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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?

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

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

i recall that but no old lady ?

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.

never watched lou grant till around 86 on ch 4.

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.

yeah always got ed asner mixed up with martin balsom .