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WKRP In Cincinnati: Season 4

WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Series

826663153040 (Sep 23, 2014)

WKRP in Cincinnati

WKRP In Cincinnati: Season 4

Company Four (1981)
DVD
US - TV-PG
TV Series | Comedy
USA | English | Color | 09:00

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.


Episodes View details

1 An Explosive Affair: Part 1 24 min | Oct 07, 1981

In the first of this two-part episode, WKRP receives a terrorist bomb threat.

Director: Linda Day
Writer: Steve Marshall
Guest stars: Rosemary Forsyth, Lou Richards
2 An Explosive Affair: Part 2 24 min | Oct 14, 1981

Conclusion of two-part series. WKRP receives a terrorist bomb threat.

Director: Linda Day
Writer: Steve Marshall
Guest stars: Rosemary Forsyth
3 The Union 24 min | Oct 21, 1981

When the staff plans to unionize, Carlson's mother (Bruce) threatens to sell the station.

Director: Linda Day
Writer: Blake Hunter
Guest stars: Robert Starr, Los Amigos Mariachis
4 Rumors 24 min | Oct 28, 1981

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.

Director: Linda Day
Writer: Peter Torokvei
Guest stars: Sam Anderson
5 Straight from the Heart 24 min | Nov 04, 1981

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.

Director: Dan Guntzelman
Writer: Dan Guntzelman
Guest stars: Bonnie Urseth, John Brent
6 Who's on First? 24 min | Nov 11, 1981

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.

Director: Dan Guntzelman
Writer: Dan Guntzelman
Guest stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Mickey Morton, E.A. Sirianni, Bonnie Urseth
7 Three Days of the Condo 24 min | Nov 18, 1981

When Johnny comes into a large amount of money, everyone at the station is curious to see what he will do with it.

Director: Linda Day
Writer: Lissa Levin
Guest stars: Constance Pfeifer, Weldon Boyce Bleiler, Maryann Furman, Denise McKenna
8 Jennifer and the Will 24 min | Dec 02, 1981

When an elderly gentleman friend of Jennifer's dies, the man's family blames her for stealing his fortune.

Director: Dolores Ferraro
Writer: Blake Hunter
Guest stars: Pat O'Brien, John Terry Bell, Roger Til, Brian Wood, Janet Clark, Ernie Brown, Charles Alvin Bell, Shony Alex Braun
9 The Consultant 24 min | Dec 30, 1981

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.

Director: Dolores Ferraro
Writer: Hugh Wilson
Guest stars: David Clennon, Ian Wolfe
10 Love, Exciting and New 24 min | Dec 09, 1981

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.

Director: Frank Bonner
Writer: Lissa Levin
Guest stars: Colleen Camp, Ian Wolfe
11 You Can't Go Out of Town Again 24 min | Jan 06, 1982

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.

Director: Howard Hesseman
Writer: Dan Guntzelman
Guest stars: Claude Earl Jones, Joy Claussen, Renée Jones, Alice Nunn, Allyn Ann McLerie
12 Pills 24 min | Jan 20, 1982

The station sells some new commercial spots to a diet company whose 'magic pills' are not as innocuous as they seem.

Director: Asaad Kelada
Writer: Steve Marshall
Guest stars: Robert Ridgely, Max Wright
13 Changes 25 min | Feb 03, 1982

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.

Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Peter Torokvei
Guest stars: Tom Dreesen, Art Metrano, Jim Hardie
14 Jennifer and Johnny's Charity 25 min | Jan 13, 1982

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.

Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Blake Hunter
Guest stars: Perry Cook, Richard Derr, Carmen Filipi, Helen Heigh, Gloria LeRoy, John Vivyan, Lynn Wood
15 I'll Take Romance 25 min | Feb 17, 1982

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.

Director: Asaad Kelada
Writer: Lissa Levin
Guest stars: Livia Genise
16 Circumstantial Evidence 25 min | Feb 24, 1982

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.

Director: Frank Bonner
Writer: Tim Reid, Peter Torokvei
Guest stars: John Witherspoon, Robert Hooks, Jack Kruschen, Max Wright, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Michael Pataki, Tony Lucas
17 Fire 25 min | Mar 17, 1982

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.

Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Dan Guntzelman
18 Dear Liar 25 min | Mar 24, 1982

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.

Director: Frank Bonner
Writer: Steve Marshall
Guest stars: Barbara Cason, Iona Morris, Bill Ewing, Susan McIver
19 The Creation of Venus 25 min | Mar 31, 1982

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.

Director: Gordon Jump
Writer: Blake Hunter
Guest stars: Nora Boland
20 The Impossible Dream 24 min | Sep 20, 1982

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.

Director: Nick Stamos
Writer: Michael Fairman, Richard Sanders
Guest stars: Carol Carrington, Eleanor McCoy
21 To Err Is Human 25 min | Aug 09, 1982

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.

Director: Linda Day
Writer: Lissa Levin
Guest stars: Tom Sullivan, Sue Ann Gilfillan, James Gallery
22 Up and Down the Dial 25 min | Apr 21, 1982

Mama Carlson announces plans to change WKRP's format.

Director: George Gaynes
Writer: Dan Guntzelman
Guest stars: Nicholas Hormann, Ian Wolfe

Cast View all

Howard Hesseman Dr. Johnny Fever
Tim Reid Venus Flytrap
Gordon Jump Arthur Carlson
Loni Anderson Jennifer Marlowe
Richard Sanders Les Nessman
Gary Sandy Andy Travis
Frank Bonner Herb Tarlek
Jan Smithers Bailey Quarters
Carol Bruce Lillian Carlson
Ian Wolfe Hirsch
Max Wright Frank Bartman
Rosemary Forsyth Joyce Armor
Lou Richards Officer Mardigan
Bonnie Urseth Nurse
Colleen Camp Colleen Camp
Sam Anderson Rex Erhardt
David Clennon Norris Breeze
Robert Ridgely Dave Wickerman
Michael Pataki Detective Alcorn
Carmen Filpi Percy Romanoff
John Witherspoon Detective Davies
Jack Kruschen Judge H.P. Newcomb
Robert Hooks Prosecutor
Art Metrano Ted Jeffries
Dennis Lipscomb Pat Perillo

Edition details

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