
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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Air Date: 1953-09-20
The first episode of the series, explaining the letter anthology format. A shop girl is courted by a man whose family...
Air Date: 1953-09-27
A spoiled and selfish woman goes without her husband to a vacation home and is tormented by a woman escaped from a me...
Air Date: 1953-10-04
A young man is accused of murder in a small Western town, but the sheriff's wife believes him innocent, while the tow...
Air Date: 1953-10-11
A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.
Air Date: 1953-10-18
A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.
Air Date: 1953-10-25
A man using an iron lung who has lost hope regains his will through the efforts of his wife to keep him breathing whe...
Air Date: 1953-11-01
The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous former beau and his devotion to her comes ...
Air Date: 1953-11-08
Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.
Air Date: 1953-11-15
Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father even as it interferes with her courtshi...
Air Date: 1953-11-22
The kidnapping of a boy by young toughs takes an unexpected turn when one of the hoodlums befriends the boy.
Air Date: 1953-11-29
An aspiring actress falls in love with a clown and marries him, but then she's ashamed to be publicly associated with...
Air Date: 1953-12-06
Glass-jawed Walter Stone attempts to rescue Kay Coughlin from a purse snatcher, but he gets hurt instead. Kay nurses ...
Air Date: 1953-12-13
A little girl in a Mexican village falls desperately ill and places her faith in God through her patron saint, regard...
Air Date: 1953-12-20
Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned la...
Air Date: 1953-12-27
Corporate hotel snoop Sally Webster creates unpleasant situations in a hotel to test its operation while becoming imp...
Air Date: 1954-01-03
Indomitable Inga Helborg convinces a bank president to conditionally reverse the foreclosure of the family farm and t...
Air Date: 1954-01-10
A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.
Air Date: 1954-01-17
A spirited wife challenges the stodgy attitudes of researcher husband by refusing to respond to one of his survey que...
Air Date: 1954-01-24
Beverly Washburn plays a lonely schoolgirl whose decision to start a rumor about her mother turns into classroom blac...
Air Date: 1954-01-31
Madge Mason based on her prowess as a local actress in a small Iowa town goes to Hollywood and meets with only modest...
Air Date: 1954-02-07
The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.
Air Date: 1954-02-14
Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy woman seems to be coming to an end.
Air Date: 1954-02-28
A glamorous mother and wife who dallies with other men's attention takes her own husband and son for granted. Clever ...
Air Date: 1954-03-07
Fictionalized story of a Chicago juvenile delinquent who meets Jack Robbins, founder of the BBR, a boy's club that st...
Air Date: 1954-03-14
Tiger Tipton retired from a successful boxing career at his wife's insistence. Now broke from her expensive medical c...
Air Date: 1954-03-21
The great composer and his concert pianist wife, whose seemingly idyllic marriage descends into mental breakdown.
Air Date: 1954-03-28
Flashbacks tell the story of a charming but irresponsible ex-husband who re-enters the lives of his wife and son. The...
Air Date: 1954-04-04
Offbeat comic tale of a sheltered young woman whose house is turned upside down by an eccentric lady, her cowboy son ...
Air Date: 1954-04-11
Profile of a teenager who wants to be treated as an adult.
Air Date: 1954-04-18
A forest ranger's wife unknowing allows into her house an escaped convict who seeks revenge on her husband.
Air Date: 1954-04-25
A near-sighted, reclusive teacher is romanced by the father of her shyest pupil and discovers what she's been missing.
Air Date: 1954-05-02
A woman is plagued by guilt when her politician husband killed a pedestrian in a car accident. Instead of taking resp...
Air Date: 1954-05-09
Nora is hired as a secretary under the condition that she disguise herself to be old and unattractive, so as not to d...
Air Date: 1954-05-16
Midge is an unmarried social worker with an overactive imagination, including having a curmudgeonly fairy to guide he...
Air Date: 1954-05-23
A young widow's beau won't marry her until he establishes some financial capital, so she deceives him into believing ...
Air Date: 1954-05-30
A new teacher in a remote Native American community struggles to get children out of work and into school, and she en...