The Best Episodes of Letter to Loretta Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(47 votes)

   #1 - Trial Run

   S1:E19/20/1953

   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

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   7.3/10(36 votes)

   #2 - The Mirror

   S1:E29/27/1953

   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.

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   7.2/10(33 votes)

   #3 - Prisoner at One O'Clock

   S1:E310/4/1953

   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

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   6.7/10(29 votes)

   #4 - Girl on a Flagpole

   S1:E410/11/1953

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

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   7.3/10(27 votes)

   #5 - Turn of the Card

   S1:E510/18/1953

   A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.

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   7.3/10(36 votes)

   #6 - Earthquake

   S1:E610/25/1953

   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:Unknown

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   6.9/10(23 votes)

   #7 - The One That Got Away

   S1:E711/1/1953

   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

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   6.8/10(27 votes)

   #8 - Kid Stuff

   S1:E811/8/1953

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

   Director:Robert Florey

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   6.6/10(29 votes)

   #9 - The Bronte Story

   S1:E911/15/1953

   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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    7.4/10(25 votes)

    #10 - Thanksgiving in Beaver Run

    S1:E1011/22/1953

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

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    6.6/10(33 votes)

    #11 - Love Story

    S1:E1111/29/1953

    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

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    7.4/10(24 votes)

    #12 - Laughing Boy

    S1:E1212/6/1953

    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

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13. 

    7.2/10(23 votes)

    #13 - The Faith of Chata

    S1:E1312/13/1953

    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

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14. 

    7.3/10(31 votes)

    #14 - The Night My Father Came Home

    S1:E1412/20/1953

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

    Director:Robert Florey

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    6.7/10(29 votes)

    #15 - Hotel Irritant

    S1:E1512/27/1953

    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:Unknown

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16. 

    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #16 - Inga

    S1:E161/3/1954

    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

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17. 

    7.4/10(27 votes)

    #17 - Lady Killer

    S1:E171/10/1954

    A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

    Director:Robert Florey

    Writer:Unknown

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18. 

    6.5/10(21 votes)

    #18 - Secret Answer

    S1:E181/17/1954

    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?"

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    6.9/10(24 votes)

    #19 - Big Little Lie

    S1:E191/24/1954

    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.

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    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #20 - The Hollywood Story

    S1:E201/31/1954

    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.

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21. 

    7.3/10(25 votes)

    #21 - A Family Out of Us

    S1:E212/7/1954

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

    Director:Robert Florey

    Writer:Unknown

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22. 

    7.4/10(25 votes)

    #22 - Act of Faith

    S1:E222/14/1954

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

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    7.1/10(23 votes)

    #23 - The New York Story

    S1:E232/28/1954

    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.

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    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #24 - Nobody's Boy

    S1:E243/7/1954

    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

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25. 

    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #25 - The Count of Ten

    S1:E253/14/1954

    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:Unknown

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