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Lou Grant: Created by James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, Gene Reynolds, Leon Tokatyan. With Edward Asner, Robert Walden, Mason Adams, Jack Bannon. The trials of a former television station manager, turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
Lou Grant is an American drama television series starring Ed Asner in the title role as a newspaper editor that aired on CBS from September 20, 1977, to September 13, 1982. The third spin-off (after Rhoda and Phyllis) of the American sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant was created by James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, and Gene Reynolds .
Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Ed Asner in two television series produced by MTM Enterprises for CBS. The first was The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), a half-hour light-hearted situation comedy in which the character was the news director at fictional television station WJM-TV in Minneapolis.
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After landing the city editor job at the Los Angeles Tribune, Lou Grant's first major story is a sex scandal concerning the LAPD and underage girls. However, in order to get it published he must deal with a reporter that is reluctant to bring down the police and Mrs. Pynchon who has a difference of opinion with him.
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. Lou is astonished to find that his once skilled surgeon is defiant about living on Skid Row, and Rossi for once tries to get out of working on a story.
Lou Grant. Season 1. Ed Asner stars as Lou Grant, a battle-toughened veteran of the news wars who is hired by his old friend, Charlie Hume, as the city editor of the Los Angeles Tribune. 17 IMDb 7.3 1978 22 episodes.
