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The Best Episodes of Letter to Loretta Season 1

Every episode of Letter to Loretta Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Letter to Loretta Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Letter to Loretta Season 1

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. 8.0/10(9 votes)

    #1 - The Enchanted Schoolteacher

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    S1:E31

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

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  2. 7.7/10(22 votes)

    #2 - Son, This is Your Father

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    S1:E27

    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."

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  3. 7.6/10(20 votes)

    #3 - Nobody's Boy

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    S1:E24

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  4. 7.4/10(23 votes)

    #4 - The Count of Ten

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    S1:E25

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  5. 7.3/10(14 votes)

    #5 - Oh, My Aching Heart

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    S1:E33

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  6. 7.2/10(24 votes)

    #6 - Turn of the Card

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    S1:E5

    A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.

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  8. 7.2/10(33 votes)

    #7 - Earthquake

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    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  9. 7.2/10(23 votes)

    #8 - Thanksgiving in Beaver Run

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    S1:E10

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

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  10. 7.2/10(22 votes)

    #9 - Laughing Boy

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    S1:E12

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  11. 7.2/10(25 votes)

    #10 - Lady Killer

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    S1:E17

    A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  12. 7.2/10(23 votes)

    #11 - A Family Out of Us

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    S1:E21

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

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  13. 7.2/10(23 votes)

    #12 - Act of Faith

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    S1:E22

    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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  14. 7.1/10(33 votes)

    #13 - The Mirror

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    S1:E2

    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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  15. 7.1/10(29 votes)

    #14 - The Night My Father Came Home

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    S1:E14

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

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  16. 7.1/10(17 votes)

    #15 - Man's Estate

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    S1:E29

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

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  17. 7.1/10(13 votes)

    #16 - The Judgment

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    S1:E32

    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.

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  18. 7.1/10(10 votes)

    #17 - Lady in Wet Paint

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    S1:E36

    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.

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  19. 7.0/10(21 votes)

    #18 - The Faith of Chata

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    S1:E13

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  20. 7.0/10(26 votes)

    #19 - Inga

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    S1:E16

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  21. 7.0/10(22 votes)

    #20 - The Clara Schumann Story

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    S1:E26

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

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  22. 6.9/10(42 votes)

    #21 - Trial Run

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    S1:E1

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  23. 6.9/10(30 votes)

    #22 - Prisoner at One O'Clock

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    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  24. 6.9/10(20 votes)

    #23 - The One That Got Away

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    S1:E7

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

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  25. 6.9/10(24 votes)

    #24 - Kid Stuff

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    S1:E8

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

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  26. 6.9/10(20 votes)

    #25 - The New York Story

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    S1:E23

    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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Enchanted Schoolteacher" is the best rated episode of "Letter to Loretta" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/25/1954. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Son, This is Your Father".