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[colin]

steve, i've been talking to someone about old tv programmes and i mentioned an american drame series from 70's about a newspaper editor and his reporters and the various stories they covered. i can't remember what it was called, i only remember that the paper's owner was an old lady. can you remember what it was called?

[steve56]

i only recall the reporter [harry guardino]lou grant[ed asner]

[Pervert]

Was it not a magazine---The Name Of The Game. Gene Barry, Tony Franciosa and Robert Stack (?).

[steve56]

i recall that but no old lady ?

[Pervert]

Yeah, sorry, Steve was right---it was Lou Grant, the spin-off character from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Typical newspaper---one lady owner, one editor, one senior executive sidekick, one reporter of each sex and one photographer. Thank the lord for Hill Street Blues a few years later with its massive cast list.

I misread the original post.

[steve56]

never watched lou grant till around 86 on ch 4.

[Pervert]

It was all right when it first came out, but it looked horribly dated when repeated on 4---and that was barely a decade after it first aired.

Ed Asner, however, was always a class act. Nice move by Oliver Stone having well-known leftie Ed playing border-line Nazi Guy Bannister in JFK.

[steve56]

yeah always got ed asner mixed up with martin balsom .