Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.
Lesley Ann Warren
- Laura Reynolds (The Andersons Episode)
- (as Lesley Warren)
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- TriviaIn 1973, Aaron Spelling developed two pilots with a similar theme: this one and Letters from Three Lovers (1973). In both pilots, letters were delayed in delivery by one year per accident or mischance; the delay would have a profound effect on the sender or the recipient. Henry Jones played the postman delivering the long lost letters in both pilots. Neither pilot was picked up for a continuing series.
- GoofsAs the postman drives up to Mrs. Forrester's house, it is raining, and the shot from inside the car shows both windshield wipers running at medium speed. In the next shot in the driveway, the wiper on the driver's side is running at high speed and the wiper on the passenger side is missing completely.
- Quotes
Elaine Anderson (The Andersons Episode): A woman's love is masochistic; don't you know that? no matter how happy we are, no matter how great things are going there's always that chance it'll be taken away from us.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Letters from Three Lovers (1973)
Featured review
What really drew me to The Letters was the huge cast of interesting actors participating. So many to look forward to I figured it would be kind of fun either way. And it was in that way kind of fun. Good old Henry Jones plays the ever reliable mailman delivering three specific letters that have all been delayed by one year from the original postmark date. It all does have a very 70's era feel to it, which is both kind of good and also kind of not so good too. I did enjoy how parts of it did a good job of capturing a certain segment of society at that time, much of which looked familiar to me from my own childhood. Still, the script and direction are verging on melodrama, which again, is kind of fun and at the same time not completely. For those of you who have not yet seen The Letters and are still curious definitely give it a view and see what you think, as many of the reviewers here seemed to really enjoy it.
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