the film's world premiere sets up the rest of the family's comic misadventures.
Riley's home in California, then a train journey and the RKO Grand Theater in Cincinnati, Ohio
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Peg Riley, Junior, Gloria LaGrange, Digby O'Dell
Listen for: Riley's indignant threats to sue Universal Studios over the film and the family's comic reactions to him
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.