My favorite episode of "Lou Grant" was a late 1979 entry called "Hollywood". It was reminiscent of lots of the "whodunit" mysteries. The story revolved around a long-unsolved murder of a famous prizefighter that Lou sought to solve throught a series of investigative reports. Several fictitious former Hollywood starts were interviewed for their comments about the murder which took place at an abandoned Hollywood cantina. Eventually, the "Animal" discovered a reclusive former actress who lived above the cantina. She turned out to be the murderer when she confessed to him that she was forbidden to marry him since he was Filipino. Another distinguishing factor of this episode was that it was the only one that Ed Asner narrated in the background. It also won some Emmy Awards as well.

--woogly