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Aftershock
Original Air Date: 10/25/77 |
Season 1, Episode 6
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou has trouble ending his relationship with a Tribune reporter's widow.
Airliner
Original Air Date: 1/3/78 |
Season 1, Episode 14
Date Added: 7/3/08
Charlie's daughter is a passenger on a jumbo jet in trouble above Los Angeles.
Babies
Original Air Date: 12/11/78 |
Season 2, Episode 10
Date Added: 7/3/08
Billie uncovers a baby black market scandal but has to pretend Rossi is her husband to get facts for her story, and Lou winds up as referee.
Barrio
Original Air Date: 11/1/77 |
Season 1, Episode 7
Date Added: 7/3/08
Billie gets involved in a story about a gang-related barrio shooting.
Blackout
Original Air Date: 2/18/80 |
Season 3, Episode 20
Date Added: 3/13/09
A power outage cripples most of the city, including the offices of the L.A. Tribune. If the staff can't find a way to get the next paper out, it will...
Bomb
Original Air Date: 3/26/79 |
Season 2, Episode 22
Date Added: 7/3/08
Could an individual build an atomic bomb? Lou gets a terrifying answer when a terrorist threatens to detonate a nuclear device and provides the...
Brushfire
Original Air Date: 1/7/80 |
Season 3, Episode 14
Date Added: 3/13/09
Rossi and Billie cover a devastating local brush fire, and Animal's photos serve to lead police to the arrest of an arsonist. Meanwhile, struggling to...
Censored
Original Air Date: 2/4/80 |
Season 3, Episode 18
Date Added: 3/13/09
A story on the banning and burning of books strikes close to home when Charlie Hume refuses to publish a controversial political cartoon, and an old...
Charlatan
Original Air Date: 10/15/79 |
Season 3, Episode 4
Date Added: 3/13/09
The Trib's religion writer is critical of Rossi and Billie's article about an evangelist's financial irregularities. Lou wants to defend the right of...
Christmas
Original Air Date: 12/13/77 |
Season 1, Episode 13
Date Added: 7/3/08
Two stories -- one on a homeless family, and one on a politician -- take unexpected turns.
Conflict
Original Air Date: 12/18/78 |
Season 2, Episode 11
Date Added: 7/3/08
Rossi uncovers conflicts of interest on the staff, including Lou, and writes a story that sets off fireworks in the city room.
Convention
Original Air Date: 3/5/79 |
Season 2, Episode 20
Date Added: 7/3/08
The city room hears that a radical group plans to kidnap a VIP at a publishers' convention attended by Lou and other Tribune executives.
Cop
Original Air Date: 9/17/79 |
Season 3, Episode 1
Date Added: 3/13/09
When a neighbor of his is murdered, Lou meets a young cop who has to hide his homosexuality from everyone else at the police force.
Cophouse
Original Air Date: 9/20/77 |
Season 1, Episode 1
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou, fired from his TV job, leaves Minneapolis and becomes city editor on the faltering Los Angeles Tribune.
Cover-Up
Original Air Date: 1/21/80 |
Season 3, Episode 16
Date Added: 3/13/09
When a teacher in a private school is accused of sexual misconduct with a student, Mrs. Pynchon tries to stop the board from making a hasty decision...
Denial
Original Air Date: 1/1/79 |
Season 2, Episode 12
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou's little grandson is hard of hearing, but the boy's mother can't accept it.
Dogs
Original Air Date: 3/3/80 |
Season 3, Episode 21
Date Added: 3/13/09
After the theft of Mrs. Pynchon's dog Barney, the Tribune looks into the underreported problem of dogfighting. Rossi goes undercover to catch an...
Dying
Original Air Date: 11/6/78 |
Season 2, Episode 6
Date Added: 7/3/08
Unable to face the fact that his mother is critically ill, Art Donovan puts a strain on the city room that leads Lou to give Billie an unusual...
Expose
Original Air Date: 9/24/79 |
Season 3, Episode 2
Date Added: 3/13/09
A tabloid journalist interviews the city room staff for a feature on the Tribune. The resulting article paints a pretty negative picture, undermining...
Fire
Original Air Date: 1/8/79 |
Season 2, Episode 13
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou is stunned to learn of a high level cover-up of an arson ring and, while he's checking the report, Animal's apartment building is the next target...
Frame-Up
Original Air Date: 10/22/79 |
Season 3, Episode 5
Date Added: 3/13/09
Billie and the Tribune receive much criticism after her article describing a company as a big polluter causes it to cancel a planned move to L.A....
Gambling
Original Air Date: 11/5/79 |
Season 3, Episode 7
Date Added: 3/13/09
A proposed ballot initiative raises the issue of illegal gambling. Lou is forced to fire the paper's business reporter when he violates...
Guns
Original Air Date: 3/17/80 |
Season 3, Episode 23
Date Added: 3/13/09
Francie Fitzgerald, whom Lou thinks is an Irish colleague, turns out to be a gunrunner for the IRA. The reporters of the Tribune learn more about the...
Hazard
Original Air Date: 3/24/80 |
Season 3, Episode 24
Date Added: 3/13/09
Investigating allegations that a motorcycle being marketed to young people is unsafe, Rossi is offered proof by a whistle blower at the company, but...
Henhouse
Original Air Date: 10/11/77 |
Season 1, Episode 4
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou orders "Today'' section reporter Billie off a murder story.
Hero
Original Air Date: 1/17/78 |
Season 1, Episode 16
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou seeks a man who foiled an assassination, then feels responsible for the resultant tragedy.
Hit
Original Air Date: 2/19/79 |
Season 2, Episode 18
Date Added: 7/3/08
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...
Hoax
Original Air Date: 10/4/77 |
Season 1, Episode 3
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou's con-artist pal (Eugene Roche) offers him an exclusive interview with a missing tycoon.
Hollywood
Original Air Date: 12/17/79 |
Season 3, Episode 12
Date Added: 3/13/09
The reporters of the Tribune get interested in the murder of a boxer thirty years ago. It leads them into the world of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Home
Original Air Date: 2/26/79 |
Season 2, Episode 19
Date Added: 7/3/08
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...
Hooker
Original Air Date: 10/16/78 |
Season 2, Episode 3
Date Added: 7/3/08
When reporter Billie Newman investigates the murder of a young hooker, she finds that she must change many of her ideas about the works of...
Hostages
Original Air Date: 9/27/77 |
Season 1, Episode 2
Date Added: 7/3/08
A dead thief's brother orders hostage Rossi to rewrite a story about a shooting.
Housewarming
Original Air Date: 11/29/77 |
Season 1, Episode 11
Date Added: 7/3/08
Billie writes a series on wife abuse and then finds it in the city room.
Hype
Original Air Date: 10/29/79 |
Season 3, Episode 6
Date Added: 3/13/09
Rossi and Billie research a story about new medicine development at the L.A. University Medical Center, which provides critical funding for its...
Indians
Original Air Date: 1/14/80 |
Season 3, Episode 15
Date Added: 3/26/09
While covering an Indian marathon organized to protest the treatment of Indians in South America, the reporters of the Tribune meet several Native...
Influence
Original Air Date: 3/10/80 |
Season 3, Episode 22
Date Added: 3/13/09
Lou has to decide how to handle a co-worker's drinking problem. Mrs. Pynchon gets courted by a group of prominent businessmen, who have a secret...
Inheritance
Original Air Date: 1/28/80 |
Season 3, Episode 17
Date Added: 3/13/09
While researching the cancer-causing effects that the artificial hormone DES has among young women, Billie discovers that she is a "DES daughter."...
Judge
Original Air Date: 11/15/77 |
Season 1, Episode 9
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou's observation of a manslaughter trial leads him to question an elderly judge's (Barnard Hughes) mental competence.
Kidnap
Original Air Date: 11/26/79 |
Season 3, Episode 9
Date Added: 3/13/09
When Lou sends both Billie and Rossi to cover the kidnapping of a small town's high school basketball teams, they clash about who will beat the other...
Kids
Original Air Date: 12/24/79 |
Season 3, Episode 13
Date Added: 3/13/09
Billie researches an article about the suicide of two teenagers and the effects on their families, while Rossi does a story about the personal and...
Lou
Original Air Date: 2/11/80 |
Season 3, Episode 19
Date Added: 3/26/09
Several members of the Tribune's staff clash with Lou, who is having a really bad day.
Marathon
Original Air Date: 3/19/79 |
Season 2, Episode 21
Date Added: 7/3/08
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...
Mob
Original Air Date: 10/23/78 |
Season 2, Episode 4
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou and Rossi stumble onto a big story but have trouble getting it together after they see an old-time mobster at a posh resort.
Murder
Original Air Date: 10/30/78 |
Season 2, Episode 5
Date Added: 7/16/08
A woman is killed and nobody cares except reporter Billie Newman, who finds that even Lou is reluctant to pursue the story of a "routine murder."
Nazi
Original Air Date: 10/18/77 |
Season 1, Episode 5
Date Added: 7/3/08
Billie probes anti-Semitic activities of an American fascist group.
Physical
Original Air Date: 3/20/78 |
Season 1, Episode 22
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou must undergo surgery for cancer.
Pills
Original Air Date: 9/25/78 |
Season 2, Episode 1
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou's attempt to expose a pill-pushing doctor lands reporter Joe Rossi in jail.
Poison
Original Air Date: 3/6/78 |
Season 1, Episode 21
Date Added: 7/3/08
Rossi's investigation of radiation leaks at a chemical plant leads to a friend's death and personal peril.
Prisoner
Original Air Date: 10/2/78 |
Season 2, Episode 2
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou has to find out why his friend and boss, Charlie Hume, behaves irrationally when the Tribune runs an expose of political torture.
Psych-Out
Original Air Date: 11/22/77 |
Season 1, Episode 10
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou suspects he forced Rossi to take unnecessary risks in an in-depth story on a mental hospital.
Renewal
Original Air Date: 1/30/78 |
Season 1, Episode 17
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou tries to prevent the destruction of his friend's artwork.
Romance
Original Air Date: 5/7/79 |
Season 2, Episode 24
Date Added: 7/3/08
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...
Samaritan
Original Air Date: 2/12/79 |
Season 2, Episode 17
Date Added: 7/3/08
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.
Scam
Original Air Date: 1/22/79 |
Season 2, Episode 15
Date Added: 7/3/08
Looking for a place to invest a $5,000 windfall, Lou gets a shocking look at white collar crime when he uncovers a clever financial scheme run by a...
Scandal
Original Air Date: 2/13/78 |
Season 1, Episode 19
Date Added: 7/3/08
Rossi thinks a woman reporter is trading personal favors for political information.
Schools
Original Air Date: 11/20/78 |
Season 2, Episode 7
Date Added: 7/3/08
A young woman counselor tries to make Lou understand the new and frightening trend in schools where violence has become a way of life.
Scoop
Original Air Date: 11/8/77 |
Season 1, Episode 8
Date Added: 7/3/08
Billie's accuracy causes her to miss a deadline; Rossi's speedy reporting yields errors.
Sect
Original Air Date: 2/6/78 |
Season 1, Episode 18
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou investigates when Charlie fears he has lost his son to the Hare Krishna movement.
Singles
Original Air Date: 12/4/78 |
Season 2, Episode 9
Date Added: 7/3/08
A newspaper expert is hired to give the Tribune a new look. The result: the Tribune's best reporters are sent on a story about sex, singles and...
Skids
Original Air Date: 4/2/79 |
Season 2, Episode 23
Date Added: 7/3/08
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...
Slammer
Original Air Date: 10/1/79 |
Season 3, Episode 3
Date Added: 3/13/09
Lou and Rossi work with prison inmates who are creating their own newspaper, but find that over-enthusiasm can lead to a dangerous situation....
Slaughter
Original Air Date: 11/27/78 |
Season 2, Episode 8
Date Added: 7/3/08
The vacationing Lou finds himself at odds with his old boss, the crusty owner of a rural newspaper, about breaking a story that could tear the town...
Spies
Original Air Date: 2/27/78 |
Season 1, Episode 20
Date Added: 7/3/08
The CIA asks Lou to abandon a local espionage story; he refuses. Guest starring Laurette Spang.
Sports
Original Air Date: 1/10/78 |
Season 1, Episode 15
Date Added: 7/3/08
The Tribune's sports department refuses to cover the UCLA football team's recruitment scandals. Lou meets unexpected resistance from a when he steps...
Sweep
Original Air Date: 2/5/79 |
Season 2, Episode 16
Date Added: 7/3/08
After Lou sees an Immigration Department sweep of his favorite Mexican restaurant, the Tribune uncovers a grim and unsettling picture of what's...
Takeover
Original Air Date: 12/6/77 |
Season 1, Episode 12
Date Added: 7/3/08
Lou and Charlie suspect that Mrs. Pynchon's beau, a publisher, covets the Tribune.
Vet
Original Air Date: 1/15/79 |
Season 2, Episode 14
Date Added: 7/3/08
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...
Witness
Original Air Date: 11/12/79 |
Season 3, Episode 8
Date Added: 3/13/09
After a thug confesses to Billie about being hired to intimidate a lawyer in an investigation, the thug is murdered and Billie is threatened. She gets...
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