Lou Grant: Difference between revisions

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Lou Grant

* [[Fictional Document]]: Lou Grant and his cohort work at The Los Angeles Tribune.

** [[The Hero]]: Lou

** [[The Lancer]]: Rossi

* [[From the Ashes]]: After Lou Grant and all his co-workers are fired from the station in the finale of ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV)|The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', Lou survives and thrives as the city editor of a busy Los Angeles newspaper -- and maintains his humanity and integrity throughout the series.

* [[Hanging Judge]]: Lou Grant is held in contempt of court and thrown in jail when investigating reports of a ruthless judge.

* [[Hostage Situation]]: The Trib newsroom was held hostage in the appropriately named episode "Hostages".

* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: The hallmark of the show. Lou Grant and his reporters braved everything from organized crime to corrupt politicians to natural disasters to bring the news to the people of Los Angeles.

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Lou Grant is one of the very few quality television series left that has yet to be released on DVD.

* [[Los Angeles]]: Lou Grant is the City Editor of the Los Angeles Tribune.

* [[Mad Magazine]]: ''Lou Grouch''.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: Many of the problems faced in Lou Grant were too complex to be handled by the police, who were often hamstrung by some flaw of the system.

* [[Red Shirt Reporter]]: In episodes that involved natural disasters.

* [[Screwed By the Network]]: Despite having significant enough ratings in its last season to be renewed, CBS abruptly cancelled the show due to controversies created by Asner in using both the series and his presidency of the Screen Actors Guild as political soapboxes to protest the U.S. government's intervention in El Salvador.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Often, real-life problems are showcased with outstanding attention to detail.

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Billie, not including the matriarch Mrs. Pynchon.

* [[The Seventies]]: From building interiors, to Animal's attire, to episodes like "Sect", Lou Grant is clearly a creation of the seventies.

* [[Technology Marches On]]: Averted in one episode in which the computer using City Room reporters make snide remarks about the one old timer who insists on using a typewriter....just before a City wide power outage.