Monday, April 06, 2026

This Week in Television History: April 2026 PART I

  

April 12, 1941

Life of Riley radio show debuts.

An unrelated radio show with the name Life of Riley was a summer replacement show heard on CBS from April 12, 1941 to September 6, 1941. The CBS program starred Lionel Stander as J. Riley Farnsworth and had no real connection with the more famous series that followed a few years later staring William Bendix as a bullheaded family man. The show ran for 10 years on radio and about six years on television.


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Tony Figueroa

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