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COLLECTION · Series · 1978

WKRP in Cincinnati

When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with the station's burned-out veteran, Dr. Johnny Fever. Neurotic newsman Les Nessman, eager beaver Bailey Quarters, sleazy salesman Herb Tarlek, blonde bombshell Jennifer Marlowe, who serves as the station's ultra-capable receptionist, and station manager Arthur Carlson, whose domineering mother owns WKRP, round out the eccentric bunch.

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* 7.6 (91)ComedyUnited States
Creators
Hugh Wilson
Countries
United States
Studios
CBS · MTM Enterprises · Company Four
Runtime
25 min/ep
Age rating
TV-PG
Release
18/09/1978
Score
7.6 / 10 (91)
Where to watch
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
Specials
4 episodes
Episode 1. DVD: Do My Eyes Say Yes?
25 min

"Do My Eyes Say Yes?" is a brief celebration of the Jennifer character.

Episode 2. DVD: A Fish Story Story
25 min

"A Fish Story Story" lets Wilson explain why the famous episode is his least favorite.

Episode 3. Cast Reunion at Paley Center
2014-06-04 · 25 min

WKRP in Cincinnati cast reunion discusses memorable moments, including the WHO concert episode and network objections to controversial content.

Episode 4. A Look Back at WKRP in Cincinnati with Gary Sandy
1991-09-10 · 26 min

Interview with Gary Sandy (Andy Travis of WKRP)

Season 1
Season 1
22 episodes · 1978
Pilot (1)
Episode 1. Pilot (1)
1978-09-18 · 25 min

Andy tries to convince WKRP's owner that rock and roll will cure the station's ailing ratings.

Pilot (2)
Episode 2. Pilot (2)
1978-09-25 · 25 min

Andy faces a fiscal crisis: Carlson won't finance a breaking-in period for the new format.

Les On a Ledge
Episode 3. Les On a Ledge
1978-10-02 · 25 min

Les is barred from locker-room interviews when his manhood is questioned.

Hoodlum Rock
Episode 4. Hoodlum Rock
1978-10-09 · 25 min

Andy books a rock band whose members attack their audiences.

Hold-Up
Episode 5. Hold-Up
1978-10-16 · 25 min

A broadcast from a stereo shop is disrupted by a holdup.

Bailey's Show
Episode 6. Bailey's Show
1978-10-23 · 25 min

Bailey's show brings out the weirdest people in town.

Turkeys Away
Episode 7. Turkeys Away
1978-10-30 · 25 min

Carlson thinks up a wacko Thanksgiving promotional gimmick.

Love Returns
Episode 8. Love Returns
1978-11-06 · 25 min

Andy may have to leave WKRP when he rekindles his love for a touring rock star.

Mama's Review
Episode 9. Mama's Review
1979-01-15 · 25 min

In flashbacks, Andy and Carlson update WKRP's owner Mrs. Carlson on recent station happenings.

A Date With Jennifer
Episode 10. A Date With Jennifer
1979-01-22 · 25 min

Les invites Jennifer to a banquet, then suspects she only accepted out of pity.

The Contest Nobody Could Win
Episode 11. The Contest Nobody Could Win
1979-01-29 · 25 min

Johnny accidentally offers listeners $5000 instead of $50 as a contest prize.

Tornado
Episode 12. Tornado
1979-02-05 · 25 min

A tornado strikes while Japanese businessmen are touring the station.

Goodbye, Johnny
Episode 13. Goodbye, Johnny
1979-02-19 · 25 min

Johnny is offered a job in California, so the staff devises a scheme to keep him in Cincinnati.

Johnny Comes Back
Episode 14. Johnny Comes Back
1979-02-26 · 25 min

Johnny comes back to WKRP expecting to get his job back. Instead, he is assigned to the predawn show.

Never Leave Me, Lucille
Episode 15. Never Leave Me, Lucille
1979-03-05 · 25 min

Temporarily separated from his wife, Herb envisions a fanciful bachelorhood.

I Want to Keep My Baby
Episode 16. I Want to Keep My Baby
1979-03-12 · 25 min

Johnny refuses to relinquish an abandoned baby left at WKRP until he can contact the mother.

A Commercial Break
Episode 17. A Commercial Break
1979-03-26 · 25 min

Andy has doubts about an upbeat ad campaign for a mortician.

Who is Gordon Sims?
Episode 18. Who is Gordon Sims?
1979-04-02 · 25 min

Venus refuses to pose for an ad because he's wanted by the law.

I Do, I Do... For Now
Episode 19. I Do, I Do... For Now
1979-04-23 · 25 min

Jennifer tries to discourage a beau by revealing she's married--to Johnny Fever.

Young Master Carlson
Episode 20. Young Master Carlson
1979-04-30 · 25 min

Momma Carlson insists her grandson be allowed to roam around the station after he's booted out of military school.

Fish Story
Episode 21. Fish Story
1979-05-28 · 25 min

Andy tells a journalist that WKRP is just a "run-of-the-mill" station, even though a staffer is running around in a "carp" suit.

Preacher
Episode 22. Preacher
1979-06-04 · 25 min

A wrestler turned preacher uses his radio sermon to sell merchandise.

Season 2
Season 2
24 episodes · 1979
For Love or Money (1)
Episode 1. For Love or Money (1)
1979-09-17 · 25 min

Johnny forgets about his date with Bailey when he gets a call from Buffy, his old girlfriend from California. He borrows Jennifer's apartment to impress Buffy; however, that plan ends when she tells him she's suing him for palimony.

For Love or Money (2)
Episode 2. For Love or Money (2)
1979-09-24 · 25 min

Johnny calls his friends over to Jennifer's apartment to help him deal with Buffy and her threat of a lawsuit. Buffy arrives and, after having a drink with Johnny, tells him that she put poison in his drink.

Baseball
Episode 3. Baseball
1979-10-15 · 25 min

The staff plays against the team from rival station WPIG in a softball game.

Bad Risk
Episode 4. Bad Risk
1979-10-22 · 25 min

Herb starts selling insurance as a sideline, and sells a comprehensive policy to Les, who promptly has an accident.

Jennifer Falls in Love
Episode 5. Jennifer Falls in Love
1979-10-22 · 25 min

For the first time in her life, Jennifer is in love, with a penniless but handsome repairman who turns out to be even more of a gold digger than she is. Meanwhile, Les tries to get a raise, and Johnny becomes convinced that he's the man…

Carlson for President
Episode 6. Carlson for President
1979-11-05 · 25 min

Mr. Carlson runs for Cincinnati City Council. When Bailey discovers a potentially damaging piece of information about the front-runner in the election, Mr. Carlson considers using that information in a televised debate.

Mike Fright
Episode 7. Mike Fright
1979-11-12 · 25 min

During a citywide garbage strike, Johnny jokingly suggests that his listeners dump their garbage on the steps of City Hall. The joke is on him, and the station, when hundreds of listeners take him seriously. Johnny becomes aware of his…

The Patter of Little Feet
Episode 8. The Patter of Little Feet
1979-11-26 · 25 min

Mr. Carlson's wife Carmen announces that she is pregnant. Mr. Carlson is overjoyed, and certain that Carmen feels the same way. However, Mama Carlson points out the potential dangers of middle-aged pregnancy and recommends an abortion.

Baby, If You've Ever Wondered
Episode 9. Baby, If You've Ever Wondered
1979-12-03 · 25 min

The new ratings book arrives, and WKRP has climbed from 16th to 14th place in the Cincinnati market. Everyone is happy about the gain except Andy, who knows that the station has not improved enough, in part because of his own…

Bailey's Big Break
Episode 10. Bailey's Big Break
1979-12-10 · 25 min

When WKRP needs an assistant news reporter, Bailey applies for the job and gets it. Les, who doesn't want to work with anyone, least of all a woman, tries to keep Bailey from going on the air.

Jennifer's Home for Christmas
Episode 11. Jennifer's Home for Christmas
1979-12-17 · 25 min

Jennifer tells her friends that she has nothing special planned for Christmas, and that she doesn't have a tree this year. Everyone begins to suspect that she might be alone for the holidays.

Sparky
Episode 12. Sparky
1979-12-24 · 25 min

Mr. Carlson hires legendary baseball manager Sparky Anderson as the host of a new sports interview show. But when the show proves a complete disaster, it falls to Mr. Carlson to fire his hero.

God Talks to Johnny
Episode 13. God Talks to Johnny
1979-12-31 · 25 min

When Johnny thinks he's heard God's voice talking to him, everyone, including Johnny, thinks he's going insane.

A Family Affair
Episode 14. A Family Affair
1980-01-07 · 25 min

Andy's sister Carol visits Cincinnati, and Andy sets up a date for her and Johnny. But Carol winds up going out with Venus instead, and Andy becomes instinctively angry about it.

Herb's Dad
Episode 15. Herb's Dad
1980-01-14 · 25 min

Herb's father, a lifelong salesman who shares Herb's taste in clothes, runs away from the Shady Hills Rest Home and visits the station.

Put Up or Shut Up
Episode 16. Put Up or Shut Up
1980-01-21 · 25 min

Bailey convinces Jennifer to accept a date with Herb in the hope that he'll get scared and back down.

The Americanization of Ivan
Episode 17. The Americanization of Ivan
1980-01-28 · 25 min

Bailey and Les attend a press conference given by a group of visiting Russian hog experts. One of the Russians falls for Bailey and asks her to help him defect to the United States.

Les' Groupie
Episode 18. Les' Groupie
1980-02-04 · 25 min

Les goes out on a date with a female fan, who proceeds to move into his apartment and take over his life.

In Concert
Episode 19. In Concert
1980-02-11 · 25 min

At a concert by the Who in Cincinnati on December 3, 1979, eleven kids were trampled to death when the crowd rushed to get seats. The first part of this episode takes place before that concert; the second act takes place the day after,…

The Doctor's Daughter
Episode 20. The Doctor's Daughter
1980-02-18 · 25 min

Johnny's daughter shows up and moves in, and Johnny has to decide whether to express his disapproval of the shiftless boyfriend she's brought along.

Filthy Pictures (1)
Episode 21. Filthy Pictures (1)
1980-03-03 · 25 min

Mr. Carlson convinces Jennifer and Andy to pose in bathing suits for a ""Surf's Up in Cincinnati"" poster. After the photo session, the photographer secretly takes nude photos of Jennifer while she's changing.

Filthy Pictures (2)
Episode 22. Filthy Pictures (2)
1980-03-03 · 25 min

Mr. Carlson convinces Jennifer and Andy to pose in bathing suits for a ""Surf's Up in Cincinnati"" poster. After the photo session, the photographer secretly takes nude photos of Jennifer while she's changing.

Venus Rising
Episode 23. Venus Rising
1980-03-10 · 25 min

Venus is offered a job as program director of WREQ radio, but is disillusioned when he discovers how the station is run and why they want to hire him. Meanwhile, Herb circulates a rumor that he, too, has received a job offer.

Most Improved Station
Episode 24. Most Improved Station
1980-03-31 · 25 min

Everyone starts bickering after the station loses a broadcasting award.

Season 3
Season 3
22 episodes · 1980
Episode 1. The Airplane Show
1980-11-01 · 25 min

Trying to compete with WPIG's traffic helicopter, Les starts doing traffic reports from a World War I biplane piloted by a crazy war veteran.

Episode 2. Jennifer Moves
1980-11-08 · 25 min

The staff helps Jennifer move into her new $125,000 house in the quiet suburb of Landersville. But she soon finds out that life in Landersville isn't as pleasant as she thought it would be.

Episode 3. Real Families
1980-11-15 · 25 min

When Herb's family is featured in the show ""Real Families"", he is sure that they can serve as an example of a clean living family. Unfortunately, the image Herb wants to convey is different from the reality shown on screen.

Episode 4. The Baby
1980-11-22 · 25 min

Mr. Carlson's wife goes into labor and the WKRP staffers all visit the hospital to be there when she gives birth.

Episode 5. Hotel Oceanview
1980-11-29 · 25 min

Andy, Mr. Carlson and Herb visit Dayton to try and land the advertising account for Vicky Von Vickey jeans. While Mr. Carlson worries about the notorious Dayton poisoner, Herb romances an old high school acquaintance and Andy has trouble…

Episode 6. A Mile in My Shoes
1980-12-06 · 25 min

When Herb is called for jury duty, Andy takes over as sales manager and soon discovers just how tough it is trying to sell advertising time or collect from deadbeat clients. Meanwhile, Venus becomes acting program director and has to deal…

Episode 7. Bah, Humbug
1980-12-20 · 25 min

Once again, Mr. Carlson plans to give the staffers almost no Christmas bonuses. But in a dream brought on by eating one of Johnny Fever's brownies, the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future visit him to show him the error of his…

Episode 8. Baby, It's Cold Inside
1981-01-03 · 25 min

On a day when the furnace has broken down, Mama Carlson pays a surprise visit to the station and catches Johnny drinking in the broadcast booth.

Episode 9. The Painting
1981-01-10 · 25 min

At Mr. Carlson's church auction, Herb buys a painting that Bailey loves. He tries to get Mr. Carlson or Bailey to buy it from him...until he learns that it might be valuable.

Episode 10. Daydreams
1981-01-17 · 25 min

When Mr. Carlson rehearses a dull speech in front of the WKRP staff, all the staffers drift off into daydreams about what they would most like to be: Herb as a Latin-American dictator, Jennifer as a '30s movie star, Les as a reporter…

Episode 11. Frog Story
1981-01-24 · 25 min

Herb has accidentally spray-painted his daughter's pet frog Greenpeace pink, and brings the frog to the station trying to find a way to save its life. Meanwhile, Les convinces Johnny that he is suffering from the dreaded…

Episode 12. Venus and the Man
1981-01-31 · 25 min

The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.

Episode 13. Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 1
1981-02-07 · 25 min

Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.

Episode 14. Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 2
1981-02-07 · 25 min

Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.

Episode 15. Ask Jennifer
1981-02-14 · 25 min

When Herb's choice as host of a new call-in advice show proves unable to go on the air, Jennifer takes over and becomes an instant success.

Episode 16. I Am Woman
1981-02-21 · 25 min

When it is announced that the Flimm Building is to be torn down, Bailey starts a campaign to have the building declared a Cincinnati landmark. Everyone pitches in to help, until Mr. Carlson gets his mother's permission to build a new and…

Episode 17. Secrets of Dayton Heights
1981-02-28 · 25 min

The Secret Service refuses to grant Les credentials for a Presidential press conference, suspecting him of having radical affiliations. It turns out that the man who raised Les wasn't his father, and that his real father was a…

Episode 18. Out to Lunch
1981-03-14 · 25 min

Herb's three-martini business lunches with an ad agency representative are causing him to mess up even more than usual, and it begins to seem that his use of alcohol as a sales tool is turning into a drinking problem.

Episode 19. A Simple Little Wedding
1981-03-21 · 25 min

In honor of their 25th anniversary, Arthur and Carmen Carlson plan to get married again. They want a small, private ceremony, but Mama Carlson has other ideas.

Episode 20. Nothing to Fear But...
1981-03-28 · 25 min

Everyone is in the grip of urban paranoia after the station is robbed.

Episode 21. Til Debt Do Us Part
1981-04-05 · 25 min

When Johnny learns that his first ex-wife is planning to remarry, he is overjoyed at the thought of not having to pay alimony, and celebrates by inviting Bailey to take a trip with him. But he feels less happy about the situation when he…

Episode 22. Clean Up Radio Everywhere
1981-04-12 · 25 min

Dr. Bob Halyers, head of the organization Clean Up Radio Broadcasting (CURB), visits Mr. Carlson with a list of obscene songs that he wants the station to stop playing.

Season 4
Season 4
22 episodes · 1981
Episode 1. An Explosive Affair (Part 1)
1981-10-07 · 25 min

After the station receives a bomb threat, Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter tower while the station is being searched.

Episode 2. An Explosive Affair (Part 2)
1981-10-14 · 25 min

Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter.

Episode 3. The Union
1981-10-21 · 25 min

The staff of WKRP considers joining a union. Mr. Carlson is furious and rushes to his mother for advice, while Andy tries to appear neutral in this labor-management conflict.

Episode 4. Rumors
1981-10-28 · 25 min

While his apartment is being fumigated, Johnny accepts Bailey's offer to stay at her place, causing everyone at the station to think that the two are sleeping together. Johnny's also afraid that he's in danger of losing his time slot to…

Episode 5. Straight from the Heart
1981-11-04 · 25 min

Herb tells everyone that he's going on vacation, but Les and Jennifer discover that he's actually checked into the hospital for heart tests.

Episode 6. Who's on First?
1981-11-11 · 25 min

With Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson pretends he is Herb and is impersonated by Les for an advertising client.

Episode 7. Three Days of the Condo
1981-11-18 · 25 min

When Johnny receives $24,000 in a legal settlement, Venus convinces him to use the money to invest in a condominium at Gone With the Wind Estates.

Episode 8. Jennifer and the Will
1981-12-02 · 25 min

Colonel Buchanan, Jennifer's elderly gentleman friend, dies suddenly. As executrix of his will, Jennifer must deal with the press and with the Colonel's money-grubbing, rumor mongering relatives.

Episode 9. The Consultant
1981-12-30 · 25 min

Mama Carlson hires a professional radio consultant to evaluate WKRP. The man she's hired, Norris Breeze, is an old friend of Andy's who also runs a radio programming service. Andy soon realizes that Breeze intends to give the station a…

Episode 10. Love, Exciting and New
1982-01-06 · 25 min

Andy starts taking Mama Carlson out after hours in the hopes of getting her to pay for a new transmitter for the station. But he begins to suspect that she might have more-than-businesslike expectations of him.

Episode 11. You Can't Go Out of Town Again
1982-01-13 · 25 min

Mr. Carlson goes with Carmen to a college reunion where he learns the disillusioning truth about how he and Carmen first met; Bailey is frustrated in her attempts to get a computer for billing; Venus can't get a moment alone in the booth…

Episode 12. Pills
1982-01-20 · 25 min

Herb sells ad spots to a seller of ""diet pills""; after it turns out that the pills are a legalized way of selling speed to teenagers, it also turns out that the station can't legally get out of running the ads.

Episode 13. Changes
1982-01-27 · 25 min

When Venus learns that he's going to be interviewed by a militant black magazine, he adopts a new wardrobe and manner in order to seem more in touch with black culture. Meanwhile, Jennifer offers to change Herb's image, starting with…

Episode 14. Jennifer and Johnny's Charity
1982-02-03 · 25 min

When a fire destroys the kitchen at the Vine Street Mission, Johnny recruits Jennifer to help raise the $40,000 dollars to rebuild it. Jennifer throws a party for her rich friends and asks them to contribute, and everything is going fine…

Episode 15. I'll Take Romance
1982-02-17 · 25 min

Herb fixes Les up with a date through his latest client, the I'll Take Romance Dating Service. Les hits it off with his date immediately, not knowing that the dating service is a front for prostitution.

Episode 16. Circumstantial Evidence
1982-02-24 · 25 min

Venus's latest date gives him an expensive diamond earring as a gift and then runs out on him; it turns out that she's a thief who has used the stolen earring to frame Venus as her accomplice.

Episode 17. Fire
1982-03-17 · 25 min

Herb and Jennifer are trapped in an elevator when a fire breaks out in the Flimm Building.

Episode 18. Dear Liar
1982-03-24 · 25 min

When Bailey writes a news story on the Northside Children's Clinic, Les steals it and reads it on the air. This turns out to be a blow to the station's integrity in more ways than one when Bailey admits that she fictionalized part of the…

Episode 19. The Creation of Venus
1982-03-31 · 25 min

When Venus lets it slip that he was a schoolteacher before he came to WKRP, Andy has to tell Mama Carlson the truth about how he hired Gordon Sims as a DJ and how they came up with the persona of Venus Flytrap.

Episode 20. The Impossible Dream
1982-04-07 · 25 min

On his birthday, Les announces that he's going to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a world-famous broadcast journalist by auditioning for The CBS Evening News.

Episode 21. To Err is Human
1982-04-14 · 25 min

After Herb screws up an important advertising account, Mr. Carlson finally intends to fire him, but Jennifer takes pity on Herb and tries to help him keep his job.

Episode 22. Up and Down the Dial
1982-04-21 · 25 min

Just as WKRP hits #6 in the ratings, Mama Carlson announces that she plans to switch the format of the station to 24 hours a day of news.

Cast by season
Gary Sandy
Gary Sandy
Andy Travis
Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman
Dr. Johnny Fever
Tim Reid
Tim Reid
Venus Flytrap
Loni Anderson
Loni Anderson
Jennifer Marlowe
Frank Bonner
Frank Bonner
Herb Tarlek
Gordon Jump
Gordon Jump
Arthur Carlson
Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders
Les Nessman
Jan Smithers
Jan Smithers
Bailey Quarters
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GenerationofSwine
★ 10.0 / 10
I don't care what anyone else says, WKRP still has the funniest episode of all time and the funniest holiday episode of TV history. Period. No contest. It wasn't wall-to-wall laughter, it wasn't as great as I remember it being, but when it was funny, even decades later nothing has matched it. WKRP outdid itself in almost every way, and it deserves to go down in comedy history as one of the greatest shows of all time
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