Channels like this one are why I stopped watching TV. Who wants to pay to watch the crap on TV nowdays and spend 20 minutes of that watching commercials when you can have Lou Grant for free instead?
@@rogerlynch5279 Or some Rightist crackpot cries: "Foul!" Of course, that would be history repeating itself given the circumstances of the cancellation from CBS in the first place.
Lou was right. Female reporters don't belong in men's locker rooms and male reporters do not belong in women's locker rooms. Apparently Lisa Olson (the reporter that bitched because she got her ass kicked out of the New England Patriots' locker room) never watched this show. When Olson took action against the Patriots, her bosses were behind her 100 percent. If a male reporter got his keister chucked out of a WNBA locker room and he wanted to take action, his bosses would tell him 'You didn't belong in there. Drop the matter and shut up.'
This was an issue when this episode was filmed, now, not so much. Women are breaking big stories, just like male writers, in all sports from high schools to the four major U.S. sports.
The episode opens with a SWAT assault. There was a TV series on about the same time named “SWAT,” which featured the Los Angeles County SWAT team. The creation of SWAT units was a direct result of the the University of Texas tower shooter Charles Whitman’s rampage in Austin on 1 August 1966. He killed 14, including an unborn child, and injured 31 others - some permanently - before being killed by two police officers. (You’d think we would have learned that guns were out of control then. As if the assassination of a President by someone being able to buy a rifle out of magazine no questions asked wouldn’t have been enough.)
@Bif Stiff, Whitman did indeed have a brain tumor, but the area of the brain that was affected does not coincide with the behaviors he manifested, so though an intriguing possibility it is not considered a contributing factor to the attack, and those who have studied him closely say that he bore a number of traits which better explain what he did.
Good move to make Mrs P 'younger'. She looked so doddery & 'washed out' in the first episode. Also smart to make the 'sports' editor Fit & Healthy & Attractive & not like one of the Cold War Russian female coaches - Charlie's "You Lucky DOG!"😆 How many have done Lou's walk into the pool?
I don't know about that. I mean, at least the cast and crew were professional enough to steer clear of the tired, tropish jokes about conventions which have, regrettably, become the traditional mainstay on television. I'm particularly glad about that given some of the real-life conventions which have been broadcast over the years.
Season 2.....Billy’s looking good this year.
Kenneth McMillan & Amanda McBroom were 2 great character actors from this era
amanda mcbroom also a songwriter who wrote "the rose" made popular by bette midler.
Channels like this one are why I stopped watching TV. Who wants to pay to watch the crap on TV nowdays and spend 20 minutes of that watching commercials when you can have Lou Grant for free instead?
It is a time based thing untill someone cries Copyright then Lou Grant disappears from RUclips
@@rogerlynch5279 Or some Rightist crackpot cries: "Foul!" Of course, that would be history repeating itself given the circumstances of the cancellation from CBS in the first place.
Kenneth McMillan was in one of great movies alltime-80's..."Pope Of Greenwich Villlage"...played the safe cracker.
Thank You for the uploads!!
Kenneth McMillan from Cats Eye & Rhoda.
Lou was right. Female reporters don't belong in men's locker rooms and male reporters do not belong in women's locker rooms. Apparently Lisa Olson (the reporter that bitched because she got her ass kicked out of the New England Patriots' locker room) never watched this show. When Olson took action against the Patriots, her bosses were behind her 100 percent. If a male reporter got his keister chucked out of a WNBA locker room and he wanted to take action, his bosses would tell him 'You didn't belong in there. Drop the matter and shut up.'
This was an issue when this episode was filmed, now, not so much. Women are breaking big stories, just like male writers, in all sports from high schools to the four major U.S. sports.
And these are the women (like the men) who did their homework by watching this show meaning there is a time and a place to break the story
2:12 the bass player from Gerry and the Pacemakers
The episode opens with a SWAT assault. There was a TV series on about the same time named “SWAT,” which featured the Los Angeles County SWAT team. The creation of SWAT units was a direct result of the the University of Texas tower shooter Charles Whitman’s rampage in Austin on 1 August 1966. He killed 14, including an unborn child, and injured 31 others - some permanently - before being killed by two police officers. (You’d think we would have learned that guns were out of control then. As if the assassination of a President by someone being able to buy a rifle out of magazine no questions asked wouldn’t have been enough.)
SWAT was awful
@Bif Stiff, Whitman did indeed have a brain tumor, but the area of the brain that was affected does not coincide with the behaviors he manifested, so though an intriguing possibility it is not considered a contributing factor to the attack, and those who have studied him closely say that he bore a number of traits which better explain what he did.
~Really Charlie, an ascot by the pool...Goofball!
Good move to make Mrs P 'younger'. She looked so doddery & 'washed out' in the first episode. Also smart to make the 'sports' editor Fit & Healthy & Attractive & not like one of the Cold War Russian female coaches - Charlie's "You Lucky DOG!"😆 How many have done Lou's walk into the pool?
Perhaps a little too much comedy in this one . . .
I don't know about that. I mean, at least the cast and crew were professional enough to steer clear of the tired, tropish jokes about conventions which have, regrettably, become the traditional mainstay on television. I'm particularly glad about that given some of the real-life conventions which have been broadcast over the years.