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January 16, 1944 – June 29, 1951
The radio program initially aired on the Blue Network (later known as ABC) from January 16, 1944, to Jul y 8, 1945, it
then moved to NBC, where it was broadcast from September 8, 1945, to June 29, 1951.
Irving Brecher pitched the radio series for friend Groucho Marx under the title The Flotsam Family, but the sponsor
balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for Marx. (Marx would get his own
series Blue Ribbon Town instead.) Brecher then saw William Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in Hal
Roach's The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942). Radio historian Gerald Nachman quotes Brecher as stating, "He was a
Brooklyn guy and there was something about him. I thought, this guy could play it. He'd made a few films, like
Lifeboat, but he was not a name. So I took The Flotsam Family script, revised it, made it a Brooklyn family, took out
the flippancies and made it more meat-and-potatoes, and thought of a new title, The Life of Riley. Bendix's delivery
and the spin he put on his lines made it work."
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