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Letter to Loretta

Season 1 Episode 23: The New York Story

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...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Trial Run

1. Trial Run

Aired: Sep 20, 1953

The first episode of the series, explaining the letter anthology format. A sh...

Episode 2 The Mirror

2. The Mirror

Aired: Sep 27, 1953

A spoiled and selfish woman goes without her husband to a vacation home and i...

Episode 4 Girl on a Flagpole

4. Girl on a Flagpole

Aired: Oct 11, 1953

A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to t...

Episode 6 Earthquake

6. Earthquake

Aired: Oct 25, 1953

A man using an iron lung who has lost hope regains his will through the effor...

Episode 7 The One That Got Away

7. The One That Got Away

Aired: Nov 1, 1953

The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous fo...

Episode 8 Kid Stuff

8. Kid Stuff

Aired: Nov 8, 1953

Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampere...

Episode 9 The Bronte Story

9. The Bronte Story

Aired: Nov 15, 1953

Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father...

Episode 11 Love Story

11. Love Story

Aired: Nov 29, 1953

An aspiring actress falls in love with a clown and marries him, but then she'...

Episode 12 Laughing Boy

12. Laughing Boy

Aired: Dec 6, 1953

Glass-jawed Walter Stone attempts to rescue Kay Coughlin from a purse snatche...

Episode 13 The Faith of Chata

13. The Faith of Chata

Aired: Dec 13, 1953

A little girl in a Mexican village falls desperately ill and places her faith...

Episode 15 Hotel Irritant

15. Hotel Irritant

Aired: Dec 27, 1953

Corporate hotel snoop Sally Webster creates unpleasant situations in a hotel ...

Episode 16 Inga

16. Inga

Aired: Jan 3, 1954

Indomitable Inga Helborg convinces a bank president to conditionally reverse ...

Episode 17 Lady Killer

17. Lady Killer

Aired: Jan 10, 1954

A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

Episode 18 Secret Answer

18. Secret Answer

Aired: Jan 17, 1954

A spirited wife challenges the stodgy attitudes of researcher husband by refu...

Episode 19 Big Little Lie

19. Big Little Lie

Aired: Jan 24, 1954

Beverly Washburn plays a lonely schoolgirl whose decision to start a rumor ab...

Episode 20 The Hollywood Story

20. The Hollywood Story

Aired: Jan 31, 1954

Madge Mason based on her prowess as a local actress in a small Iowa town goes...

Episode 21 A Family Out of Us

21. A Family Out of Us

Aired: Feb 7, 1954

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

Episode 22 Act of Faith

22. Act of Faith

Aired: Feb 14, 1954

Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy wom...

Episode 23 The New York Story

23. The New York Story

Aired: Feb 28, 1954

A glamorous mother and wife who dallies with other men's attention takes her ...

Episode 24 Nobody's Boy

24. Nobody's Boy

Aired: Mar 7, 1954

Fictionalized story of a Chicago juvenile delinquent who meets Jack Robbins, ...

Episode 25 The Count of Ten

25. The Count of Ten

Aired: Mar 14, 1954

Tiger Tipton retired from a successful boxing career at his wife's insistence...

Episode 29 Man's Estate

29. Man's Estate

Aired: Apr 11, 1954

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

Episode 30 Forest Ranger

30. Forest Ranger

Aired: Apr 18, 1954

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

Episode 32 The Judgment

32. The Judgment

Aired: May 2, 1954

A woman is plagued by guilt when her politician husband killed a pedestrian i...

Episode 33 Oh, My Aching Heart

33. Oh, My Aching Heart

Aired: May 9, 1954

Nora is hired as a secretary under the condition that she disguise herself to...

Episode 34 Dear Midge

34. Dear Midge

Aired: May 16, 1954

Midge is an unmarried social worker with an overactive imagination, including...

Episode 36 Lady in War Paint

36. Lady in War Paint

Aired: May 30, 1954

A new teacher in a remote Native American community struggles to get children...

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Info about Letter to Loretta

Seasons: 8

Network: NBC

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama