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The radio series also benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby "Digger" O'Dell ( John Brown), "the friendly undertaker." Brecher told Brown, "I want a very sepulchral voice, quavering, morbid," and he got it right away. His frequent exclamation of indignation-"What a revoltin' development this is!"-became one of the most famous catchphrases of the 1940s. Riley, a wing riveter at the fictional Cunningham Aircraft plant in California. The reworked script cast Bendix as blundering Chester A. Bendix's delivery and the spin he put on his lines made it work." 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. He'd made a few films, like Lifeboat, but he was not a name. Radio historian Gerald Nachman quotes Brecher as stating, "He was a Brooklyn guy and there was something about him. (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). 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.
The radio program initially aired on the Blue Network (later known as ABC) from January 16, 1944, to July 8, 1945, it then moved to NBC, where it was broadcast from September 8, 1945, to June 29, 1951. Jackie Gleason and Rosemary DeCamp in the original 1949 television series
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