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Letter to Loretta
1953 - 1961 6.5 (6 votes) 8 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
NBC

Letter to Loretta

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Writer: Richard Morris

Seasons

Season 1 (1953)

No overview available.

36 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Trial Run
1953-09-20

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.

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Episode 2: The Mirror
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 mental institution which makes her confront her own mental challenges.

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Episode 3: Prisoner at One O'Clock
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 townspeople form a mob to storm the jail.

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Episode 4: Girl on a Flagpole
1953-10-11

A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.

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Episode 5: Turn of the Card
1953-10-18

A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.

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Episode 6: Earthquake
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 when an earthquake causes a power failure.

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Episode 7: The One That Got Away
1953-11-01

The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous former beau and his devotion to her comes to a head.

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Episode 8: Kid Stuff
1953-11-08

Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.

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Episode 9: The Bronte Story
1953-11-15

Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father even as it interferes with her courtship with and marriage to Arthur Nicholls.

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Episode 10: Thanksgiving in Beaver Run
1953-11-22

The kidnapping of a boy by young toughs takes an unexpected turn when one of the hoodlums befriends the boy.

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Episode 11: Love Story
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 him.

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Episode 12: Laughing Boy
1953-12-06

Glass-jawed Walter Stone attempts to rescue Kay Coughlin from a purse snatcher, but he gets hurt instead. Kay nurses him back to health and asks Walter to help her get her boyfriend jealous to goad him into proposing.

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Episode 13: The Faith of Chata
1953-12-13

A little girl in a Mexican village falls desperately ill and places her faith in God through her patron saint, regardless of whether she survives or not.

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Episode 14: The Night My Father Came Home
1953-12-20

Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned laborer.

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Episode 15: Hotel Irritant
1953-12-27

Corporate hotel snoop Sally Webster creates unpleasant situations in a hotel to test its operation while becoming impressed with the character and ambition of hotel clerk Newton Ralston.

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Episode 16: Inga
1954-01-03

Indomitable Inga Helborg convinces a bank president to conditionally reverse the foreclosure of the family farm and takes labor from the prison farm by which both actions she successfully demonstrates her resolute and trusting nature.

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Episode 17: Lady Killer
1954-01-10

A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

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Episode 18: Secret Answer
1954-01-17

A spirited wife challenges the stodgy attitudes of researcher husband by refusing to respond to one of his survey questions: "If you had it to do all over again, would you marry the same person?"

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Episode 19: Big Little Lie
1954-01-24

Beverly Washburn plays a lonely schoolgirl whose decision to start a rumor about her mother turns into classroom blackmail. Jeannette Nolan portrays her stern Aunt.

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Episode 20: The Hollywood Story
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 success but when it appears she is on verge of major success she has second thoughts about the price of fame.

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Episode 21: A Family Out of Us
1954-02-07

The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.

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Episode 22: Act of Faith
1954-02-14

Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy woman seems to be coming to an end.

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Episode 23: The New York Story
1954-02-28

A glamorous mother and wife who dallies with other men's attention takes her own husband and son for granted. Clever opening schoolroom sequence in which the moms comment in theirs heads about each other. The climax in which the woman's mind races with impending terror about her son's lateness might seem melodramatic, but it's all too real for many of us who worry about loved ones. Mabel Albertson of "Bewitched" and so many other series plays the PTA spokesperson.

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Episode 24: Nobody's Boy
1954-03-07

Fictionalized story of a Chicago juvenile delinquent who meets Jack Robbins, founder of the BBR, a boy's club that still exists today. A familiar face in one scene is the ubiquitous Argentina Brunetti, to whom Dean Martin sang "That's Amore" in "The Caddy." At the end of the story, Young introduces actor Chick Chandler and the real-life Jack Robbins.

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Episode 25: The Count of Ten
1954-03-14

Tiger Tipton retired from a successful boxing career at his wife's insistence. Now broke from her expensive medical care, he arranges one last fight with the champ, but he can't let his wife find out.

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Episode 26: The Clara Schumann Story
1954-03-21

The great composer and his concert pianist wife, whose seemingly idyllic marriage descends into mental breakdown.

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Episode 27: Son, This is Your Father
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 father/son relationship is similar to that of Gloria's son and her first husband on the series, "Modern Family." In this episode, Young's character's name is "Ginger," a decade before her co-star, Alan Hale Jr., addressed Tina Louise by the name on "Gilligan's Island."

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Episode 28: The First Man to Ask Her
1954-04-04

Offbeat comic tale of a sheltered young woman whose house is turned upside down by an eccentric lady, her cowboy son -- and his horse. Jock Mahoney makes the first of his many appearances in the series, playing nephew "Andy" to Frances Bavier, who would ironically play Aunt Bee to Andy Griffith less than a decade later.

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Episode 29: Man's Estate
1954-04-11

Profile of a teenager who wants to be treated as an adult.

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Episode 30: Forest Ranger
1954-04-18

A forest ranger's wife unknowing allows into her house an escaped convict who seeks revenge on her husband.

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Episode 31: The Enchanted Schoolteacher
1954-04-25

A near-sighted, reclusive teacher is romanced by the father of her shyest pupil and discovers what she's been missing.

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Episode 32: The Judgment
1954-05-02

A woman is plagued by guilt when her politician husband killed a pedestrian in a car accident. Instead of taking responsibility, he was elated to see someone else arrested and blamed for it.

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Episode 33: Oh, My Aching Heart
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 distract her boss. When her boss has need to drop in to Nora's home, he is taken with the young lady he finds there, who claims to be Nora's sister.

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Episode 34: Dear Midge
1954-05-16

Midge is an unmarried social worker with an overactive imagination, including having a curmudgeonly fairy to guide her. Her fairy gets her into sticky situations, and she is afraid of making a poor impression on her attractive neighbor.

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Episode 35: Something Always Happens
1954-05-23

A young widow's beau won't marry her until he establishes some financial capital, so she deceives him into believing he won a $5000 raffle.

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Episode 36: Lady in Wet Paint
1954-05-30

A new teacher in a remote Native American community struggles to get children out of work and into school, and she ends up instigating a strike against the local farmer who employs most of the natives.

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Season 2 (1954)

No overview available.

35 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Guest in the Night
1954-08-29

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.

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Episode 2: Dr. Juliet
1954-09-05

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

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Episode 3: Double Trouble
1954-09-12

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.

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Episode 4: The Lamp
1954-09-19

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

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Episode 5: You're Driving Me Crazy
1954-09-26

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.

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Episode 6: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1954-10-03

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.

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Episode 7: For Father Darling
1954-10-10

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

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Episode 8: On Your Honor, Your Honor
1954-10-17

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.

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Episode 9: The Girl Scout Story
1954-10-31

A girl scout is left alone with an escaped convict.

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Episode 10: No Help Wanted
1954-11-07

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.

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Episode 11: It's a Man's Game
1954-11-14

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

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Episode 12: Something About Love
1954-11-21

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.

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Episode 13: Our Sacred Honor
1954-11-28

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.

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Episode 14: Big Jim
1954-12-05

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

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Episode 15: Evil for Evil
1954-12-12

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."

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Episode 16: Time and Yuletide
1954-12-19

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.

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Episode 17: Three Minutes Too Late
1954-12-26

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

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Episode 18: The Girl Who Knew
1955-01-02

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.

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Episode 19: The Flood
1955-01-09

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.

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Episode 20: Decision
1955-01-16

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.

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Episode 21: The Refinement of Ab
1955-01-23

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.

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Episode 22: 600 Seconds
1955-01-30

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."

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Episode 23: The Case of Mrs. Bannister
1955-02-06

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

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Episode 24: Dickie
1955-02-13

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.

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Episode 25: Option on a Wife
1955-02-20

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

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Episode 26: Tale of a Cayuse
1955-02-27

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

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Episode 27: Case Book
1955-03-06

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.

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Episode 28: Dateline - Korea
1955-03-13

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

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Episode 29: Inga II
1955-03-20

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.

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Episode 30: Mink Coat
1955-03-27

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.

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Episode 31: Let Columbus Discover You
1955-04-03

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.

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Episode 32: He Always Comes Home
1955-04-10

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

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Episode 33: Feeling No Pain
1955-04-17

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."

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Episode 34: The Little Teacher
1955-04-24

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

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Episode 35: I Remember the Rani
1955-05-01

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

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Season 3 (1955)

No overview available.

32 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Fear Me Not
1955-08-28

At a desolate weather station, a woman (Phyllis Thaxter) encounters an escaped mental patient.

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Episode 2: Weekend in Winnetka
1955-09-04

A mother suspects her daughter has become a juvenile delinquent.

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Episode 3: Reunion
1955-09-11

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Episode 4: My Uncle O'Moore
1955-09-18

A schoolmarm in the 1920's is imported into an all-Irish community for the sole purpose of marriage to one of the O'Moore boys. When her intended decides she is too frail for ranch life and sets about looking for another prospect, the teacher must prove he is wrong.

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Episode 5: Gino
1955-09-25

A family is engaged in a battle they may not win: their home is in the way of a proposed freeway.

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Episode 6: Moment of Decision
1955-10-02

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Episode 7: The Waiting Game
1955-10-09

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Episode 8: The Last Spring
1955-10-16

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Episode 9: Katy
1955-10-23

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Episode 10: Slander
1955-10-30

A wife in a small town is having her portrait painted by a promising young artist. Rumor has it that her interest in him is more than that of a patron.

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Episode 11: Tropical Secretary
1955-11-06

A girl seeks out a former sweetheart on a tropical island and unexpectedly also becomes involved with a writer.

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Episode 12: The Bracelet
1955-11-13

A woman whose husband was killed in an airplane crash refuses to believe that he was running off with another woman when the crash occurred.

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Episode 13: Across the Plaza
1955-11-27

A newspaperwoman and her fiance find themselves involved in a Central American revolution. To further complicate things, her former sweetheart shows up in town.

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Episode 14: A Pattern of Deceit
1955-12-04

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Episode 15: Man in the Ring
1955-12-11

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Episode 16: A Shadow Between
1955-12-18

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Episode 17: Christmas Stopover
1955-12-25

This Christmas day tale of a small town waitress, lonely serviceman and the child of separated parents marks Loretta Young's first appearance on the series after many months of guest star presenters who filled in while she recovered from illness.

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Episode 18: A Ticket for May
1956-01-01

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Episode 19: Inga III
1956-01-08

One of Inga's prison workers is distraught over his wife's ill health, and Inga takes steps so that he can care for his wife. Seeing the strength of their marriage, Inga contemplates marriage for herself.

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Episode 20: The Challenge
1956-01-15

A young couple faces a serious test when the husband is denied an important promotion.

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Episode 21: Song of Rome
1956-01-22

In Rome, an 18-year-old girl finally meets the man who has been her "second father" through a foster-parents program. Thrilled with her voice and with the girl herself, the older man plans an extensive singing career for her in New York.

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Episode 22: The Secret
1956-01-29

John Newland becomes another series fixture as the practical, detached father of a disabled mute boy, both whom are brought out of their shells by a children's book author.

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Episode 23: The Pearl
1956-02-12

A middle-aged Japanese fisherman finds a pearl in an oyster and conceals it from his wife.

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Episode 24: Tightwad Millionaire
1956-02-19

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Episode 25: Gesundheit
1956-02-26

A famous New York stage actress finds herself allergic to her leading man.

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Episode 26: Father Hoppe
1956-03-04

The drab life of a spinster is brightened by her interest in amateur painting and the encouragement of a kindly priest.

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Episode 27: His Inheritance
1956-03-18

An otherwise responsible husband and father has a periodic urge to leave his family and wander.

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Episode 28: The Wise One
1956-03-25

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Episode 29: But for God's Grace
1956-04-01

A mother, suffering sustained grief of losing one of her two sons, has distanced herself from her other son and husband. She becomes attached to a melancholy neighborhood boy.

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Episode 30: Hapless Holiday
1956-04-08

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Episode 31: Code 258
1956-04-15

A well-meaning friend tries to prevent a brilliant engineer from destroying his life.

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Episode 32: The Cardinal's Secret
1956-04-22

A young priest uses his skill as a baseball player to clear his parish of debts.

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Season 4 (1956)

No overview available.

34 episodes

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Episode 1: Double Partners
1956-08-26

A deaf woman is entangled in strange and deadly events.

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Episode 2: The Question
1956-09-02

A real-life research project inspired this tale about a wife and mother having trouble juggling work and family when she becomes embroiled in a psychological thesis based on asking people a very telling question.

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Episode 3: Saigon
1956-09-09

Refugee worker Kim Collett had believed her husband died a hero in a Communist prison camp - until she hears conflicting stories.

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Episode 4: Little League
1956-09-16

Tommy Kirk returns, this time as a youngster with his heart set on qualifying for a little league baseball team.

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Episode 5: Incident in Kawi
1956-09-23

The local schoolmarm makes a habitual drunk face up to the responsibilities of caring for his new ward -- his recently orphaned nephew.

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Episode 6: Now a Brief Word
1956-09-29

A copywriter finds herself writing speeches for two opposing candidates.

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Episode 7: The Years Between
1956-10-07

In a taut drama that sadly still resonates today, an arrogant personnel director finds his ageist hiring policies coming back to bite him.

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Episode 8: New Slant
1956-10-14

A playwright tries to get background material for a new play by taking a job in a boys' reform school. He attempts to apply his own brand of psychology on the youngsters.

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Episode 9: Goodbye, Goodbye
1956-10-21

During a beach picnic, a widowed mother recalls when her romance with a novelist hit an unexpected snag.

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Episode 10: The Great Divide
1956-10-28

A woman convinced she will never marry falls for an old school friend.

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Episode 11: Take Care of My Child
1956-11-04

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Episode 12: The End of the Week
1956-11-11

Just as a disillusioned schoolteacher is about to quit, she encounters classroom challenges including stolen money and a neglected student.

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Episode 13: Inga IV
1956-11-18

Inga Helborg returns, this time to help get an accounting job for a ex-convict who was jailed for embezzlement.

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Episode 14: Rhubarb in Apartment B-7
1956-12-02

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Episode 15: Somebody Else's Dream
1956-12-09

A decorated veteran contends with careers that threaten his integrity, as well as an ambitious, social climbing wife.

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Episode 16: Three and Two, Please
1956-12-16

Sister Ann touches the lives of numerous patients she attends to at a hospital.

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Episode 17: Imperfect Balance
1956-12-30

A little Swiss boy suspects the respected Burgermeister of loading his scales and cheating village children.

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Episode 18: Queen Nefertiti
1957-01-06

While sculpting a bust of the Egyptian monarch, the artist declares his love for her, putting both of them at risk with the Pharoah.

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Episode 19: My Favorite Monster
1957-01-13

A sensitive little girl becomes hysterical when she sees a horror movie starring her mother's boyfriend.

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Episode 20: Miss Ashley's Demon
1957-01-27

A deluded Southern belle has trouble facing the truth about why she really refused her engagement.

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Episode 21: The Bad Apple
1957-02-03

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Episode 22: Tension
1957-02-17

A best selling author, who has taken to callous treatment of those he deems unimportant, finds his wife and himself in a death trap when his car hits a high tension wire.

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Episode 23: Wedding Day
1957-02-24

An eerie period piece about a bride suffering apparent breakdown and confusion in the wake of strange events she can't seem to piece together.

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Episode 24: Louise
1957-03-10

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Episode 25: Emergency
1957-03-24

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Episode 26: The Room Next Door
1957-03-31

A man and woman who live in neighboring city apartments are reluctant to allow romance into their lives.

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Episode 27: So Bright a Light
1957-04-07

A jaded news photographer named Gretchen or "Gretch" gains new insight into the human condition when she covers the story of refugees from Budapest.

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Episode 28: Rummage Sale
1957-04-14

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Episode 29: Legacy
1957-04-21

The difficult conditions of an inheritance put a couple in conflict

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Episode 30: The Man on Top
1957-04-28

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Episode 31: The Countess
1957-05-05

Ken Osmond plays a young boy involved in a deadly resistance movement for a small country under military siege.

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Episode 32: A Mind of Their Own
1957-05-12

A top fashion designer is charmed by the owner of a budget dress line -- until she discovers his company has copied her latest designs.

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Episode 33: Royal Partners: Part 1
1957-05-19

One of the stars of a renowned dance duo loses her sight in a freak accident and sinks into self-pity.

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Episode 34: Royal Partners: Part 2
1957-05-26

A sight impaired dancer secretly trains herself in hopes of rejoining her husband/dance partner on stage again.

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Season 5 (1957)

No overview available.

29 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Dollar's Worth
1957-10-20

The spoiled daughter of a brash manicurist discovers that her father hadn't died when he returns from a prison sentence for forgery.

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Episode 2: The Defense
1957-10-27

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Episode 3: Innocent Conspiracy
1957-11-03

A loyal Japanese wife finds a way to help her discouraged husband when an orphan wanders into their lives.

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Episode 4: Understanding Heart
1957-11-10

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Episode 5: The Little Witness
1957-11-24

A mother struggles to protect her son (Johnny Crawford), who witnessed a murder.

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Episode 6: Blizzard
1957-12-01

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Episode 7: Friends at a Distance
1957-12-08

A widowed small-town gift-shop owner and children's book illustrator meets a charmingly foreign handyman and it seems her dreams of a Prince Charming are coming true.

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Episode 8: Man in a Hurry
1957-12-15

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Episode 9: Power Play
1957-12-29

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Episode 10: The Demon and Mrs. Devon
1958-01-05

A Chinese vase and a steroids surprise party drastically alter a young businessman's life.

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Episode 11: The Accused
1958-01-12

A serial strangler is at large in a community where two determined women attempt to raise awareness of the correlation that salacious pictures have on sex crimes.

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Episode 12: The Hidden One
1958-01-19

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Episode 13: Faraway Island
1958-01-26

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Episode 14: My Two Hands
1958-02-02

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Episode 15: Dear Milkman
1958-02-09

A wife who has written a loving book about her milkman husband encounters marital conflict when a Hollywood producer wants to make a movie based on the wife's book except the producer's vision is to change reality to suit cinema practices.

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Episode 16: The Bargain
1958-02-16

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Episode 17: A Greater Strength
1958-02-23

A newly returned widow discovers to her dismay that her only daughter has been adopted while she was a POW. While trying to retrieve her daughter, she encounters frustrating complications that endanger her child and challenge her faith.

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Episode 18: Conflict
1958-03-02

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Episode 19: The Oriental Mind
1958-03-09

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Episode 20: Windfall
1958-03-16

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Episode 21: Time of Decision
1958-03-23

Ruth's 16 yo sister Ellen, appears to have become mentally ill. Ruth and her boyfriend struggle to come up with a workable strategy to help her.

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Episode 22: Air Stewardess
1958-03-30

During a night flight aboard a transcontinental airplane, a dangerous drug disappears from its storage place.

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Episode 23: To Open a Door
1958-04-06

A chic boutique owner is very tempted to compromise her integrity when she falls for a handsome, cultured married man. The feeling is mutual and the chemistry electric and she struggles to "close that door."

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Episode 24: Thanks to You
1958-04-13

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Episode 25: Dangerous Verdict
1958-04-20

A man who is to be tried for murder tries to escape across the Mexican border since he was not granted a change of venue. His concern was that the judge, being a woman, would allow emotion to influence the verdict.

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Episode 26: Second Rate Citizen
1958-04-27

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Episode 27: South American Uncle
1958-05-04

Loretta plays it for laughs as a clever con artist who dupes three parish priests out of money. They compare notes and set up a trap to help her back on the right path.

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Episode 28: A Strange Adventure
1958-05-11

Globe-trotting lady encounters what looks like her own portrait in an Italian gift shop, leading to a romantic fling and a shocking surprise.

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Episode 29: Day of Rest
1958-05-18

A woman's day of rest assigned to her by the husband due to a her developing cold becomes problematic due to the needs of her six children.

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Season 6 (1958)

No overview available.

30 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Near Unknown
1958-10-05

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.

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Episode 2: For Better or For Worse
1958-10-12

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Episode 3: In the Good Old Summertime
1958-10-19

Jeb 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
1958-10-26

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).

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Episode 5: Out of Control
1958-11-02

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Episode 6: The 20-Cent Tip
1958-11-09

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.

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Episode 7: I Want to Get Married
1958-11-16

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Episode 8: The Woman Between
1958-11-23

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.

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Episode 9: The Last Witness
1958-11-30

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Episode 10: The Happy Widow
1958-12-07

On 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
1958-12-14

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Episode 12: Most Honorable Day
1958-12-21

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Episode 13: Operation Snowball
1958-12-28

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Episode 14: The Break-Off
1959-01-04

Drama of test pilot's reaction to space travel.

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Episode 15: Sister Ann
1959-01-11

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.

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Episode 16: This is the Moment
1959-01-18

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Episode 17: Incident in India
1959-01-25

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.

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Episode 18: Seed From the East
1959-02-01

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Episode 19: The Black Lace Valentine
1959-02-08

On 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
1959-02-15

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Episode 21: The Portrait
1959-02-22

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.

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Episode 22: 810 Franklin Street
1959-03-01

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Episode 23: The Prettiest Girl in Town
1959-03-08

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.

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Episode 24: The Tenderizer
1959-03-21

A shy bank employee meets a hardened female parolee at a cafeteria.

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Episode 25: Each Man's Island
1959-03-29

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Episode 26: Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 1
1959-04-05

A 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
1959-04-12

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.

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Episode 28: Strictly Personal
1959-04-19

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Episode 29: The Accused
1959-04-26

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.

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Episode 30: Trouble in Fenton Valley
1959-05-10

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Season 7 (1959)

No overview available.

30 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Road
1959-09-20

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).

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Episode 2: One Beautiful Moment
1959-09-27

A teacher's attitude is transformed during a trip to Hawaii, but she faces a crisis upon her return.

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Episode 3: The Strangers That Came to Town
1959-10-04

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Episode 4: Mask of Evidence
1959-10-11

A woman watching Mardi Gras from her balcony becomes concerned when a stranger comes over to her apartment - and won't leave.

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Episode 5: Circles of Panic
1959-10-25

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Episode 6: The Red Dress
1959-11-01

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Episode 7: A New Step
1959-11-08

A widowed dance instructor decides to volunteer at a rehabilitation center.

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Episode 8: Ten Men and a Girl
1959-11-15

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Episode 9: The Lady in the Fish Bowl
1959-11-22

A woman lives in a store window for a week to win a contest - but seems to be watched by a mysterious man.

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Episode 10: Vengeance is Thine
1959-11-29

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Episode 11: The Penthouse
1959-12-06

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Episode 12: Alien Love
1959-12-13

The principal at Jefferson High has an immediate dislike for the new Hungarian-born physics teacher because he seems so "foreign." She unexpectedly finds herself defending him against false accusations from a spoiled student.

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Episode 13: Shower of Ashes
1959-12-27

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Episode 14: The Grenade
1960-01-03

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Episode 15: Little Monster, Tall Tales
1960-01-10

Jeff, a recently adopted child, continually makes up stories - worrying his new family.

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Episode 16: Off Duty Affair
1960-01-17

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Episode 17: Mrs. Minton
1960-01-24

Felice Minton agrees to her husband's request to have her portrait painted, only after the visiting husband of her closest friend makes romantic overtures.

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Episode 18: The Hired Hand
1960-02-07

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Episode 19: Slight Delay
1960-02-14

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Episode 20: Second Spring
1960-02-21

In the midst of planning her teen-age daughter's wedding, Betty Rogers finds out she is having another baby.

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Episode 21: Crisis in 114
1960-03-06

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Episode 22: The Trouble with Laury's Men
1960-03-13

Laury Barlow blames her mother for her failed romances. Julie Sommars first television role as Laury.

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Episode 23: The Trial
1960-03-20

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Episode 24: Plain, Unmarked Envelope
1960-04-03

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Episode 25: The Best Season
1960-04-17

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Episode 26: The Unwanted
1960-05-01

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Episode 27: Faith, Hope and Mr. Flaherty
1960-05-08

Another story involving Sister Ann, this time involving funds multiplying to help those Sister Ann meets.

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Episode 28: The Eternal Vow: Part 1
1960-05-15

On a sight-seeing tour, a bored American widow and a French businessman are left behind on a Greek island.

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Episode 29: The Eternal Vow: Part 2
1960-05-22

On a Greek island, a French businessman tries to help an unhappy American widow face the Now.

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Episode 30: The Misfit
1960-06-05

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Season 8 (1960)

No overview available.

31 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Long Night
1960-09-18

The lives of the new family next door have a great impact on a housewife's own marriage.

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Episode 2: At the Edge of the Desert
1960-09-25

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Episode 3: Fair Exchange
1960-10-02

A wife reflects back on the time she went to the family's beach house alone after an argument with her husband. Loretta Young stars as an attractive married woman who receives a “confession” of love from a bachelor, but not until he dies does she discover the reason behind it.

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Episode 4: Linda
1960-10-09

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Episode 5: Switchblade
1960-10-16

A crazed maniac with a switchblade intimidates his friends and citizens of a small Midwestern town.

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Episode 6: Love Between the Acts
1960-10-23

At a popular play, a widow believes her meddling aunt arranged to have a certain man sit next to her. James Philbrook (New Loretta Young Show co-star) plays the mystery man.

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Episode 7: The Glass Cage
1960-10-30

Spurned and rejected by her family, a Southern belle finds romance then disappointment in New York city.

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Episode 8: The Seducer
1960-11-06

A former actress does not approve of the content of the motion pictures her husband produces.

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Episode 9: No Margin for Error
1960-11-13

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Episode 10: Conditional Surrender
1960-11-20

A man who has been working closely with a young woman, asks his wife for a divorce. However, he's not prepared for her reaction.

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Episode 11: The Night the Doorbell Rang
1960-11-27

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Episode 12: These Few Years
1960-12-11

A wife's decides to leave a New Year's Eve party early to spend the evening with her family.

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Episode 13: My Own Master
1960-12-18

A boy with an imaginary friend becomes more attaches to him with his real fami

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Episode 14: Enter at Your Own Risk
1961-01-08

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Episode 15: This Subtle Danger
1961-01-15

A husband's recovery from back surgery results in an increasing dependence on pain killers.

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Episode 16: The Lie
1961-01-22

Loretta Young plays a Japanese governess who finds it necessary to make a personal sacrifice in order to keep the family she works for together.

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Episode 17: Quiet Desperation
1961-02-05

The Perkins family contemplates breakup and separation as Victor's boss pressures him to move to Japan for his job.

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Episode 18: The Golden Cord
1961-02-12

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Episode 19: Double Edge
1961-02-19

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Episode 20: The Choice
1961-02-26

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Episode 21: When Queens Ride By
1961-03-12

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Episode 22: The Preliminaries
1961-03-19

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Episode 23: Woodlot
1961-03-26

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Episode 24: Doesn't Everybody?
1961-04-02

A wealthy woman decides to assist fate - and pursues a bank vice president.

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Episode 25: The Man Who Couldn't Smile
1961-04-09

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Episode 26: Emergency in 114
1961-04-23

After an accident involving their son, a wife must locate her philandering husband.

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Episode 27: 13 Donner Street
1961-04-30

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Episode 28: Those at the Top
1961-05-07

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Episode 29: The Wedding
1961-05-21

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Episode 30: The Forbidden Guests
1961-05-28

After the death of her husband, a sculptress without children fixates on her statues.

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Episode 31: Not in Our Stars
1961-06-04

A wife begins to believe her personal horoscope impacts what happens to her family.

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