The Loretta Young Show - S2 E25 - "Dickie" (Disclaimer)

The Loretta Young Show Episode # 5425
Original airdate: 2-13-55
"DICKIE"
This episode of the Loretta Young Show is the true story of the early life of it's writer and director, Richard Morris, who also wrote and directed many other episodes in this series.
Morris would later go on to create the stage and film projects Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). He died on April 27, 1996 in LosAngeles, California of cancer.
In this episode 'Dickie' is a young boy who just loves puppet shows and tries to convince his mother that he is not only a genius at theatricals, but at business as well.
Loretta Young stars as Ethel Morris, his mother, and Richard Eyer portrays her precocious little son, Dickie.
Eyer is a former child actor who worked during the 1950s and 1960s. He appeared in more than one hundred episodes of various television programs, including Rod Cameron's syndicated City Detective, when he was eight years of age. His other appearances include Arrest and Trial, Stoney Burke, Mr. Novak, Wagon Train, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Father Knows Best, Gunsmoke, Lassie, Rawhide and General Electric Theater.
In later life, Eyer was a teacher at elementary schools in Bishop, California until he retired in 2006. He is the older brother of Robert Eyer (1948-2005), another child actor of the period.
Anthony Sydes plays Dickie's older brother, Junior. Sydes made his film debut in Claudia and David in 1946 at age 5. After his retirement from acting, Sydes founded A&A Auction Gallery and became a member of the National Auctioneers Association. He died in Springfield, Virginia on June 20, 2015 at age 74.
Dickies' father is played by Bruce Cowling. The Oklahoma-born actor appeared in twenty films including Song of the Thin Man (1947), Battleground (1949), Ambush (1950), The Painted Hills (1951), Gun Belt (1953) as Virgil Earp and To Hell and Back in 1955. He also voiced several characters on the Lone Ranger radio show and made several appearances in different roles on The Loretta Young Show. He died on August 22, 1986 at age 66, in Los Angeles, California
Directed by Richard Morris Story & Screenplay by Richard Morris
Cast:
Ethel Morris Loretta Young
Dickie Morris Richard Eyer
Walter Morris Bruce Cowling
Felice Badt Ann Doran
Junior Morris Anthony Sydes
Gracie Henry Tina Thompson
1st Lady Martha Wentworth
2nd Lady Almira Sessions