Letter to Loretta (1953)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Near Unknown
Release Date: 1958-10-05A gangster's moll encounters her doppelganger in a sweetly innocent young woman and exploits their resemblance to avoid certain death. Loretta plays both parts in this suspenseful drama.
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Episode 2 - For Better or For Worse
Release Date: 1958-10-12 -
Episode 3 - In the Good Old Summertime
Release Date: 1958-10-19Jeb and Amy Stewart plan the perfect second honeymoon - and send their children to summer camp.
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Episode 4 - A Visit to Sao Paolo
Release Date: 1958-10-26An American travel agent visits a depressed village in Italy. James Philbrook later was the co-star of the New Loretta Young Show (1962-63).
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Episode 5 - Out of Control
Release Date: 1958-11-02 -
Episode 6 - The 20-Cent Tip
Release Date: 1958-11-09To make ends meet, a high school teacher must take a second job as a waitress. Conflicts occur when students begin coming to the restaurant.
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Episode 7 - I Want to Get Married
Release Date: 1958-11-16 -
Episode 8 - The Woman Between
Release Date: 1958-11-23A man possessed is Alex Stark, who never has anything on his mind but business, even staying away from his fabulous New York penthouse for long periods to make deals. His wife Eleanor loses interest in him and falls for the family lawyer, She Alex's firm by selling their stock to the paramour.
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Episode 9 - The Last Witness
Release Date: 1958-11-30 -
Episode 10 - The Happy Widow
Release Date: 1958-12-07On a ship bound for Paris, a businessman (James Philbrook) spends his time with a Mrs. Mathews - he assumes is married.
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Episode 11 - Strange Money
Release Date: 1958-12-14 -
Episode 12 - Most Honorable Day
Release Date: 1958-12-21 -
Episode 13 - Operation Snowball
Release Date: 1958-12-28 -
Episode 14 - The Break-Off
Release Date: 1959-01-04Drama of test pilot's reaction to space travel.
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Episode 15 - Sister Ann
Release Date: 1959-01-11A badly injured man is brought to a hospital, needing long term care with his hands and eyes covered during his period of treatment. he's gruff, irritable and ill mannered, not realizing he's been taken to a Catholic hospital or that his nurse that he falls in love with is actually a nun. When the bandages are removed and finally knows, he must suppress his feelings.
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Episode 16 - This is the Moment
Release Date: 1959-01-18 -
Episode 17 - Incident in India
Release Date: 1959-01-25A Hindu slaver tries to sell two Muslim captive women from Pakistan in a small town. The single local constable puts a stop to it but holds the women in his gaol. The younger woman bargains for her freedom by helping the policeman to trap a bandit gang who have been raiding nearby homes and farms.
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Episode 18 - Seed From the East
Release Date: 1959-02-01 -
Episode 19 - The Black Lace Valentine
Release Date: 1959-02-08On Valentine's Day, a housewife receives a large, expensive valentine - but isn't sure who sent it.
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Episode 20 - Marriage Crisis
Release Date: 1959-02-15 -
Episode 21 - The Portrait
Release Date: 1959-02-22An old line aristocrat has a portrait painter in to do his daughter's likeness, but he finds her painfully shy and given to revealing only half her face, the side he's asked to paint. Soon it comes out she's been scarred in a fire, one that her mother died in and her stern father blames her for.
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Episode 22 - 810 Franklin Street
Release Date: 1959-03-01 -
Episode 23 - The Prettiest Girl in Town
Release Date: 1959-03-08A famous fashion model returns to her home town for her 20-year class reunion. After spending the evening with her old flame, she longs to return to a more meaningful small town life.
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Episode 24 - The Tenderizer
Release Date: 1959-03-21A shy bank employee meets a hardened female parolee at a cafeteria.
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Episode 25 - Each Man's Island
Release Date: 1959-03-29 -
Episode 26 - Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 1
Release Date: 1959-04-05A self-absorbed business man constructs a plan that includes the employment of a psychiatrist to stop his bored wife's descent into alcoholism.
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Episode 27 - Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2
Release Date: 1959-04-12A healing process for a couple's marriage and a cure for the wife's alcoholism begin after a psychiatrist helps them face their specific roles in causing dysfunction.
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Episode 28 - Strictly Personal
Release Date: 1959-04-19 -
Episode 29 - The Accused
Release Date: 1959-04-26In a middle-class residential district, police are trying to solve a series of evening attacks on women in the neighborhood. Two women from the PTA begin to look at some of the precedents for the possibilities that sex offenders are thriving in the neighborhood. They propose that local stores cease to sell smutty magazines and run into resistance. But they go to great lengths to make protests and their convictions begin to gain some respect.
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Episode 30 - Trouble in Fenton Valley
Release Date: 1959-05-10