Letter to Loretta

Season 2

35 episodes · Aug 29, 1954

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S2E1

Guest in the Night

Aug 29, 1954

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.

S2E2

Dr. Juliet

Sep 5, 1954

A doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances and suspects surrounding the near-death of a young heiress.

S2E3

Double Trouble

Sep 12, 1954

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.

S2E4

The Lamp

Sep 19, 1954

What seems to be Aladdin's Lamp also seems to be fulfilling the fondest wishes of a young couple.

S2E5

You're Driving Me Crazy

Sep 26, 1954

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.

S2E6

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Oct 3, 1954

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.

S2E7

For Father Darling

Oct 10, 1954

Clever "amateur sleuth" tale with a sharp Catholic priest who helps a family escape from a smooth con man. Very "Columbo"-like.

S2E8

On Your Honor, Your Honor

Oct 17, 1954

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.

S2E9

The Girl Scout Story

Oct 31, 1954

A girl scout is left alone with an escaped convict.

S2E10

No Help Wanted

Nov 7, 1954

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.

S2E11

It's a Man's Game

Nov 14, 1954

Pushy history teacher nags her math teacher-coach boyfriend to have more ambition and winds up coaching the football team in his place.

S2E12

Something About Love

Nov 21, 1954

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.

S2E13

Our Sacred Honor

Nov 28, 1954

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.

S2E14

Big Jim

Dec 5, 1954

A young man attempts to reform his delinquent mother when she stops in town to see him.

S2E15

Evil for Evil

Dec 12, 1954

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."

S2E16

Time and Yuletide

Dec 19, 1954

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.

S2E17

Three Minutes Too Late

Dec 26, 1954

A financially strapped New York cab driver becomes desperate for cash when his wife goes into labor.

S2E18

The Girl Who Knew

Jan 2, 1955

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.

S2E19

The Flood

Jan 9, 1955

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.

S2E20

Decision

Jan 16, 1955

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.

S2E21

The Refinement of Ab

Jan 23, 1955

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.

S2E22

600 Seconds

Jan 30, 1955

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."

S2E23

The Case of Mrs. Bannister

Feb 6, 1955

A little girl's stories about her seemingly imaginary friend, "Mrs. Bannister," begin to foreshadow real events and imminent danger.

S2E24

Dickie

Feb 13, 1955

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.

S2E25

Option on a Wife

Feb 20, 1955

The Hollywood success of a New York writer takes up so much of his time and attention that it threatens his marriage.

S2E26

Tale of a Cayuse

Feb 27, 1955

A western drifter retrieves a beloved horse to court a maiden settler.

S2E27

Case Book

Mar 6, 1955

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.

S2E28

Dateline - Korea

Mar 13, 1955

The plight of poverty-stricken war orphans forces a hard-nosed war correspondent to face the flesh-and-blood effects of her cynical editorials.

S2E29

Inga II

Mar 20, 1955

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.

S2E30

Mink Coat

Mar 27, 1955

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.

S2E31

Let Columbus Discover You

Apr 3, 1955

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.

S2E32

He Always Comes Home

Apr 10, 1955

An aging man is unfaithful to his wife and negligent to his daughter.

S2E33

Feeling No Pain

Apr 17, 1955

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."

S2E34

The Little Teacher

Apr 24, 1955

A man is plagued by guilt and worry when his daughter breaks a finger after he spanks her in anger.

S2E35

I Remember the Rani

May 1, 1955

A British writer recalls the captivating Maharani with whom he fell in love while on assignment in India.