LOU GRANT: GOOP (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas about a Los Angeles newspaper, its staff, and its city editor Lou Grant. In this episode, Billie Newman goes undercover at a chemical plant suspected of illegally dumping a toxic chemical which is turning up in residential homes. While investigating a strange bubble which suddenly appeared in the backyard of a suburban home, Billie meets a man who has green "goop" seeping into his basement. Joe Rossi takes the "goop" to be analyzed and learns that it contains a highly toxic chemical called C-84, which is produced at a chemical plant over one hundred miles away. Joe talks with the owner of the plant who claims that his company always complies with government regulations and detoxifies the substance before dumping it. Knowing that the owner is lying, Billie volunteers to go undercover and take a job at the chemical plant in order to dig up more information. Lou, Charlie, and Mrs. Pynchon debate whether or not misrepresentation is a legitimate form of journalism. After weighing the facts, they decide that the health of hundreds of residents being affected by the chemical is more important than their squabble over ethics and agree to send Billie to the plant. Matters become complicated when Billie befriends a teenager working at the plant and starts to feel guilty about not being truthful about her purpose there. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Grant Tinker in honor of Ed Asner.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: November 24, 1980 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:49:10
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:35145
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Chemical plants - Waste disposal; Hazardous wastes; Journalistic ethics; Newspaper editors; Newspaper publishing; Newspapers; Pollutants; Reporters and reporting; Toxic waste disposal
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1972-1982
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Gene Reynolds … Executive Producer, Created by
- Seth Freeman … Producer, Writer
- Michael Vittes … Associate Producer
- Alexander Singer … Director
- Leon Takatyan … Developed by
- Allan Burns … Created by
- James L. Brooks … Created by
- Susan Freedman … Researcher
- Patrick Williams … Theme Music by
- Edward Asner … Cast, Lou Grant
- Robert Walden … Cast, Joe Rossi
- Linda Kelsey … Cast, Billie Newman
- Mason Adams … Cast, Charlie Hume
- Jack Bannon … Cast, Art Donovan
- Daryl Anderson … Cast, Dennis "Animal" Price
- Nancy Marchand … Cast, Mrs. Pynchon
- Dominique Dunne … Cast, Teri Wilk
- Alex Henteloff … Cast, Marvin Galosh
- Parley Baer … Cast, Haggarty
- Jordan Rhodes … Cast, Lester Fields
- Med Flory … Cast, Doug Traynor
- Vernon Weddle … Cast, Ragsdale
- Terry McGovern … Cast, Larry Riesen
- Allen Williams … Cast, Adam Wilson
- Rick Fitts … Cast, the Patrolman
- Naomi Caryl … Cast, the Waitress
- Curt Wilson … Cast, Kent Diehl