Details

Release year: 1977

Storyline

The trials of a former television station manager, turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.

Top credits

Cast

Edward Asner — Lou Grant
Robert Walden — Joe Rossi
Mason Adams — Charlie Hume
Jack Bannon — Art Donovan

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Awards

13 wins & 43 nominations

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Did you know

• Mrs. Pynchon, the widowed owner of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune, was based on Katherine Graham, the real widowed owner of the Washington Post, and on Dorothy "Dolly" Schiff, owner and publisher of the New York Post. For example, Schiff always carried her little dog with her, as Mrs. Pynchon does.

• The producers of the show wanted to air a final episode that dealt with the paper going out of business. They actually interviewed reporters from real newspapers that closed in order to prepare for this episode. The show was taken off the air before that episode could be filmed.

• When the series aired on CBS on Monday nights, journalism classes would dismiss early, so that the faculty and students could watch the new episodes, and discuss them in class.