Lou Grant (season 5)

Lou Grant (season 5)
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 24
Release
Original network CBS
Original release November 2, 1981 (1981-11-02) – September 13, 1982 (1982-09-13)
Season chronology

This is a list of episodes for the fifth and final season of Lou Grant.

Episodes

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production code
911"Wedding"Alexander SingerSeth FreemanNovember 2, 1981 (1981-11-02)1501
Billie accepts Ted McCovey's marriage proposal.
922"Execution"Burt BrinckerhoffApril SmithNovember 9, 1981 (1981-11-09)1502
Rossi interviews a woman on death row for killing a Tribune reporter while committing an armed robbery.
933"Reckless"Alexander SingerSteve KlineNovember 16, 1981 (1981-11-16)1503
Lou gets arrested for drunk driving, while Charlie decides to set up a crime-tip hotline that may help the Tribune get the scoop on crime stories.
944"Hometown"Gene ReynoldsMichele GalleryNovember 23, 1981 (1981-11-23)1504
Lou returns to his hometown to settle his aunt's estate and he also encounters his old flame.
955"Risk"Allen WilliamsSeth FreemanNovember 30, 1981 (1981-11-30)0521
Police work with the Tribune to figure out the identity of a girl being exploited for pornography.
966"Double-Cross"Roger YoungMichele GalleryDecember 7, 1981 (1981-12-07)0522
Billie investigates the legacy of a gold cross that was excavated from a time capsule.
977"Drifters"Peter LevinBud FreemanDecember 14, 1981 (1981-12-14)1505
Charlie's nephew's disturbed nature becomes obvious when he comes to stay with the Humes and the paper tries to find a bear that escaped from the zoo.
988"Friends"Seth FreemanSeth FreemanDecember 28, 1981 (1981-12-28)1510
Rossi deals with conflicts of interest when a friend of his becomes a political candidate.
999"Jazz"Burt BrinckerhoffRogers TurrentineJanuary 4, 1982 (1982-01-04)1506
Rossi reunites the members of a renowned jazz quartet.
10010"Ghosts"Roger YoungApril SmithJanuary 11, 1982 (1982-01-11)1507
Billie intends to solve a death that took place in a house believed to be haunted.
10111"Cameras"Peter LevinDavid LloydJanuary 25, 1982 (1982-01-25)1509
A hostage situation at a fast-food restaurant teaches the Tribune an important lesson about how television can provide the news and decude the verdict in the criminal trials.
10212"Review"Neil CoxJeffrey B. LaneFebruary 8, 1982 (1982-02-08)1512
The Tribune is summoned to a media-review board and the staff is puzzled by the hostility of one board member.
10313"Immigrants"Alexander SingerSteve KlineFebruary 15, 1982 (1982-02-15)1511
The Tribune looks for stories about the issues of Vietnamese immigrants in Southern California.
10414"Hunger"Peter LevinGene ReynoldsMarch 1, 1982 (1982-03-01)1508
Rossi bets that he can make a story out of anyone on the street that Lou picks - and the woman Lou points to happens to be the head of a soup kitchen, leading Rossi to investigate hunger.
10515"Recovery"Roger YoungMichele GalleryMarch 8, 1982 (1982-03-08)1513
Rossi investigates land claims by Japanese-Americans who sold them cheap before their forced internment during World War II, but Lou and Charlie try to stop him from using a key source to go any further with the story.
10616"Obituary"Paul StanleyApril SmithMarch 22, 1982 (1982-03-22)1514
Billie is pulled from a plane just before it crashes and she writes the obituaries for four Tribune staffers who were killed in the crash.
10717"Blacklist"Burt BrinckerhoffSeth FreemanApril 5, 1982 (1982-04-05)1515
A request from the Freedom of Information Act leads Rossi to seek different opinions about the blacklist.
10818"Law"Burt BrinckerhoffSteve KlineApril 12, 1982 (1982-04-12)1516
Examples of litigation are presented with the staffers of the Los Angeles Tribune.
10919"Fireworks"Jeff BlecknerMichele GalleryApril 19, 1982 (1982-04-19)1517
While investigating a fireworks bill from the Tribune's Sacramento bureau, Billie runs into her ex-husband, now an aggressive lobbyist for the fireworks industry.
11020"Unthinkable"Allen WilliamsApril SmithMay 3, 1982 (1982-05-03)1519
While the Tribute reports the fate of a girl being treated in a burn unit, a confrontation in the Middle East brings up the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the burn unit is mobilized.
11121"Suspect"Alan CookeSeth FreemanMay 17, 1982 (1982-05-17)1522
A rookie reporter gets ahead of himself while investigating the death of an environmental agitator that may not have been accidental.
11222"Beachhead"Roy CampanellaGene ReynoldsMay 24, 1982 (1982-05-24)1520
The Tribune is blamed for starting rivalries between surfer gangs.
11323"Victims"Peter BogartSteve KlineAugust 30, 1982 (1982-08-30)1521
Lou is shot in a parking lot during an armed robbery, then a police officer shoots the robber dead, making him feel guilty.
11424"Charlie"Seth FreemanMichele GallerySeptember 13, 1982 (1982-09-13)1523
Charlie has a bad day when he has to fire misfits and deal with complaints from reporters regarding their jobs.
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