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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s TV Shows - 1980s 3 Mins Read

    Lou Grant

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    Lou Grant drew on the comedy character of the executive producer of TV news in the long-running Mary Tyler Moore Show but transformed that comic persona into a serious, reflective, committed newsman at a major metropolitan newspaper.

    On the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (which aired in September 1977) the entire news staff at WJM-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, were fired. Lou Grant, who was 50 years old at the time, moved to Los Angeles, where he got a job as the city editor on the Los Angeles Tribune.

    lougrant7The series sought weekly to explore a knotty issue facing media people in contemporary society, focusing on how investigating and reporting those issues impact on the layers of personalities populating a newspaper company.

    Topics included gun control, invasion of privacy, confidential sources, child abuse and Vietnamese refugees. Mingled with each episode’s issue was an interplay of personalities, often light-hearted, among featured characters.

    Featured regulars were the autocratic owner of the newspaper, Margaret Pynchon, (Nancy Marchand who later became better known as Livia Soprano in the popular Sopranos series), Lou’s boss, managing editor Charlie Hume (Mason Adams), hotshot investigative reporter Joe Rossi (Robert Walden), ambitious young reporter Carla Madigan (Rebecca Balding) – who was replaced by reporter Billie Newman McCovey (Linda Kelsey), Art Donovan, Lou’s assistant city editor (Jack Benson); and Dennis ‘Animal’ Price, an unconventional photographer, played by Daryl Anderson.

    Lou Grant was first scheduled on Tuesday evenings at 10:00 PM, in the second and following seasons it was aired on Mondays at that time.

    The series received critical acclaim, receiving a Peabody award in 1978, Emmy awards in 1979 and 1980 for outstanding drama series, plus other Emmy’s for writing and acting during its five years on the air.

    Lou Grant is significant in the history of MTM Productions as the bridge programme between comedies such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later, more complex dramas such as Hill Street Blues.

    Few independent production companies have had such visible success in crossing lines among television genres.

    Lou Grant 
    Edward Asner
    Charlie Hume 

    Mason Adams
    Joe Rossi 

    Robert Walden
    Billie Newman McCovey 

    Linda Kelsey
    Margaret Pynchon 

    Nancy Marchand
    Art Donovan 

    Jack Bannon
    Dennis “Animal” Price 

    Daryl Anderson
    National Editor (1) 

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    National Editor (2) 

    Emilio Delgado
    Foreign Editor 

    Laurence Haddon
    Financial Editor 

    Gary Pagett
    Adam Wilson 

    Allen Williams
    Photo Editor 

    Billy Beck
    Carla Mardigian 

    Rebecca Balding
    Ted McCovey 

    Cliff Potts
    Linda 

    Barbara Jane Edelman
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