Additional Information
- Though the shooting scene was kept short in order to meet the more restrictive censorship limits of NBC at the time, a brief scream is heard from Richie after the gunshot. This would be edited out in future airings of the movie.
- The alternative title of the movie is Richie, the title of the book by Thomas Thompson on which the movie is based.
- The family's real surname is Diener. In the movie, it is Werner.
- George Diener, the real life father, died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 52.
- Carol Diener, Richie's mother, died in 1995.
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