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Chuck, a thirty-five-year-old bachelor, is attracted to Rhoda. She pretends she shares Mary’s apartment and continues the deception as the romance grows. Rhoda becomes aware that her boyfriend is unemployed and soon begins worrying about the source of his income. Finally he reveals he’s resigned the high-paying position of vice president of a large company and plans to begin a brand new career as a forest ranger. The woodcraft enthusiast invites Mary and Rhoda to an overnight hike with some of his friends. Rhoda has a terrible time. Unable to persuade him to return to his old job, Rhoda joins him in studying trees, hoping to translate the knowledge into a more lucrative career.

Lou Grant unhappily tells Mary Richards and the newsroom gang that he and his wife, Edie, are having marital problems and have been seeing a marriage counselor who has suggested a trial separation.

Newsman Murray Slaughter decides to buy a small, but expensive, foreign car as a gift for his wife, Marie, and takes a job at night to earn the necessary extra money. Because the car is to be a surprise, Murray does not tell anyone in the office about what he is doing and editor Lou Grant nearly fires him for coming in each day too tired to do his work. When Mary Richards finally learns Murray’s secret, she tries to help him. But all this does is to make Marie suspect that Mary and her husband are having an affair. So Mary tells Marie the truth and Murray quits his second job. He also starts looking for what might be available in a used car lot.

Lou Grant finds that a secret love is a hard thing to keep secret after he regretfully takes part in a romantic fling with Sue Ann Nivens. Trying to keep the WJM-TV station people from finding out about Sue Ann puts Lou’s nerves through an elasticity test.

The new owner of the WJM-TV station adopts new procedures that raise disapproval from the news staff, though no one dares to speak out – except Murray, who takes a stand. Murray doesn’t care if his job is in jeopardy; he is determined to voice his opinion. This maverick stand baffles the news staff. They can’t determine if the news writer’s action was brave or stupid.

Lou’s journalistic abilities are challenged by Mary’s arrogant Aunt Flo, a noted newspaperwoman who believes she can write a better story than Lou any day. The heated contest has split the WJM-TV news staff into teams. Each side is waiting for the network to choose the winner by which story it will decide to air.

Murray gives up his job as a news writer to work for his chief antagonist, as producer of Sue Ann Nivens’ cooking show. After Mary turns down Sue Ann’s offer to produce her show, Murray accepts the position, visualizing advancement and especially the raise – but not the trouble.

Gambling fever takes over the WJM newsroom when Ted, who knows nothing about gambling, invents a “can’t-miss” system for betting on football games.