| 1. | WKRP In Cincinnati: Season 1 | 1978 |
| 2. | WKRP In Cincinnati: Season 2 | 1979 |
| 3. | WKRP In Cincinnati: Season 3 | 1980 |
| 4. | WKRP In Cincinnati: Season 4 | 1981 |
WKRP in Cincinnati
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 Jan Smithers, 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.
In the first of this two-part episode, WKRP receives a terrorist bomb threat.
Conclusion of two-part series. WKRP receives a terrorist bomb threat.
When the staff plans to unionize, Carlson's mother (Bruce) threatens to sell the station.
Johnny's apartment is being fumigated and he needs a place to stay. Everyone turns him down except for Bailey. Rumors start at the office that they are having an affair. Johnny is also afraid the new DJ will take over his radio time slot.
Les is being given an award for a news broadcast. Herb is going on vacation, but Jennifer is worried when Herb takes insurance papers with him. He checks into a hospital for heart tests and asks Les to stay with him. They go to a porn movie.
With Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson must fill in for him in order to negotiate a contract. But if Mr. Carlson is Herb, who is Mr. Carlson? In the meantime, Johnny avoids settling a poker debt.
When Johnny comes into a large amount of money, everyone at the station is curious to see what he will do with it.
When an elderly gentleman friend of Jennifer's dies, the man's family blames her for stealing his fortune.
Mother Carlson hires a radio doctor to evaluate the station and Andy worries when the doctor threatens to write a poor review if the station doesn't buy his services.
Andy wants a new transmitter for the station, and visits Mrs Carlson to ask for it. Andy ends up taking her out to discuss business, but she seems to want more than that.
Arthur and Carmen attend his college reunion. He finds out their first date was because someone dared her to go out with him. Bailey wants to get a computer for billing. Venus tries to impress a new date.
The station sells some new commercial spots to a diet company whose 'magic pills' are not as innocuous as they seem.
Herb decides it's time for a change in his wardrobe and enlists Jennifer to help him. Meanwhile, Venus is interviewed by Black Life magazine.
A fire at the Vine Street Mission that destroys the kitchen. Johnny starts a donation fund and asks Jennifer to ask her wealthy friends to contribute. She throws a party and all goes well -until the homeless show up to show their gratitude.
Herb sets Les up with a blind date through his latest client. Les enjoys the date, but does not realize the Ill Take Romance Dating Service is actually a front for prostitution.
Venus' girlfriend gives him a diamond earring, and then excuses herself from the room and leaves. While he wonders where she went, the police visit the station and question Venus. The earring was stolen, and they think Venus is the thief.
A fire alarm sends the crew home early, However Herb and Jennifer get trapped on the elevator going down. Herb then tells Jennifer some rumors that he has been spreading about them being together.
When Les jealously plagiarizes Bailey's initial draft of a partially fictional news story on air, the station's broadcast license is put in jeopardy.
While Andy and Venus are playing jokes on each other at the radio station, Mama Carlson visits and then quizzes them. Venus lets it slip he used to be a teacher. Andy and Venus tell the story of how Venus went from school teacher to DJ.
Les' mother is visiting, and complains that Les is in a dead-end job. Les decides he is going to follow his dream and apply for a job at CBS for the evening news in New York.
Kiss the Cook. Hundreds of cardboard figures of Herb at his barbecue instead of Venus promoting shampoo. When an ad for one of the station's sponsors that's supposed to show Venus somehow ends up with a picture of Herb because of a sloppy oversight mix-up, the sponsor wants to drop them. Jennifer offers to go talk to the manager using her obvious appeal to convince him not to, but as it turns out the guy is blind, and she has to resort to charm - which she also has in spades.
Mama Carlson announces plans to change WKRP's format.
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Howard Hesseman | Dr. Johnny Fever |
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Tim Reid | Venus Flytrap |
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Gordon Jump | Arthur Carlson |
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Loni Anderson | Jennifer Marlowe |
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Richard Sanders | Les Nessman |
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Gary Sandy | Andy Travis |
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Frank Bonner | Herb Tarlek |
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Jan Smithers | Bailey Quarters |
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Carol Bruce | Lillian Carlson |
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Ian Wolfe | Hirsch |
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Max Wright | Frank Bartman |
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Rosemary Forsyth | Joyce Armor |
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Lou Richards | Officer Mardigan |
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Bonnie Urseth | Nurse |
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Colleen Camp | Colleen Camp |
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Sam Anderson | Rex Erhardt |
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David Clennon | Norris Breeze |
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Robert Ridgely | Dave Wickerman |
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Michael Pataki | Detective Alcorn |
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Carmen Filpi | Percy Romanoff |
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John Witherspoon | Detective Davies |
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Jack Kruschen | Judge H.P. Newcomb |
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Robert Hooks | Prosecutor |
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Art Metrano | Ted Jeffries |
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Dennis Lipscomb | Pat Perillo |
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