Chaps Callahan episode

I never watched Family Affair all that much. The storyline of a batchelor Uncle raising his niece and nephew didn't interest all that much. But the episode where Bob Steele played an ex-cowboy star, whose old movies were being shown on television, got me right where I lived. When Jody finally meets his hero, Chaps Callahan, and discovers that he is not like the cowboy hero on the screen, but simply an old man who can no longer spin his guns or twirl a lariet, as is touching displayed in a scene where Jody's friends mock the cowboy star. Bob Steele explains that he is actually older than Jody's uncle Brian Keith, who probably saw him in the theaters. Jody learns that everybody, even cowboy heroes, grow older and while they may age, it is their image on the screen that Jody should remember. Steele's performance brings a lump in the throats of every ex-Front Row Kid that ever had to grow up and put aside his cowboy outfit, but not his memories.