Letter to Loretta
Letter to Loretta
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Letter to Loretta

6.5 / 10
1953
8 seasons
257 episodes
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.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Trial Run

    20-09-1953

    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 l...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Mirror

    27-09-1953

    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 challe...

  • Ep 3

    3.Prisoner at One O'Clock

    04-10-1953

    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.

  • Ep 4

    4.Girl on a Flagpole

    11-10-1953

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

  • Ep 5

    5.Turn of the Card

    18-10-1953

    A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.

  • Ep 6

    6.Earthquake

    25-10-1953

    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.

  • Ep 7

    7.The One That Got Away

    01-11-1953

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

  • Ep 8

    8.Kid Stuff

    08-11-1953

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

  • Ep 9

    9.The Bronte Story

    15-11-1953

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

  • Ep 10

    10.Thanksgiving in Beaver Run

    22-11-1953

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

  • Ep 11

    11.Love Story

    29-11-195330m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.Laughing Boy

    06-12-1953

    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 boyfrien...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Faith of Chata

    13-12-1953

    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.

  • Ep 14

    14.The Night My Father Came Home

    20-12-1953

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

  • Ep 15

    15.Hotel Irritant

    27-12-195330m

    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 Ra...

  • Ep 16

    16.Inga

    03-01-1954

    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 succe...

  • Ep 17

    17.Lady Killer

    10-01-195430m

    A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

  • Ep 18

    18.Secret Answer

    17-01-1954

    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 th...

  • Ep 19

    19.Big Little Lie

    24-01-1954

    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.

  • Ep 20

    20.The Hollywood Story

    31-01-1954

    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 s...

  • Ep 21

    21.A Family Out of Us

    07-02-1954

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

  • Ep 22

    22.Act of Faith

    14-02-1954

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

  • Ep 23

    23.The New York Story

    28-02-1954

    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 theirs...

  • Ep 24

    24.Nobody's Boy

    07-03-1954

    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 ubiquitou...

  • Ep 25

    25.The Count of Ten

    14-03-1954

    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 le...

  • Ep 26

    26.The Clara Schumann Story

    21-03-1954

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

  • Ep 27

    27.Son, This is Your Father

    28-03-1954

    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 and...

  • Ep 28

    28.The First Man to Ask Her

    04-04-1954

    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 appe...

  • Ep 29

    29.Man's Estate

    11-04-1954

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

  • Ep 30

    30.Forest Ranger

    18-04-1954

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

  • Ep 31

    31.The Enchanted Schoolteacher

    25-04-1954

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

  • Ep 32

    32.The Judgment

    02-05-1954

    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 blam...

  • Ep 33

    33.Oh, My Aching Heart

    09-05-1954

    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 h...

  • Ep 34

    34.Dear Midge

    16-05-1954

    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 afraid...

  • Ep 35

    35.Something Always Happens

    23-05-1954

    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.

  • Ep 36

    36.Lady in Wet Paint

    30-05-1954

    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 employs...

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