What happens
Chester A. Riley, known to listeners as the hero of the series The Life of Riley, has a fish bone scare at lunch at the California Aircraft Plant, and the company doctor finds that he needs his tonsils out. Riley, played by William Bendix, is convinced the operation will be dangerous and resists it at every turn. His wife Peg and the children try to calm him as the day of the hospital visit approaches. The episode was first broadcast on January 26, 1946, on the Blue Network/ABC and NBC.
The California Aircraft Plant, the Riley home, and a hospital
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Peg Riley, Junior, Babs, Doc
Listen for: Riley's increasingly dramatic fears about the tonsil operation and his mishaps at the hospital
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.