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The Life of Riley - Do it yourself

Television · 29 min

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Do It Yourself, a 1950s episode of The Life of Riley with William Bendix, with its original Gulf commercials.

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29 minutes

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cmw/110 · Cwheeler01 · 2015-08-31

The Life of Riley was a television show that ran from 1953- 1958 with a total of 217 episodes. The show was a sitcom comedy and ran for approximately a half an hour. It was produced by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and was shot in the classic black and white color. The show was initially a radio show in the 1940s and eventually adapted for television by the same producer of the radio series, Irving Brecher. It originally aired on January 2nd, 1953 at 12pm. The series follows Chester Riley (originally played by Jackie Gleason and then later by William Bendix) who works as an aircraft…