WIOU(1990)
Overview
WIOU is an American television drama series, which aired on CBS in 1990 and 1991. The show is set in the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign is WNDY, but which is nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's perennial financial struggles. The show stars John Shea as news director Hank Zaret. The cast also includes Mariette Hartley as executive producer Liz McVay, Harris Yulin and Helen Shaver as news anchors Neal Frazier and Kelby Robinson, Phil Morris as aggressive reporter Eddie Bock, Jayne Brook as reporter Ann Hudson, Kate McNeil as reporter Taylor Young, Dick Van Patten as aging weatherman Floyd Graham, and Wallace Langham as news intern Willis Teitelbaum. According to television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, this program received such low ratings that although 18 episodes were actually produced, five were never aired upon the program's cancellation.
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20 episodes • 1990
Season 1
20 episodes • 1990
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pilot | Oct 24, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Appearances | Oct 31, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Inquisition | Nov 7, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Do the Wrong Thing | Nov 14, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 5 | One Point, No Light | Dec 5, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 6 | They Shoot Sources, Don't They? | Dec 12, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Diamond Dogs | Dec 19, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Mother Nature's Son | Dec 26, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Ode to Sizzling Sal | Jan 2, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Labored Relations | Jan 9, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Bleeds, It Leads (a.k.a. Without Prejudice) | Mar 4, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Pair o' Guys Lost | Mar 13, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Three Women and a Baby | Mar 20, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 14 | One Flew Over the Anchor Desk | TBA | 0.0 |
| 15 | Walter and Me | TBA | 0.0 |
| 16 | Forty-Eight Minutes | TBA | 0.0 |
| 17 | Wife Abuse-Confidential | TBA | 0.0 |
| 18 | W.I.O.U. Season 1 Episode 18 | TBA | 0.0 |
| 19 | Cradle to Grave | TBA | 0.0 |
| 20 | W.I.O.U. Season 1 Episode 20 | TBA | 0.0 |
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