Francie Fitzgerald, whom Lou thinks is an Irish colleague, turns out to be a gunrunner for the IRA. The...

Lou has to decide how to handle a co-worker's drinking problem. Mrs. Pynchon gets courted by a group of...

After the theft of Mrs. Pynchon's dog Barney, the Tribune looks into the underreported problem of dogfighting....

A power outage cripples most of the city, including the offices of the L.A. Tribune. If the staff can't find a...

Several members of the Tribune's staff clash with Lou, who is having a really bad day.

A story on the banning and burning of books strikes close to home when Charlie Hume refuses to publish a...

While researching the cancer-causing effects that the artificial hormone DES has among young women, Billie...

When a teacher in a private school is accused of sexual misconduct with a student, Mrs. Pynchon tries to stop...

While covering an Indian marathon organized to protest the treatment of Indians in South America, the...

Rossi and Billie cover a devastating local brush fire, and Animal's photos serve to lead police to the arrest...

Billie researches an article about the suicide of two teenagers and the effects on their families, while Rossi...

The reporters of the Tribune get interested in the murder of a boxer thirty years ago. It leads them into the...

Art's cousin Andrew faces charges of murder. As the young man suffers from a personality disorder, there is...

Art's Aunt Edna is worried about her mentally ill son Andrew, afraid that he might harm someone during one of...

When Lou sends both Billie and Rossi to cover the kidnapping of a small town's high school basketball teams,...

After a thug confesses to Billie about being hired to intimidate a lawyer in an investigation, the thug is...

A proposed ballot initiative raises the issue of illegal gambling. Lou is forced to fire the paper's business...

Rossi and Billie research a story about new medicine development at the L.A. University Medical Center, which...

Billie and the Tribune receive much criticism after her article describing a company as a big polluter causes...

The Trib's religion writer is critical of Rossi and Billie's article about an evangelist's financial...

Lou and Rossi work with prison inmates who are creating their own newspaper, but find that over-enthusiasm can...

A tabloid journalist interviews the city room staff for a feature on the Tribune. The resulting article paints...

When a neighbor of his is murdered, Lou meets a young cop who has to hide his homosexuality from everyone else...

Romance hits the Tribune, but not the hearts and flowers kid: Lou gets an unexpected offer from Susan, and...

A series of Skid Row stranglings turn out to have special meaning for Lou, who discovers his former doctor is...

Could an individual build an atomic bomb? Lou gets a terrifying answer when a terrorist threatens to detonate...

In a news-packed day, Lou feels the pressure as he sets up coverage of a tunnel cave-in and a human fly...

The city room hears that a radical group plans to kidnap a VIP at a publishers' convention attended by Lou and...

A helpless old lady in a wheelchair is dumped in a county office because of a bureaucratic wrangle, and this...

A mother, obsessed with tracking the hit-and-run driver who killed her son, arouses Rossi's fighting instincts...

The city is thrown into panic when the Tribune's star columnist writes a column that Lou fears could incite a...

After Lou sees an Immigration Department sweep of his favorite Mexican restaurant, the Tribune uncovers a grim...

Looking for a place to invest a $5,000 windfall, Lou gets a shocking look at white collar crime when he...

Animal's erratic behavior touches off a Tribune inquiry into the plight of the all-but-forgotten Vietnam...

Lou is stunned to learn of a high level cover-up of an arson ring and, while he's checking the report,...

Rossi uncovers conflicts of interest on the staff, including Lou, and writes a story that sets off fireworks...

Billie uncovers a baby black market scandal but has to pretend Rossi is her husband to get facts for her...

A newspaper expert is hired to give the Tribune a new look. The result: the Tribune's best reporters are sent...

The vacationing Lou finds himself at odds with his old boss, the crusty owner of a rural newspaper, about...

A young woman counselor tries to make Lou understand the new and frightening trend in schools where violence...

Unable to face the fact that his mother is critically ill, Art Donovan puts a strain on the city room that...

Lou and Rossi stumble onto a big story but have trouble getting it together after they see an old-time mobster...

When reporter Billie Newman investigates the murder of a young hooker, she finds that she must change many of...

Lou has to find out why his friend and boss, Charlie Hume, behaves irrationally when the Tribune runs an...

Lou's attempt to expose a pill-pushing doctor lands reporter Joe Rossi in jail.

Lou must undergo surgery for cancer.

Rossi's investigation of radiation leaks at a chemical plant leads to a friend's death and personal peril.

The CIA asks Lou to abandon a local espionage story; he refuses. Guest starring Laurette Spang.

Rossi thinks a woman reporter is trading personal favors for political information.

Lou investigates when Charlie fears he has lost his son to the Hare Krishna movement.

Lou tries to prevent the destruction of his friend's artwork.

Lou seeks a man who foiled an assassination, then feels responsible for the resultant tragedy.

The Tribune's sports department refuses to cover the UCLA football team's recruitment scandals. Lou meets...

Charlie's daughter is a passenger on a jumbo jet in trouble above Los Angeles.

Two stories -- one on a homeless family, and one on a politician -- take unexpected turns.

Lou and Charlie suspect that Mrs. Pynchon's beau, a publisher, covets the Tribune.

Billie writes a series on wife abuse and then finds it in the city room.

Lou suspects he forced Rossi to take unnecessary risks in an in-depth story on a mental hospital.

Lou's observation of a manslaughter trial leads him to question an elderly judge's (Barnard Hughes) mental...

Billie's accuracy causes her to miss a deadline; Rossi's speedy reporting yields errors.

Billie gets involved in a story about a gang-related barrio shooting.

Lou has trouble ending his relationship with a Tribune reporter's widow.

Billie probes anti-Semitic activities of an American fascist group.

Lou orders "Today'' section reporter Billie off a murder story.

Lou's con-artist pal (Eugene Roche) offers him an exclusive interview with a missing tycoon.

A dead thief's brother orders hostage Rossi to rewrite a story about a shooting.