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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- Seasons
- 4
- Episodes aired
- 90
- Latest aired
- S04E22
- Total runtime
- 1d 13h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1978 – June 1979 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 1979 – March 1980 24 episodes
- Season 3 November 1980 – April 1981 22 episodes
- Season 4 October 1981 – April 1982 22 episodes
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S03E01 The Airplane Show
November 1 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E02 Jennifer Moves
November 8 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E03 Real Families
November 15 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E04 The Baby
November 22 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E05 Hotel Oceanview
November 29 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E06 A Mile in My Shoes
December 6 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E07 Bah, Humbug
December 20 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E08 Baby, It's Cold Inside
January 3 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E09 The Painting
January 10 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E10 Daydreams
January 17 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E11 Frog Story
January 24 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E12 Venus and the Man
January 31 · 25min find the promo
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The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.
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S03E13 Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 1
February 7 · 25min find the promo
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Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
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S03E14 Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 2
February 7 · 25min find the promo
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Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
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S03E15 Ask Jennifer
February 14 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E16 I Am Woman
February 21 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E17 Secrets of Dayton Heights
February 28 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E18 Out to Lunch
March 14 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E19 A Simple Little Wedding
March 21 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E20 Nothing to Fear But...
March 28 · 25min find the promo
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Everyone is in the grip of urban paranoia after the station is robbed.
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S03E21 Til Debt Do Us Part
April 5 · 25min find the promo
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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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S03E22 Clean Up Radio Everywhere
April 12 · 25min find the promo
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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.