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The Loretta Young Show Season 2 Episodes

35 Episodes 1954 - 1955

Episode 1

Guest in the Night

Sun, Aug 29, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Sep 5, 195430 mins

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

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Episode 3

Double Trouble

Sun, Sep 12, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Sep 19, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Sep 26, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Oct 3, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Oct 10, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Oct 17, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Oct 31, 195430 mins

A girl scout is left alone with an escaped convict.

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Episode 10

No Help Wanted

Sun, Nov 7, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Nov 14, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Nov 21, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Nov 28, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Dec 5, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Dec 12, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Dec 19, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Dec 26, 195430 mins

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

Sun, Jan 2, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Jan 9, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Jan 16, 195530 mins

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'

Sun, Jan 23, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Jan 30, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Feb 6, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Feb 13, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Feb 20, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Feb 27, 1955

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

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Episode 27

Case Book

Sun, Mar 6, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Mar 13, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Mar 20, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Mar 27, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Apr 3, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Apr 10, 195530 mins

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

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Episode 33

Feeling No Pain

Sun, Apr 17, 195530 mins

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

Sun, Apr 24, 195530 mins

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

Sun, May 1, 195530 mins

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

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