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 – September 13, 1982 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91 | 1 | "Wedding" | Alexander Singer | Seth Freeman | November 2, 1981 | 1501 |
| Billie accepts Ted McCovey's marriage proposal. | ||||||
| 92 | 2 | "Execution" | Burt Brinckerhoff | April Smith | November 9, 1981 | 1502 |
| Rossi interviews a woman on death row for killing a Tribune reporter while committing an armed robbery. | ||||||
| 93 | 3 | "Reckless" | Alexander Singer | Steve Kline | November 16, 1981 | 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. | ||||||
| 94 | 4 | "Hometown" | Gene Reynolds | Michele Gallery | November 23, 1981 | 1504 |
| Lou returns to his hometown to settle his aunt's estate and he also encounters his old flame. | ||||||
| 95 | 5 | "Risk" | Allen Williams | Seth Freeman | November 30, 1981 | 0521 |
| Police work with the Tribune to figure out the identity of a girl being exploited for pornography. | ||||||
| 96 | 6 | "Double-Cross" | Roger Young | Michele Gallery | December 7, 1981 | 0522 |
| Billie investigates the legacy of a gold cross that was excavated from a time capsule. | ||||||
| 97 | 7 | "Drifters" | Peter Levin | Bud Freeman | December 14, 1981 | 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. | ||||||
| 98 | 8 | "Friends" | Seth Freeman | Seth Freeman | December 28, 1981 | 1510 |
| Rossi deals with conflicts of interest when a friend of his becomes a political candidate. | ||||||
| 99 | 9 | "Jazz" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Rogers Turrentine | January 4, 1982 | 1506 |
| Rossi reunites the members of a renowned jazz quartet. | ||||||
| 100 | 10 | "Ghosts" | Roger Young | April Smith | January 11, 1982 | 1507 |
| Billie intends to solve a death that took place in a house believed to be haunted. | ||||||
| 101 | 11 | "Cameras" | Peter Levin | David Lloyd | January 25, 1982 | 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. | ||||||
| 102 | 12 | "Review" | Neil Cox | Jeffrey B. Lane | February 8, 1982 | 1512 |
| The Tribune is summoned to a media-review board and the staff is puzzled by the hostility of one board member. | ||||||
| 103 | 13 | "Immigrants" | Alexander Singer | Steve Kline | February 15, 1982 | 1511 |
| The Tribune looks for stories about the issues of Vietnamese immigrants in Southern California. | ||||||
| 104 | 14 | "Hunger" | Peter Levin | Gene Reynolds | March 1, 1982 | 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. | ||||||
| 105 | 15 | "Recovery" | Roger Young | Michele Gallery | March 8, 1982 | 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. | ||||||
| 106 | 16 | "Obituary" | Paul Stanley | April Smith | March 22, 1982 | 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. | ||||||
| 107 | 17 | "Blacklist" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Seth Freeman | April 5, 1982 | 1515 |
| A request from the Freedom of Information Act leads Rossi to seek different opinions about the blacklist. | ||||||
| 108 | 18 | "Law" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Steve Kline | April 12, 1982 | 1516 |
| Examples of litigation are presented with the staffers of the Los Angeles Tribune. | ||||||
| 109 | 19 | "Fireworks" | Jeff Bleckner | Michele Gallery | April 19, 1982 | 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. | ||||||
| 110 | 20 | "Unthinkable" | Allen Williams | April Smith | May 3, 1982 | 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. | ||||||
| 111 | 21 | "Suspect" | Alan Cooke | Seth Freeman | May 17, 1982 | 1522 |
| A rookie reporter gets ahead of himself while investigating the death of an environmental agitator that may not have been accidental. | ||||||
| 112 | 22 | "Beachhead" | Roy Campanella | Gene Reynolds | May 24, 1982 | 1520 |
| The Tribune is blamed for starting rivalries between surfer gangs. | ||||||
| 113 | 23 | "Victims" | Peter Bogart | Steve Kline | August 30, 1982 | 1521 |
| Lou is shot in a parking lot during an armed robbery, then a police officer shoots the robber dead, making him feel guilty. | ||||||
| 114 | 24 | "Charlie" | Seth Freeman | Michele Gallery | September 13, 1982 | 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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