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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S04E01 An Explosive Affair (Part 1)
October 7 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E02 An Explosive Affair (Part 2)
October 14 · 25min find the promo
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Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter.
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S04E03 The Union
October 21 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E04 Rumors
October 28 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E05 Straight from the Heart
November 4 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E06 Who's on First?
November 11 · 25min find the promo
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With Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson pretends he is Herb and is impersonated by Les for an advertising client.
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S04E07 Three Days of the Condo
November 18 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E08 Jennifer and the Will
December 2 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E09 The Consultant
December 30 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E10 Love, Exciting and New
January 6 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E11 You Can't Go Out of Town Again
January 13 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E12 Pills
January 20 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E13 Changes
January 27 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E14 Jennifer and Johnny's Charity
February 3 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E15 I'll Take Romance
February 17 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E16 Circumstantial Evidence
February 24 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E17 Fire
March 17 · 25min find the promo
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Herb and Jennifer are trapped in an elevator when a fire breaks out in the Flimm Building.
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S04E18 Dear Liar
March 24 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E19 The Creation of Venus
March 31 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E20 The Impossible Dream
April 7 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E21 To Err is Human
April 14 · 25min find the promo
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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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S04E22 Up and Down the Dial
April 21 · 25min find the promo
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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.