Lou Grant
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Episode 24
Hazard
aired: Sun, Mar 23, 1980
Investigating allegations that a motorcycle being marketed to young people is unsafe, Rossi is offered proof by a whistle blower at the company, but Mrs. Pynchon refuses on principle to pay the $4000 he wants for the documents.
Episode 23
Guns
aired: Sun, Mar 16, 1980
Francie Fitzgerald, whom Lou thinks is an Irish colleague, turns out to be a gunrunner for the IRA. The reporters of the Tribune learn more about the "Troubles" and Art gets annoyed when people think his Irish ancestry makes him an expert on the matter.
Episode 22
Influence
aired: Sun, Mar 9, 1980
Lou has to decide how to handle a co-worker's drinking problem. Mrs. Pynchon gets courted by a group of prominent businessmen, who have a secret agenda.
Episode 21
Dogs
aired: Sun, Mar 2, 1980
After the theft of Mrs. Pynchon's dog Barney, the Tribune looks into the underreported problem of dogfighting. Rossi goes undercover to catch an interstate dogfighting ring.
Episode 20
Blackout
aired: Sun, Feb 17, 1980
A power outage cripples most of the city, including the offices of the L.A. Tribune. If the staff can't find a way to get the next paper out, it will be the first time in 64 years that the Trib misses a day.
Episode 19
Lou
aired: Sun, Feb 10, 1980
Several members of the Tribune's staff clash with Lou, who is having a really bad day.
Episode 18
Censored
aired: Sun, Feb 3, 1980
A story on the banning and burning of books strikes close to home when Charlie Hume refuses to publish a controversial political cartoon, and an old friend of Lou's turns out to be behind a new book-burning crusade.
Episode 17
Inheritance
aired: Sun, Jan 27, 1980
While researching the cancer-causing effects that the artificial hormone DES has among young women, Billie discovers that she is a "DES daughter." Meanwhile, Rossi covers the legal struggle of a young woman who has been disowned by her family.
Episode 16
Cover-Up
aired: Sun, Jan 20, 1980
When a teacher in a private school is accused of sexual misconduct with a student, Mrs. Pynchon tries to stop the board from making a hasty decision about the future of a promising teacher. Meanwhile, Billie tries to uncover corruption in a film studio.
Episode 15
Indians
aired: Sun, Jan 13, 1980
While covering an Indian marathon organized to protest the treatment of Indians in South America, the reporters of the Tribune meet several Native Americans.
Episode 14
Brushfire
aired: Sun, Jan 6, 1980
Rossi and Billie cover a devastating local brush fire, and Animal's photos serve to lead police to the arrest of an arsonist. Meanwhile, struggling to save their home from the conflagration, Charlie Hume and his wife Marion reconcile their differences.
Episode 13
Kids
aired: Mon, Dec 24, 1979
Billie researches an article about the suicide of two teenagers and the effects on their families, while Rossi does a story about the personal and professional pressures on child star Carly Mitchell. Meanwhile, Lou tries to help a troubled youngster.
Episode 12
Hollywood
aired: Mon, Dec 17, 1979
The reporters of the Tribune get interested in the murder of a boxer thirty years ago. It leads them into the world of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Episode 9
Kidnap
aired: Mon, Nov 26, 1979
When Lou sends both Billie and Rossi to cover the kidnapping of a small town's high school basketball teams, they clash about who will beat the other to the scoop. Meanwhile, Mrs. Pynchon mulls over an offer to sell the Tribune to a large newspaper chain.
Episode 8
Witness
aired: Mon, Nov 12, 1979
After a thug confesses to Billie about being hired to intimidate a lawyer in an investigation, the thug is murdered and Billie is threatened. She gets police protection, but has a hard time getting along with the officer assigned to guard her.
Episode 7
Gambling
aired: Mon, Nov 5, 1979
A proposed ballot initiative raises the issue of illegal gambling. Lou is forced to fire the paper's business reporter when he violates conflict-of-interest rules in an attempt to pay off his gambling debts.
Episode 6
Hype
aired: Mon, Oct 29, 1979
Rossi and Billie research a story about new medicine development at the L.A. University Medical Center, which provides critical funding for its continuation. The pressure causes a young researcher to falsify his results for a new arthritis medicine.
Episode 5
Frame-Up
aired: Mon, Oct 22, 1979
Billie and the Tribune receive much criticism after her article describing a company as a big polluter causes it to cancel a planned move to L.A. Later Billie learns it was all just a ploy for the company to negotiate for more incentives and tax breaks.
Episode 4
Charlatan
aired: Mon, Oct 15, 1979
The Trib's religion writer is critical of Rossi and Billie's article about an evangelist's financial irregularities. Lou wants to defend the right of a pornographer to print the names and addresses of undercover law enforcement officers in his magazine.
Episode 3
Slammer
aired: Mon, Oct 1, 1979
Lou and Rossi work with prison inmates who are creating their own newspaper, but find that over-enthusiasm can lead to a dangerous situation. Meanwhile Charlie has to take on Mrs. Pynchon's tasks when she is called for jury duty.
Episode 2
Expose
aired: Mon, Sep 24, 1979
A tabloid journalist interviews the city room staff for a feature on the Tribune. The resulting article paints a pretty negative picture, undermining the Tribune’s trustworthiness just when it has a scoop about a politician’s personal problems.
Episode 1
Cop
aired: Mon, Sep 17, 1979
When a neighbor of his is murdered, Lou meets a young cop who has to hide his homosexuality from everyone else at the police force.
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Episode 22
Physical
aired: Mon, Mar 20, 1978
Lou learns he has cancer and must undergo surgery.
Episode 21
Poison
aired: Mon, Mar 6, 1978
Rossi's friend is killed and he may be next in line when he pursues a sensitive story involving a chemical plant allowing radiation leakage.
Episode 20
Spies
aired: Mon, Feb 27, 1978
Lou defies a C.I.A. request to get a local espionage story.
Episode 19
Scandal
aired: Mon, Feb 13, 1978
Rossi suspects the new, attractive woman reporter at the Tribune is getting information by sleeping with a powerful politician.
Episode 18
Sect
aired: Mon, Feb 6, 1978
Lou is plunged into the world of the Hare Krishna movement when Tribune editor Charlie Hume fears his son is lost to the strange religion.
Episode 17
Renewal
aired: Mon, Jan 30, 1978
A talented artist's faith in his friend, Lou, is tested when Lou fights to save his life's work from destruction.
Episode 16
Hero
aired: Tue, Jan 17, 1978
As assassination attempt leads Lou on a search for a mysterious hero, and his feeling guilty for the personal tragedy that follows.
Episode 15
Sports
aired: Tue, Jan 10, 1978
Lou incurs public outrage over the Tribune's coverage of a local college football cheating scandal.
Episode 14
Airliner
aired: Tue, Jan 3, 1978
A jumbo jet is in trouble above Los Angeles and Lou's coverage of the story turns up a troubling piece of information: Charlie Hume's daughter is on board.
Episode 13
Christmas
aired: Tue, Dec 13, 1977
Two Christmas stories backfire on Lou and the staff. Billie's moving story about a homeless family winds up with a surprising twist and, at the same time, Rossi's investigation of a respected politician unexpectedly breaks wide open.
Episode 12
Takeover
aired: Tue, Dec 6, 1977
Lou and Charlie Hume face a difficult problem: how to tell their publisher that the new man in her life may be more interested in her paper than in romance. To add to their dilemma, Mrs. Pynchon's nephews are only too eager to throw their support to the publishing tycoon, who has a history of turning once fine newspapers into sensational tabloids.
Episode 11
Housewarming
aired: Tue, Nov 29, 1977
A battered wife, frightened and unwilling, is the subject for Billie's series of articles on wife-beating. At a housewarming party given by Lou, Billie finds out that she could have researched part of her story right in the Tribune's city room.
Episode 10
Psych-Out
aired: Tue, Nov 22, 1977
Lou fears that the pressure he's put on Rossi to get more involved in his stories has forced Rossi to take unnecessary risks while doing an in-depth feature on mental hospitals. At the same time, Lou is butting heads with the Tribune's lawyer over the paper's coverage of an obscenity trial.
Episode 9
Judge
aired: Tue, Nov 15, 1977
A manslaughter case prompts Lou to observe the courtroom conduct of an elderly judge suspected of senility. When the Tribune editor has a bewildering firsthand confrontation with the judge, Lou orders a full scale investigation, questioning the man's mental competence.
Episode 8
Scoop
aired: Tue, Nov 8, 1977
Rossi and Billie indulge in the fine art of scooping - one of the oldest and most tempting techniques in news reporting. Billie's prolonged effort to report a kidnapping story accurately causes her to miss a deadline; meanwhile, Rossi suffers the reverse humiliation when his speed exceeds his accuracy. Though both try to improve, Lou is still held responsible for both errors.
Episode 7
Barrio
aired: Tue, Nov 1, 1977
Following up an apparent routing gang shooting in the barrio of East Los Angeles, Billie finds herself personally involved in the drama she is covering. Billie's curiosity to investigate the crime leads her and Lou to East Los Angeles where violence is often a way of life.
Episode 6
Aftershock
aired: Tue, Oct 25, 1977
Lou becomes uncomfortably involved with a Tribune reporter's widow and can't find the guts to tell her to get lost. After experiencing his first tremblor from an earthquake, Lou can't react as casually as his co-workers; he sends Rossi to cover a story about cockroaches predicting earthquakes.
Episode 5
Nazi
aired: Tue, Oct 18, 1977
Pursuing a story on American Nazis, Billie enters the Brown Shirt headquarters, uncovering shocking information. Members of an American Nazi party break up a Jewish demonstration, inspiring Billie to write an in-depth story on a racist organization.
Episode 4
Henhouse
aired: Tue, Oct 11, 1977
Lou is shocked to find that the attractive woman he has been trying to meet is the rival editor from the "Today" section of the Tribune. Still the traditional newspaper man he was trained to be, Lou cannot adjust to the "Today" section (formerly the women's section) expending into different areas, especially his own. When a young woman reporter from "Today" stumbles upon a murder while on assignment, Lou orders her back to the office and sends his own reporter, Rossi, to cover the story. Resenting Lou's abrupt actions, the reporter's editor fights back, leading to a battle of the sexes.
Episode 3
Hoax
aired: Tue, Oct 4, 1977
Lou's old newspaper pal, Jack Riley, offers Lou the chance to interview with a business tycoon who has been mysteriously missing. There is one problem: Riley is as notorious a con artist as he is renowned as a reporter.
Episode 2
Hostages
aired: Tue, Sep 27, 1977
A young terrorist invades the Tribune, holding Rossi and other reporters hostage in the newsroom. Rossi covers a robbery-shooting in which a store owner has killed a young assailant. Rossi is kidnapped at gunpoint by a vengeful brother and ordered to rewrite the story, defending the dead youth.
Episode 1
Cophouse
aired: Tue, Sep 20, 1977
After being fired as news director of a Minneapolis television station, Lou Grant heads to Los Angeles to find a new job. He looks up an old friend, Charlie Hume, managing editor of the Los Angeles Tribune, who suggests Grant take over the city desk on the newspaper. Lou accepts the challenge but is shocked to learn the final decision rests with the publisher, Margaret Pynchon.
