Episode guide
Lou Grant: Season 2
24 episodes · premiered Sep 25, 1978
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- Episode 1: Pills Sep 25, 1978 · 1h Rossi is handed records which prove that a doctor is illegally prescribing drugs. When the story runs and it is suspected that the records may have been obtained by illegal means, Rossi is…
- Episode 2: Prisoner Oct 2, 1978 · 1h When Mrs. Pynchon plays host to the wife of the leader of a controversial Latin American country known for its torturing practices, Charlie Hume is anything but inviting to her.
- Episode 3: Hooker Oct 16, 1978 · 1h After a homicide occurs in the city, Billie finds out that the victim was a prostitute who worked at a "spa" business. While investigating, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the…
- Episode 4: Mob Oct 23, 1978 · 1h Lou and Rossi visit a California resort in preparation for the Trib's annual tennis tournament. They are perplexed at the number of mob bosses they see at the resort, and begin to…
- Episode 5: Murder Oct 30, 1978 · 1h Billie is upset because her story, about a courageous black woman who is slain in her own apartment, is relegated to the back pages while Rossi's story, about an elderly white woman who…
- Episode 6: Dying Nov 6, 1978 · 1h Art Donovan's mother is dying, but he is having trouble accepting this as fact. His relations with everyone in the newsroom suffer as his mother gets worse, and his colleagues try to help…
- Episode 7: Schools Nov 20, 1978 · 1h Lou, Charlie, and Donovan interview students from an inner city school for the purpose of awarding a college scholarship to a journalism major. While Charlie and Donovan recommend a…
- Episode 8: Slaughter Nov 27, 1978 · 1h Lou visits his home town while on vacation and meets his old boss who now runs the town's newspaper. While there, an outbreak of an unknown cattle disease gets Lou's attention when it's…
- Episode 9: Singles Dec 4, 1978 · 1h Lou clashes with the new media consultant who believes that the paper should do more trashy stories to cater to the younger crowds. One of those stories has Billie and Rossi investigating…
- Episode 10: Babies Dec 11, 1978 · 1h Billie and Rossi pose as a married couple in order to uncover a black market baby selling operation.
- Episode 11: Conflict Dec 18, 1978 · 1h Rossi uncovers conflicts of interest on the staff, including Lou, and writes a story that sets off fireworks in the city room. Mrs. Pynchon tells Rossi to keep an eye out for mistakes in…
- Episode 12: Denial Jan 1, 1979 · 1h Lou's little grandson is hard of hearing, but the boy's mother can't accept it. While Lou is absorbed by his family, Rossi gets in trouble over a construction company scandal.
- Episode 13: Fire Jan 8, 1979 · 1h While investigating a string of fires in the same neighborhood, Lou and Billie find a connection linking a building owner and members of a fire department to arson.
- Episode 14: Vet Jan 15, 1979 · 1h 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. Lou, in…
- Episode 15: Scam Jan 22, 1979 · 1h Looking for a place to invest a $15,000 windfall, Lou gets a shocking look at white collar crime when he uncovers a clever financial scheme run by a sharp con man. He learns there are…
- Episode 16: Sweep Feb 5, 1979 · 1h 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. At the same…
- Episode 17: Samaritan Feb 12, 1979 · 1h 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. The reporter who covered the so-called…
- Episode 18: Hit Feb 19, 1979 · 1h 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. Meanwhile…
- Episode 19: Home Feb 26, 1979 · 1h 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…
- Episode 20: Convention Mar 5, 1979 · 1h The city room hears that a radical group plans to kidnap a VIP at a publishers' convention attended by Lou and other Tribune executives. Lou, a reluctant delegate at the convention, fends…
- Episode 21: Marathon Mar 19, 1979 · 1h 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…
- Episode 22: Bomb Mar 26, 1979 · 1h 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. Facing…
- Episode 23: Skids Apr 2, 1979 · 1h
- Episode 24: Loves (a.k.a.) Romance May 7, 1979 · 1h 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. Rossi finds good…