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Season 1 · Episode 189

Letter of Introduction

0.01h 0mJuly 26, 1956

An American divorcee, transplanted to Paris, receives a letter stating that she is about to be visited by a young man who doesn't know she is his mother.

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Episode 1Beginning Now
Episode 2Make Believe Mother
Episode 3The Persistent Image
Episode 4I'm Straight with the World
Episode 5Progress and Minnie Sweeney
Episode 6The House on Wildwood Lane
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Episode 8One for the Road
Episode 9An Apple for Miss Myrtle
Episode 10The Man Without a Country
Episode 11Jigsaw
Episode 12She's the One with the Funny Face
Episode 13All the Hoffmeyers in the World
Episode 14The Aspern Papers
Episode 15Roman Fever
Episode 16Midsummer
Episode 17The Lady Chooses
Episode 18The Courtship of Miles Standish
Episode 19Dispossessed
Episode 20One for the Road
Episode 21The Touchstone
Episode 22Wuthering Heights
Episode 23The Brass Ring
Episode 24Jason
Episode 25Arrowsmith
Episode 26Passing Strange
Episode 27For These Services
Episode 28Cordially - With Bombs
Episode 29The White Oaks
Episode 30O'Toole from Moscow
Episode 31The Milwaukee Rocket
Episode 32This One is Different
Episode 33Sins of the Fathers
Episode 34See You on Sunday
Episode 35Coming of Age
Episode 36Technique
Episode 37Gallin: All-American
Episode 38Santa is No Saint
Episode 39The Unwelcomed
Episode 40The Red Sanders Story
Episode 41Class of '58
Episode 42Horns of the Dilemma
Episode 43Little Girls Grow Up
Episode 44The Shot
Episode 45Mr. Krane
Episode 46Yesterday is Gone
Episode 47Double Door
Episode 48The Happy Rest
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Episode 50One Left Over
Episode 51All the Trees in the Field
Episode 52The Century Plant
Episode 53Friday the 13th
Episode 54The Old Maid
Episode 55Mother Was a Bachelor
Episode 56The Bottom of the River
Episode 57The Carefree Tree
Episode 58Interlude
Episode 59The Big Box
Episode 60Sincerely Yours, Charlie Fisher
Episode 61Doc
Episode 62The Amateur
Episode 63Light and Shadow
Episode 64Romney
Episode 65O Promise Me
Episode 66Hold My Hand and Run
Episode 67Dark Possession
Episode 68The Diamond
Episode 69Susan and God
Episode 70As Young As You Feel
Episode 71The White Knight
Episode 72The Anxious Years
Episode 73The Heart of Mary Lincoln
Episode 74The Middle Son
Episode 75Valentine's Day
Episode 76Summer Cannot Last
Episode 77The Last Battlefield
Episode 78The Catbird Seat
Episode 79Dream House
Episode 80The Runaways
Episode 81The Ledger
Episode 82When the Bough Breaks
Episode 83I Want to March
Episode 84Skylark
Episode 85Tall, Dark Stranger
Episode 86Anything But Love
Episode 87Robin Daw
Episode 88Letter to a Stranger
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Episode 91Her Son's Wife
Episode 92The Shining Palace
Episode 93The Odd Ones
Episode 94A Cowboy for Chris
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Episode 116People in Glass
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Episode 120In Dread of Winter
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Episode 122Ask Me No Questions
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Episode 128The Carefree Tree
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Episode 130The Legend of Jenny Lind
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Episode 137Johnny Came Marching Home
Episode 138A Family Affair
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Episode 147Bachelor Buttons
Episode 148The Children of Papa Juan
Episode 149Herself Alone
Episode 150Three for the Money
Episode 151Taxi to the Moon
Episode 152The Goodtime Boys
Episode 153The American
Episode 154Cause for Suspicion
Episode 155Fight the Whole World
Episode 156Autumn Crocus
Episode 157George Has a Birthday
Episode 158The Serpent's Tooth
Episode 159Crime at Blossom's
Episode 160The Luck of Amos Currie
Episode 161Alison's House
Episode 162Safe Place
Episode 163The Guest Cottage
Episode 164Forsaking All Others
Episode 165Love, Honor and O'Day
Episode 166The Damask Cheek
Episode 167Moon Over
Episode 168But Fear Itself
Episode 169The Birthday Present
Episode 170The Ghost of Greenwich Village
Episode 171The Young and the Damned
Episode 172There's Always Juliet
Episode 173Seasoned Timber
Episode 174The Declaration
Episode 175High Places
Episode 176Black Chiffon
Episode 177Class of '58
Episode 178Marriage by the Millions
Episode 179Backfire
Episode 180The Bishop Misbehaves
Episode 181Remittance
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Episode 184The Feast
Episode 185A Full, Rich Life
Episode 186The Reverberator
Episode 187Woman at the Window
Episode 188Another Sky
Episode 189Letter of Introduction
Episode 190Home at Seven
Episode 191The Cypress Tree
Episode 192Belong to Me
Episode 193Pygmalion Jones
Episode 194Gretel
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