Five Dollar Bill (unaired pilot)
In his mistaken belief that Junior stole $5 to buy a new basketball for the championship game, Riley decides to punish him by forbidding him to play. This plot was recycled for the first season episode "Five Dollar Bill."
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"This forgotten and never aired television pilot for radio's popular THE LIFE OF RILEY was one of three trial balloons from 1948 to cast the right actor in place of the unavailable William Bendix, contractually obligated only to repeat the role for the 1949 feature film version. Herb Vigran and Buddy Gray took turns as Chester A. Riley in two broadcasts a week apart in April 1948, while this third attempt never reached the airwaves and was long thought lost until turning up with other neglected pilots on DVD in 2018. It must have been a genuine coup for Lon Chaney to play his only lead in ..."
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In his mistaken belief that Junior stole $5 to buy a new basketball for the championship game, Riley decides to punish him by forbidding him to play. This plot was recycled for the first season episode "Five Dollar Bill."