
About this season
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
Episodes (24)
1. Pills
Aired 25 September 1978 • 60 min
2. Prisoner
Aired 2 October 1978 • 60 min
3. Hooker
Aired 16 October 1978 • 60 min
After a homicide occurs in the city, Billie finds out that the victim was a prostitute who worked at a "spa" business. While investigating, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the victim's co-worker who does not seem to fit the stereotypical profile of a hooker.
4. Mob
Aired 23 October 1978 • 60 min
5. Murder
Aired 30 October 1978 • 60 min
6. Dying
Aired 6 November 1978 • 60 min
Art Donovan's mother is dying, but he is having trouble accepting this as fact. His relations with everyone in the newsroom suffer as his mother gets worse, and his colleagues try to help him come to terms with the inevitable.
7. Schools
Aired 20 November 1978 • 60 min
8. Slaughter
Aired 27 November 1978 • 60 min
9. Singles
Aired 4 December 1978 • 60 min
10. Babies
Aired 11 December 1978 • 60 min
11. Conflict
Aired 18 December 1978 • 60 min
12. Denial
Aired 1 January 1979 • 60 min
13. Fire
Aired 8 January 1979 • 60 min
While investigating a string of fires in the same neighborhood, Lou and Billie find a connection linking a building owner and members of a fire department to arson.
14. Vet
Aired 15 January 1979 • 60 min
15. Scam
Aired 22 January 1979 • 60 min
16. Sweep
Aired 5 February 1979 • 60 min
17. Samaritan
Aired 12 February 1979 • 60 min
18. Hit
Aired 19 February 1979 • 60 min
A mother, obsessed with tracking the hit-and-run driver who killed her son, arouses Rossi's fighting instincts and leads to a human interest story with an unexpected payoff. Meanwhile, after Lou and Mrs. Pynchon have separate encounters with hostile citizens, Billie is assigned to find out if there's a story in the use of cars as weapons.
19. Home
Aired 26 February 1979 • 60 min
20. Convention
Aired 5 March 1979 • 60 min
21. Marathon
Aired 19 March 1979 • 60 min
22. Bomb
Aired 26 March 1979 • 60 min
23. Skids
Aired 2 April 1979 • 60 min
24. Loves (a.k.a.) Romance
Aired 7 May 1979 • 60 min