I became a newspaper reporter in Scotland in 1979 aged 18 and loved this show. I even copied the way Lou Grant wore his tie and rolled up his sleeves! I ended up working for an American newspaper and was so happy to find these videos all these years later.
My wife says I still imitate Lou Grant. I use his line whenever I ask for someone's name, and they ask why I need it - I say, " My Christmas card list." Just like he told the insolent, security guard, Tim Butterfield at the Trib bldg near the start of s01e01.😅😂😅😂
I am 57. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the Waltons, Eight is Enough and Lou Grant are all to me shows that seemed to transcend television. Add Hour Magazine in the 1980s with the superb actor, the late Gary Collins and I really loved 1970s and 1980s television. I am a better person today thanks in part to the superb writing all those shows had and the many lessons they had shared. ❤
Rest In Peace Ed Asner!! You will be missed. Your genius has helped me and countless others get through so much difficulty! Another legend has left us.
It is a comment on the genius and talent of Ed Asner that he can take a pleasant character from a successful comedy and turn it into the star of a dramatic series with such finesse. A wonderful show.
The show had a lot of class. It seemed realistic, too. All the quirks of being journalists that we don't think about, behind the scenes stuff, made into a funny drama.
How l remember these days with mostly the fondness of nostalgia and love this show equally. Gratitude to the uploaded of this wonderful series for Mr. Asner his post MTM years. Great writing, fantastic cast, etc.
I'm with you Cynthia. We may not have had 500 channels back in the day but overall the quality of TV series was better. I don't think most of us knew how good we had it back then.
Winning Grinn I canceled my cable TV subscription a long time ago because I got tired of paying to watch total crap. To be sure, there were some good quality TV programs on cable like Mad Men, House of Cards and Treme but a handful of good programs still wasn't worth paying for all these channels I wasn't watching.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 l agree with you 100%. I pulled the plug on cable and satellite a decade ago. How I miss three major networks and PBS, all for the price of an antenna.
@@cynthialyman2636 It wasn't too bad in the beginning. I'm sure you remember how good MTV and the Disney Channel were like when they started. And when my kids were younger, they used to love Nickelodeon. But as time went on, they all got worse and worse. Sadly, I don't have access to some TV channels that still play these old series. TV Land (another disappointment) used to. We baby boomers don't count anymore.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 What I remember concerning my own life's timeline is how the decline was evident by the late 1990's, and following the turn of the century it sped up exponentially with the development of the Internet and the subsequent 'Information Age.' Prior to this cultural shift, people still tended to 'behave themselves' at least in public, and crass, obnoxious, and profane behavior seldom appeared on network TV. What strikes me specifically about the era of the 60's, 70's and 80's is how not only did TV characters behave in a certain way, but they spoke well too; you rarely even heard the occasional 'damn' and the f-bomb never materialized anywhere, even after 'the family prime time viewing hours.' I mean, it just didn't happen. If you watch the older police dramas, so popular then, even the criminals sound high flown compared to today, speaking in stylized language even when they're supposed to be 'hip' and 'streetwise.' Writers were still at the helm, talent was a prerequisite for a career as a Hollywood pensmith, and actors still had to memorize actual LINES. With the advent of 'reality TV' all of this was rapidly relegated to the rubbish heap. I for one miss much of the 'old school' programming and could no longer abide not only having to pay for the privilege of watching inferior shows in the place of quality, but adding to that the endless barrage of volume-boosted commercials every few minutes made pulling the plug on all of it a definite inevitability. Sad.
🔥🔥🔥 Lou Grant remains the most significant and important television show since it premiered in Fall 1977. The cast, writing, direction and editing were top-notch, but it is the pre-eminent vehicle for conversation of high ethics, true freedoms, exposé of radical conservatism and the struggle for truth in media. The show and its lead actor were so dangerous to ultra-affluent & ultraconservative power, namely Ronald Reagan, Richard Melon Scaife, and the radical conservative bastions of corporate Earth such as Kinberly-Clark, Cadbury and Vidal Sassoon, that even CBS founder Wm. S. Paley could not fend off the wolves of his fellow Aristocrats. It is must-see tv and stands above as a testament to what we've lost since, as well as what we must restore. Thank you for sharing!!!
I watched this show every week and never disappointed at how well written it was! Then and now still great! Amazing how Ed Asner transitions from WJM comedy to LA Tribune drama effortlessly! I’ll be watching these again!
There's a lot of humor in this show. Just more subtle. A lot of it is just in Lou's expressions. I haven't watched MTM for decades, but I do remember that being key in that show too.. I'll have to watch a couple of those to confirm my memory.
There are 100's of tv stations in the UK yet none can find a place to show this great show.A quality programme amongst loads of rubbish. Thanks for posting this
A truly BRILLIANT Television series...watched it in the 80's as a young teen & again during COVID when I was very ill (probably should have been in hospital) but watching this series again in the middle of the night HELPED get me through it...what a cast! what superb writing! THANKS.
Ive never sen an episode of the MTM show, or for that matter Lou Grant until now. What a show! Well written, funny, insightful, and well acted. Thank your uploading this show, and allowing us to see it for the first time.
Very well done by Ed Asner an old pro. How he went from playing Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore Show 7 seasons of Comedy to Lou Grant a dramatic series the same year 1977. Loved both shows. Was so disappointed when they suddenly cancelled Lou Grant in 1982 after only 5 seasons without barely a word the network pulled the plug . Great episodes great show . I’ll be watching every episode here online . Love this UA-cam channel!! Thak you for all the great MTM shows👌😊😀
The High Quality value , acting writing directing that comedy and drama sows nt to mention great acting in television from the 170s thru to the end of the 90s just is not to be found in this new millineum. Reality Tv sucks!! I don’t even bother looking at a television anymore. I watch the shows I grew up watching online here and get more joy and satisfaction from it thanks to all the great people who have shared and uploaded great quality television like this for countless people to enjoy.
Best video accompaniment bird in a tree to bird in newspaper-lined cage. It told a story from tree to timber to paper to a published newspaper. Another great theme song, "Lou's Blues" from Patrick Williams. Williams also composed the great '70s themes from "The Streets of San Francisco" and "The Bob Newhart Show" aka, "Home to Emily." May Bob Newhart RIP.
I wish I was born in that era and would watch these shows right when they aired on TV. The dressing sense in 1970s was way classy and beautiful and I feel I belong in 60s and 70s.
I 'm watching shows on U Tube like this one because I can't stand all the reality shows on the air. Good comedies, dramas, shows with smart scripts, good to great ensemble casts stand the test of time; sure in some ways Lou Grant is dated, however, the drama isn't and the supporting staff and classic use of wonderful character actors make this show a must watch for me. Thanks for posting the show on the tube.
I had never seen this episode before. My strongest reaction, discovering it long after seeing how the whole show developed, was "Wow, they sure are setting us all up to underestimate Mrs. Pynchon."
I wonder if Ed Asner ever met his real-life newspaper counterpart. The real-life Lou Grant was the longtime editorial cartoonist at the Oakland Tribune.
The two most common questions actors are asked about their acting past: 1. What was it like working for Hitchcock? 2. What was it like working on Lou Grant? That says all you need to know about the esteem placed on this absolutely masterfully written, acted and produced show.
The intro reminds me of the pilot episode of Northern Exposure. Getring off the plane, taking the bus to your new job, extended version of shows theme song.
@@iluvbeef11 Asner also made a name for himself as a trade unionist and a political activist. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, from 1981-1985, during which he criticized former SAG President Ronald Reagan, then the president of a greater concern, for his Central American policy.
“Don’t mention you were working in television. She hates it.” “Then what do I tell her I’ve been doing the last 10 years?” “Tell her you were in jail.”
Funny how much of 70s LA I still recognize from my time in GTA V. Admit it, watch this intro and is that song is stuck in your head all day. It's like someone installed an elevator in my brain XD.
I already liked the socula criticism with the Cab driver-bus schen in the beginning. Often, modern airports are so far away that it costs a littel fortune to go there by cab 3:46 I always loved to see Edward Asner in Movies, TV shows and even as a voice in Computer Games like the first KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC ( KotOR ) , even in several roles there in. Through LOU GRANT I became a fan of him
9:51 Daryl Anderson ( HERB HERBERT .- THE BEAST) in the German dubbed version he became DIE BESTIE ( DAS BIEST . I guess ment was Intelligence --Biest Intelligenzbestie ) since he was much brighter as he let look through
Thanks for this series. It's still one of the best ever produced, and holds up just fine for being nearly 40 years (!) old. Do you have any idea where I can get Seasons 4 and 5? They don't seem to be available anywhere. I'd love to get the whole series, and would buy it in a heartbeat if I could only FIND it! Any suggestions?
It is incredible in our days see some situations shows in this episode and this serie ,when today the reporters from press does not need to face the problems in the local where occurs the facts and the danger ..Today they need only stay in the office waiting that the News arrives by internet to write about in the News papers next day or in the News television programs . I see here in Brasil i think like in USA and Europe too . THE OLD REPORTERS ARE DESSAPEARING ...Sorry about my english if i had mistakes ...From one brasilian in São Paulo that watched this serie when was a Young here and that liked so much .Edward Asner was excellent actor , like in Mary Tyler Moore series
When I saw the beautiful actress who first appears at 36:25 with reporter Carla and catches the eye of all the men present, I thought that she looked very much like a youthful Rita Wilson. I did some background research and found that she is in fact Rita Wilson in what may have been her first appearance in a network television series. Here she has an uncredited role portraying a 16-year old, but was either 20 or 21 when this premier episode of Lou Grant was filmed.
It's pretty much explained in the plot..🤷♂️ He was friends with Charlie from his newspaper days.. Obviously Charlie wanted to try something different from the last several failures, and thinks Lou has the skills for the job. Even Lou is surprised. The only real stretch here, is that Lou jumps into the job so easily, without help from Donavan to understand the system. That could've been quite entertaining and funny, but would've been the whole episode. Obviously they decided that they wanted to jump into the kinds of issues the show was going to address, and the way they were going to do it.
As a side note. Al the National Editor quit and took an assumed name to operate a radio station in Cincinnati, and the editor to his left couldn't stomach the violence of the big city, so he left to open a string of Ferryman funeral parlors. :D
For all those people who believe that liberals "control" Hollywood, just ask Ed Asner how liberal Hollywood is and why this series was canceled even though it was a top-10 series in the Nielsen's.
Ed is one of my all time favorite libs , and this show is easily his best work.. I was too young to discover the series when it was on the air (only around 3-4 at the time) but have cherished discovering it in my early 40s. So many themes were explored that are even more relevant now than they were then.
Nice show-you can see the seeds of disaster in the 70s beginning to balloon(Mason Adams incoherent, illogical explanation as to why he is going under for the 3rd time beneath a mountain of debt).
I became a newspaper reporter in Scotland in 1979 aged 18 and loved this show. I even copied the way Lou Grant wore his tie and rolled up his sleeves! I ended up working for an American newspaper and was so happy to find these videos all these years later.
My wife says I still imitate Lou Grant. I use his line whenever I ask for someone's name, and they ask why I need it - I say, " My Christmas card list." Just like he told the insolent, security guard, Tim Butterfield at the Trib bldg near the start of s01e01.😅😂😅😂
I'm glad somebody made this available. you can't find it on streaming anywhere.
I am 57. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the Waltons, Eight is Enough and Lou Grant are all to me shows that seemed to transcend television. Add Hour Magazine in the 1980s with the superb actor, the late Gary Collins and I really loved 1970s and 1980s television. I am a better person today thanks in part to the superb writing all those shows had and the many lessons they had shared.
❤
Rest In Peace Ed Asner!! You will be missed. Your genius has helped me and countless others get through so much difficulty! Another legend has left us.
In addition to this, and the MTM show, Ed Asner did a wonderful guest appearance on "Highway to Heaven". It's probably still on UA-cam
Rest in peace, Mason Adams, too!
Even the theme tune makes me feel happy, my sister loved this and I use to try and stay awake to watch it, takes me back to a simpler time ❤️🇬🇧
Those were the good ol' days...
What a great pilot episode: They come out swinging from get go. Fantastic writing and acting. Great series.
It is a comment on the genius and talent of Ed Asner that he can take a pleasant character from a successful comedy and turn it into the star of a dramatic series with such finesse. A wonderful show.
The show had a lot of class. It seemed realistic, too. All the quirks of being journalists that we don't think about, behind the scenes stuff, made into a funny drama.
Yes no nutty Rhoda or shit head ted bastard
oh look, it's Mr. Carlton from WKRP
@@paulasnow8420 Gordon Jump. I wish a cable channel would show WKRP in Cincinnati.
@@CookieCaspari wouldn't that be great
How l remember these days with mostly the fondness of nostalgia and love this show equally. Gratitude to the uploaded of this wonderful series for Mr. Asner his post MTM years. Great writing, fantastic cast, etc.
I'm with you Cynthia. We may not have had 500 channels back in the day but overall the quality of TV series was better. I don't think most of us knew how good we had it back then.
Winning Grinn I canceled my cable TV subscription a long time ago because I got tired of paying to watch total crap. To be sure, there were some good quality TV programs on cable like Mad Men, House of Cards and Treme but a handful of good programs still wasn't worth paying for all these channels I wasn't watching.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 l agree with you 100%. I pulled the plug on cable and satellite a decade ago. How I miss three major networks and PBS, all for the price of an antenna.
@@cynthialyman2636 It wasn't too bad in the beginning. I'm sure you remember how good MTV and the Disney Channel were like when they started. And when my kids were younger, they used to love Nickelodeon. But as time went on, they all got worse and worse. Sadly, I don't have access to some TV channels that still play these old series. TV Land (another disappointment) used to. We baby boomers don't count anymore.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 What I remember concerning my own life's timeline is how the decline was evident by the late 1990's, and following the turn of the century it sped up exponentially with the development of the Internet and the subsequent 'Information Age.' Prior to this cultural shift, people still tended to 'behave themselves' at least in public, and crass, obnoxious, and profane behavior seldom appeared on network TV. What strikes me specifically about the era of the 60's, 70's and 80's is how not only did TV characters behave in a certain way, but they spoke well too; you rarely even heard the occasional 'damn' and the f-bomb never materialized anywhere, even after 'the family prime time viewing hours.' I mean, it just didn't happen. If you watch the older police dramas, so popular then, even the criminals sound high flown compared to today, speaking in stylized language even when they're supposed to be 'hip' and 'streetwise.' Writers were still at the helm, talent was a prerequisite for a career as a Hollywood pensmith, and actors still had to memorize actual LINES. With the advent of 'reality TV' all of this was rapidly relegated to the rubbish heap. I for one miss much of the 'old school' programming and could no longer abide not only having to pay for the privilege of watching inferior shows in the place of quality, but adding to that the endless barrage of volume-boosted commercials every few minutes made pulling the plug on all of it a definite inevitability. Sad.
Thank you for putting up Lou Grant episodes. Best TV series ever!
🔥🔥🔥 Lou Grant remains the most significant and important television show since it premiered in Fall 1977. The cast, writing, direction and editing were top-notch, but it is the pre-eminent vehicle for conversation of high ethics, true freedoms, exposé of radical conservatism and the struggle for truth in media. The show and its lead actor were so dangerous to ultra-affluent & ultraconservative power, namely Ronald Reagan, Richard Melon Scaife, and the radical conservative bastions of corporate Earth such as Kinberly-Clark, Cadbury and Vidal Sassoon, that even CBS founder Wm. S. Paley could not fend off the wolves of his fellow Aristocrats.
It is must-see tv and stands above as a testament to what we've lost since, as well as what we must restore.
Thank you for sharing!!!
watching this in 2022. If only journalism actually had that kind of integrity the world might not be in the mess it is in.
I watched this show every week and never disappointed at how well written it was! Then and now still great! Amazing how Ed Asner transitions from WJM comedy to LA Tribune drama effortlessly! I’ll be watching these again!
There's a lot of humor in this show. Just more subtle. A lot of it is just in Lou's expressions. I haven't watched MTM for decades, but I do remember that being key in that show too.. I'll have to watch a couple of those to confirm my memory.
There are 100's of tv stations in the UK yet none can find a place to show this great show.A quality programme amongst loads of rubbish.
Thanks for posting this
A truly BRILLIANT Television series...watched it in the 80's as a young teen & again during COVID when I was very ill (probably should have been in hospital) but watching this series again in the middle of the night HELPED get me through it...what a cast! what superb writing! THANKS.
I forgot how good this show was , great opening episode wonderful writing acting direction probably one of the best TV shows of the 70s
Ive never sen an episode of the MTM show, or for that matter Lou Grant until now. What a show! Well written, funny, insightful, and well acted. Thank your uploading this show, and allowing us to see it for the first time.
REST WELL IN PEACE, ED..... Thanks for many years of a Great Television Memories!!!
Very well done by Ed Asner an old pro. How he went from playing Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore Show 7 seasons of Comedy to Lou Grant a dramatic series the same year 1977. Loved both shows. Was so disappointed when they suddenly cancelled Lou Grant in 1982 after only 5 seasons without barely a word the network pulled the plug . Great episodes great show . I’ll be watching every episode here online . Love this UA-cam channel!! Thak you for all the great MTM shows👌😊😀
i used to stay up late at night to watch this - loved it, stll do!
thank you for uploading this great series.you kind person
Thank you for posting this. This show was awesome!
One of my most fav shows as a kid. Thanks for uploading!
The High Quality value , acting writing directing that comedy and drama sows nt to mention great acting in television from the 170s thru to the end of the 90s just is not to be found in this new millineum. Reality Tv sucks!! I don’t even bother looking at a television anymore. I watch the shows I grew up watching online here and get more joy and satisfaction from it thanks to all the great people who have shared and uploaded great quality television like this for countless people to enjoy.
thanks for posting this. I loved the show when I was younger. Im glad it holds up !
Best video accompaniment bird in a tree to bird in newspaper-lined cage. It told a story from tree to timber to paper to a published newspaper. Another great theme song, "Lou's Blues" from Patrick Williams. Williams also composed the great '70s themes from "The Streets of San Francisco" and "The Bob Newhart Show" aka, "Home to Emily." May Bob Newhart RIP.
Love the intro - from log to paper to birdcage liner! LOL
Okay I’ve heard of the show, and it went off before I was even born, but I’m straight up will be binge-watching it.
Used to watch this years ago and was so pleased to find it here. Thanks so much for posting it!
One of the finest written television series with a terrific cast.
I wish I was born in that era and would watch these shows right when they aired on TV. The dressing sense in 1970s was way classy and beautiful and I feel I belong in 60s and 70s.
Which US classic TV net owns the rights to this classic? If one does, why in the heck aren't they playing it? So wonderfully written and performed...
Lou Grant was owned by M.T.M.Enterprises which was later acquired by 20 th Century Fox Film Corporation.
@@brendanmoriarty6996 which is now owned by Disney
I 'm watching shows on U Tube like this one because I can't stand all the reality shows on the air. Good comedies, dramas, shows with smart scripts, good to great ensemble casts stand the test of time; sure in some ways Lou Grant is dated, however, the drama isn't and the supporting staff and classic use of wonderful character actors make this show a must watch for me. Thanks for posting the show on the tube.
Really poignant to be able to see these after so many years. Vale, Ed Asner. You were one of the very best. We owe you.
I had never seen this episode before. My strongest reaction, discovering it long after seeing how the whole show developed, was "Wow, they sure are setting us all up to underestimate Mrs. Pynchon."
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful series. Worth watching again, and again!
So did Lou Grant fire the three people he wrote down?
RIP Ed - thanks for the memories.
RIP Ed. You were so wonderful ❤.
I wonder if Ed Asner ever met his real-life newspaper counterpart. The real-life Lou Grant was the longtime editorial cartoonist at the Oakland Tribune.
Brillant TV series. They don't make up like this anymore.
Thanks I needed that!
Thanks for uploading. Never thought to find my favourite serie in the 70*s. the Animal was my idol. wanted also be a photographer. memories coming up
miss these classics…. one of the greatest series
I really really miss this show A whole whole lot
A real TV show, from back when television had real TV shows.
So happy to find these episodes! (: I wonder why Rebecca Balding was replaced by Linda Kelsey?
that would be funny if the security guard at the beginning...said to Lou..."You got spunk"
"I hate spunk"!
Rest In Peace Ed Asner. You were excellent in everything you did. And a great President of the Screen Actors Guild.
The two most common questions actors are asked about their acting past:
1. What was it like working for Hitchcock?
2. What was it like working on Lou Grant?
That says all you need to know about the esteem placed on this absolutely masterfully written, acted and produced show.
I asked Robert Walden and I have yet to hear a reply
@@tankstoner8496 Always liked him and i think he added a lot to the show.
After "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" left the series, Edward Asner plays Lou Grant is going solo.
Watching this again in summer 2023 and remembering how good a show it was in the 70’s.
Why is Lou Grant not on any streaming?
The intro reminds me of the pilot episode of Northern Exposure. Getring off the plane, taking the bus to your new job, extended version of shows theme song.
Just finished binge watching MTM, Rhoda & Phyllis, now watching Lou Grant for the first time.
Christine is Rita Wilson.
Al is Gordon Jump.
I just finished MTM and Phyllis. I still have two seasons of Rhoda and the rest of this series.
Thank you, Ed Asner.
Remembered almost nothing about the story here, but did remember the reveal on which division.
I've enjoyed watching or rather re watching these old shows during lock. Down
Ed Asner is great in roles of authority...
oh i bet he is, in more ways than one ;) he's a real DADDY grrrrr
@@iluvbeef11 Asner also made a name for himself as a trade unionist and a political activist. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, from 1981-1985, during which he criticized former SAG President Ronald Reagan, then the president of a greater concern, for his Central American policy.
“Don’t mention you were working in television. She hates it.”
“Then what do I tell her I’ve been doing the last 10 years?”
“Tell her you were in jail.”
Mason Adams was such a funny guy! A handsome prince too!
One of my favorite series of all time along with Cannon. I was seventeen and had a pretty big crush on Ed Asner. I still do.
The film style and the music gave all of these 70's/80's shows a distinctive feel.... makes me think of kmart diners post offices for some reason
loved this show.
RIP! Just had to watch upon hearing of his death. I remember watching these fondly as a kid.
Rest in peace Edward Asner. We will miss Lou Grant on both of his shows
Lou is all slimmed down and attractive. What a great actor Ed Asner was!
Love the electric piano cues when Lou is on the bus,
Tank Stoner pp
Thank you for your gifts Ed Asner. RIP
Best show ever on TV
...am i the only one who thinks Ed Asner was a handsome hunk of a daddy?
nope!
Great acting and story. Thank you Ed Asner for Lou Grant RIP
Funny how much of 70s LA I still recognize from my time in GTA V.
Admit it, watch this intro and is that song is stuck in your head all day. It's like someone installed an elevator in my brain XD.
RIP the great Ed Asner.
Loved this show...CBS ruled back then.
Love that original front credit: from a bird singing to a bird shitting.
It's cute, but the bird at the beginning is a scrub jay and they dubbed in a completely wrong song for it.
I'm a dinosaur!
Gotta love Lou!
❤️🍀❤️ RIP Ed Asner and thank you so much ❤️🍀❤️
Nancy Marchand was a real actress!
R.I.P. Ed Asner, Rebecca Balding, Mason Adams, Jack Bannon and Nancy Marchand.
Is Marchand the Actress that played Olivia Soprano?
This show really made me think.
I already liked the socula criticism with the Cab driver-bus schen in the beginning. Often, modern airports are so far away that it costs a littel fortune to go there by cab
3:46 I always loved to see Edward Asner in Movies, TV shows and even as a voice in Computer Games like the first KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC ( KotOR ) , even in several roles there in. Through LOU GRANT I became a fan of him
9:51 Daryl Anderson ( HERB HERBERT .- THE BEAST) in the German dubbed version he became DIE BESTIE ( DAS BIEST . I guess ment was Intelligence --Biest Intelligenzbestie ) since he was much brighter as he let look through
God bless you, Ed Asner...
Wow.... That is a hell of a miscast "My wife is only 19!"and the actor looks about 48.
What's funny is Ed Asner & Nancy Marchand are both 48-49 in the first season. How old do they look lol.
People aged faster back in the day.
Thanks for this series. It's still one of the best ever produced, and holds up just fine for being nearly 40 years (!) old. Do you have any idea where I can get Seasons 4 and 5? They don't seem to be available anywhere. I'd love to get the whole series, and would buy it in a heartbeat if I could only FIND it! Any suggestions?
It is incredible in our days see some situations shows in this episode and this serie ,when today the reporters from press does not need to face the problems in the local where occurs the facts and the danger ..Today they need only stay in the office waiting that the News arrives by internet to write about in the News papers next day or in the News television programs . I see here in Brasil i think like in USA and Europe too . THE OLD REPORTERS ARE DESSAPEARING ...Sorry about my english if i had mistakes ...From one brasilian in São Paulo that watched this serie when was a Young here and that liked so much .Edward Asner was excellent actor , like in Mary Tyler Moore series
When I saw the beautiful actress who first appears at 36:25 with reporter Carla and catches the eye of all the men present, I thought that she looked very much like a youthful Rita Wilson. I did some background research and found that she is in fact Rita Wilson in what may have been her first appearance in a network television series. Here she has an uncredited role portraying a 16-year old, but was either 20 or 21 when this premier episode of Lou Grant was filmed.
The Trib building is still there. On the corner of Pershing Square. It's apartments and has a Starbucks in the first floor.
It's the Title Guarantee & Trust Building which was built in 1930.
Great old memories of this show with Lou Grant actor
How does he go from a small station like WJM in Minneapolis to this??
It's pretty much explained in the plot..🤷♂️
He was friends with Charlie from his newspaper days.. Obviously Charlie wanted to try something different from the last several failures, and thinks Lou has the skills for the job. Even Lou is surprised.
The only real stretch here, is that Lou jumps into the job so easily, without help from Donavan to understand the system. That could've been quite entertaining and funny, but would've been the whole episode. Obviously they decided that they wanted to jump into the kinds of issues the show was going to address, and the way they were going to do it.
As a side note. Al the National Editor quit and took an assumed name to operate a radio station in Cincinnati, and the editor to his left couldn't stomach the violence of the big city, so he left to open a string of Ferryman funeral parlors. :D
Rest In Peace ED ASNER
"Now if you can excuse me Mr Grant, I have to go evict David Silver from the Peach Pit After Dark"
For all those people who believe that liberals "control" Hollywood, just ask Ed Asner how liberal Hollywood is and why this series was canceled even though it was a top-10 series in the Nielsen's.
Ed is one of my all time favorite libs , and this show is easily his best work.. I was too young to discover the series when it was on the air (only around 3-4 at the time) but have cherished discovering it in my early 40s. So many themes were explored that are even more relevant now than they were then.
''Getting back on a newspaper is like being with a woman who doesn't shave her legs. Reality; maybe you don't like it, but it's real.'' ROFL
Emily Edwards. Agree. A great line.
I grew up with this great TV-Show. At 1:10 you realize:Edward Asner carries absolutley nothing in his suitcase!
That was Rita Wilson 36:00 - Tom Hanks wife.
Nice show-you can see the seeds of disaster in the 70s beginning to balloon(Mason Adams incoherent, illogical explanation as to why he is going under for the 3rd time beneath a mountain of debt).
I like to think he went back to put the money in the news box because of Mary.
We're not in Minneapolis anymore. lol
Lol, that “fight” scene at the bar
This is intelligent drama, wonder where that went
Isn't that the same cabbie that was in Planes, Trains and Automobiles? I think it was Omaha. Still conning passengers. Ha, ha.
Ha! You're right.
"Doobie" the cab driver
I never pieced this show to mary tyker moore spin off.
Ah, the old days , leisure suits and all!ROFL
Nowadays, instead of polyester suiting, all of the managers and directors are dressed more slovenly than "Animal" the photographer.