WKRP in Cincinnati

1978–1982

Comedy馃嚞馃嚙 English馃嚭馃嚫 United States
IMDb
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Production
MTM EnterprisesCompany Four

Seasons

Season 1

  • E1 Pilot: Part 1 1978-09-18 路 25m
  • E2 Pilot: Part 2 1978-09-25 路 25m
  • E3 Les on a Ledge 1978-10-02 路 25m
  • E4 Hoodlum Rock 1978-10-09 路 25m
  • E5 Hold Up 1978-10-16 路 25m
  • E6 Bailey's Show 1978-10-23 路 25m
  • E7 Turkeys Away 1978-10-30 路 25m
  • E8 Love Returns 1978-11-06 路 25m
  • E9 Mama's Review 1979-01-15 路 25m
  • E10 A Date with Jennifer 1979-01-22 路 25m
  • E11 The Contest Nobody Could Win 1979-01-29 路 25m
  • E12 Tornado 1979-02-05 路 25m
  • E13 Goodbye Johnny 1979-02-19 路 25m
  • E14 Johnny Comes Back 1979-02-26 路 25m
  • E15 Never Leave Me, Lucille 1979-03-05 路 25m
  • E16 I Want to Keep My Baby 1979-03-12 路 25m
  • E17 Commercial Break 1979-03-26 路 25m
  • E18 Who Is Gordon Sims? 1979-04-02 路 25m
  • E19 I Do, I Do... for Now 1979-04-23 路 25m
  • E20 Young Master Carlson 1979-04-30 路 25m
  • E21 Fish Story 1979-05-28 路 25m
  • E22 Preacher 1979-06-04 路 25m

Season 2

  • E1 For Love or Money: Part 1 1979-09-17 路 25m
  • E2 For Love or Money: Part 2 1979-09-24 路 25m
  • E3 Baseball 1979-10-15 路 25m
  • E4 Bad Risk 1979-10-22 路 25m
  • E5 Jennifer Falls in Love 1979-10-22 路 25m
  • E6 Carlson for President 1979-11-05 路 25m
  • E7 Mike Fright 1979-11-12 路 25m
  • E8 The Patter of Little Feet 1979-11-26 路 25m
  • E9 Baby, If You've Ever Wondered 1979-12-03 路 25m
  • E10 Bailey's Big Break 1979-12-10 路 25m
  • E11 Jennifer's Home for Christmas 1979-12-17 路 25m
  • E12 Sparky 1979-12-24 路 25m
  • E13 God Talks to Johnny 1979-12-31 路 25m
  • E14 A Family Affair 1980-01-07 路 25m
  • E15 Herb's Dad 1980-01-14 路 25m
  • E16 Put Up or Shut Up 1980-01-21 路 25m
  • E17 The Americanization of Ivan 1980-01-28 路 25m
  • E18 Les' Groupie 1980-02-04 路 25m
  • E19 In Concert 1980-02-11 路 25m
  • E20 The Doctor's Daughter 1980-02-18 路 25m
  • E21 Filthy Pictures: Part 1 1980-03-03 路 25m
  • E22 Filthy Pictures: Part 2 1980-03-03 路 25m
  • E23 Venus Rising 1980-03-10 路 25m
  • E24 Most Improved Station 1980-03-31 路 25m

Season 3

  • E1 The Airplane Show 1980-11-01 路 25m 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.
  • E2 Jennifer Moves 1980-11-08 路 25m 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.
  • E3 Real Families 1980-11-15 路 25m 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.
  • E4 The Baby 1980-11-22 路 25m Mr. Carlson's wife goes into labor and the WKRP staffers all visit the hospital to be there when she gives birth.
  • E5 Hotel Oceanview 1980-11-29 路 25m 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 with his slide projector.
  • E6 A Mile in My Shoes 1980-12-06 路 25m 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 with Les's plan to disguise himself as a black man so that he can do a series of reports based on the book Black Like Me.
  • E7 Bah, Humbug 1980-12-20 路 25m 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 ways.
  • E8 Baby, It's Cold Inside 1981-01-03 路 25m 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.
  • E9 The Painting 1981-01-10 路 25m 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.
  • E10 Daydreams 1981-01-17 路 25m 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 covering the Blitz in 1940, Bailey as the President of the United States, Andy as a radio Mafioso, Venus as a standup comedian, and Johnny as a rock star.
  • E11 Frog Story 1981-01-24 路 25m 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 ""schistosomiasis.""
  • E12 Venus and the Man 1981-01-31 路 25m The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.
  • E13 Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 1 1981-02-07 路 25m Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
  • E14 Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 2 1981-02-07 路 25m Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
  • E15 Ask Jennifer 1981-02-14 路 25m 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.
  • E16 I Am Woman 1981-02-21 路 25m 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 better building.
  • E17 Secrets of Dayton Heights 1981-02-28 路 25m 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 card-carrying Communist.
  • E18 Out to Lunch 1981-03-14 路 25m 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.
  • E19 A Simple Little Wedding 1981-03-21 路 25m 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.
  • E20 Nothing to Fear But... 1981-03-28 路 25m Everyone is in the grip of urban paranoia after the station is robbed.
  • E21 Til Debt Do Us Part 1981-04-05 路 25m 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 meets the obnoxious womanizer his ex-wife is going to marry.
  • E22 Clean Up Radio Everywhere 1981-04-12 路 25m 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

  • E1 An Explosive Affair (Part 1) 1981-10-07 路 25m After the station receives a bomb threat, Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter tower while the station is being searched.
  • E2 An Explosive Affair (Part 2) 1981-10-14 路 25m Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter.
  • E3 The Union 1981-10-21 路 25m 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.
  • E4 Rumors 1981-10-28 路 25m 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 Rex, the afternoon DJ, and when Bailey tries to cheer him up, he mistakes her friendliness for a come-on.
  • E5 Straight from the Heart 1981-11-04 路 25m 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.
  • E6 Who's on First? 1981-11-11 路 25m With Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson pretends he is Herb and is impersonated by Les for an advertising client.
  • E7 Three Days of the Condo 1981-11-18 路 25m 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.
  • E8 Jennifer and the Will 1981-12-02 路 25m 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.
  • E9 The Consultant 1981-12-30 路 25m 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 bad report unless it subscribes to the service.
  • E10 Love, Exciting and New 1982-01-06 路 25m 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.
  • E11 You Can't Go Out of Town Again 1982-01-13 路 25m 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 with his latest date.
  • E12 Pills 1982-01-20 路 25m 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.
  • E13 Changes 1982-01-27 路 25m 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 picking out new, tasteful clothes for him.
  • E14 Jennifer and Johnny's Charity 1982-02-03 路 25m 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 until the contributors meet the people involved.
  • E15 I'll Take Romance 1982-02-17 路 25m 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.
  • E16 Circumstantial Evidence 1982-02-24 路 25m 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.
  • E17 Fire 1982-03-17 路 25m Herb and Jennifer are trapped in an elevator when a fire breaks out in the Flimm Building.
  • E18 Dear Liar 1982-03-24 路 25m 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 story.
  • E19 The Creation of Venus 1982-03-31 路 25m 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.
  • E20 The Impossible Dream 1982-04-07 路 25m 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.
  • E21 To Err is Human 1982-04-14 路 25m 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.
  • E22 Up and Down the Dial 1982-04-21 路 25m 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.
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