Lou Grant
Hunger
Season 5, Episode 14 · Aired 1982-03-01
Synopsis
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 that she's a nun who runs a soup kitchen and feeds indigents. But he shifts the focus of the story to how people in a Third World country are starving which doesn't make the editors happy. And Mrs. Pynchon is instructing the staff to be less wasteful which makes them crazy.
In the series
This episode is part of Lou Grant (1977–1982) on CBS.
Mary's boss goes hour-long serious — newsroom integrity with teeth.
Key cast
- Ed Asner as Lou Grant
- Robert Walden as Joe Rossi
- Linda Kelsey as Billie Newman
- Mason Adams as Charlie Hume
- Nancy Marchand as Margaret Pynchon