All Episodes of Letter to Loretta

Season 1

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  6.9/1039 votes

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  Trial Run

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1953

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.1/1031 votes

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  The Mirror

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1953

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1028 votes

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  Prisoner at One O'Clock

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1953

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  6.6/1025 votes

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  Girl on a Flagpole

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1953

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

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1023 votes

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  Turn of the Card

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1953

  A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1032 votes

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  Earthquake

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1953

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  6.9/1019 votes

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  The One That Got Away

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1953

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

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  6.9/1023 votes

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  Kid Stuff

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1953

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

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  6.5/1026 votes

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  The Bronte Story

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1953

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

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: Hugh Beaumont

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  7.2/1022 votes

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  Thanksgiving in Beaver Run

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1953

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

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.4/1030 votes

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  Love Story

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1953

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

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1021 votes

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  Laughing Boy

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1953

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1020 votes

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  The Faith of Chata

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1953

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1027 votes

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  The Night My Father Came Home

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1953

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

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  6.6/1026 votes

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  Hotel Irritant

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1953

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1025 votes

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  Inga

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1954

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1024 votes

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  Lady Killer

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1954

  A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  6.5/1018 votes

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  Secret Answer

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1954

  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?"

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.7/1021 votes

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  Big Little Lie

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1954

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.8/1023 votes

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  The Hollywood Story

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1954

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1022 votes

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  A Family Out of Us

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1954

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

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1022 votes

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  Act of Faith

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1954

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

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.9/1019 votes

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  The New York Story

  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1954

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.7/1019 votes

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  Nobody's Boy

  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1954

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.4/1022 votes

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  The Count of Ten

  Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1954

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1021 votes

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  The Clara Schumann Story

  Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1954

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

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.7/1021 votes

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  Son, This is Your Father

  Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/28/1954

  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."

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  6.8/1018 votes

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  The First Man to Ask Her

  Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1954

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  7.1/1017 votes

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  Man's Estate

  Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/11/1954

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

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.8/1019 votes

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  Forest Ranger

  Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/18/1954

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

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  8.0/109 votes

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  The Enchanted Schoolteacher

  Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/25/1954

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

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.1/1013 votes

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  The Judgment

  Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/2/1954

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.3/1014 votes

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  Oh, My Aching Heart

  Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/9/1954

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  6.3/1012 votes

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  Dear Midge

  Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/16/1954

  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.

  Director: Robert Florey

  Writer: N/A

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  5.9/1012 votes

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  Something Always Happens

  Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/23/1954

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.1/1010 votes

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  Lady in Wet Paint

  Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 5/30/1954

  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.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A