Billie: "You have a phone in your car?" Rossi: "No" Me from the future in the backseat: "I have a phone in my pocket, I can tell you the weather, I can get you the fastest route to the airport, take pictures and video (don't tell Animal), you can even type out your story with artwork and email it to the paper" Rossi and Billie: 🤨
This video reminded me of my sadness when this show was cancelled. I sometimes wonder what a contemporary version of "Lou Grant" or any kind of newspaper series set in this digital era would be like.
Which means no more pay phones.. Now when someone doesn't have a phone or the charge dies, they ask a complete stranger to use their phone; and who wants to hand their phone over to anyone else, let alone a stranger..
So glad they made Mrs P more Vibrant in later episodes. She's made up in this one to look 'old', washed out, when Lou first meets her she's cantankerous & doddery but as the series goes on they lighten her up, give her more energy. She's still cantankerous but with more brio!
My parents must have watched this show when I was younger. I remember the opening sequence and thought Lou Grant was a teacher getting mad at a student about a report he wrote and then Billie was a teachers pet 😂
ok. That's it. I'm 'Billied' out, just as I was when the show first aired. Were there only a handful of episodes that delivered the hard-heating newsroom, and a tough City Desk Editor, after all.
The reporter that was tailing Billiossi downs 3 beers and then is going to drive. The 70s folks. Billie + Rossi = Billiossi Also, Billie goes out to get his keys, looks like it's about 12PM or so (shadows are almost vertical like the Sun is overhead). They run out just a few mins later and the Sun is way west, late afternoon (6:43PM or so) 😂
If only they had something called the internet back then. Gotta respect those journalists and what they had to go through to shag down a story back in the day.
That's supermodel Cheryl Gormley, who appeared in a lot of ad's in the late 70's and early 80's. Virgina Slims, Panteen, Harper's Bazaar, etc. There's no way they could have just put her in a Ford Pinto. :-)
Hah-hah....after the first few minutes, I was thinking, "Rossi doesn't come off as a dry-humored but funny character. He is just obnoxious and a little miserable." Then, Lou said it for me at 45:14.
This comment aged like fine wine, sadly. It's wildly more true today than ever than it's more important to be first. Now it doesn't even matter if it's true. Just make it up and be first.
He probably had one. Wasn't really affordable tech available for a tv show to hide it. Not something you'd notice during the scene, but probably not a good choice to use that to run credits over.
There are a number of daytime actors over the years who have appeared on lou grant. The character of Zane. From another world. One of the actors who played larry on one life to live. . Roger from guiding light. Even main character actress Nancy Marchand appeared on both another world as a friend of iris. And I think she also did one life to live. The list just goes. On and on and on it just goes to show that even till this day it doesn't matter if it's a show from the 1970s or the 2000s slot of t.v shows and movies big and small screens would rather hire soap actors then these no talent wwe wrestlers or these in talented. Hip hop rap artist. It's no coincidence. If I was making a movie or a t.v show who do you think i would cast. Obviously it would be a past or present daytime soap star. Instead of a bunch of. Half naked idiots fighting in the ring or a bunch of dudes. Trying to sing rap lyrics that you cant even understand .
Thanks a lot!
What a wonderful series this still is after all those years.
I really enjoy watching commercial free tv shows from the past, thanks.
This was one terrific show!
Indeed
It really was ...,it kind of flew over my head when I was 8 back in 1977 but I enjoy it imensely now .
The opening scene and music is a joy to watch and listen, I love it.
Billie: "You have a phone in your car?"
Rossi: "No"
Me from the future in the backseat: "I have a phone in my pocket, I can tell you the weather, I can get you the fastest route to the airport, take pictures and video (don't tell Animal), you can even type out your story with artwork and email it to the paper"
Rossi and Billie: 🤨
This video reminded me of my sadness when this show was cancelled. I sometimes wonder what a contemporary version of "Lou Grant" or any kind of newspaper series set in this digital era would be like.
All the President's Men?
@@allfieldsrequired1 1976. Before this aired by a little over a year
thanks for the upload. This was a great show
Ah, the days before the phone in your pocket.
Which means no more pay phones.. Now when someone doesn't have a phone or the charge dies, they ask a complete stranger to use their phone; and who wants to hand their phone over to anyone else, let alone a stranger..
@@rhymeswithsomethingy4766 Did they have to take away All of the pay phones? They were everywhere. They want to mind control us.
Mind Control
9:04 - "There's that bridge that collapsed in Maryland"
This aged surprisingly well.
Thank You so much for uploads!!
So glad they made Mrs P more Vibrant in later episodes. She's made up in this one to look 'old', washed out, when Lou first meets her she's cantankerous & doddery but as the series goes on they lighten her up, give her more energy. She's still cantankerous but with more brio!
My parents must have watched this show when I was younger. I remember the opening sequence and thought Lou Grant was a teacher getting mad at a student about a report he wrote and then Billie was a teachers pet 😂
ok. That's it. I'm 'Billied' out, just as I was when the show first aired. Were there only a handful of episodes that delivered the hard-heating newsroom, and a tough City Desk Editor, after all.
The reporter that was tailing Billiossi downs 3 beers and then is going to drive. The 70s folks.
Billie + Rossi = Billiossi
Also, Billie goes out to get his keys, looks like it's about 12PM or so (shadows are almost vertical like the Sun is overhead).
They run out just a few mins later and the Sun is way west, late afternoon (6:43PM or so) 😂
I remember those days when cell phones weren't the norm yet.
michellecalling Or when you're briefcase WAS your cellphone.
When phones were dial/up and were permanently affixed to the wall and when MaxwellSmart's shoe phone was still a joke!
The opening scene is priceless watching it today! :-D
12 min "More important to be right than first" now media does not care so much about being right.
If only they had something called the internet back then. Gotta respect those journalists and what they had to go through to shag down a story back in the day.
Is that Seinfeld’s Poppie in the opening scene?
Sweet little yellow TR-5 .
That's supermodel Cheryl Gormley, who appeared in a lot of ad's in the late 70's and early 80's. Virgina Slims, Panteen, Harper's Bazaar, etc. There's no way they could have just put her in a Ford Pinto. :-)
@@PhilAndersonOutside or a Haus Frau in a TR-5
We have a lovely TR 5 from 1969. Didn't know they were a thing in the States.
David, Wal-Mart is part of this man's culture.
Hah-hah....after the first few minutes, I was thinking, "Rossi doesn't come off as a dry-humored but funny character. He is just obnoxious and a little miserable." Then, Lou said it for me at 45:14.
Now it's the opposite. It's more important to be first.... than right.
This comment aged like fine wine, sadly. It's wildly more true today than ever than it's more important to be first. Now it doesn't even matter if it's true. Just make it up and be first.
And Seinfeld’s Old Man (Sidney Fields) at 21:00.
Oh, and when the credits are rolling, the still shot of the cop flying off the motorcycle seems to show a cable attached to his belt.
That may be the antenna on the motorcycle.
He probably had one. Wasn't really affordable tech available for a tv show to hide it. Not something you'd notice during the scene, but probably not a good choice to use that to run credits over.
Oh Mr. ROSSI O for two this what happens when your head is to big for common sense
Is that a Mike Post theme and score?
cool
20:48 Woods should have been more careful driving that Bobcat - he could have been rear-ended!
Good series but Mrs. Pynchon is a comic book character.
too many horn sounds for this sort of compression in this intro D:
Back in the days when the paper was only 50% propaganda.
When people actually believed (and read) newspapers. DOH.
Any experts on this show wonder why sometimes they call Animal "the Animal" and other timers just Animal? Always wondered about that.
There are a number of daytime actors over the years who have appeared on lou grant. The character of Zane. From another world. One of the actors who played larry on one life to live. . Roger from guiding light. Even main character actress Nancy Marchand appeared on both another world as a friend of iris. And I think she also did one life to live. The list just goes. On and on and on it just goes to show that even till this day it doesn't matter if it's a show from the 1970s or the 2000s slot of t.v shows and movies big and small screens would rather hire soap actors then these no talent wwe wrestlers or these in talented. Hip hop rap artist. It's no coincidence. If I was making a movie or a t.v show who do you think i would cast. Obviously it would be a past or present daytime soap star. Instead of a bunch of. Half naked idiots fighting in the ring or a bunch of dudes. Trying to sing rap lyrics that you cant even understand .
Would like the show better if they had integrity, but guess they are -----