Lou Grant
Romance
Romance hits the Tribune, but not the hearts and flowers kid: Lou gets an unexpected offer from Susan, and Billie meets teenagers who have babies to escape from home. 48:45 minutes.
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Romance (5/7/79)
Romance hits the Tribune, but not the hearts and flowers kid: Lou gets an unexpected offer from Susan, and Billie meets teenagers who have babies to escape from home.
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Skids (4/2/79)
A series of Skid Row stranglings turn out to have special meaning for Lou, who discovers his former doctor is now a bum, and for Rossi, who has his own reason for hating drunks.
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Bomb (3/26/79)
Could an individual build an atomic bomb? Lou gets a terrifying answer when a terrorist threatens to detonate a nuclear device and provides the Tribune with detailed plans as proof.
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Marathon (3/19/79)
In a news-packed day, Lou feels the pressure as he sets up coverage of a tunnel cave-in and a human fly climbing a skyscraper, knowing that a resentful Donovan has been offered a better paying job.
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Convention (3/5/79)
The city room hears that a radical group plans to kidnap a VIP at a publishers' convention attended by Lou and other Tribune executives.
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Home (2/26/79)
A helpless old lady in a wheelchair is dumped in a county office because of a bureaucratic wrangle, and this sets the staff onto a searing Tribune expose of shoddy nursing home practices.
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Hit (2/19/79)
A mother, obsessed with tracking the hit-and-run driver who killed her son, arouses Rossi's fighting instincts and leads to a human interest story with an unexpected payoff.
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Samaritan (2/12/79)
The city is thrown into panic when the Tribune's star columnist writes a column that Lou fears could incite a serial killer to strike again.
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Sweep (2/5/79)
After Lou sees an Immigration Department sweep of his favorite Mexican restaurant, the Tribune uncovers a grim and unsettling picture of what's happening to illegal aliens.
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Scam (1/22/79)
Looking for a place to invest a $5,000 windfall, Lou gets a shocking look at white collar crime when he uncovers a clever financial scheme run by a sharp con man.
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Vet (1/15/79)
Animal's erratic behavior touches off a Tribune inquiry into the plight of the all-but-forgotten Vietnam veteran who is treated much differently from servicemen in other wars.
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Fire (1/8/79)
Lou is stunned to learn of a high level cover-up of an arson ring and, while he's checking the report, Animal's apartment building is the next target of the firebugs.
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Denial (1/1/79)
Lou's little grandson is hard of hearing, but the boy's mother can't accept it.
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Conflict (12/18/78)
Rossi uncovers conflicts of interest on the staff, including Lou, and writes a story that sets off fireworks in the city room.
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Babies (12/11/78)
Billie uncovers a baby black market scandal but has to pretend Rossi is her husband to get facts for her story, and Lou winds up as referee.
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Singles (12/4/78)
A newspaper expert is hired to give the Tribune a new look. The result: the Tribune's best reporters are sent on a story about sex, singles and computer dating.
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Slaughter (11/27/78)
The vacationing Lou finds himself at odds with his old boss, the crusty owner of a rural newspaper, about breaking a story that could tear the town apart.
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Schools (11/20/78)
A young woman counselor tries to make Lou understand the new and frightening trend in schools where violence has become a way of life.
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Dying (11/6/78)
Unable to face the fact that his mother is critically ill, Art Donovan puts a strain on the city room that leads Lou to give Billie an unusual assignment – death.
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Murder (10/30/78)
A woman is killed and nobody cares except reporter Billie Newman, who finds that even Lou is reluctant to pursue the story of a "routine murder."
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Mob (10/23/78)
Lou and Rossi stumble onto a big story but have trouble getting it together after they see an old-time mobster at a posh resort.
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Hooker (10/16/78)
When reporter Billie Newman investigates the murder of a young hooker, she finds that she must change many of her ideas about the works of prostitutes.
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Prisoner (10/2/78)
Lou has to find out why his friend and boss, Charlie Hume, behaves irrationally when the Tribune runs an expose of political torture.
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Pills (9/25/78)
Lou's attempt to expose a pill-pushing doctor lands reporter Joe Rossi in jail.
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Poison (3/6/78)
Rossi's investigation of radiation leaks at a chemical plant leads to a friend's death and personal peril.
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Spies (2/27/78)
The CIA asks Lou to abandon a local espionage story; he refuses. Guest starring Laurette Spang.
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Scandal (2/13/78)
Rossi thinks a woman reporter is trading personal favors for political information.
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Sect (2/6/78)
Lou investigates when Charlie fears he has lost his son to the Hare Krishna movement.
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Hero (1/17/78)
Lou seeks a man who foiled an assassination, then feels responsible for the resultant tragedy.
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Sports (1/10/78)
The Tribune's sports department refuses to cover the UCLA football team's recruitment scandals. Lou meets unexpected resistance from a when he steps in.
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Airliner (1/3/78)
Charlie's daughter is a passenger on a jumbo jet in trouble above Los Angeles.
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Christmas (12/13/77)
Two stories -- one on a homeless family, and one on a politician -- take unexpected turns.
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Takeover (12/6/77)
Lou and Charlie suspect that Mrs. Pynchon's beau, a publisher, covets the Tribune.
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Housewarming (11/29/77)
Billie writes a series on wife abuse and then finds it in the city room.
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Psych-Out (11/22/77)
Lou suspects he forced Rossi to take unnecessary risks in an in-depth story on a mental hospital.
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Judge (11/15/77)
Lou's observation of a manslaughter trial leads him to question an elderly judge's (Barnard Hughes) mental competence.
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Scoop (11/8/77)
Billie's accuracy causes her to miss a deadline; Rossi's speedy reporting yields errors.
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Barrio (11/1/77)
Billie gets involved in a story about a gang-related barrio shooting.
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Aftershock (10/25/77)
Lou has trouble ending his relationship with a Tribune reporter's widow.
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Hoax (10/4/77)
Lou's con-artist pal (Eugene Roche) offers him an exclusive interview with a missing tycoon.
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Hostages (9/27/77)
A dead thief's brother orders hostage Rossi to rewrite a story about a shooting.
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Cophouse (9/20/77)
Lou, fired from his TV job, leaves Minneapolis and becomes city editor on the faltering Los Angeles Tribune.
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