Letter to Loretta

1. Trial Run

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 looks down upon her, so she feigns crassness to teach them a lesson. One of a few episodes with a laugh track.

2. The Mirror

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 mental institution which makes her confront her own mental challenges.

3. Prisoner at One O'Clock

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 townspeople form a mob to storm the jail.

4. Girl on a Flagpole

Air Date: 1953-10-11

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

5. Turn of the Card

Air Date: 1953-10-18

A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.

6. Earthquake

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 when an earthquake causes a power failure.

7. The One That Got Away

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 to a head.

8. Kid Stuff

Air Date: 1953-11-08

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

9. The Bronte Story

Air Date: 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.

10. Thanksgiving in Beaver Run

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.

11. Love Story

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 him.

12. Laughing Boy

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 him back to health and asks Walter to help her get her boyfriend jealous to goad him into proposing.

13. The Faith of Chata

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, regardless of whether she survives or not.

14. The Night My Father Came Home

Air Date: 1953-12-20

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

15. Hotel Irritant

Air Date: 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.

16. Inga

Air Date: 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.

17. Lady Killer

Air Date: 1954-01-10

A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

18. Secret Answer

Air Date: 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?"

19. Big Little Lie

Air Date: 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.

20. The Hollywood Story

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 success but when it appears she is on verge of major success she has second thoughts about the price of fame.

21. A Family Out of Us

Air Date: 1954-02-07

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

22. Act of Faith

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.

23. The New York Story

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 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.

24. Nobody's Boy

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 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.

25. The Count of Ten

Air Date: 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.

26. The Clara Schumann Story

Air Date: 1954-03-21

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

27. Son, This is Your Father

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 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."

28. The First Man to Ask Her

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 -- 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.

29. Man's Estate

Air Date: 1954-04-11

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

30. Forest Ranger

Air Date: 1954-04-18

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

31. The Enchanted Schoolteacher

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.

32. The Judgment

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 responsibility, he was elated to see someone else arrested and blamed for it.

33. Oh, My Aching Heart

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 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.

34. Dear Midge

Air Date: 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.

35. Something Always Happens

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 he won a $5000 raffle.

36. Lady in Wet Paint

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 ends up instigating a strike against the local farmer who employs most of the natives.

1. Guest in the Night

Air Date: 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.

2. Dr. Juliet

Air Date: 1954-09-05

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

3. Double Trouble

Air Date: 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.

4. The Lamp

Air Date: 1954-09-19

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

5. You're Driving Me Crazy

Air Date: 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.

6. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Air Date: 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.

7. For Father Darling

Air Date: 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.

8. On Your Honor, Your Honor

Air Date: 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.

9. The Girl Scout Story

Air Date: 1954-10-31

A girl scout is left alone with an escaped convict.

10. No Help Wanted

Air Date: 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.

11. It's a Man's Game

Air Date: 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.

12. Something About Love

Air Date: 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.

13. Our Sacred Honor

Air Date: 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.

14. Big Jim

Air Date: 1954-12-05

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

15. Evil for Evil

Air Date: 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."

16. Time and Yuletide

Air Date: 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.

17. Three Minutes Too Late

Air Date: 1954-12-26

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

18. The Girl Who Knew

Air Date: 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.

19. The Flood

Air Date: 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.

20. Decision

Air Date: 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.

21. The Refinement of Ab

Air Date: 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.

22. 600 Seconds

Air Date: 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."

23. The Case of Mrs. Bannister

Air Date: 1955-02-06

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

24. Dickie

Air Date: 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.

25. Option on a Wife

Air Date: 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.

26. Tale of a Cayuse

Air Date: 1955-02-27

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

27. Case Book

Air Date: 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.

28. Dateline - Korea

Air Date: 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.

29. Inga II

Air Date: 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.

30. Mink Coat

Air Date: 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.

31. Let Columbus Discover You

Air Date: 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.

32. He Always Comes Home

Air Date: 1955-04-10

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

33. Feeling No Pain

Air Date: 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."

34. The Little Teacher

Air Date: 1955-04-24

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

35. I Remember the Rani

Air Date: 1955-05-01

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

1. Fear Me Not

Air Date: 1955-08-28

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

2. Weekend in Winnetka

Air Date: 1955-09-04

A mother suspects her daughter has become a juvenile delinquent.

3. Reunion

Air Date: 1955-09-11

4. My Uncle O'Moore

Air Date: 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.

5. Gino

Air Date: 1955-09-25

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

6. Moment of Decision

Air Date: 1955-10-02

7. The Waiting Game

Air Date: 1955-10-09

8. The Last Spring

Air Date: 1955-10-16

9. Katy

Air Date: 1955-10-23

10. Slander

Air Date: 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.

11. Tropical Secretary

Air Date: 1955-11-06

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

12. The Bracelet

Air Date: 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.

13. Across the Plaza

Air Date: 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.

14. A Pattern of Deceit

Air Date: 1955-12-04

15. Man in the Ring

Air Date: 1955-12-11

16. A Shadow Between

Air Date: 1955-12-18

17. Christmas Stopover

Air Date: 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.

18. A Ticket for May

Air Date: 1956-01-01

19. Inga III

Air Date: 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.

20. The Challenge

Air Date: 1956-01-15

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

21. Song of Rome

Air Date: 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.

22. The Secret

Air Date: 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.

23. The Pearl

Air Date: 1956-02-12

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

24. Tightwad Millionaire

Air Date: 1956-02-19

25. Gesundheit

Air Date: 1956-02-26

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

26. Father Hoppe

Air Date: 1956-03-04

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

27. His Inheritance

Air Date: 1956-03-18

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

28. The Wise One

Air Date: 1956-03-25

29. But for God's Grace

Air Date: 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.

30. Hapless Holiday

Air Date: 1956-04-08

31. Code 258

Air Date: 1956-04-15

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

32. The Cardinal's Secret

Air Date: 1956-04-22

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

1. Double Partners

Air Date: 1956-08-26

A deaf woman is entangled in strange and deadly events.

2. The Question

Air Date: 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.

3. Saigon

Air Date: 1956-09-09

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

4. Little League

Air Date: 1956-09-16

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

5. Incident in Kawi

Air Date: 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.

6. Now a Brief Word

Air Date: 1956-09-29

A copywriter finds herself writing speeches for two opposing candidates.

7. The Years Between

Air Date: 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.

8. New Slant

Air Date: 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.

9. Goodbye, Goodbye

Air Date: 1956-10-21

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

10. The Great Divide

Air Date: 1956-10-28

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

11. Take Care of My Child

Air Date: 1956-11-04

12. The End of the Week

Air Date: 1956-11-11

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

13. Inga IV

Air Date: 1956-11-18

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

14. Rhubarb in Apartment B-7

Air Date: 1956-12-02

15. Somebody Else's Dream

Air Date: 1956-12-09

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

16. Three and Two, Please

Air Date: 1956-12-16

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

17. Imperfect Balance

Air Date: 1956-12-30

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

18. Queen Nefertiti

Air Date: 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.

19. My Favorite Monster

Air Date: 1957-01-13

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

20. Miss Ashley's Demon

Air Date: 1957-01-27

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

21. The Bad Apple

Air Date: 1957-02-03

22. Tension

Air Date: 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.

23. Wedding Day

Air Date: 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.

24. Louise

Air Date: 1957-03-10

25. Emergency

Air Date: 1957-03-24

26. The Room Next Door

Air Date: 1957-03-31

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

27. So Bright a Light

Air Date: 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.

28. Rummage Sale

Air Date: 1957-04-14

29. Legacy

Air Date: 1957-04-21

The difficult conditions of an inheritance put a couple in conflict

30. The Man on Top

Air Date: 1957-04-28

31. The Countess

Air Date: 1957-05-05

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

32. A Mind of Their Own

Air Date: 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.

33. Royal Partners: Part 1

Air Date: 1957-05-19

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

34. Royal Partners: Part 2

Air Date: 1957-05-26

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

1. A Dollar's Worth

Air Date: 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.

2. The Defense

Air Date: 1957-10-27

3. Innocent Conspiracy

Air Date: 1957-11-03

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

4. Understanding Heart

Air Date: 1957-11-10

5. The Little Witness

Air Date: 1957-11-24

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

6. Blizzard

Air Date: 1957-12-01

7. Friends at a Distance

Air Date: 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.

8. Man in a Hurry

Air Date: 1957-12-15

9. Power Play

Air Date: 1957-12-29

10. The Demon and Mrs. Devon

Air Date: 1958-01-05

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

11. The Accused

Air Date: 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.

12. The Hidden One

Air Date: 1958-01-19

13. Faraway Island

Air Date: 1958-01-26

14. My Two Hands

Air Date: 1958-02-02

15. Dear Milkman

Air Date: 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.

16. The Bargain

Air Date: 1958-02-16

17. A Greater Strength

Air Date: 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.

18. Conflict

Air Date: 1958-03-02

19. The Oriental Mind

Air Date: 1958-03-09

20. Windfall

Air Date: 1958-03-16

21. Time of Decision

Air Date: 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.

22. Air Stewardess

Air Date: 1958-03-30

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

23. To Open a Door

Air Date: 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."

24. Thanks to You

Air Date: 1958-04-13

25. Dangerous Verdict

Air Date: 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.

26. Second Rate Citizen

Air Date: 1958-04-27

27. South American Uncle

Air Date: 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.

28. A Strange Adventure

Air Date: 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.

29. Day of Rest

Air Date: 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.

1. The Near Unknown

Air Date: 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.

2. For Better or For Worse

Air Date: 1958-10-12

3. In the Good Old Summertime

Air Date: 1958-10-19

Jeb and Amy Stewart plan the perfect second honeymoon - and send their children to summer camp.

4. A Visit to Sao Paolo

Air Date: 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).

5. Out of Control

Air Date: 1958-11-02

6. The 20-Cent Tip

Air Date: 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.

7. I Want to Get Married

Air Date: 1958-11-16

8. The Woman Between

Air Date: 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.

9. The Last Witness

Air Date: 1958-11-30

10. The Happy Widow

Air Date: 1958-12-07

On a ship bound for Paris, a businessman (James Philbrook) spends his time with a Mrs. Mathews - he assumes is married.

11. Strange Money

Air Date: 1958-12-14

12. Most Honorable Day

Air Date: 1958-12-21

13. Operation Snowball

Air Date: 1958-12-28

14. The Break-Off

Air Date: 1959-01-04

Drama of test pilot's reaction to space travel.

15. Sister Ann

Air Date: 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.

16. This is the Moment

Air Date: 1959-01-18

17. Incident in India

Air Date: 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.

18. Seed From the East

Air Date: 1959-02-01

19. The Black Lace Valentine

Air Date: 1959-02-08

On Valentine's Day, a housewife receives a large, expensive valentine - but isn't sure who sent it.

20. Marriage Crisis

Air Date: 1959-02-15

21. The Portrait

Air Date: 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.

22. 810 Franklin Street

Air Date: 1959-03-01

23. The Prettiest Girl in Town

Air Date: 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.

24. The Tenderizer

Air Date: 1959-03-21

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

25. Each Man's Island

Air Date: 1959-03-29

26. Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 1

Air Date: 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.

27. Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2

Air Date: 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.

28. Strictly Personal

Air Date: 1959-04-19

29. The Accused

Air Date: 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.

30. Trouble in Fenton Valley

Air Date: 1959-05-10

1. The Road

Air Date: 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).

2. One Beautiful Moment

Air Date: 1959-09-27

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

3. The Strangers That Came to Town

Air Date: 1959-10-04

4. Mask of Evidence

Air Date: 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.

5. Circles of Panic

Air Date: 1959-10-25

6. The Red Dress

Air Date: 1959-11-01

7. A New Step

Air Date: 1959-11-08

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

8. Ten Men and a Girl

Air Date: 1959-11-15

9. The Lady in the Fish Bowl

Air Date: 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.

10. Vengeance is Thine

Air Date: 1959-11-29

11. The Penthouse

Air Date: 1959-12-06

12. Alien Love

Air Date: 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.

13. Shower of Ashes

Air Date: 1959-12-27

14. The Grenade

Air Date: 1960-01-03

15. Little Monster, Tall Tales

Air Date: 1960-01-10

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

16. Off Duty Affair

Air Date: 1960-01-17

17. Mrs. Minton

Air Date: 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.

18. The Hired Hand

Air Date: 1960-02-07

19. Slight Delay

Air Date: 1960-02-14

20. Second Spring

Air Date: 1960-02-21

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

21. Crisis in 114

Air Date: 1960-03-06

22. The Trouble with Laury's Men

Air Date: 1960-03-13

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

23. The Trial

Air Date: 1960-03-20

24. Plain, Unmarked Envelope

Air Date: 1960-04-03

25. The Best Season

Air Date: 1960-04-17

26. The Unwanted

Air Date: 1960-05-01

27. Faith, Hope and Mr. Flaherty

Air Date: 1960-05-08

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

28. The Eternal Vow: Part 1

Air Date: 1960-05-15

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

29. The Eternal Vow: Part 2

Air Date: 1960-05-22

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

30. The Misfit

Air Date: 1960-06-05

1. The Long Night

Air Date: 1960-09-18

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

2. At the Edge of the Desert

Air Date: 1960-09-25

3. Fair Exchange

Air Date: 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.

4. Linda

Air Date: 1960-10-09

5. Switchblade

Air Date: 1960-10-16

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

6. Love Between the Acts

Air Date: 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.

7. The Glass Cage

Air Date: 1960-10-30

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

8. The Seducer

Air Date: 1960-11-06

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

9. No Margin for Error

Air Date: 1960-11-13

10. Conditional Surrender

Air Date: 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.

11. The Night the Doorbell Rang

Air Date: 1960-11-27

12. These Few Years

Air Date: 1960-12-11

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

13. My Own Master

Air Date: 1960-12-18

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

14. Enter at Your Own Risk

Air Date: 1961-01-08

15. This Subtle Danger

Air Date: 1961-01-15

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

16. The Lie

Air Date: 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.

17. Quiet Desperation

Air Date: 1961-02-05

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

18. The Golden Cord

Air Date: 1961-02-12

19. Double Edge

Air Date: 1961-02-19

20. The Choice

Air Date: 1961-02-26

21. When Queens Ride By

Air Date: 1961-03-12

22. The Preliminaries

Air Date: 1961-03-19

23. Woodlot

Air Date: 1961-03-26

24. Doesn't Everybody?

Air Date: 1961-04-02

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

25. The Man Who Couldn't Smile

Air Date: 1961-04-09

26. Emergency in 114

Air Date: 1961-04-23

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

27. 13 Donner Street

Air Date: 1961-04-30

28. Those at the Top

Air Date: 1961-05-07

29. The Wedding

Air Date: 1961-05-21

30. The Forbidden Guests

Air Date: 1961-05-28

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

31. Not in Our Stars

Air Date: 1961-06-04

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