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Lou Grant is an American drama television series starring Ed Asner in the title role as a newspaper editor that aired on CBS from September 20, 1977, to September 13, 1982. The third spin-off (after Rhoda and Phyllis ) of the American sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Lou Grant was created by James L. Brooks , Allan Burns , and Gene Reynolds .
Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Ed Asner in two television series produced by MTM Enterprises for CBS.The first was The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), a half-hour light-hearted situation comedy in which the character was the news director at fictional television station WJM-TV in Minneapolis.
Lou Grant; Phyllis is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from September 8, 1975, to March 13, 1977. Created mainly by Ed.
This is a list of episodes of the television drama series Lou Grant, a spin-off of the comedy series The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ... List of Phyllis episodes
Mary also bonds with Phyllis's precocious daughter, Bess. Mary applies for a secretarial job at television station WJM-TV, the area's lowest rated channel. After meeting with news producer Lou Grant, she learns the position has been filled but she is hired as an associate producer. Later, Mary is promoted to producer when Lou becomes the news ...
The show spun off three television series, all of which aired on CBS: the sitcoms Rhoda (1974–78) and Phyllis (1975–77), and the one-hour drama Lou Grant (1977–82). In 2000, Moore and Harper reprised their roles in a two-hour ABC TV-movie, Mary and Rhoda.
Audrey and Phyllis in the premiere episode of Phyllis. In 1975, Leachman left The Mary Tyler Moore Show to star in spin-off series Phyllis, in which Phyllis and Bess relocate to Phyllis' hometown, San Francisco, following the death of Lars. They move in with Lars' mother Audrey and Audrey's new husband, Judge Jonathan Dexter (Henry Jones).
Surprisingly, Lou, Mary, Murray, and Sue Ann are fired, but the person widely perceived as the cause of the Six O'Clock News' low ratings, Ted is retained. Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis reunited at last. Everyone takes the news pretty hard, except for Ted, who saunters back into the newsroom, but it is Mary who takes the news hardest.