A 40+ year old TV show (Lou Grant) and the Nazi Party of today

[Omaha Steve]

Marta and I were watching a first season episode of Lou Grant titled Nazi just now. With the increase in the Nazi movement over that last few years, I think it would be great for CBS to run this episode again. But I know they will never do it.

Does anyone else remember the episode?

Pursuing a story on American Nazis, Billie enters the Brown Shirt headquarters, uncovering shocking information. Members of an American Nazi party break up a Jewish demonstration, inspiring Billie to write an in-depth story on a racist organization.

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[csziggy]

1. This one?

[Omaha Steve]

3. That is it

Thanks for posting.

[erronis]

4. Hope we all get some more information on this segment. The crud has been running forever.

And they keep resurfacing, years and decades later.

Who would think that losers could be zombies - resurrecting with the same horrible character.

Nixon, Goldwater, McCarthy, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Trump/trump/trump (sounds like hob-nail boots).

[mucifer]

5. Lou Grant was great! Dragnet did one, too:

[CaptYossarian]

6. What I remember most about this high-rated amd award-winning show was how it got cancelled.

Ed Asner, Robin Williams, Hal Linden, and Howard Hesseman had a press conference where they protested Reagan backing the Contras over the democratically elected Sandinistas.

Within a couple of months, Lou Grant, Mork & Mindy, Barney Miller, and WKRP were all cancelled. It was a travesty.

Republicans talk tough, but have such thin skins.

When Dick Van Dyke and Robert Vaughn were the first Hollywood stars to speak against Vietnam, their shows weren't cancelled. But we had LBJ in the WH then. That's what made the rumors about Carol Burnett's ear tug so interesting.

[misanthrope]

7. "Lou Grant" and "WKRP" were on CBS

but the ratings for "WKRP" were inconsistent thanks to the network juggling its time slot around for three of its four seasons. Like "Star Trek," its popularity swelled in syndication.

"Barney Miller" ran a full eight seasons on ABC, customary length for shows before they move into syndication. The decision to end the series was made by its production company. Most of its popular cast over the years had moved on from the show and the producers feared they were in danger of repeating script themes. The network didn't cancel the show.

"Mork and Mindy" was an ABC show, as well. Its first season was highly ranked but it slipped to 28th by the end of Season Two, then 49th in Season Three and ended Season Four at 60th before being cancelled.

It's more likely that "Lou Grant" was cancelled due to Asner's outspoken politics.

[CaptYossarian]

8. I believe in your stats.

I also remember seeing just those four actors standing together on the evening news. It probably was just a coincidence.

Those were four shows I watched regularly and blamed Raygun for his influence. He was a total prick and I never thought we'd see any worse president.

[2naSalit]

9. That one thing you can rely on R presidents for is their consistancy in

that each successive one is far worse than the one before.

[CaptYossarian]

11. Two tickets to New Zealand, please?

What's coming after Biden's term is up? I want the pendulum to break after we capture the whole thing.

[2naSalit]

12. It's a good question but I think it will be someone

who will bring us into the moment with getting shit taken care of and quickly. A strong woman who can handle crises as we've seen with women who happen to be the leaders of their respective countries. And we all have to get our head on straight and support the programs to make the best use of what little time we have left to save ourselves from the ravages of the industrial age and the petroleum age.

New Zealand is hard to migrate to and it is so with many other countries. We're here and we have to clean up our room before we can go and socialize with the other kids on the planet who are trying to clean up their rooms and doing a better job of it.

[CaptYossarian]

17. Perfect analogy.

Too bad our arsonist in chief is at the helm. We might lose our room.

[2naSalit]

21. Good point!

Couldn't agree more.

[WyattKansas]

20. WKRP...

1) Johnny Fever's 'phone cops play hardball' episode.
2) When the highway patrolman came to prove how much drinking impaired reaction time, but Johnny Fever only got a quicker reaction time by drinking more and the patrolman got hammered.
3) The Thanksgiving plan, when they didn't know turkeys couldn't fly when they threw them out of the station news helicopter.

[misanthrope]

22. All great stuff

Aside from Gordon Jump (Mr. Carlson) the rest of that cast is still with us.

And Bailey was way more attractive (to me) than Jennifer.

[if..fish..had..wings]

10. If Billie wrote the story

why the picture of Joe and Animal?

[Omaha Steve]

13. It was the only photo I could find from that episode

That shot is from the opening.

[Omaha Steve]

14. I did a screen grab from the video in reply #1

Here is a shot for Billie doing the interview.

[if..fish..had..wings]

16. Cool

The 80's were blurry for me too...

[CaptYossarian]

18. Billie was the only one who could gain their trust.

She had red hair and fair skin.

Joe looked too "ethnic" for them and Animal was a photographer.

[Trumpocalypse]

15. The only way to deal with Nazis

[niyad]

19. Thank you for reminding us about this episode.