Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta

1953 8 Seasons ⭐ 6.6
Drama

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.

Seasons

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1. Trial Run

1953-09-20

The first episode of the series, explaining the letter anthology format. A shop girl is courted by a man whose family looks down upon her, so she feigns crassness to teach them a …

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2. The Mirror

1953-09-27

A spoiled and selfish woman goes without her husband to a vacation home and is tormented by a woman escaped from a mental institution which makes her confront her own mental chall…

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3. Prisoner at One O'Clock

1953-10-04

A young man is accused of murder in a small Western town, but the sheriff's wife believes him innocent, while the townspeople form a mob to storm the jail.

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4. Girl on a Flagpole

1953-10-11

A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.

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5. Turn of the Card

1953-10-18

A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.

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6. Earthquake

1953-10-25

A man using an iron lung who has lost hope regains his will through the efforts of his wife to keep him breathing when an earthquake causes a power failure.

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7. The One That Got Away

1953-11-01

The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous former beau and his devotion to her comes to a head.

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8. Kid Stuff

1953-11-08

Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.

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9. The Bronte Story

1953-11-15

Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father even as it interferes with her courtship with and marriage to Arthur Nicholls.

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10. Thanksgiving in Beaver Run

1953-11-22

The kidnapping of a boy by young toughs takes an unexpected turn when one of the hoodlums befriends the boy.

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11. Love Story

1953-11-29

An aspiring actress falls in love with a clown and marries him, but then she's ashamed to be publicly associated with him.

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12. Laughing Boy

1953-12-06

Glass-jawed Walter Stone attempts to rescue Kay Coughlin from a purse snatcher, but he gets hurt instead. Kay nurses him back to health and asks Walter to help her get her boyfrie…

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13. The Faith of Chata

1953-12-13

A little girl in a Mexican village falls desperately ill and places her faith in God through her patron saint, regardless of whether she survives or not.

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14. The Night My Father Came Home

1953-12-20

Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned laborer.

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15. Hotel Irritant

1953-12-27

Corporate hotel snoop Sally Webster creates unpleasant situations in a hotel to test its operation while becoming impressed with the character and ambition of hotel clerk Newton R…

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16. Inga

1954-01-03

Indomitable Inga Helborg convinces a bank president to conditionally reverse the foreclosure of the family farm and takes labor from the prison farm by which both actions she succ…

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17. Lady Killer

1954-01-10

A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

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18. Secret Answer

1954-01-17

A spirited wife challenges the stodgy attitudes of researcher husband by refusing to respond to one of his survey questions: "If you had it to do all over again, would you marry t…

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19. Big Little Lie

1954-01-24

Beverly Washburn plays a lonely schoolgirl whose decision to start a rumor about her mother turns into classroom blackmail. Jeannette Nolan portrays her stern Aunt.

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20. The Hollywood Story

1954-01-31

Madge Mason based on her prowess as a local actress in a small Iowa town goes to Hollywood and meets with only modest success but when it appears she is on verge of major success …

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21. A Family Out of Us

1954-02-07

The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.

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22. Act of Faith

1954-02-14

Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy woman seems to be coming to an end.

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23. The New York Story

1954-02-28

A glamorous mother and wife who dallies with other men's attention takes her own husband and son for granted. Clever opening schoolroom sequence in which the moms comment in their…

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24. Nobody's Boy

1954-03-07

Fictionalized story of a Chicago juvenile delinquent who meets Jack Robbins, founder of the BBR, a boy's club that still exists today. A familiar face in one scene is the ubiquito…

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25. The Count of Ten

1954-03-14

Tiger Tipton retired from a successful boxing career at his wife's insistence. Now broke from her expensive medical care, he arranges one last fight with the champ, but he can't l…

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26. The Clara Schumann Story

1954-03-21

The great composer and his concert pianist wife, whose seemingly idyllic marriage descends into mental breakdown.

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27. Son, This is Your Father

1954-03-28

Flashbacks tell the story of a charming but irresponsible ex-husband who re-enters the lives of his wife and son. The father/son relationship is similar to that of Gloria's son an…

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28. The First Man to Ask Her

1954-04-04

Offbeat comic tale of a sheltered young woman whose house is turned upside down by an eccentric lady, her cowboy son -- and his horse. Jock Mahoney makes the first of his many app…

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29. Man's Estate

1954-04-11

Profile of a teenager who wants to be treated as an adult.

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30. Forest Ranger

1954-04-18

A forest ranger's wife unknowing allows into her house an escaped convict who seeks revenge on her husband.

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31. The Enchanted Schoolteacher

1954-04-25

A near-sighted, reclusive teacher is romanced by the father of her shyest pupil and discovers what she's been missing.

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32. The Judgment

1954-05-02

A woman is plagued by guilt when her politician husband killed a pedestrian in a car accident. Instead of taking responsibility, he was elated to see someone else arrested and bla…

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33. Oh, My Aching Heart

1954-05-09

Nora is hired as a secretary under the condition that she disguise herself to be old and unattractive, so as not to distract her boss. When her boss has need to drop in to Nora's …

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34. Dear Midge

1954-05-16

Midge is an unmarried social worker with an overactive imagination, including having a curmudgeonly fairy to guide her. Her fairy gets her into sticky situations, and she is afrai…

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35. Something Always Happens

1954-05-23

A young widow's beau won't marry her until he establishes some financial capital, so she deceives him into believing he won a $5000 raffle.

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36. Lady in Wet Paint

1954-05-30

A new teacher in a remote Native American community struggles to get children out of work and into school, and she ends up instigating a strike against the local farmer who employ…

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