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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 1 - Guest in the Night
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #1 - Guest in the Night

    S2:E1

    Duke and Rita visit a remote mountain cabin for a romantic getaway. During a fierce snowstorm, a young boy with pneumonia shows up at their door. Duke won't call for help because he is wanted for robbery, but Rita uses a ham radio to ask for medical help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 2 - Dr. Juliet
    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #2 - Dr. Juliet

    S2:E2

    A doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances and suspects surrounding the near-death of a young heiress.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 3 - Double Trouble
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #3 - Double Trouble

    S2:E3

    Granite jawed Hugh O'Brien, clearly enjoying a change of pace from his usual rugged roles, plays a shy cartoonist whose heroism is awakened by a fraud scandal involving a woman and a his exact double.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 4 - The Lamp
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #4 - The Lamp

    S2:E4

    What seems to be Aladdin's Lamp also seems to be fulfilling the fondest wishes of a young couple.

    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 5 - You're Driving Me Crazy
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #5 - You're Driving Me Crazy

    S2:E5

    A couple finds themselves terrorized by a disturbed man who rear ends their car. There is some genuine suspense in this episode and warrants attention in that it comes years before Alfred Hitchcock Presents and other such anthologies.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 6 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    8.0/10(15 votes)

    #6 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    S2:E6

    This familiar plot of a lone holdout juror benefits from extreme unusual close-ups, montages and double-exposures to "open up" the drama beyond the single room setting.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 7 - For Father Darling
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - For Father Darling

    S2:E7

    Clever "amateur sleuth" tale with a sharp Catholic priest who helps a family escape from a smooth con man. Very "Columbo"-like.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 8 - On Your Honor, Your Honor
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #8 - On Your Honor, Your Honor

    S2:E8

    An idealistic widow, whose last name is that same to that of a candidate, allows two slick politicians to add her name to a small town mayoral ballot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 9 - The Girl Scout Story
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #9 - The Girl Scout Story

    S2:E9

    A girl scout is left alone with an escaped convict.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 10 - No Help Wanted
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #10 - No Help Wanted

    S2:E10

    Former stuntman and TV's "Range Rider" and "Yancy Derringer," Jock Mahoney, returns to this series, this time playing the owner of a small diner who is taken with a lost soul seemingly left alone in the rain.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 11 - It's a Man's Game
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #11 - It's a Man's Game

    S2:E11

    Pushy history teacher nags her math teacher-coach boyfriend to have more ambition and winds up coaching the football team in his place.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 12 - Something About Love
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #12 - Something About Love

    S2:E12

    A dancer's resolution to go on with her life as a singer inspires an architect who had become embittered after his hands were injured in the Korean war. Sally Field's mother Margaret (wife of Loretta Young show favorite Jock Mahoney) co-stars as Gene Barry's fiancée.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 13 - Our Sacred Honor
    6.6/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Our Sacred Honor

    S2:E13

    Like Spielberg's "Lincoln," which celebrated the little-known people who made a difference as well as high-profile leaders, this episode focuses on one of the lesser-known signers of the Declaration of Independence, John Hart.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 14 - Big Jim
    6.8/10(17 votes)

    #14 - Big Jim

    S2:E14

    A young man attempts to reform his delinquent mother when she stops in town to see him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 15 - Evil for Evil
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Evil for Evil

    S2:E15

    An embittered man takes revenge on a beloved doctor who lost his wife on the operating table, leading to vigilantism. Among the cast is Oscar-winner Jane Darwell ("The Grapes of Wrath," "Mary Poppins"). The theme of friendly neighbors transformed into a hideous mob would be echoed in Twilight Zone episodes "The Shelter" and "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 16 - Time and Yuletide
    8.6/10(17 votes)

    #16 - Time and Yuletide

    S2:E16

    At a hospital and nursing home, everyone wants to stage Christmas parties for the sick children, but the event coordinator connives to get a party for the elderly residents.

    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 17 - Three Minutes Too Late
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #17 - Three Minutes Too Late

    S2:E17

    A financially strapped New York cab driver becomes desperate for cash when his wife goes into labor.

    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  18. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 18 - The Girl Who Knew
    7.1/10(14 votes)

    #18 - The Girl Who Knew

    S2:E18

    Familiar TV faces abound in this fanciful dramedy about a woman's ability to know the time without a watch challenged by a watch company's efforts to use a conceited employee's charms to discredit her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 19 - The Flood
    7.7/10(14 votes)

    #19 - The Flood

    S2:E19

    A man whose experience as a prisoner of war has caused him to be alcoholic and homeless stumbles into a situation in which he must use his army medical training and receives advice and support from a nurse and a doctor to change his life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 20 - Decision
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #20 - Decision

    S2:E20

    The wife of a pilot runs the gamut of emotions and memories while awaiting the return of her husband, whose plane has lost an engine in a storm.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 21 - The Refinement of Ab
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #21 - The Refinement of Ab

    S2:E21

    Hugh Beaumont plays the dad in one of two suburban families that allow the childish teasing between their sons escalate into a serious social and business conflicts.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 22 - 600 Seconds
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #22 - 600 Seconds

    S2:E22

    A successful Art Director lets her imagination run away with her when a young female business associate of her husband's wants to talk to her about something "personal."

    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 23 - The Case of Mrs. Bannister
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #23 - The Case of Mrs. Bannister

    S2:E23

    A little girl's stories about her seemingly imaginary friend, "Mrs. Bannister," begin to foreshadow real events and imminent danger.

    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 24 - Dickie
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Dickie

    S2:E24

    True story of a Depression-era mother's efforts to redirect her talented little boy's creative projects to more practical pursuits -- and who this boy turns out to be is the twist, as Ms. Young introduces the real-life man and his mom at the end of the episode.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Letter to Loretta Season 2 Episode 25 - Option on a Wife
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    #25 - Option on a Wife

    S2:E25

    The Hollywood success of a New York writer takes up so much of his time and attention that it threatens his marriage.

    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Guest in the Night" is the best rated episode of "Letter to Loretta" season 2. It scored 7.7/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/29/1954. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Dr. Juliet".