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Who can turn the world on with her smile?

Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

Well, it's you, girl, and you should know it.

With each glance and every little movement you show it, love is all alone,

need to waste it. You can never tell, why don't you take it?

You're gonna make it after all.

You're gonna make it after all.

Good

morning,

Mary. Mr. Grant?

Know what I got here?

Two plane tickets.

One has my name on it and one has your name on it.

Where are we going?

Mary Richards, you are going to... You are going to...

Mr. Grant, have you been watching a lot of daytime quiz shows?

Mary,

what is your favorite city in the entire world?

Paris. We're going to Paris?

No, no, no.

We're not going to Paris.

What's your favorite city in America?

San Francisco.

In the east, the east. In the east.

New York.

Philadelphia.

Washington,

D .C. Washington, D .C. Yeah, that's it. My favorite city in the whole world.

Well, why? How? We're going this weekend. It's a special seminar on...

and the press.

Now, they asked me to take two people from the station, so I'm picking you and

me. Oh, Mr. Grant, thank you. Yeah, yeah. That's wonderful.

Washington, D .C. is quite a place. It's my old beach, you know.

That's right.

Yeah, yeah. I covered D .C. for the Detroit Free Press.

Spent three years there. Got a million friends.

Important people, too.

I mean, the kind of people that make a town like that tick.

Congressmen, senators, judges.

Bartenders.

Oh, Mr. Grant, it's wonderful, just wonderful.

What's so wonderful?

Oh, Mr. Grant and I are going to Washington, D .C. on a junket.

I didn't know you could get there by boat.

No, Ted, it's a press seminar.

A freebie?

Yeah. Well, don't pack yet, Mary. We'll see who's going to Washington.

Ted, you're supposed to knock.

You broke your promise, Lou.

What are you talking about? You know what I'm talking about. You broke your

promise. You said the next time there was a free trip anyplace that I'd get to

go and you broke your promise.

Lou, in the seven years that I've known you, you may have humiliated me, you may

have ridiculed me, you may have screamed at me, you may have cursed at me, but

you never broke your promise, Lou.

What's the matter? Don't you like me anymore?

Oh, come on.

Ted.

Ted.

Ted. Oh, it's you.

You, you.

You.

You know I wouldn't break a promise to you unless I had a very good reason.

Well, there isn't a reason good enough.

There's not?

Well, I can't think of any.

Unless... If you'd go away, you needed somebody responsible, level -headed,

experienced, capable, and brilliant to take charge of the newsroom.

And you can't turn to anybody but me.

Is that it, Lou?

Maybe. What do you mean, maybe? Is it the reason or isn't the reason? Yeah,

yeah, you're right. That's the reason.

Well, that's a very good reason.

That's a good reason, Lou.

You ought to make me a producer.

God bless you, Lou.

Hey, how about that?

Ted Baxter with the 6 o 'clock news.

Starring Ted Baxter.

Produced by Ted Baxter.

Come on, Lou.

You've got to tell Murray that you're putting me in charge.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll tell him later.

Tell him now, Lou. He won't believe me.

You tell him and I'll watch his face.

Hey, hey, Murray.

Yeah, Lou.

Ted's in charge.

Uh, what's that, Lou? I'm sorry I didn't hear what you said.

Louder, Lou.

Ted's in charge of the news while we're away.

Ted who?

Oh, no.

Hey, Lou, you're not serious.

I had to. Lou, what?

That's the face I wanted to see.

Follow my old contact.

We are going to be wined and wined. Oh, really, huh?

Don't worry about a thing.

You're going to have the most exciting two days of your life.

Well, Murray, we're on our way.

Bye -bye, Murr. Good luck.

Bye, Mary. Goodbye, Lose.

Aren't you going to wish us a nice trip?

No.

You still upset about Ted?

Upset? Not at all.

It's amazing how calm one gets when the end is near.

The torch has been passed, the banner's been lifted from the dust, and the ship

of state is back on its course once again. And the clowns are running the

circuit.

Who'd you thought, Marie?

Now, as your leader, you'll find that I'm firm but understanding.

You'll learn to love me and lay down your life for me.

Carry on.

He didn't say he could use his office. Didn't say I couldn't.

It's open.

Hi. Hi.

Okay, our first night in Washington.

What are we going to do?

Oh, I'm not sure yet.

Hasn't anybody returned any of your calls?

No, no, but they're going to. Don't worry.

Don't worry. Anyway, I was with you at the seminar all day. They probably

already called, and I missed them. Oh, yeah, sure. Well, they'll probably call

while we're out to dinner, and then we can check when we get back. So, what

restaurant shall we go to?

Restaurant?

Mary, you can go to a restaurant in any city in the world.

Look, there are probably five terrific parties going on in Washington tonight.

Now, I've got some feelers out, and we're just going to wait until they

We're just going to wait here?

Well, this is where the calls are going to come.

Oh, but Mr. Grant, I've never been to Washington before.

It's my first night in the Capitol.

I'd like to see some of it. Mary, don't worry. You're going to see all of it.

Trust me.

See what I mean?

Where will it be?

Hickory Hill?

Georgetown?

Let us see.

Look around here.

Yeah,

she is.

Somebody for you.

I'll try not to tie up the line for too long.

Hello?

I remember you at the reception.

The tall one with all the ribbons.

Oh, just a minute. Let me just see.

Hang on. Mr. Grant, how would you like to go to a party at the French Embassy?

Embassy party?

We're going to do a lot better than that.

Well, thank you very much, but we're going to be having other plans.

But thanks anyway.

Bye.

Never been to an embassy party.

Then don't.

Anyway, every guy in town uses that lie. Would you like to go to a party at the

French embassy?

Who was that?

The ambassador.

Some guys have it down better than others.

Mary, you won't be sorry.

Trust me. Just wait till my stuff starts coming in.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lou Grant.

Yeah,

I just... What'd you do, write your number on a wall someplace?

Oh, hi.

Yeah, sure, I remember you, Phil.

Well, I don't know. We may have plans later on. Why?

Uh -huh. Where are you now?

Why don't you come on up, and we'll talk about it. Room 741.

Okay, fine.

What do you think this is, a bus depot? You invite anybody up who calls?

Mr. Grant, I met him at the seminar, and he wants to take us to dinner. Oh,

please, Mr. Grant, just dinner. Then we'll come right back, we'll collect all

your messages, and we'll decide what to do then.

No, no, no, no, no. They'll call here while I'm out, and then I'll call them

back, and they'll be out. Now, we're only going to be here two days, and I

want to miss it.

All right, look.

Look, it's your first night in Washington.

I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

I'm going to make reservations for you and your friend at the best restaurant

town. Oh, Mr. Grant.

You're going to go to the Sans Souci.

That's French for without souci.

This is the place in Washington where everybody who is anybody goes to be

Hello, I would like a reservation for two at nine o 'clock tonight, please.

Oh, are you sure you can't fit my party in, Lou Grant?

Hey, look, is Maurice,

the head waiter, still working there?

Oh, ten years ago?

I guess he died without mentioning how close we were.

All right.

Yeah. Thank you.

Maurice died.

And you're worried about having a good time tonight.

Hi,

Mary. How are you? Come on in. Thank you.

Congressman Phil Whitman.

I'd like you to meet Lou Grant. How are you, Lou?

We discovered we're neighbors.

Minnesota, Iowa.

Good to meet you, Congressman Whitman.

Call him Phil.

He's supposed to tell me that.

Call me Phil.

Will, anybody hungry?

Starved. Good.

Look, I'm expecting some important calls, Phil. Why don't you and Mary just

and have a good time?

Oh, that's too bad.

Well, I'll just make reservations for us. And, Mary, where would you like to

Oh, any place you say.

How about Sans Souci?

Oh, no, we can't go there. Why not?

Well, Mr. Grant tried to get reservations earlier. They're full.

Oh, well, no. Sometimes you just have to be a little persistent.

Mr. Grant was persistent.

No, I wasn't persistent.

Oh, Mr. Grant, I thought you were very persistent. I wasn't persistent, Mary.

Hello, Gregory.

Phil Whitman.

Oh, fine, thank you. How are you?

Listen, I'd like dinner reservations for two at 8 .30, please.

Right. Thank you very much.

Oh, sure, 8 .30. I was trying for 9 o 'clock.

Who is it?

Are you decent?

Yeah, the orgy's over.

Hi. Hi.

All set for the seminar?

Yeah, almost.

Had to go last night.

Any of your friends call back?

Uh, I don't know. I, uh, I dozed off.

Uh, thought I'd go with you.

Oh, dull.

It was dull evening. Dull, dull conversation.

And I lost all that sleep, you know, got in very late.

But listen, Phil asked us to a party at the State Department tonight, and I

think it would be really fun if you came along.

Oh, Mary, if Phil wants to come along, he can join us here.

You're just going to sit here again, wait for the phone to ring?

Well, sometimes you have to wait around like that if you want a really good

time. You didn't listen to me last night, and you had a dull evening.

I lied.

I didn't have a dull evening, Mr. Grant.

I had one of the most exciting evenings of my life.

What could be so exciting in a restaurant?

Well, we sat next to the Secretary of State, and Phil knows him. He introduced

him to me. And then after that, we went to a couple of parties with some

legislative assistants. Oh, Mr. Grant, it was wonderful. And then we drove all

around Washington.

And you call that a good time?

Well, I think it's certainly on a par with watching your phone.

You just do what you want. I'm going to stay here and wait for my buddies to

come through.

Mr. Grant, you haven't worked here in ten years. I don't think any of those

people are going to call you.

I didn't... No, I didn't want to say that. I just... It just blurted out.

Because I want you to come with us tonight so you can have a really good

You don't think anybody's going to call, huh?

Poor old Lou Grant.

A little funny in the head, huh?

Going back to those past glories.

Doesn't realize time has passed him by.

A little cuckoo, huh, Mary? I don't think you're a little cuckoo. In a

weeks, I'll be sitting on the curb with water in my shoes.

You just listen to me, Mary.

Those people are going to call.

I know it.

And I bet deep down, you know it too, don't you?

Yes.

You don't take that long and say yes. You take that long, that means no. What

you just gave me was a mercy yes.

I don't need that kind of yes.

I don't need that kind of yes. Just a simple answer.

Are you sticking with me or not? Oh, boy, you're making this so hard for me.

Tough.

Mr. Grant, you know how fond I am of you. Yeah. Last night, all I could think

about was you sitting up here in your room alone like a jerk.

because you're too stubborn to have a good time. I should have brought Ted.

I will never forgive you for that.

Yeah, I'll check that.

Fine.

How

do you

like it?

I suggest you check the spelling of Australia.

This story is about Austria.

Come on, leave it then.

Isn't it ironic, Murray?

Lou just called from Washington. He's having a lousy time, but look at us.

We've never had so much fun.

Telephone, Murray.

Murray, telephone.

Busy time.

Producers don't answer phones.

Back to WTM News.

He's the head of our film crew.

Hey, Ken, when am I going to get to meet that wife of yours?

Have you ever get married, then?

Look,

Ken, don't rush into marriage.

I mean, why buy the car when you're getting enough free ice cream to choke a

horse?

Hey, hey, hey, keep your head, Ken.

Look, what does he want, Ted? Ken sure talks fast, doesn't he? What's happened,

Ted? I don't know. He's so excited, I can't make heads or tails of it.

Something about a fire.

Hello, Ken. Hey, this is Murray.

Yeah, uh, what's up?

Well, look, just sit tight and don't worry, and I'll get back to you.

Right. What is it, Murray? There's a four -alarm fire right next to a

factory. Get a film crew out there. There's also a robbery going on at

Commonwealth Bank on 4th Street. They've got three hostages.

Get a film crew out there. Ted, but you only have one film crew.

Which one should I send the film crew to? Well, the only thing to do is... No.

No.

You're the producer.

Produce. Send us to the robbery.

Okay. Let me get the fire.

Let me get the robbery.

Fire, robbery, fire, robbery. If I guess it right, will you tell me?

Send us to the fire.

Good, Ted. That means we lose the robbery. All right, then send us to the

robbery. Oh, miss, what could be the biggest fire story of the year?

Murray, you gotta help me. I don't know what to do.

I'll do anything.

Okay, then.

I'll tell you exactly what to do.

For $50.

Cover anything you want.

fun to say I'm sorry you didn't join us tonight.

I'm really sorry you didn't join me, Mary.

Would you like a drink?

No, no thanks.

Did you have a nice evening?

Yeah, really nice.

Phil took me to a great party in Georgetown.

I met the Assistant Secretary of Defense.

No kidding?

Yeah, yeah.

So,

what did you do with yourself tonight?

Oh.

A couple of old friends dropped over here.

Oh, that's nice.

Oh, I bet you had a wonderful time seeing him again.

Yeah, yeah.

It was kind of fun.

John Glenn told the funniest story.

He was... John Glenn, the astronaut?

Yeah, yeah. He was getting into his spacecraft on his first trip, and he...

Glenn? Is an old friend of yours?

No, no.

I never met him before. He came with Hubert.

Hubert?

Humphrey.

Anyway, it was a funny story.

I thought Eric Severide was going to bust a gut.

He was plodding into this space capsule. Eric Severide was here tonight.

Yeah. He couldn't stay long. He was just giving Ethel Kennedy a lift.

Just giving Ethel Kennedy a lift.

How'd she get home?

The Fords gave her a ride.

Mary? Hmm?

You don't believe that the President was here tonight, do you? Oh, of course I

do believe the President was here.

Lincoln here, too?

What do you think I did, Maria?

You think I made up this whole thing just to impress you?

You think I ordered up a whole bunch of drinks and coffee and ashtrays and

filled them with cigarette butts?

You think I went through all that to try and make you believe that I knew some

important people? Is that what you think?

to me whether or not you know important people.

Couldn't possibly make you more important to me than you already are.

Well, I wanted to... Boy.

Hello.

Oh.

Hello, Betty.

It's... It's Mrs. Ford, the president's wife.

Huh? Huh?

Oh. Oh, sure. Sure.

Uh, Mary, Mary, would you look in that chair over there and see if there's a

pipe? It's the president's favorite pipe, and he thinks it might have fallen

of his pocket.

Well, what do you know? My, my, what a surprise.

The president's pipe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Betty, yeah.

Mary found it.

That's right, that's right.

That's the girl I was telling you about.

Huh?

Oh, sure, sure.

Hold on.

Mary, Mrs. Ford wants to talk to you.

This is Betty Ford.

Hi, Betty.

This is Mary, Queen of Scots.

Well,

I have to go now.

Well, I just wanted to tell you I'm sorry we missed you.

Look, I don't know who you are or how Mr.

Graham got you to take part in this childish charade.

Please just tell Lou we'll have the pipe picked up.

Yeah, but it's really very late, and I'd like to get to sleep, so I'll say

goodbye now.

Oh, and incidentally, your impression of Betty Ford really stinks.