Lou Grant

Season 4 (20 Episodes)

5 Seasons 1980 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 4 Episodes:

Episode 1 Nightside

1. Nightside

Aired: Sep 22, 1980

With the staff short-handed, Lou decides to work the night shift.

Episode 2 Harassment

2. Harassment

Aired: Sep 29, 1980

When the paper decides to do a story on sexual harassment in the workplace, B...

Episode 3 Pack

3. Pack

Aired: Oct 27, 1980

Billie is given a tough time when she tours with a political candidate to con...

Episode 4 Sting

4. Sting

Aired: Nov 17, 1980

Charlie and Lou do some thorough investigating when Charlie's new tenant seem...

Episode 5 Goop

5. Goop

Aired: Nov 24, 1980

Charlie and Mrs. Pynchon are worried about misrepresentation when Billie pose...

Episode 6 Libel

6. Libel

Aired: Dec 8, 1980

Lou gets into hot water when the paper is sued for libel after writing a scat...

Episode 7 Streets

7. Streets

Aired: Dec 15, 1980

Rossi and a fellow black reporter clash when they are assigned to investigate...

Episode 8 Catch

8. Catch

Aired: Jan 5, 1981

Billie is assigned to do a story on a controversial business venture which ma...

Episode 9 Rape

9. Rape

Aired: Jan 12, 1981

Lou and Rossi try to offer comfort to a staff reporter who returns to work th...

Episode 10 Boomerang

10. Boomerang

Aired: Jan 19, 1981

When Rossi and Billie come upon the hot story of illegally exported medical s...

Episode 11 Generations

11. Generations

Aired: Jan 26, 1981

Charlie allows his father to move in after he is arrested for shoplifting. Lo...

Episode 12 Search

12. Search

Aired: Feb 9, 1981

Lou fears a possible letdown when the staff use their connections to try to h...

Episode 13 Strike

13. Strike

Aired: Feb 16, 1981

When the Tribune is hit by a worker's strike, Lou sides with management but i...

Episode 14 Survival

14. Survival

Aired: Feb 23, 1981

When Lou and Rossi investigate a secret society of survivalists, who believe ...

Episode 15 Venice

15. Venice

Aired: Mar 9, 1981

Animal becomes obsessed with finding out why a pretty young woman with a brig...

Episode 16 Campesinos

16. Campesinos

Aired: Mar 16, 1981

Rossi is asked to cover a migrant workers strike in California's Central Vall...

Episode 17 Business

17. Business

Aired: Mar 23, 1981

Rossi publishes a highly critical story on a controversial company that seems...

Episode 18 Violence

18. Violence

Aired: Apr 6, 1981

Rossi does a story on a controversial football player whose brutal hit left a...

Episode 19 Depression

19. Depression

Aired: Apr 13, 1981

When a veteran reporter attempts suicide, Lou tries to help him by reuniting ...

Episode 20 Stroke

20. Stroke

Aired: May 4, 1981

Mrs. Pynchon is on the verse of buying 'Lively Arts' magazine when she suffer...

Info about Lou Grant

Network: CBS

Genres: Drama, Crime