The Loretta Young Show

Got a DVD of this for just 50 cents! Has 3 episodes on it, with the
original sponsor opening credits. One episode is from the "Letters to
Loretta" format. Very entertaining and a shame this doesn't get any airplay

jayembee...

There's another DVD set from an outfit called Marathon Music & Video
with the first 30 episodes -- including all the LETTER FROM LORETTA
episodes -- plus some public service shorts she did, and some home
movie clips provided by her son. It's a little more costly than the
one you have (which I also have, if it's the "Digiview" release),
but you can get it for about $20 at Costco or BJ's.

from any channel.

Anim8rFSK...

I remember when she was still alive, Young took action to have the
reruns cancelled, because each one had her making an entrance in a
fabulous gown, and since the fashions were so out of date she felt she

jayembee...

Not surprising. They are definitely a product of their time, and the
whole framing sequence with her (not just the gowns) look so dated.
The dramas she presents (and stars in), though, are still quite good.

looked foolish.

LindaY...

Ohmygosh, I can't believe it. My mom used to watch reruns of that in
the afternoon (mid-60s). It was on after I got out of school so I
always had a chance to see Loretta Young come into the room with those
beautiful gowns with the swirling skirts. I loved those beautiful
dresses and used to badger my mom to buy me full skirts like that for
school, but she bought me what the other girls were wearing so the kids
wouldn't make fun of me. I hated miniskirts; I wanted a skirt like
Loretta Young's. When I asked a friend to make my wedding dress, I told
her about my childhood wish and she made the skirt very full, so I
could "swirl" in it if I liked.

Anim8rFSK...

Me too!

Well, the 'mom watched it after school' part

not the skirt swirly part

and I always liked mini-skirts :-)

Jude Cormier...

Actually the intros and concluding comments were edited out, but the reruns
were still available from the research I've seen.

Goodlife TV (now AmericanLife TV) reran it for awhile, in rotation with "The
New Loretta Young Show", which was a continuing series with the same
characters. Since many of the intros also involved mentioning her sponsor of
the week, it is easy to see why they were deleted, besides the obvious "out
of date" fashion reasoning.