Letter to Loretta
1953
📺 8 Seasons
🎬 257 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
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.
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Seasons
Season 1
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.
Season 2
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.
Season 3
At a desolate weather station, a woman (Phyllis Thaxter) encounters an escaped mental patient.
Season 4
A deaf woman is entangled in strange and deadly events.
Season 5
The spoiled daughter of a brash manicurist discovers that her father hadn't died when he returns from a prison sentence for forgery.
Season 6
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.
Season 7
An unhappy wife, with a brain tumor, leaves for France without her husband. See ends up on a road trip to Lourdes (filmed on location).
Season 8
The lives of the new family next door have a great impact on a housewife's own marriage.
Crew
Writer
Richard Morris
Network
NBC
Production
Toreto Enterprises, Lewislor Productions
Keywords
anthology