Gary Pagett

When a teacher in a private school is accused of sexual misconduct with a student, Mrs. Pynchon tries to stop the board from making a hasty decision about the future of a promising teacher. Meanwhile, Billie tries to uncover corruption in a film studio.

The bane of a reporter’s job, the cover-up, hits on two sensitive areas: a private school where Mrs. Pynchon is a trustee, and at a movie studio where Rossi is attempting to sell a screenplay. Rossi knows that brilliant teacher Jeff Lindsey is in some kind of trouble, but runs in to a brick wall when trying to get answers. Lou steps on toes while investigating a kickback scandal involving top executives at the movie studio.

Bud is slacking off—he’s not doing his chores and he’s put off memorizing a poem to recite in church. Margaret insists he skip his softball game and catch up on his work. Also available on Netflix and Amazon Instant Video

Billie researches an article about the suicide of two teenagers and the effects on their families, while Rossi does a story about the personal and professional pressures on child star Carly Mitchell. Meanwhile, Lou tries to help a troubled youngster.

Francie Fitzgerald, whom Lou thinks is an Irish colleague, turns out to be a gunrunner for the IRA. The reporters of the Tribune learn more about the "Troubles" and Art gets annoyed when people think his Irish ancestry makes him an expert on the matter.

After a thug confesses to Billie about being hired to intimidate a lawyer in an investigation, the thug is murdered and Billie is threatened. She gets police protection, but has a hard time getting along with the officer assigned to guard her.

While covering an Indian marathon organized to protest the treatment of Indians in South America, the reporters of the Tribune meet several Native Americans.

Charlie's daughter is a passenger on a jumbo jet in trouble above Los Angeles.

Lou seeks a man who foiled an assassination, then feels responsible for the resultant tragedy.

A series of Skid Row stranglings turn out to have special meaning for Lou, who discovers his former doctor is now a bum, and for Rossi, who has his own reason for hating drunks.

Romance hits the Tribune, but not the hearts and flowers kid: Lou gets an unexpected offer from Susan, and Billie meets teenagers who have babies to escape from home.

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.