• Premiered: Sep 1977
  • Episodes: 114
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • CBS
  • Unknown
  • Crime Drama

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Season 5
5x1
Wedding
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 02, 1981
Billie gets a marriage proposal from Baseball scout Ted McCovney. Lou meets up with his youngest daughter Janie, who feels he's always neglected her for work.
5x2
Execution
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 09, 1981
Kitty Larsen, a young woman on death row picks Rossi to tell her story. Although hesitant at first, he soon begins to like her. But Lou has personal feelings against her because she killed a reporter from the Trib'.
5x3
Reckless
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 16, 1981
Lou is arrested for driving under the influence. His sentence includes attending a group meeting which culminates in a drunk driving test. Charlie sets up a 'Private Eye' hot-line at the .. show full overview
5x4
Hometown
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 23, 1981
When Lou goes back to his elderly home to settle his aunt's estate, he meets an old flame and gets his first story assignment in years from Charlie.
5x5
Risk
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 30, 1981
Sharon McNeil gets a story about child pornography by promising not to reveal the names of her source. A promise her superiors at the Trib' and the L.A. police department soon want her .. show full overview
5x6
Doublecross
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 07, 1981
Billie suspects the gold cross found in a time capsule has been switched for a fake. Her investigations unearth the reasons behind an old family feud between the extremely rich side and the less rich side of the Matheson family.
5x7
Drifters
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 14, 1981
Charlie's nephew Scott comes to stay with him, and turns out to have a mental condition. But the young man refuses to take his medication. The staff is busy tracking an escaped zoo bear called Ziggy.
5x8
Friends
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 28, 1981
When his lawyer friend Burton Cary becomes a political candidate, Rossi finds learns he's not as clean-cut as he thought. Meanwhile the entire staff becomes a bit suspicious of Art after .. show full overview
5x9
Jazz
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Air date
Jan 04, 1982
Rossi runs into a bass player that used to be in the famous Sonny Goodwin Quartet and sets about reuniting the four of them. Tribute reporters Crosley and Banks split up when Banks .. show full overview
5x10
Ghosts
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 11, 1982
Billie investigates the death of a woman in a house that is said to be haunted. This leads her to attend a séance and search out the owners of a Ouija board.
5x11
Cameras
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 25, 1982
A stick-up at a Mr. Ginty's fast-food restaurant turns into a hostage situation with a group of birthday party kids. The possible trauma caused by this becomes a big part of the .. show full overview
5x12
Review
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Air date
Feb 08, 1982
Charlie becomes a member of a news council and finds one member who seems to have a grudge against him and the Tribune. Mrs. Pynchon asks Billie to help her write an autobiographical .. show full overview
5x13
Immigrants
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 15, 1982
The Tribune hires an old acquaintance of Animal's from 'Nam: photographer Lee Van Tam. But Tam's domestic troubles interfere with his work. Lou tries to get out of meeting visiting relatives.
5x14
Hunger
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 01, 1982
Rossi makes a bet with that he can get a story from anyone on the street. And the person he chooses is a woman who goes through the garbage who gets used by still viable food. He learns .. show full overview
5x15
Recovery
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 08, 1982
Rossi pursues a story about land claims by Japanese-Americans who sold cheaply prior to their forced internment during World War II, but Lou and Charlie try to stop him from following through with a key source. Billie traces a scam to a politician.
5x16
Obituary
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 22, 1982
At the last minute, Billie is pulled from a plane that crashes. She writes the obituaries of four Tribune staffers killed. Animal has to face the dilemma of reporting the impending .. show full overview
5x17
Blacklist
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Air date
Apr 05, 1982
When one of the paper reporters' father comes to town to perform. It seems he was a folk singer in the 50's and he was blacklisted during the Communists Witch Hunts. They learn that one .. show full overview
5x18
Law
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 12, 1982
The proliferation of litigation on various fronts is pursued: Billie's story on a political recall movement leads to people she named in her story being sued by the target of the recall; .. show full overview
5x19
Fireworks
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Air date
Apr 19, 1982
Billie covers a story about a fireworks bill from the Tribune's Sacramento bureau where she encounters her ex-husband, who is now an aggressive lobbyist on behalf of the fireworks .. show full overview
5x20
Unthinkable
Episode overview
Air date
May 03, 1982
As the Tribune covers the fate of a girl being treated in a burn unit, the possibility arises that a confrontation in the Middle East will lead to a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and the burn unit is mobilized.
5x21
Suspect
Episode overview
Air date
May 17, 1982
A rookie reporter gets in over his head when covering the death of an environmental agitator that might not have been accidental; meanwhile, Lou dates an unfaithful woman.
5x22
Beachhead
Episode overview
Air date
May 24, 1982
The Tribune is blamed for inflaming rivalries between surfer gangs. Billie and Ted differ on the place of a group home in their neighborhood.
5x23
Victims
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 30, 1982
Lou is shot in an armed robbery in a parking lot, and the robber is soon killed by a police officer who has trouble dealing with his actions.
5x24 Show finale
Charlie
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 13, 1982
A bad day for Charlie involves firing misfits and dealing with static from reporters over their assignments; meanwhile, Donovan suspects his girlfriend is pregnant.

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