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.
Aired: Nov 2, 1981 Billie gets a marriage proposal from Baseball scout Ted McCovney. Lou meets u...
Aired: Nov 9, 1981 Kitty Larsen, a young woman on death row, picks Rossi to tell her story. Alth...
Aired: Nov 16, 1981 Lou is arrested for driving under the influence. His sentence includes attend...
Aired: Nov 23, 1981 When Lou goes back to his home to settle his elderly aunt's estate, he meets ...
Aired: Nov 30, 1981 Sharon McNeil gets a story about child pornography by promising not to reveal...
Aired: Dec 7, 1981 Billie suspects the gold cross found in a time capsule has been switched for ...
Aired: Dec 14, 1981 Charlie's nephew Scott comes to stay with him, and turns out to have a mental...
Aired: Dec 28, 1981 When his lawyer friend Burton Cary becomes a political candidate, Rossi finds...
Aired: Jan 4, 1982 Rossi runs into a bass player that used to be in the famous Sonny Goodwin Qua...
Aired: Jan 11, 1982 Billie investigates the death of a woman in a house that is said to be haunte...
Aired: Jan 25, 1982 A stick-up at a Mr. Ginty's fast-food restaurant turns into a hostage situati...
Aired: Feb 8, 1982 Charlie becomes a member of a news council and finds one member who seems to ...
Aired: Feb 15, 1982 The Tribune hires an old acquaintance of Animal's from 'Nam: photographer Lee...
Aired: Mar 1, 1982 Rossi makes a bet with that he can get a story from anyone on the street. And...
Aired: Mar 8, 1982 Charlie worries about Mrs. Pynchon's recovery after her stroke. Rossi delves ...
Aired: Mar 22, 1982 Billie is pulled from an assignment and the plane she was forced to leave cra...
Aired: Apr 5, 1982 When one of the paper reporters' father comes to town to perform. It seems he...
Aired: Apr 12, 1982 Lou's kitchen sink is ruined by a plumber. Billie covers some people petition...
Aired: Apr 19, 1982 The Tribune is up for an award, but Lou raises some questions about the spons...
Aired: May 3, 1982 Tensions in the tiny Middle Eastern country Kular awakens the fear of nuclear...
Aired: May 17, 1982 Lance stumbles onto a fatal biking accident and the more he learns about it, ...
Aired: May 24, 1982 When a story about hostility between surfers only makes the situation worse, ...
Aired: Aug 30, 1982 Lou is shot by a robber, who is in turn killed by policeman Vince DeMayo. Bot...
Aired: Sep 13, 1982 Charlie lets two incompetent staff members go, but Mrs. Pynchon rehires them....
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