Lou Grant

Name: Lou Grant
Genre: Drama

1977–1982CBSDrama

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show character moved into an hour-long newspaper drama — the only American series to make that jump.

Lou Grant opens with a main title sequence of 62 seconds.

It arrived on CBS in 1977, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and As the World Turns were also on the network.

The opening titles

62s

Fan upload. The sequence follows a newspaper from pulp to print to birdcage lining, which is the whole editorial argument of the series.

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1973–CBSDrama

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1978–1991CBSDrama

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1972–1977NBCDrama

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1977ABCDrama

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