My 30 Most Favorite Episodes of "WKRP in Cincinnati".
If the title didn't give it away - these are my 30 most favorite episodes of the TV Show, "WKRP in Cincinnati". Watch one per day for a full month of hilarity and smiles!
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- DirectorAsaad KeladaStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonOn the day Carlson and Travis are being interviewed by a newspaper, everything around them goes wrong in the silliest way possible.
- DirectorMichael ZinbergStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonFeeling left out by all the recent changes, Mr. Carlson decides to launch his own Thanksgiving promotion. With the aid of Herb and Les, the Big Guy turns a routine turkey give-away into a comic catastrophe.
- DirectorGeorge GaynesStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonMama Carlson announces plans to change WKRP's format.
- DirectorLinda DayStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonA preacher with Clean Up Radio Everywhere wants WKRP to stop playing specific songs due to the lyrics. Mr. Carlson thinks the station should cooperate, while the rest say the songs are classics and shouldn't be subjected to censorship.
- DirectorDan GuntzelmanStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonWith Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson must fill in for him in order to negotiate a contract. But if Mr. Carlson is Herb, who is Mr. Carlson? In the meantime, Johnny avoids settling a poker debt.
- DirectorRod DanielStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonAfter the nude photos of Jennifer and the blackmail plot is revealed, the radio staff tries to recover the photos and negatives from the unscrupulous photographer.
- DirectorRod DanielStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonWKRP books a meeting room at the Hotel Oceanview in Dayton, to entice the Vicki Von Vicki Jeans company to advertise with them. Andy has problems with the slide projector while Mr. Carlson worries about the Dayton poisoner and whether he will be the next victim. Herb is pleasantly surprised when Ms. Vicki's personal assistant comes on to him, but his happiness is short-lived when he finds out her secret.
- DirectorHugh WilsonStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonAs he covers all the news including sports, Les unilaterally accepts a $200 wager from Clark Callahan, station manager at WPIG, on a co-ed slo-pitch game between the two radio stations. Les, who never played any sports, including softball, when he was growing up, he stuck inside taking violin lessons instead, sees the game and the challenge as a rite of passage he never went through but should have as a child. No one else at the station wants to play, largely because they don't want to lose as, unaware to Les, WPIG plays in a city league and plays well. But a series of statements leads to the staff changing their minds and agreeing to defend WKRP's honor on the mound. As sports director, Les still wants to lead the team, including pitch, but quickly learns he is way out of his depth. And despite having played in college, Mr. Carlson shows that his softball prowess doesn't live up to the hype that surrounded him. Although they do devise ways to keep the game close, both Mr. Carlson and Les will literally and figuratively have to step up to plate if WKRP has any hope of winning. That task is all the more difficult as all Les can hear in his head is himself playing the violin, which, to him, is the antithesis of what he is now trying to achieve.
- DirectorJay SandrichStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonAndy Travis joins the WKRP staff as program director and institutes sudden changes that most of the eccentric staff and the station's cantankerous owner don't immediately like.
- DirectorAsaad KeladaStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonLes finds himself desperately distressed when he is mistaken for a homosexual.
- DirectorDolores FerraroStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonWhen an elderly gentleman friend of Jennifer's dies, the man's family blames her for stealing his fortune.
- DirectorRod DanielStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonAt an award ceremony for radio stations, Johnny is selected the most popular personality, but the station loses in the most improved station category. At work, everyone starts bickering over everything and they have to work out their issues.
- DirectorRod DanielStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonNewsman Les Nessman is surprised to learn he has a female "groupie" who loves his news show very much, but also loves him to the point of unreasonably interfering with and taking over his life at home and work.
- DirectorFrank BonnerStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonAndy wants a new transmitter for the station, and visits Mrs Carlson to ask for it. Andy ends up taking her out to discuss business, but she seems to want more than that.
- DirectorWill MackenzieStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonHerb decides it's time for a change in his wardrobe and enlists Jennifer to help him. Meanwhile, Venus is interviewed by Black Life magazine.
- 1978–198224mTV-PG8.6 (159)TV EpisodeDirectorLinda DayStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonIn the first of this two-part episode, WKRP receives a terrorist bomb threat.
- DirectorRod DanielStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonAndy tells Herb to collect past due bills from sales clients. But Herb is called for jury duty so Andy takes over the sales department. Andy finds out just how hard it is to deal with the clients. Venus becomes acting Programming Director.
- 1978–198225mTV-PG8.2 (237)TV EpisodeDirectorAsaad KeladaStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonJohnny causes considerable consternation at the station when he accidentally announces a contest prize of $5000 instead of $50.
- DirectorLinda DayStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonThe staff find themselves consumed with guilt for promoting a Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum when its general admission policy causes a terrible tragedy.
- DirectorAsaad KeladaStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonWhile Johnny does a night stint on the radio, the station is robbed. No one is hurt, but a lot of the expensive items are taken. Mr Carlton installs a security system and everyone starts being paranoid.
- DirectorLinda DayStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonKiss the Cook. Hundreds of cardboard figures of Herb at his barbecue instead of Venus promoting shampoo. When an ad for one of the station's sponsors that's supposed to show Venus somehow ends up with a picture of Herb because of a sloppy oversight mix-up, the sponsor wants to drop them. Jennifer offers to go talk to the manager using her obvious appeal to convince him not to, but as it turns out the guy is blind, and she has to resort to charm - which she also has in spades.
- DirectorDolores FerraroStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonMother Carlson hires a radio doctor to evaluate the station and Andy worries when the doctor threatens to write a poor review if the station doesn't buy his services.
- DirectorWill MackenzieStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonHerb's wife is out of town for 10 days. And he decides this is the time to go wild and get Jennifer to finally go out with him. When Jennifer finds out she has to deal with Herb for 10 days, she tells Bailey she can't make it. Bailey's advice to Jennifer is just to take Herb up on it and he'll chicken out. The next time Herb asks her, she accepts and her troubles begin, because Herb doesn't seem to be backing down. As the time approaches Herb does seem to be backing down, he is thinking about his family and missing them. It's around this time that Les tells Herb what he had overheard the ladies saying about how they expected to put an end to Herb's chasing of Jennifer. With this news, Herb decides he's got to go for it.
- DirectorWill MackenzieStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonT. J. Watson, a wannabe country music star and former childhood friend of Jennifer shows up at WKRP. Jennifer is nervous that he is trying to collect on a joking pledge for her to marry him. Jennifer claims to already by married to Johnny.
- DirectorGordon JumpStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonWhile Andy and Venus are playing jokes on each other at the radio station, Mama Carlson visits and then quizzes them. Venus lets it slip he used to be a teacher. Andy and Venus tell the story of how Venus went from school teacher to DJ.
- DirectorWill MackenzieStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonIn reference to the garbage strike happening in the city, Johnny, on the air, makes a flippant comment that if the city won't pick up people's garbage, the people should bring their garbage to the city by dumping it on the steps of city hall. Much to Johnny's surprise, hundreds of his listeners take the words to heart and dump their garbage at city hall. Their actions have repercussions on the station, Mr. Carlson and Andy who have to deal with the liability of the station by Johnny's words, the situation which is only inflamed by further on-air words by Les. While Mr. Carlson wants to fire Johnny, Andy is able to come up with a workable solution where Johnny needs to apologize on the air. However, getting Johnny to do so is easier said than done, as his realization of the responsibility that he has in this role results in a larger issue for Johnny in his livelihood as an on-air personality: he develops mic fright and freezes in the control booth. While Venus and Andy in particular try to help Johnny, it may be the reminder of words Johnny himself said to shy Bailey that may be the medicine that Johnny needs.
- DirectorAsaad KeladaStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonThe station sells some new commercial spots to a diet company whose 'magic pills' are not as innocuous as they seem.
- 1978–198225mTV-PG7.8 (150)TV EpisodeDirectorHugh WilsonStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonDespite Andy's directive to the contrary, Les continues to broadcast editorials of his own unique views under the guise of they being the station's views. He also wants to use his news credentials to further those views. As such, anti-Communist hog aficionado Les, with Bailey tagging along as his paid babysitter to ensure he doesn't get into trouble, plans to, in his own words, torpedo a news conference being held by a traveling group of Russian hog experts. At the sparsely attended press conference, Bailey, through a note slipped to her, learns that one of the Russians, Ivan Popasonaviski, wants to defect to the US. Bailey is able to sneak Ivan to the station where Ivan hopes to seek political asylum. Most of the staff, with the clear exception of Les, wants to help Ivan. But none of them have a clear idea of what they need to do in this cloak and dagger role, and discover that defecting in Cincinnati, just in its national position as a relative backwater city, is not the easiest place in the country to defect.
- DirectorLinda DayStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonThe station starts a phone-in advice show, and Jennifer eventually proves to be the best host for it.
- DirectorWill MackenzieStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonTo help make ends meet, Herb is selling insurance on the side, he seeing his first potential customers being the staff at the station. While some are able to avoid Herb upon hearing what he's doing, others, like Les and Mr. Carlson, are relatively easy prey for Herb's heavy handed sales tactics, Les in particular who Herb is able to oversell. Part of Les' issue is that he is in a funk, largely in having to gather and report on the largely depressing news, which is getting into his psyche. Once Andy finds out about Herb's moonlighting job, he wants to put an end to it at the station as he is being paid to do other work while he's at the office, and as he believes, if Herb is involved with them, they must be a fly by night operation. Herb may ultimately regret this new sales job and Les may get out of his funk all related to their encounter with a middle aged British couple who just wanted to have a quiet cuppa tea in peace.