Season 1 Coming to DVD on May 3rd!

[Skywalker]

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Lou-Grant-Season-1/21973

Lou Grant - Shout! Suprises Us Again: DVDs for 'The Complete 1st Season'
5-disc set is coming to stores in early May, according to Amazon

Posted by David Lambert
2/05/2016

Following the end of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in March of 1977, the folks at CBS didn't waste any time spinning off one of the show's most popular characters into his own program. Lou Grant debuted in September 1977, and ran for 5 seasons. Ed Asner moved from Minneapolis (where the previous sitcom was set) to Los Angeles, where he becomes City Editor for a fictitious newspaper called The Los Angeles Tribune. What was striking that the new show was a drama, and Asner played the same character transitioning from a comedy show to a serious one.

The paper was owned by a character played by Nancy Marchand (who later played mother "Livia" on The Sopranos). But Lou directly reported to his old friend who gave him his new job, Charlie Hume, played by Mason Adams (best otherwise remembered as the U.S. President in Omen III: The Final Conflict). One of the reporters who worked for Lou, Joe Rossi, was played by Robert Walden (who went on to lead in Showtime's 1984 series Brothers). Walden and Adams were nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award 3 times for their roles on this show. Marchand was nominated five times, once for each season, winning it 4 of those times. Also nominated in all five seasons was Linda Kelsey, who played reporter "Billie Newman." Asner himself was nominated in all five seasons, and won 2 Emmy Awards for this show...adding the the three he received for the same role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

The studio hasn't officially announced it yet, but an Amazon.com pre-order listing shows that a long-awaited release of Lou Grant - The Complete 1st Season is coming to stores at last, on May 3rd, from Shout! Factory. The Amazon listing says in the text that it's a Blu-ray release, but we figured that this was a typo...and we were right. In the time it took us to write up this story, package art (seen below) was added to Amazon's listing, and on the spine it clearly shows this is a DVD.

The 5-disc set will cost $39.97 SRP, and is expected to include all 22 episodes. Those episodes included appearances by Gordon Jump, Rita Wilson, Richard Sanders, Tim Reid, Geoffrey Lewis, Peter Weller, Brian Dennehy, Nancy Parsons, Joyce Van Patten, Noble Willingham, George Murdock, Barnard Hughes, Edward Winter, Connie Sawyer, Tim O'Connor, Laurette Spang, Robbie Rist, Sandy Kenyon, Gail Strickland, Belinda Montgomery, and more. Our thanks to reader Lee Spilberg for the heads-up about this item. Here's that package art:

[Svenfan1234]

Hmm, this sounds interesting. I might buy it eventually. I wonder if the rest of St. Elsewhere is coming

[RetrovisionPrince]

YEAAAAAAH BABY IT'S ABOUT TIME, If my local walmart won't carry it then I'll half to buy it online.