Old Time Radio Blog

The "Life of Riley" was a radio show in the 1940s, a movie and TV show in the 1950s and even spawned a comic book. In the radio version, William Bendix played Chester Riley, who always had a scheme brewing and seldom succeeded at said scheme. The cast that did all the other voices will probably be familiar, especially Alan Reed, who most of us know as Fred Flintstone. Although some of the humor seems a little trite, it's a fun show nonetheless.