Overview of 'Letter to Loretta' Season 2

Letter to Loretta (1953)

Drama

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 filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.

Writing:

Richard Morris

Stars:

Release Date: 1953-09-20
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

5.8/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 30

Season 2 Episode List

Episode 1 - Guest in the Night
Release Date: 1954-08-29
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.
Episode 2 - Dr. Juliet
Release Date: 1954-09-05
A doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances and suspects surrounding the near-death of a young heiress.
Episode 3 - Double Trouble
Release Date: 1954-09-12
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.
Episode 4 - The Lamp
Release Date: 1954-09-19
What seems to be Aladdin's Lamp also seems to be fulfilling the fondest wishes of a young couple.
Episode 5 - You're Driving Me Crazy
Release Date: 1954-09-26
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.
Episode 6 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Release Date: 1954-10-03
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.
Episode 7 - For Father Darling
Release Date: 1954-10-10
Clever "amateur sleuth" tale with a sharp Catholic priest who helps a family escape from a smooth con man. Very "Columbo"-like.
Episode 8 - On Your Honor, Your Honor
Release Date: 1954-10-17
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.
Episode 9 - The Girl Scout Story
Release Date: 1954-10-31
A girl scout is left alone with an escaped convict.
Episode 10 - No Help Wanted
Release Date: 1954-11-07
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.
Episode 11 - It's a Man's Game
Release Date: 1954-11-14
Pushy history teacher nags her math teacher-coach boyfriend to have more ambition and winds up coaching the football team in his place.
Episode 12 - Something About Love
Release Date: 1954-11-21
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.
Episode 13 - Our Sacred Honor
Release Date: 1954-11-28
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.
Episode 14 - Big Jim
Release Date: 1954-12-05
A young man attempts to reform his delinquent mother when she stops in town to see him.
Episode 15 - Evil for Evil
Release Date: 1954-12-12
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."
Episode 16 - Time and Yuletide
Release Date: 1954-12-19
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.
Episode 17 - Three Minutes Too Late
Release Date: 1954-12-26
A financially strapped New York cab driver becomes desperate for cash when his wife goes into labor.
Episode 18 - The Girl Who Knew
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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.
Episode 19 - The Flood
Release Date: 1955-01-09
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.
Episode 20 - Decision
Release Date: 1955-01-16
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.
Episode 21 - The Refinement of Ab
Release Date: 1955-01-23
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.
Episode 22 - 600 Seconds
Release Date: 1955-01-30
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."
Episode 23 - The Case of Mrs. Bannister
Release Date: 1955-02-06
A little girl's stories about her seemingly imaginary friend, "Mrs. Bannister," begin to foreshadow real events and imminent danger.
Episode 24 - Dickie
Release Date: 1955-02-13
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.
Episode 25 - Option on a Wife
Release Date: 1955-02-20
The Hollywood success of a New York writer takes up so much of his time and attention that it threatens his marriage.
Episode 26 - Tale of a Cayuse
Release Date: 1955-02-27
A western drifter retrieves a beloved horse to court a maiden settler.
Episode 27 - Case Book
Release Date: 1955-03-06
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.
Episode 28 - Dateline - Korea
Release Date: 1955-03-13
The plight of poverty-stricken war orphans forces a hard-nosed war correspondent to face the flesh-and-blood effects of her cynical editorials.
Episode 29 - Inga II
Release Date: 1955-03-20
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.
Episode 30 - Mink Coat
Release Date: 1955-03-27
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.
Episode 31 - Let Columbus Discover You
Release Date: 1955-04-03
Craig Stevens plays the head of a modeling agency who likes to discover his clients in ordinary walks of life, prompting an earnest hopeful to pose as an auto mechanic to catch his attention.
Episode 32 - He Always Comes Home
Release Date: 1955-04-10
An aging man is unfaithful to his wife and negligent to his daughter.
Episode 33 - Feeling No Pain
Release Date: 1955-04-17
In a memorable episode that showcases Ms. Young's comic timing and dancing talent, she plays a passive secretary who cuts loose after a visit to the dentist and the lingering effects of laughing gas. In the scene in which she makes a grand entrance, bellowing "Anita, DAH-ling!" it strongly resembles the first appearance of Cruella DeVil in Disney's animated "101 Dalmatians."
Episode 34 - The Little Teacher
Release Date: 1955-04-24
A man is plagued by guilt and worry when his daughter breaks a finger after he spanks her in anger.
Episode 35 - I Remember the Rani
Release Date: 1955-05-01
A British writer recalls the captivating Maharani with whom he fell in love while on assignment in India.