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Letter to Loretta

Season 1 Episode 29: Man's Estate

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

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