6.9/1039 votes#1 - Trial Run
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1953
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1031 votes
#2 - The Mirror
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1953
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1028 votes
#3 - Prisoner at One O'Clock
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1953
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
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1025 votes
#4 - Girl on a Flagpole
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1953
A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1023 votes
#5 - Turn of the Card
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1953
A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1032 votes
#6 - Earthquake
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1953
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: N/A
- 6.9/1019 votes
#7 - The One That Got Away
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1953
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
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1023 votes
#8 - Kid Stuff
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1953
Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1026 votes
#9 - The Bronte Story
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1953
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
- 7.2/1022 votes
#10 - Thanksgiving in Beaver Run
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1953
The kidnapping of a boy by young toughs takes an unexpected turn when one of the hoodlums befriends the boy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1030 votes
#11 - Love Story
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1953
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1021 votes
#12 - Laughing Boy
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1953
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1020 votes
#13 - The Faith of Chata
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1953
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1027 votes
#14 - The Night My Father Came Home
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1953
Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned laborer.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1026 votes
#15 - Hotel Irritant
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1953
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: N/A
- 7.0/1025 votes
#16 - Inga
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1954
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1024 votes
#17 - Lady Killer
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1954
A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1018 votes
#18 - Secret Answer
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1954
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?"
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1021 votes
#19 - Big Little Lie
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1954
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1023 votes
#20 - The Hollywood Story
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1954
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1022 votes
#21 - A Family Out of Us
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1954
The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1022 votes
#22 - Act of Faith
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1954
Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy woman seems to be coming to an end.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1019 votes
#23 - The New York Story
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1954
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1019 votes
#24 - Nobody's Boy
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1954
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1022 votes
#25 - The Count of Ten
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1954
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: N/A
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!
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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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Trial Run" is the best rated episode of "Letter to Loretta" season 1. It scored 6.9/10 based on 39 votes. Directed by Robert Florey and written by N/A, it aired on 9/20/1953. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Mirror".