Main article: WKRP in Cincinnati
The following is a complete listing of episodes of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati .
Season One (1978-1979)
"Pilot (Part 1)" (9/18/78)
The series opens with receptionist Jennifer Marlowe watering plants in the radio station lobby while "beautiful music" plays in the background. Andy Travis arrives fresh from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and announces he is the new program director. Initially, Andy receives a cold reception from news director Les Nessman and sales manager Herb Tarlek. The ineffectual, weak-willed station manager, Arthur Carlson, had forgotten that he had hired Andy and their initial interview almost ends in disaster.
WKRP is 16 th in an 18 station market, playing outdated music. Andy meets disc jockey (DJ) Johnny Caravela and remembers him as the host of a radio show in California. Johnny tells Andy he got fired for saying "Booger" on the air, and reveals Les' and Herb's own visions for the station (Les wants all news, Herb, all talk).
Andy soon changes the format to rock and roll. On being informed, Johnny stops a song in mid-play by running the needle over the record, informs his listeners that "it is time for this town to get down!" and Dr. Johnny Fever is born. For good measure, Johnny says "Booger" on the air.
Mrs. Carlson, the owner of the station and mother of Arthur Carlson, arrives to find out what happened. Andy tells her that the station would make more money playing Top 40 rock music. She expects a quick profit; when Andy tells her that they will only break even the first year, she wants faster results, demanding he fire the incompetent staff. Andy refuses, expecting to be fired, only to have Arthur Carlson come to his rescue and stand up for him.
Venus Flytrap, a new DJ hired by Andy, picks this moment to show up. Mother Carlson asks Venus if he had a big audience back in New Orleans; Venus says he had the biggest. She then reluctantly agrees to try it Andy's way for a while, but promises that if he fails, she will tear the station down, brick by brick.
Johnny originally says that the station is a 50,000 watt station: "Now I am talking about your 50,000 watt intensive care unit, baby!" Later in the series, the map in the lobby shows that the station is only 5,000 watts and this line was rewritten during the episode "The Creation of Venus" when the format change scene was re-shot.
"Pilot (Part 2)" (9/25/78)
Andy is unable to get any money from Mr. Carlson or Mother Carlson to advertise the format change. He tries to find a way to notify the listening public. When a devoted group of former listeners show up to protest the format change, Andy finds the free promotional tool he needs.
Guest Stars: Delos V. Smith Jr., Richard Stahl & Nedra Volz
"Les On A Ledge" (10/2/78)
Les debuts his new dramatic "Les Nessman and The News" theme music and makes his famous Chi Chi Rodriguez report, mangling the pronunciation of the name (as "Chai Chai Rod-row-gweeze"). Meanwhile, Johnny agrees to help Jennifer to get Herb, the married sales manager, to stop asking her out. Johnny tells Herb that Jennifer had had the most "cunningly successful" sex change operation in history.
Les is informed by Andy that he is barred from the locker rooms at the stadium because one of the players thinks he is gay. It turns out the player overheard some other reporters mentioning what a "queer" little fellow Les is (because of his lack of knowledge about sports). Les goes out on the ledge of the Flimm Building; the staff tries to talk him in, but he is determined to jump (while quoting Hamlet). They eventually get Les to talk to the player by phone and the matter is straightened out. Les is talked back in by Herb of all people. Herb's line, "Les, it's okay if you're a homo." was redubbed in syndication as "Les, it's okay if you're gay."
"Hoodlum Rock" (10/9/78)
A friend of Arthur Carlson, concert promoter Steve Pevey, is in town. Andy finds out that he can book a hot band, "Scum of The Earth" (Andy: "You book Scum?" Pevey: "Not as a rule, no."). The band arrives at the station very well-dressed (the lobby has a sign saying "Welcome Scum"), but the station personnel soon find out that the group is a "Hoodlum Rock" band and uses violence as a promotional tool, throwing Pevey out of their limo when he can't tell them the time.
When the band members refuse to go on stage for the station-sponsored concert, Andy, Johnny and Venus have to fight them to make them change their minds. The concert is a big success and WKRP becomes known as the station that "brought Scum to Cincinnati".
Michael Des Barres appears as one of the members of the band, Charles Whetherby (aka DOG). Des Barres would later go on to appear in The New WKRP as DJ Jack Allen. The episode also features a song by Detective, "Got Enough Love".
A brief running gag has Mr. Carlson not recognizing Bailey, even after talking to her face to face.
Guest stars: Peter Elbling, Jim Henderson, Chuck Waters, & Ned Wertimer
"Hold Up" (10/16/78)
Herb sets up a remote broadcast for Del Murdoch (Hamilton Camp), owner of Del's Stereo and Sound, at his store. Things go awry when they are held up by Bob Burnat (alias "Bob Boogie"), a former DJ who wants to get back into radio. He uses the opportunity to show off his talents, after having been turned down by Andy. This episode features the first appearance of series writer Bill Dial as engineer Bucky Dornster, and cameos by Hugh Wilson and Tom Chehak as police officers.
"Bailey's Show" (10/23/78)
Bailey Quarters gets a chance to produce her own show, much to the chagrin of Herb and Les. Andy believes in her, but when the show, which Johnny hosts, goes off on an extreme tangent due to the nature of the guests, she fears for her job. Herb tries to get her fired. Mr. Carlson, after hearing the show, wants to meet with Bailey. He is surprised to find out that she is female, but is impressed by her tenacity and her ability to stand up to Herb and Les. Bailey and Mr. Carlson go into his office to discuss things further and she shows signs of getting over her shyness.
"Turkeys Away" (10/30/78)
This episode was named by TV Guide as the 40 th greatest in TV history.
Arthur Carlson, feeling left out of the everyday station business, decides that he wants to get more involved. He goes around asking all the staff if anybody needs any help. In one memorable scene, he goes into the DJ booth while Johnny is on the air listening to the song "Dogs" by Pink Floyd. Carlson finds out it is a Pink Floyd song and wonders what "Pigs on the Wing" sounds like, to which Johnny replies, "I don't do requests."
Without informing anybody, Carlson decides to stage his own promotion for Thanksgiving: dropping twenty-five live turkeys from a helicopter to unsuspecting shoppers below. The scene is reported live on the air by news director Les Nessman, breathlessly describing the unseen flightless birds plummeting to the ground, in a parody of Herbert Morrison's famous coverage of the Hindenburg disaster: "It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!" Afterwards, the shaken Carlson explains, "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
In 1988, radio station WCSX in Detroit, Michigan hosted a "Turkey Drop" in Hines Park in Livonia, Michigan. Richard Sanders was the emcee of this Thanksgiving promotion in which paper turkeys were dropped from a helicopter to participants in an open field. The turkeys had coupons that were redeemed for prizes. This same contest was mimicked in 1990 by oldies station KONO-FM in San Antonio, Texas.
"Love Returns" (11/6/78)
Andy's former girlfriend, Linda Taylor, now a famous country and western singer, comes to Cincinnati on a promotional tour and is reunited with Andy. The two rekindle their love and she offers him a job on her tour. It is a tough decision, but he ultimately decides to stay at WKRP.
Meanwhile, Johnny and Venus are the prizes in a "Win a Date with a DJ" contest. Venus ends up picking the girl for Johnny, who turns out to be a man named "Kim".
"Mama's Review" (1/15/79)
Mother Carlson meets with Andy and her son Arthur to discuss the progress of the station since the format change. Clips from the first eight episodes are shown. Andy mentions that Del's Stereo and Sound went out of business shortly after the remote broadcast WKRP did at the store. After Mother Carlson rakes Arthur and the station over the coals, he again stands up to her, even going so far as to say, "I'm over 40. Wherever I go is none of your beeswax, and your 20 minutes... they're up!!" After Arthur storms out, Andy is surprised to observe that Mrs. Carlson is pleased by his eruption; her harsh upbringing of her son hasn't totally destroyed his self-confidence.
This episode aired after the series went on hiatus and was used to bring
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