Every season of Lou Grant ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Lou Grant!

Cophouse

Hostages

Hoax

Lou clashes with a woman who is the head of the woman's section of the newspaper over whose reporter should cover the alleged murder of a famous playwright in New Mexico.

Henhouse

Nazi

Aftershock

Barrio

Scoop

Judge

Psychout

Billie uses a battered woman as a source for a story on spousal abuse but has trouble following through with it when the women's husband finds out. She later finds out that a co-worker has a problem with spousal abuse.

Housewarming

Takeover

Christmas

Airliner

The paper faces a public backlash after Lou runs a story about an NCAA investigation into the possible recruiting violations by a popular local college football team.

Sports

Hero

Renewal

Sect

Scandal

Spies

Poison

Physical

Pills

Prisoner

Hooker

Murder

Art Donovan's mother is dying, but he is having trouble accepting this as fact. His relations with everyone in the newsroom suffer as his mother gets worse, and his colleagues try to help him come to terms with the inevitable.

Dying

Schools

Slaughter

Singles

Babies

Conflict

Denial

While investigating a string of fires in the same neighborhood, Lou and Billie find a connection linking a building owner and members of a fire department to arson.

Fire

Scam

Sweep

Samaritan

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 with an unexpected payoff. Meanwhile, after Lou and Mrs. Pynchon have separate encounters with hostile citizens, Billie is assigned to find out if there's a story in the use of cars as weapons.

Home

Convention

Marathon

Bomb

Skids

Loves (a.k.a.) Romance

The hard drinking husband of a popular female politician makes headlines while the Trib staff makes news itself in a gossip magazine. The Trib learns a hard lesson about what happens when private lives become public from Rossi's tough coverage of elected official, Bonita Worth, and Lou's firing of a resentful reporter.

Expose

Slammer

Charlatan

Frame-Up

Hype

Gambling

Witness

Kidnap

Andrew, Part 1: Premonition

Andrew is put on trial for the murder of a young woman who lived in his mother's flat. Art wants to protect his cousin but realizes that the Tribune's coverage may work against the case.

Andrew, Part 2: Trial

Hollywood

Kids

Brushfire

Indians

Cover-Up

Inheritance

Censored

The paper's long standing streak of having a daily newspaper published is threatened by a blackout.

Blackout

Dogs

Lou sticks his neck out to try and help Adam, who develops a serious drinking problem. However, when Adam's drinking problems gets worse and he expects Lou to keep covering for him, Lou regrets getting involved.

Influence

Guns

Hazard

Nightside

Harassment

Pack

Sting

Goop

Libel

Streets

Catch

Rape

Boomerang

Generations

Search

When the Tribune is hit by a worker's strike, Lou sides with management but is sympathetic toward the union.

Strike

Survival

Venice

Campesinos

Business

Violence

Depression

Stroke

Wedding

Execution

Reckless

When Lou goes back to his elderly home to settle his aunt's estate, he meets an old flame and gets his first story assignment in years from Charlie.

Hometown

Risk

Doublecross

Drifters

Friends

Jazz

Ghosts

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

The Best Seasons of Lou Grant

The Best Seasons of Lou Grant

The Best Seasons of Lou Grant

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