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The Best Episodes of Letter to Loretta

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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 A Greater Strength
    9.2/10(13 votes)

    #1 - 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
  2. Background image for Case Book
    8.6/10(11 votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. Background image for Time and Yuletide
    8.5/10(16 votes)

    #3 - 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
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    8.5/10(11 votes)

    #4 - 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
  5. Background image for The Secret
    8.5/10(9 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for On Your Honor, Your Honor
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for Something About Love
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for Dear Milkman
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #8 - 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
  10. Background image for You're Driving Me Crazy
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #9 - 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
  11. Background image for Inga III
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #10 - 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
  12. Background image for But for God's Grace
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #11 - 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
  13. Background image for Dangerous Verdict
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #12 - Dangerous Verdict

    S5:E25

    A man who is to be tried for murder tries to escape across the Mexican border since he was not granted a change of venue. His concern was that the judge, being a woman, would allow emotion to influence the verdict.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    8.0/10(15 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Three Minutes Too Late
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #14 - Three Minutes Too Late

    S2:E17

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

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    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for 600 Seconds
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #16 - 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."

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    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Option on a Wife
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Mink Coat
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Mink Coat

    S2:E30

    Series favorites Jock Mahoney, Ann Doran and Casey Adams (Max Showalter) reunite with Ms. Young in an amusing "Fisherman and His Wife/If You Give a Mouse A Cookie"-like fable about the effects an unexpected mink coat has on a two suburban couples.

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    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for To Open a Door
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #19 - To Open a Door

    S5:E23

    A chic boutique owner is very tempted to compromise her integrity when she falls for a handsome, cultured married man. The feeling is mutual and the chemistry electric and she struggles to "close that door."

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Dr. Juliet
    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #20 - Dr. Juliet

    S2:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Inga II
    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #21 - Inga II

    S2:E29

    Dennis Hopper was only nineteen when he appeared in this episode as a privileged young man who is sent to work on a farm to build his character.

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    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Double Trouble
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Lamp
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #23 - The Lamp

    S2:E4

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

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    Director:Harry Keller
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for No Help Wanted
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for It's a Man's Game
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"A Greater Strength" is the best rated episode of "Letter to Loretta". It scored 9.2/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/23/1958. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "Case Book".