The Life of Riley

Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is!"

★ 8/10 · 3 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Jackie GleasonChester A. Riley
• Rosemary DeCampPeg Riley
• Lanny ReesJunior Riley
• Gloria WintersBabs Riley
• Bob JellisonWaldo Binny

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