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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.
Episode 36 : Lady in Wet Paint
May. 30,1954
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 most of the natives.
Episode 35 : Something Always Happens
May. 23,1954
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.
Episode 34 : Dear Midge
May. 16,1954
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 of making a poor impression on her attractive neighbor.
Episode 33 : Oh, My Aching Heart
May. 09,1954
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 home, he is taken with the young lady he finds there, who claims to be Nora's sister.
Episode 32 : The Judgment
May. 02,1954
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 blamed for it.
Episode 31 : The Enchanted Schoolteacher
April. 25,1954
A near-sighted, reclusive teacher is romanced by the father of her shyest pupil and discovers what she's been missing.
Episode 30 : Forest Ranger
April. 18,1954
A forest ranger's wife unknowing allows into her house an escaped convict who seeks revenge on her husband.
Episode 29 : Man's Estate
April. 11,1954
Episode 28 : The First Man to Ask Her
April. 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 appearances in the series, playing nephew "Andy" to Frances Bavier, who would ironically play Aunt Bee to Andy Griffith less than a decade later.
Episode 27 : Son, This is Your Father
March. 28,1954
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 her first husband on the series, "Modern Family." In this episode, Young's character's name is "Ginger," a decade before her co-star, Alan Hale Jr., addressed Tina Louise by the name on "Gilligan's Island."
Episode 26 : The Clara Schumann Story
March. 21,1954
The great composer and his concert pianist wife, whose seemingly idyllic marriage descends into mental breakdown.
Episode 25 : The Count of Ten
March. 14,1954
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 let his wife find out.
Episode 24 : Nobody's Boy
March. 07,1954
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 ubiquitous Argentina Brunetti, to whom Dean Martin sang "That's Amore" in "The Caddy." At the end of the story, Young introduces actor Chick Chandler and the real-life Jack Robbins.
Episode 23 : The New York Story
February. 28,1954
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 heads about each other. The climax in which the woman's mind races with impending terror about her son's lateness might seem melodramatic, but it's all too real for many of us who worry about loved ones. Mabel Albertson of "Bewitched" and so many other series plays the PTA spokesperson.
Episode 22 : Act of Faith
February. 14,1954
Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy woman seems to be coming to an end.
Episode 21 : A Family Out of Us
February. 07,1954
The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.
Episode 20 : The Hollywood Story
January. 31,1954
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 she has second thoughts about the price of fame.
Episode 19 : Big Little Lie
January. 24,1954
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.
Episode 18 : Secret Answer
January. 17,1954
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 the same person?"
Episode 17 : Lady Killer
January. 10,1954
Episode 16 : Inga
January. 03,1954
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 successfully demonstrates her resolute and trusting nature.
Episode 15 : Hotel Irritant
December. 27,1953
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 Ralston.
Episode 14 : The Night My Father Came Home
December. 20,1953
Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned laborer.
Episode 13 : The Faith of Chata
December. 13,1953
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.
Episode 12 : Laughing Boy
December. 06,1953
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 boyfriend jealous to goad him into proposing.
Episode 11 : Love Story
November. 29,1953
An aspiring actress falls in love with a clown and marries him, but then she's ashamed to be publicly associated with him.
Episode 10 : Thanksgiving in Beaver Run
November. 22,1953
The kidnapping of a boy by young toughs takes an unexpected turn when one of the hoodlums befriends the boy.
Episode 9 : The Bronte Story
November. 15,1953
Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father even as it interferes with her courtship with and marriage to Arthur Nicholls.
Episode 8 : Kid Stuff
November. 08,1953
Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.
Episode 7 : The One That Got Away
November. 01,1953
The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous former beau and his devotion to her comes to a head.
Episode 6 : Earthquake
October. 25,1953
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.
Episode 5 : Turn of the Card
October. 18,1953
Episode 4 : Girl on a Flagpole
October. 11,1953
A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.
Episode 3 : Prisoner at One O'Clock
October. 04,1953
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.
Episode 2 : The Mirror
September. 27,1953
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 challenges.
Episode 1 : Trial Run
September. 20,1953
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 lesson. One of a few episodes with a laugh track.
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