TV series

The Life of Riley

1949–1950 · 1 season

A gentle, chatty old-time sitcom where mild domestic mix-ups get cheerfully fumbled and everything settles back to normal.

Overview: 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!"
How it feels: Light, warm and whimsical. Measured and fine in the background.
About: Family, work, friendship
Content: No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: lightstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
work
friendship
Places: home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none