What happens
Chester Riley, a factory worker with a growing family, is worried about bills and decides to take a second job. He is hired at a furniture store to lie in a bed in a display window, demonstrating a new foam rubber mattress for passersby. Riley keeps the arrangement secret from his wife Peg, telling her he is doing hard manual labor at night. His children, Junior and Babs, slowly discover the truth, and the household has to deal with the lie. The series is The Life of Riley, first broadcast on August 27, 1948, with William Bendix as Riley and Paula Winslowe as Peg.
The Riley home and a department store display window, late summer 1948.
Characters: Chester Riley, Peg Riley, Junior, Babs, Digger O'Dell
Listen for: Riley's cover story to Peg about his night job, and the children discovering he is sleeping in the store window.
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.