WKRP in Cincinnati

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  E1An Explosive Affair (Part 1)

  Oct 7, 1981· 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.

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  E2An Explosive Affair (Part 2)

  Oct 14, 1981· 25m

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

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  E3The Union

  Oct 21, 1981· 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.

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  E4Rumors

  Oct 28, 1981· 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.

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  E5Straight from the Heart

  Nov 4, 1981· 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.

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  E6Who's on First?

  Nov 11, 1981· 25m

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

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  E7Three Days of the Condo

  Nov 18, 1981· 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.

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  E8Jennifer and the Will

  Dec 2, 1981· 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.

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  E9The Consultant

  Dec 30, 1981· 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.

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  E10Love, Exciting and New

  Jan 6, 1982· 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.

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  E11You Can't Go Out of Town Again

  Jan 13, 1982· 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.

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  E12Pills

  Jan 20, 1982· 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.

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  E13Changes

  Jan 27, 1982· 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.

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  E14Jennifer and Johnny's Charity

  Feb 3, 1982· 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.

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  E15I'll Take Romance

  Feb 17, 1982· 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.

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  E16Circumstantial Evidence

  Feb 24, 1982· 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.

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  E17Fire

  Mar 17, 1982· 25m

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

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  E18Dear Liar

  Mar 24, 1982· 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.

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  E19The Creation of Venus

  Mar 31, 1982· 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.

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  E20The Impossible Dream

  Apr 7, 1982· 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.

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  E21To Err is Human

  Apr 14, 1982· 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.

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  E22Up and Down the DialFinale

  Apr 21, 1982· 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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  E1The Airplane Show

  Nov 1, 1980· 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.

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  E2Jennifer Moves

  Nov 8, 1980· 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.

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  E3Real Families

  Nov 15, 1980· 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.

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  E4The Baby

  Nov 22, 1980· 25m

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

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  E5Hotel Oceanview

  Nov 29, 1980· 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.

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  E6A Mile in My Shoes

  Dec 6, 1980· 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.

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  E7Bah, Humbug

  Dec 20, 1980· 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.

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  E8Baby, It's Cold Inside

  Jan 3, 1981· 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.

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  E9The Painting

  Jan 10, 1981· 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.

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  E10Daydreams

  Jan 17, 1981· 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.

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  E11Frog Story

  Jan 24, 1981· 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.""

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  E12Venus and the Man

  Jan 31, 1981· 25m

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

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  E13Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 1

  Feb 7, 1981· 25m

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

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  E14Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 2

  Feb 7, 1981· 25m

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

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  E15Ask Jennifer

  Feb 14, 1981· 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.

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  E16I Am Woman

  Feb 21, 1981· 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.

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  E17Secrets of Dayton Heights

  Feb 28, 1981· 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.

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  E18Out to Lunch

  Mar 14, 1981· 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.

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  E19A Simple Little Wedding

  Mar 21, 1981· 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.

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  E20Nothing to Fear But...

  Mar 28, 1981· 25m

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

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  E21Til Debt Do Us Part

  Apr 5, 1981· 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.

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  E22Clean Up Radio EverywhereFinale

  Apr 12, 1981· 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.

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  E1For Love or Money (1)

  Sep 17, 1979· 25m

  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.

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  E2For Love or Money (2)

  Sep 24, 1979· 25m

  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.

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  E3Baseball

  Oct 15, 1979· 25m

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

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  E4Bad Risk

  Oct 22, 1979· 25m

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

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  E5Jennifer Falls in Love

  Oct 22, 1979· 25m

  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 Jennifer is in love with.

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  E6Carlson for President

  Nov 5, 1979· 25m

  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.

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  E7Mike Fright

  Nov 12, 1979· 25m

  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 power and develops a serious case of mike fright.

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  E8The Patter of Little Feet

  Nov 26, 1979· 25m

  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.

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  E9Baby, If You've Ever Wondered

  Dec 3, 1979· 25m

  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 unwillingness to fire incompetent employees like Herb and Les.

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  E10Bailey's Big Break

  Dec 10, 1979· 25m

  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.

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  E11Jennifer's Home for Christmas

  Dec 17, 1979· 25m

  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.

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  E12Sparky

  Dec 24, 1979· 25m

  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.

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  E13God Talks to Johnny

  Dec 31, 1979· 25m

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

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  E14A Family Affair

  Jan 7, 1980· 25m

  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.

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  E15Herb's Dad

  Jan 14, 1980· 25m

  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.

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  E16Put Up or Shut Up

  Jan 21, 1980· 25m

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

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  E17The Americanization of Ivan

  Jan 28, 1980· 25m

  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.

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  E18Les' Groupie

  Feb 4, 1980· 25m

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

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  E19In Concert

  Feb 11, 1980· 25m

  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, and presents the characters' reactions to the tragedy.

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  E20The Doctor's Daughter

  Feb 18, 1980· 25m

  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.

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  E21Filthy Pictures (1)

  Mar 3, 1980· 25m

  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.

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  E22Filthy Pictures (2)

  Mar 3, 1980· 25m

  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.

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  E23Venus Rising

  Mar 10, 1980· 25m

  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.

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  E24Most Improved StationFinale

  Mar 31, 1980· 25m

  Everyone starts bickering after the station loses a broadcasting award.

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