The Life Of Riley
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1975
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Frank Riley's days of being the carefree widower are interrupted by the return of his puritanical son who needs a job and a place to stay. Stars Bill Maynard, Frank Lincoln, John Comer, Eileen Kennally, Susan Littler and John McKelvey
Press clippings
The Life of Riley, Granada's new comedy series, is cheap and cheerful, neat and effective. The formula is the upside-down one of live-it-up-father and a stay-at-home son. H. V. Kershaw, who wrote it, must be a follower, as what thinking man is not, of the Berman-Newhart school of telephoning Two scenes were telephone turns by Bill Maynard, and good ones. When his son arrives all unpolluted in Piccadilly (Manchester, not London), a little Welsh baa-lamb, Maynard makes every endeavour to return him to the land of his grandfathers.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 7th January 1975