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A local newspaper columnist, who Lou is convinced loves to destroy people’s reputations, interviews Mary about being the only woman in the newsroom at WJM.

Murray suffers the pains of being Ted’s ghostwriter when a small article he writes for the anchorman for $200 turns out to be worth $2,500 to Reader’s Digest, not to mention the fame and glory Ted is gobbling up.

Georgette visits boyfriend Ted Baxter at WJM-TV, only to find him kissing another woman in his dressing room; so she decides to become a nun.

Out of a job when told that her “Happy Homemaker” show is not being renewed, Sue Ann refuses station WJM’s offer to buy out her contract for a pittance. The station attempts to break her down by assigning her to degrading menial jobs. However, she outwits them by conning Lou and Mary into giving her a job in the newsroom where she immediately becomes a continual and permanent source of irritation.

Lou Grant is afraid Mary Richards is becoming addicted to sleeping pills when, after nights of suffering from insomnia, Mary turns to a doctor’s prescription for help.

Mary’s neighbor Phyllis, who now has a real-estate license and is hungry for clients. She zeroes in on Lou Grant as a likely prospect to sell his house.

Because he’s lonely while his wife is out of town, Lou Grant takes Mary and Rhoda to a movie, where they run into Lou’s son-in-law with a girl who is not Lou’s daughter. Embarrassed at the confrontation, Lou, Mary and Rhoda leave the movie and spend a long evening while Lou plays the outraged father determined to protect his daughter and teach his son-in-law a lesson.

Lou Grant moves into Rhoda’s old apartment and takes over Mary’s private life in much the same way he runs things at the office.