7.7/109 votes#1 - Guest in the Night
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/29/1954
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1015 votes
#2 - Dr. Juliet
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/1954
A doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances and suspects surrounding the near-death of a young heiress.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1012 votes
#3 - Double Trouble
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/12/1954
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1012 votes
#4 - The Lamp
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/1954
What seems to be Aladdin's Lamp also seems to be fulfilling the fondest wishes of a young couple.
Director: Harry Keller
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1013 votes
#5 - You're Driving Me Crazy
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/26/1954
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1013 votes
#6 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/3/1954
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: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - For Father Darling
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/10/1954
Clever "amateur sleuth" tale with a sharp Catholic priest who helps a family escape from a smooth con man. Very "Columbo"-like.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/109 votes
#8 - On Your Honor, Your Honor
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/17/1954
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1011 votes
#9 - The Girl Scout Story
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1954
A girl scout is left alone with an escaped convict.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1012 votes
#10 - No Help Wanted
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1954
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: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - It's a Man's Game
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/1954
Pushy history teacher nags her math teacher-coach boyfriend to have more ambition and winds up coaching the football team in his place.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1012 votes
#12 - Something About Love
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1954
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1010 votes
#13 - Our Sacred Honor
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/1954
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1017 votes
#14 - Big Jim
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/5/1954
A young man attempts to reform his delinquent mother when she stops in town to see him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1010 votes
#15 - Evil for Evil
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/12/1954
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1015 votes
#16 - Time and Yuletide
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/19/1954
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: N/A
- 8.0/1015 votes
#17 - Three Minutes Too Late
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/26/1954
A financially strapped New York cab driver becomes desperate for cash when his wife goes into labor.
Director: Harry Keller
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
- 7.1/1012 votes
#18 - The Girl Who Knew
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/2/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1011 votes
#19 - The Flood
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/9/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/109 votes
#20 - Decision
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/16/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/109 votes
#21 - The Refinement of Ab
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 1/23/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1010 votes
#22 - 600 Seconds
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 1/30/1955
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: N/A
- 7.3/1012 votes
#23 - The Case of Mrs. Bannister
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/6/1955
A little girl's stories about her seemingly imaginary friend, "Mrs. Bannister," begin to foreshadow real events and imminent danger.
Director: Harry Keller
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1010 votes
#24 - Dickie
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/13/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1011 votes
#25 - Option on a Wife
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 2/20/1955
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: N/A
The Best Episodes of Letter to Loretta Season 2
Every episode of Letter to Loretta Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Letter to Loretta Season 2!
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 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 9 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/29/1954. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Dr. Juliet".