About this season
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.
Episodes (30)
1. The Near Unknown
Aired 5 October 1958
A 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.
2. For Better or For Worse
Aired 12 October 1958
3. In the Good Old Summertime
Aired 19 October 1958
Jeb and Amy Stewart plan the perfect second honeymoon - and send their children to summer camp.
4. A Visit to Sao Paolo
Aired 26 October 1958
An American travel agent visits a depressed village in Italy. James Philbrook later was the co-star of the New Loretta Young Show (1962-63).
5. Out of Control
Aired 2 November 1958
6. The 20-Cent Tip
Aired 9 November 1958
To make ends meet, a high school teacher must take a second job as a waitress. Conflicts occur when students begin coming to the restaurant.
7. I Want to Get Married
Aired 16 November 1958
8. The Woman Between
Aired 23 November 1958
A 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.
9. The Last Witness
Aired 30 November 1958
10. The Happy Widow
Aired 7 December 1958
On a ship bound for Paris, a businessman (James Philbrook) spends his time with a Mrs. Mathews - he assumes is married.
11. Strange Money
Aired 14 December 1958
12. Most Honorable Day
Aired 21 December 1958
13. Operation Snowball
Aired 28 December 1958
14. The Break-Off
Aired 4 January 1959
Drama of test pilot's reaction to space travel.
15. Sister Ann
Aired 11 January 1959
A 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.
16. This is the Moment
Aired 18 January 1959
17. Incident in India
Aired 25 January 1959
A 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.
18. Seed From the East
Aired 1 February 1959
19. The Black Lace Valentine
Aired 8 February 1959
On Valentine's Day, a housewife receives a large, expensive valentine - but isn't sure who sent it.
20. Marriage Crisis
Aired 15 February 1959
21. The Portrait
Aired 22 February 1959
An 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.
22. 810 Franklin Street
Aired 1 March 1959
23. The Prettiest Girl in Town
Aired 8 March 1959
A 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.
24. The Tenderizer
Aired 21 March 1959
A shy bank employee meets a hardened female parolee at a cafeteria.
25. Each Man's Island
Aired 29 March 1959
26. Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 1
Aired 5 April 1959
A self-absorbed business man constructs a plan that includes the employment of a psychiatrist to stop his bored wife's descent into alcoholism.
27. Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2
Aired 12 April 1959
A 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.
28. Strictly Personal
Aired 19 April 1959
29. The Accused
Aired 26 April 1959
In 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.
30. Trouble in Fenton Valley
Aired 10 May 1959