The Death of Richie

Based on the real life story of George Richard Diener Jr., a Long Island teenager who in 1972 was shot dead by his father after trying to kill him while in a drug-induced manic state.

The original NBC telecast, of The Death of Richie in January, 1977, had Richie scream as his father kills him with the shotgun. The NBC Censors thought this was too intense, and edited the scream from all subsequent showings. This sound-byte is not available on any DVD prints or current editions of the movie and is presumed "lost", to the point where today's audiences (and even those who saw reruns of the film on television) are completely unaware that such sound-byte did occur in the film.