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The Best Episodes of Letter to Loretta

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...

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  1. Background image for When Queens Ride By
    9.8/10(8 votes)

    #1 - When Queens Ride By

    S8:E21

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for A Greater Strength
    9.2/10(13 votes)

    #2 - A Greater Strength

    S5:E17

    A newly returned widow discovers to her dismay that her only daughter has been adopted while she was a POW. While trying to retrieve her daughter, she encounters frustrating complications that endanger her child and challenge her faith.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Woman Between
    9.0/10(8 votes)

    #3 - The Woman Between

    S6:E8

    A man possessed is Alex Stark, who never has anything on his mind but business, even staying away from his fabulous New York penthouse for long periods to make deals. His wife Eleanor loses interest in him and falls for the family lawyer, She Alex's firm by selling their stock to the paramour.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Portrait
    9.0/10(9 votes)

    #4 - The Portrait

    S6:E21

    An old line aristocrat has a portrait painter in to do his daughter's likeness, but he finds her painfully shy and given to revealing only half her face, the side he's asked to paint. Soon it comes out she's been scarred in a fire, one that her mother died in and her stern father blames her for.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Road
    8.9/10(18 votes)

    #5 - The Road

    S7:E1

    An unhappy wife, with a brain tumor, leaves for France without her husband. See ends up on a road trip to Lourdes (filmed on location).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Royal Partners: Part 2
    8.8/10(8 votes)

    #6 - Royal Partners: Part 2

    S4:E34

    A sight impaired dancer secretly trains herself in hopes of rejoining her husband/dance partner on stage again.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Case Book
    8.6/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Case Book

    S2:E27

    Only a few years after "Spellbound," but before "Vertigo" and "The Three Faces of Eve," this episode uses extended two-actor scenes in its thoughtful exploration of claustrophobia and the benefits of therapy - as well as forgiveness of others and oneself.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Sister Ann
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    #8 - Sister Ann

    S6:E15

    A badly injured man is brought to a hospital, needing long term care with his hands and eyes covered during his period of treatment. he's gruff, irritable and ill mannered, not realizing he's been taken to a Catholic hospital or that his nurse that he falls in love with is actually a nun. When the bandages are removed and finally knows, he must suppress his feelings.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Time and Yuletide
    8.5/10(16 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Dickie
    8.5/10(11 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Secret
    8.5/10(9 votes)

    #11 - The Secret

    S3:E22

    John Newland becomes another series fixture as the practical, detached father of a disabled mute boy, both whom are brought out of their shells by a children's book author.

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    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The 20-Cent Tip
    8.5/10(9 votes)

    #12 - The 20-Cent Tip

    S6:E6

    To make ends meet, a high school teacher must take a second job as a waitress. Conflicts occur when students begin coming to the restaurant.

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    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Faith, Hope and Mr. Flaherty
    8.5/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Faith, Hope and Mr. Flaherty

    S7:E27

    Another story involving Sister Ann, this time involving funds multiplying to help those Sister Ann meets.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for On Your Honor, Your Honor
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Something About Love
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Little League
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Little League

    S4:E4

    Tommy Kirk returns, this time as a youngster with his heart set on qualifying for a little league baseball team.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Dear Milkman
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Dear Milkman

    S5:E15

    A wife who has written a loving book about her milkman husband encounters marital conflict when a Hollywood producer wants to make a movie based on the wife's book except the producer's vision is to change reality to suit cinema practices.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Incident in India
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #18 - Incident in India

    S6:E17

    A Hindu slaver tries to sell two Muslim captive women from Pakistan in a small town. The single local constable puts a stop to it but holds the women in his gaol. The younger woman bargains for her freedom by helping the policeman to trap a bandit gang who have been raiding nearby homes and farms.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #19 - Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2

    S6:E27

    A healing process for a couple's marriage and a cure for the wife's alcoholism begin after a psychiatrist helps them face their specific roles in causing dysfunction.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Great Divide
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #20 - The Great Divide

    S4:E10

    A woman convinced she will never marry falls for an old school friend.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Wedding Day
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #21 - Wedding Day

    S4:E23

    An eerie period piece about a bride suffering apparent breakdown and confusion in the wake of strange events she can't seem to piece together.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for You're Driving Me Crazy
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Inga III
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #23 - Inga III

    S3:E19

    One of Inga's prison workers is distraught over his wife's ill health, and Inga takes steps so that he can care for his wife. Seeing the strength of their marriage, Inga contemplates marriage for herself.

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    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for But for God's Grace
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #24 - But for God's Grace

    S3:E29

    A mother, suffering sustained grief of losing one of her two sons, has distanced herself from her other son and husband. She becomes attached to a melancholy neighborhood boy.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Goodbye, Goodbye
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Goodbye, Goodbye

    S4:E9

    During a beach picnic, a widowed mother recalls when her romance with a novelist hit an unexpected snag.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"When Queens Ride By" is the best rated episode of "Letter to Loretta". It scored 9.8/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Richard Donner and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/12/1961. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Greater Strength".