Lou Grant

Season 2 (24 Episodes)

5 Seasons 1978 TV-PG 1h 00m 7.3

The trials of a former television station manager, turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.

After everyone on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" got fired, Lou Grant went to Los Angeles and became city editor of the L.A. Tribune, owned by Mrs. Pynchon, with whom Lou often has loud but sympathetic arguments. Lots of social causes and interpersonal relationships.

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Pills

1. Pills

Aired: Sep 25, 1978

Rossi is handed records which prove that a doctor is illegally prescribing dr...

Episode 2 Prisoner

2. Prisoner

Aired: Oct 2, 1978

When Mrs. Pynchon plays host to the wife of the leader of a controversial Lat...

Episode 3 Hooker

3. Hooker

Aired: Oct 16, 1978

After a homicide occurs in the city, Billie finds out that the victim was a p...

Episode 4 Mob

4. Mob

Aired: Oct 23, 1978

Lou and Rossi visit a California resort in preparation for the Trib's annual ...

Episode 5 Murder

5. Murder

Aired: Oct 30, 1978

Billie is upset because her story, about a courageous black woman who is slai...

Episode 6 Dying

6. Dying

Aired: Nov 6, 1978

Art Donovan's mother is dying, but he is having trouble accepting this as fac...

Episode 7 Schools

7. Schools

Aired: Nov 20, 1978

Lou, Charlie, and Donovan interview students from an inner city school for th...

Episode 8 Slaughter

8. Slaughter

Aired: Nov 27, 1978

Lou visits his home town while on vacation and meets his old boss who now run...

Episode 9 Singles

9. Singles

Aired: Dec 4, 1978

Lou clashes with the new media consultant who believes that the paper should ...

Episode 10 Babies

10. Babies

Aired: Dec 11, 1978

Billie and Rossi pose as a married couple in order to uncover a black market ...

Episode 11 Conflict

11. Conflict

Aired: Dec 18, 1978

Rossi uncovers conflicts of interest on the staff, including Lou, and writes ...

Episode 12 Denial

12. Denial

Aired: Jan 1, 1979

Lou's little grandson is hard of hearing, but the boy's mother can't accept i...

Episode 13 Fire

13. Fire

Aired: Jan 8, 1979

While investigating a string of fires in the same neighborhood, Lou and Billi...

Episode 14 Vet

14. Vet

Aired: Jan 15, 1979

Animal's erratic behavior touches off a Tribune inquiry into the plight of th...

Episode 15 Scam

15. Scam

Aired: Jan 22, 1979

Looking for a place to invest a $15,000 windfall, Lou gets a shocking look at...

Episode 16 Sweep

16. Sweep

Aired: Feb 5, 1979

After Lou sees an Immigration Department sweep of his favorite Mexican restau...

Episode 17 Samaritan

17. Samaritan

Aired: Feb 12, 1979

The city is thrown into panic when the Tribune's star columnist writes a colu...

Episode 18 Hit

18. Hit

Aired: Feb 19, 1979

A mother, obsessed with tracking the hit-and-run driver who killed her son, a...

Episode 19 Home

19. Home

Aired: Feb 26, 1979

A helpless old lady in a wheelchair is dumped in a county office because of a...

Episode 20 Convention

20. Convention

Aired: Mar 5, 1979

The city room hears that a radical group plans to kidnap a VIP at a publisher...

Episode 21 Marathon

21. Marathon

Aired: Mar 19, 1979

In a news-packed day, Lou feels the pressure as he sets up coverage of a tunn...

Episode 22 Bomb

22. Bomb

Aired: Mar 26, 1979

Could an individual build an atomic bomb? Lou gets a terrifying answer when a...

Episode 23 Skids

23. Skids

Aired: Apr 2, 1979

A series of Skid Row stranglings turn out to have special meaning for Lou, wh...

Episode 24 Romance

24. Romance

Aired: May 7, 1979

Romance hits the Tribune, but not the hearts and flowers kid: Lou gets an une...

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Network: CBS

Genres: Drama, Crime