New York News
an Episode Guide
by Alex Jay
Last updated:
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New York Newsan Episode Guide
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| aired from: Sep 1995 to: Nov 1995 | 13 eps, 5 unaired | CBS | 60 min | stereo | closed captioned |
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"New York News" was a newspaper drama about the struggling tabloid The New York Reporter that survived budget cuts, new owners and mobsters. Mary Tyler Moore portrayed Louise Felcott the paper's editor-in-chief who was also known as "The Dragon" around the staff. Joe Morton played the managing editor Mitch Cotter who acted as the buffer between Felcott and the staff. Gregory Harrison acted as star reporter Jack Reilly, a veteran journalist who is divorced. Melina Kanakaredes provided Reilly plenty of competition for the front page as reporter Angela Villanova who would later become romantically involved with Reilly. Madeline Kahn was the gossip columnist Nan Chase who looked down on everyone at the Reporter except Louise, her soul mate. Anthony DeSando played the ambitious sports columnist Tony Amato. Kelli Williams was the Mid-West intern Ellie Milanski who was eager to please. Harrold Perrineau Jr. was the staff photographer Benny Caldwell who befriends Ellie. Victor was the mentally challenged office clerk played by Kevin Chamberlin.
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"It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one." -- Thomas Wolfe
Jack smokes out an insurance scam involving the fire department. Angela's story on cops and hookers get sidetracked when she helps a young girl whose mother works full-time and father, a Broadway director, is a dead-beat dad. Ellie wants to work on Jack's story but Louise assigns her to cover the taxi driver who accidentally gave Nan a black eye. The taxi driver becomes suicidal and Ellie has a chance for an exclusive interview. Benny thinks his photo of the taxi driver will make the front page. Nan is afraid to go to the Barbara Streisand concert at Carnegie Hall because of the black eye. Tony wonders why Victor treats everyone to coffee and personalized mugs.
b: 28 Sep 95 pc: 465041 w: Michelle Ashford d: Michael Apted NOTE: According to the LOC files the director for this episode might actually be James Quinn."New York is a different country." -- Henry Ford
Louise has lunch with Frank Elliot, the owner of the New York Reporter, who informs her that he's considering selling the paper because it's losing money. Until that time, Elliot assigns an efficiency expert to recommend cutbacks. Jack's article on Chinatown sweatshops earns him praise at work but jeopardizes the livelihood of his source and gets him an ominous meeting with the godfather of Chinatown. Angela follows Adam Simms, a child killer released on parole, who returns to his neighborhood where he is unwanted. She changes her opinion of him when she meets his mother. Nan's nasty column on Fabio brings him to her office and he turns the table on her. Ellie is assigned to cover the Miss Big Apple pageant where she sees the deputy police commissioner in drag. After tracking him down and speaking to him, she has second thoughts about doing the story. Benny becomes a friend of Ellie. Mitch suffers chest pains and collapses.
b: 5 Oct 95 pc: 465001 w: Michelle Ashford d: John Coles"The city of right angles and tough, damaged people." -- Pete Hamill
Angela covers the Central Park shooting of a mother and her two young daughters. Her investigation makes her uncomfortable when things point to the mother. In his haste to meet an insider of a car theft ring, Jack jumps a turnstile and gets arrested. He gets teased at work and the courthouse. A champion boxer selects Tony to write his biography. After witnessing the boxer's dark side Tony tries to back out but the boxer threatens to reveal Tony's affair with a married woman. Louise asks the staff to take an intelligence evaluation in a maneuver to save Victor's job. Cash-poor Ellie fails at a second job as Animaniac Yakko at a children's party. Benny offers Ellie the opportunity to be his roommate.
b: 8 Oct 95 pc: 465002 w: Barbara Hall d: Michael Apted"Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life." -- Irving Berlin
Martin Lapetto tips Jack about cops in his plainclothes anti-crime unit that's ripping off drug dealers. Jack's story creates complications for Lapetto, the newspaper and his life. Angela goes undercover as a 911 operator after she catches someone trying to break into her apartment and her calls to 911 get busy signals. Ellie and Benny do on-the-street research with a homeless scam artist who reveals why he desperately needs the money. Ellie has problems with Benny's other roommate, a punk rocker. It's the 20th anniversary of football star Joe Namath's appearance in pantyhose and Tony wants Namath to pose again. Nan, who once lived with Namath, refuses to help Tony until he offers an enticing trade. Mitch, who is on a health diet, gets married during lunch hour. Later, he suffers another attack.
b: 12 Oct 95 pc: 465003 w: Eric Overmyer and Michelle Ashford d: Matthew Penn"Ah, what vitamins! This city is a tonic. This city is a doctor!" -- Joan Miro
At the hospital Louise and Jack try to visit a recuperating Mitch but his wife Asia has banned everyone at the newspaper from seeing him. Jack investigates a possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus at the hospital where Mitch is staying. Louise hires an interim editor, Jim Kowalski. Kowalski guides and encourages Ellie as she pursues her investigation of the city's building inspectors, the unsafe buildings and the families who have been affected. Angela meets with Philip a racist who wants to apologize for his past. Benny uses Angela in order to find and confront Philip who was responsible for the death of the man whom Benny was named after. Tony grapples with "The Gator" a professional wrestler who wants to be more than just "friends." Nan's expense account has been slashed and the quality of her of subjects drops from Gloria Steinem to Tiny Tim.
b: 19 Oct 95 pc: 465004 w: Velma Black and Barbara Hall d: Jack Bender"I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you." -- Joan Didion
Angela goes to her old neighborhood in Little Italy looking for leads on one of the mob families but ends up doing a story on domestic abuse that involves a former boyfriend. Jack's story on Joe Kessler, a second-string bomb squad expert, and his role in diffusing a bomb makes him a hero but the follow-up story makes Joe suicidal. Nan moves into a co-op and is invited to be on the board. When a famous fashion designer, who revealed she is a lesbian during the interview, is turned down for an apartment, Nan is at odds with the other board members. Tony, who has been secretly working on a novel, is upset with Victor because a copy of the manuscript was left on the copier. Ellie's series on city building-code violations turns up more dirt than she expected. She confronts temporary editor-in-chief Jim Kowalski with the new information but he tells her it doesn't matter. Ellie talks to Louise who confronts Jim. He calls Ellie a liar and dares Louise to verify Ellie's information. Louise goes to her office to call the medical examiner but is interrupted when Jack turns on the TV. They watch Frank Elliot announce that his company is filing for bankruptcy and the "New York Reporter" is for sale.
b: 2 Nov 95 pc: 465005 w: Georgia Jeffries d: Rob Thompson"A hundred times I have thought New York is a catastrophe, a beautiful catastrophe." -- Le Corbusier
An unidentified caller phones Angela claiming responsibility for the nerve-gas bombing of a New York department store and threatens to detonate another one if the paper doesn't print his "decalogue" of commandments. Jack happens to be near the department store during the attack. While gathering information he helps a boy, a victim of the attack, find his mother. Nan is in the basement of the department store during the attack. She develops a kinship with the ladies room attendant while they wait to be rescued. Ellie informs Kowalski she told Louise about their confrontation. Louise confronts Kowalski about the incident and says she sides with Ellie. At the end of the day Louise gets in her car and someone smashes the windows. Mitch returns to work.
b: 9 Nov 95 pc: 465006 w: Jack Orman s: Wayne Grigsby & Barbara Samuels d: Scott Paulin"One day there was four innocent people shot. Hard to find four innocent people in New York." -- Will Rogers
Angela works on an article on AIDS. Jack investigation of lynchings of African Americans takes him to leader of the First Nation, a neo-Nazi organization. Nan meets a woman who claims to be her daughter. Ellie and Benny are sent to Times Square where the Virgin Mary appears on the giant TV screen. Tony helps Victor get out of a mob "debt."
b: 30 Nov 95 pc: 465007 w: Michelle Ashford d: Randal KleiserNew York. "It can destroy an individual or it can fulfill him, depending on a good deal of luck." -- E.B. White
Louise's anxiety with the impending sale of the paper to sausage magnate Ollie Herman is compounded by stress from a recent attack. Louise sees a therapist. Nan fends off romantic advances from Ollie Herman. Angela covers a story on genetically engineered "designer" babies. Ellie's investigation of a heroin dealer has disastrous consequences for an undercover FBI agent. Jack must choose between helping his ex-wife, a prosecutor in the district attorney's office who suffers from manic depression, retain her job or pursuing the investigation of the police department internal affairs department. Jack's effort to help his ex-wife complicates his relationship with Angela. Tony is accused of child molestation.
b: UNAIRED pc: 465008 w: Barbara Hall d: Ian Sander"Wake up, Muscles! We're in New York now." -- Casey Stengel
The Reporter's new owner, "Sausage King" Ollie Herman, tenders his unconventional "philosophy of the news biz" to the staff and takes steps to cut costs. Ollie commandeers Mitch's office, makes a pass at Louise, and replaces the food critic with his daughter. Jack's interviews a dying convict who intends to reveal the name of his partner in a bombing. After meeting with the fugitive who has a family, Jack avoids helping the police capture him. Ellie's overprotective parents visit from Ohio and they have a problem with Benny. Louise uses "dental appointments" as a cover when visiting her therapist. Tony meets with a former Yankees pitching coach who was blackballed in the 60s and tries to get him a job with the Yankees. Angela is bedeviled by an investigation of an alleged Satan worshiper who is shunned by her neighbors. Mitch gets a pink slip and Louise declares war on Ollie.
b: UNAIRED pc: 465009 w: Jack Orman d: Daniel Attias"Mass is said in 23 different languages in this city." -- Mayor Edward Koch
Ollie begins replacing the staff with his friends and relatives. Bankruptcy court rules on Ollie's purchase of the Reporter in two days. Mitch ignores his dismissal and sets up an editorial office at a nearby cafe/bar. Louise assigns Benny and Ellie to spy on Ollie and continues her therapy sessions. The publisher of a rival paper woos Nan in more than one way. Angela helps a Bosnian father reunite with his son and the results are disastrous. Jack's investigation of Ollie leads him to Ollie's estranged gay son, a public school that suffered food poisoning from meat purchased from Ollie's company, and a sanitation worker whose son was a victim of the food poisoning. Jack tries to convince the sanitation worker, who accepted a settlement from Ollie's company, to file a new lawsuit against Ollie.
b: UNAIRED pc: 465010 w: Geoffrey Thomas George d: Michael Engler"In New York it's not whether you win or lose-it's how you lay the blame." -- Fran Lebowitz
Mitch announces an advertising campaign featuring the paper's writers, and he assigns Benny to do the portraits. Nan is uneasy with Benny as the photographer. Tony is nervous when he doesn't hear back from the editor about his manuscript for a novel. Ellie and a TV reporter's coverage of the street vendors' protest against the mayor's new regulations lead to a personal conflict. Jack's preliminary investigation of mob involvement with the paper's drivers leads Mitch to risk his life confronting the mob leader. Angela investigates a murder allegation against the school's chancellor. It was the chancellor's daughter who tipped off Angela.
b: UNAIRED pc: 465011 w: Juan Carlos Coto d: James QuinnNew York: "It's a town you come to for a short time." -- Ernest Hemingway
During her lunch break Ellie goes to the bank where a desperate construction worker holds her and other customers hostage. Donald Bent, a corrupt borough president, intends to become a federal witness against one of the Mafia families. Bent offers Angela and Jack an exclusive by allowing them to follow him on his last day as a free man before entering the witness protection program. Tony's sudden success attracts many admirers; one of them is a literary critic who seduces him. On assignment, Benny goes to the zoo to photograph Hugo the polar bear. A zoo caretaker reveals that the new owner, Leonard Brown, intends to return Hugo to Alaska. She says Hugo won't survive because he was raised in the zoo. Benny wants Jack to publish a story about Hugo and Leonard Brown but Jack says Brown is the only person interested in buying and saving the newspaper.
b: UNAIRED pc: 465012 w: Michael McAlary d: Karen Arthur| Back to TOP of Page |
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