WKRP in Cincinnati

S01E01 Pilot (1) 1978-09-18

A new program director arrives at WKRP and pushes for a switch to rock 'n' roll.

S01E02 Pilot (2) 1978-09-25

While Andy tries to come up with a publicity stunt to advertise the format change, a group of elderly listeners invades the station protesting the removal of their favorite music.

S01E03 Les on a Ledge 1978-10-02

When an athlete accuses him of being gay, Les climbs out on the ledge of WKRP's building and threatens to jump.

S01E04 Hoodlum Rock 1978-10-09

Andy takes a lot of heat for arranging to sponsor a British punk rock group's concert.

S01E05 Hold-Up 1978-10-16

A stereo store is held up while Johnny is there doing a live remote broadcast.

S01E06 Bailey's Show 1978-10-23

In spite of Bailey's lack of experience, Andy lets her produce a public affairs program.

S01E07 Turkeys Away 1978-10-30

When Arthur feels threatened by Andy's success and useless in general, he decides to have a turkey giveaway on Thanksgiving with disastrous results.

S01E08 Love Returns 1978-11-06

Andy has to choose between love and work when his ex-girlfriend offers him the chance to go on the road with her.

S01E09 Mama's Review 1979-01-15

In a clip show, Andy and Mr. Carlson recount to Mama Carlson what has been happening at the station since it switched to a rock format. This episode was designed to reintroduce audiences to the show after the two-month hiatus.

S01E10 A Date with Jennifer 1979-01-22

When Les wins the coveted Silver Sow Award, he asks Jennifer to be his date for the banquet, and she says yes. A jealous Herb tries to get Mr. Carlson to institute a policy against employee dating.

S01E11 The Contest Nobody Could Win 1979-01-29

Johnny accidentally announces the prize in a promotional contest as $5,000 instead of the proposed $50.

S01E12 Tornado 1979-02-05

A tornado hits Cincinnati and catches the staff unprepared.

S01E13 Goodbye, Johnny (1) 1979-02-19

Johnny is offered a job in California at three times his present salary.

S01E14 Johnny Comes Back (2) 1979-02-26

Johnny returns and finds that his old job has already been filled.

S01E15 Never Leave Me, Lucille 1979-03-05

Herb anticipates a swinging bachelor life after separating from his wife.

S01E16 I Want to Keep My Baby 1979-03-12

A baby is left in a basket on the doorstep of the radio station.

S01E17 A Commercial Break 1979-03-26

The staff tries to create an appealing advertising campaign for a mortician.

S01E18 Who is Gordon Sims? 1979-04-02

Venus mysteriously refuses to let a photo of himself appear in a newspaper ad.

S01E19 I Do, I Do... For Now 1979-04-23

Jennifer's childhood sweetheart arrives to make her keep her vow to marry him.

S01E20 Young Master Carlson 1979-04-30

When Arthur Carlson Jr. is kicked out of military school, his grandmother decides he should learn the radio business.

S01E21 Fish Story 1979-05-28

On the day Carlson and Travis are being interviewed by a newspaper, everything around them goes wrong in the silliest way possible.

S01E22 Preacher 1979-06-04

A 300-pound wrestler-turned-preacher causes problems by selling fake religious artifacts on his Sunday morning broadcast.

S02E01 For Love or Money (1) 1979-09-17

Johnny's ex-girlfriend comes to town and threatens him with a palimony suit.

S02E02 For Love or Money (2) 1979-09-24

Johnny learns the real reason his ex-girlfriend is suing him.

S02E03 Baseball 1979-10-15

Les arranges a softball game with rival radio station WPIG.

S02E04 Bad Risk 1979-10-22

Herb manages to sell Les enough insurance coverage for six men after the newsman is involved in a bizarre accident.

S02E05 Jennifer Falls in Love 1979-10-29

Jennifer falls for a poor but handsome man.

S02E06 Carlson for President 1979-11-05

Mr. Carlson discovers the hazards of politics when he runs for a seat on the city council.

S02E07 Mike Fright 1979-11-12

Johnny loses his ability to talk on the air when a flippant remark gets him in trouble with City Hall.

S02E08 Patter of Little Feet 1979-11-26

Mr. Carlson's wife announces she is pregnant.

S02E09 Baby, If You've Ever Wondered 1979-12-03

Everyone at the station is happy to learn that they've gone from 16th to 14th in the market... except Andy.

S02E10 Bailey's Big Break 1979-12-10

Les feels threatened by Bailey's promotion to on-air newscaster.

S02E11 Jennifer's Home for Christmas 1979-12-17

Everyone, with the exception of Jennifer, is anxious to leave the staff Christmas party.

S02E12 Sparky 1979-12-24

Mr. Carlson hires baseball manager Sparky Anderson as the host of a new sports show.

S02E13 God Talks to Johnny 1979-12-31

Johnny thinks he is going insane when he hears God talking to him.

S02E14 A Family Affair 1980-01-07

Andy's prejudices are revealed when he is angered over a date between his sister and Venus.

S02E15 Herb's Dad 1980-01-14

Herb's father runs away from the rest home and shows up for an unwelcome visit.

S02E16 Put Up or Shut Up 1980-01-21

Jennifer decides to call Herb's bluff by finally accepting a date with him.

S02E17 The Americanization of Ivan 1980-01-28

A Soviet defector turns to Bailey for help.

S02E18 Les' Groupie 1980-02-04

An overzealous fan invades Les' life.

S02E19 In Concert 1980-02-11

The entire WKRP staff is overcome with feelings of guilt and anger after a major rock concert they helped to promote results in the death of eleven concertgoers.  This episode directly referenced The Who concert disaster at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum on December 3, 1979.

S02E20 The Doctor's Daughter 1980-02-18

Johnny's grown-up daughter shows up with her shiftless boyfriend.

S02E21 Filthy Pictures (1) 1980-03-03

Mr. Carlson learns that the photographer who took promotional photos of Jennifer secretly photographed her as she was changing.

S02E22 Filthy Pictures (2) 1980-03-03

After the nude photos of Jennifer and the blackmail plot is revealed, the radio staff tries to recover the photos and negatives from the unscrupulous photographer.

S02E23 Venus Rising 1980-03-10

Venus is offered a higher paying job as the program director of a rival station.

S02E24 Most Improved Station 1980-03-31

Johnny's co-workers become jealous when he receives a broadcasting award.

S03E01 The Airplane Show 1980-11-01

Les takes it upon himself to cover the news in a World War I biplane. Flying stunts were performed by Harold Johnson, an accomplished aviator and then-serving mayor of Moraine, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati.

S03E02 Jennifer Moves 1980-11-08

Jennifer is ecstatic about her new Victorian home on a quiet street until she meets her neighbors.

S03E03 Real Families 1980-11-15

Herb's home is invaded by a TV crew documenting his family life for a show called "Real Families".

S03E04 The Baby 1980-11-22

The Carlsons' childbirth preparations appear to be wasted when Arthur gets cold feet just before entering the delivery room.

Andy, Herb and Mr. Carlson journey to Dayton in hopes of impressing a designer and landing her prestigious jeans account.

S03E06 A Mile in My Shoes 1980-12-06

When Herb is called for jury duty, Andy takes over as salesman and Venus becomes program director.

S03E07 Bah, Humbug 1980-12-20

Mr. Carlson falls asleep and is transported into a dream world populated by Christmas ghosts.

S03E08 Baby, It's Cold Inside 1981-01-03

The station's furnace goes on the blink on a freezing day when Momma Carlson is visiting.

S03E09 The Painting 1981-01-10

Herb purchases a painting from Mr. Carlson's church auction and tries to con Les into paying for half of it.

S03E10 Daydreams 1981-01-17

A jittery Mr. Carlson tries out an important speech on the staff, with interesting results.

S03E11 Frog Story 1981-01-24

Herb accidentally paints his 5-year-old daughter's pet frog pink.

S03E12 Venus and the Man 1981-01-31

A station employee asks Venus to convince her 16-year-old not to drop out of school. The original broadcast of this episode featured a pre-credits sequence in which Loni Anderson, surrounded by the entire cast and crew, spoke directly to the viewing audience, breaking the Fourth Wall to welcome home those who had just returned from the Iran Hostage Crisis.

S03E13 Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide (1) 1981-02-07

Johnny takes a job as a TV disco-show host.

S03E14 Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide (2) 1981-02-07

Johnny's disco persona begins to spill even further into his personal life, as he goes out as Rip Tide at night and finds he enjoys the money and fame.

S03E15 Ask Jennifer 1981-02-14

Andy and Herb convince Mr. Carlson to program a call-in advice show.

S03E16 I Am Woman 1981-02-21

The staff unites in protest after learning that their landmark building is about to be leveled.

S03E17 Secrets of Dayton Heights 1981-02-28

The Secret Service refuses to issue Les press credentials so he can attend a presidential press conference.

S03E18 Out to Lunch 1981-03-14

The staff tries to help Herb find out if he has a drinking problem.

S03E19 A Simple Little Wedding 1981-03-21

Twenty-five years after their elopement, Arthur and Carmen plan a "simple little wedding".

S03E20 Nothing to Fear But... 1981-03-28

Everyone becomes paranoid after the station is robbed.

S03E21 Till Debt Do Us Part 1981-04-05

A surprise telephone call from his ex-wife has Johnny convinced he's finally going to be free of alimony payments.

S03E22 Clean Up Radio Everywhere 1981-04-12

A preacher who heads up a media task force to clean up radio makes WKRP his first Cincinnati stop.

S04E01 An Explosive Affair (1) 1981-10-07

WKRP receives a bomb threat from the terrorist group "Black Monday," and Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter while the station is being searched. Meanwhile, Mr. Carlson's former secretary visits, and he misreads her desire to meet for lunch.

S04E02 An Explosive Affair (2) 1981-10-14

Andy realizes the threatened bomb is actually at the transmitter where he's sent Johnny and Venus. He tries to contact them, but Johnny has smashed the phone out of frustration over a missed bet on a horse. Luckily, with help from the police, Johnny and Venus get out before the bomb explodes.

S04E03 The Union 1981-10-21

While the station's employees consider unionizing, Mr. Carlson deals with feelings of betrayal.

S04E04 Rumors 1981-10-28

Johnny stays at Bailey's place while his apartment is being fumigated, leading to rumors that the two are having a sexual affair.

S04E05 Straight from the Heart 1981-11-04

Herb secretly checks into a hospital for heart tests, but then sneaks out and takes Les to a 3D pornographic movie.

S04E06 Who's on First? 1981-11-11

Mr. Carlson has to pretend to be Herb to make a sale while Herb is in the hospital, while Les pretends to be Mr. Carlson, and Johnny pretends to be Andy to avoid paying a gambling debt.

S04E07 Three Days of the Condo 1981-11-18

Johnny receives a $24,000 legal settlement from the L.A. station that fired him. To stop Johnny from wasting the windfall, Venus advises Fever to invest in a condo at Gone With the Wind Estates.

S04E08 Jennifer and the Will 1981-12-02

After Jennifer's elderly boyfriend Colonel Buchanan dies while out on a date with her, she discovers she has been named executrix of his will.

S04E09 The Consultant 1981-12-30

Mama Carlson hires a professional radio consultant to evaluate WKRP, and the consultant threatens Andy with a bad report unless the station subscribes to his programming services.

S04E10 Love, Exciting and New 1982-01-06

Andy goes out with Lillian to discuss getting a new transmitter for the station, but Lillian has other plans when she realizes that everyone thinks she and Andy are dating.

S04E11 You Can't Go Out of Town Again 1982-01-13

Mr. Carlson learns that his wife Carmen first went out with him in college only because her sorority dared her to date someone on the "dip list."

S04E12 Pills 1982-01-20

WKRP has to do commercials for a client whose "diet pills" are actually a legalized form of speed.

S04E13 Changes 1982-01-27

Venus tries to act and dress more stereotypically "black" to prepare for an interview with a militant magazine, whose writer turns out to be white; meanwhile, Herb adopts a classier image with Jennifer's help.

S04E14 Jennifer and Johnny's Charity 1982-02-03

Class conflict is in the air when Johnny's friends from the fire-damaged Vine Street Mission meet Jennifer's wealthy friends who are preparing to donate money to rebuild it.

S04E15 I'll Take Romance 1982-02-17

Les goes out with a woman he met through a computer dating service, not realizing the service is a front for prostitution.

S04E16 Circumstantial Evidence 1982-02-24

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.

S04E17 Fire 1982-03-17

Herb and Jennifer are stuck in an elevator together when a fire shuts down the Flimm Building.

S04E18 Dear Liar 1982-03-24

In a take-off on the Janet Cooke scandal, 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.

S04E19 The Creation of Venus 1982-03-31

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.

S04E20 The Impossible Dream 1982-04-07

Egged on by his mother, Les announces that he is going to fulfil his lifelong dream by going to New York to audition for the CBS Evening News.

S04E21 To Err is Human 1982-04-14

Herb screws up yet again and Mr. Carlson is finally ready to fire him, but Jennifer tries to find a way to save Herb's job by talking to the businessman Herb offended. (This was actually the last episode filmed for the series).

S04E22 Up and Down the Dial 1982-04-21

The new ratings arrive, and WKRP has finally become a successful station, rising to #6 in the Cincinnati market with Johnny Fever as the #1 DJ. But when a new news director shows up and says he was hired by Mama Carlson, Andy soon finds out that she plans to change the station to a 24-hour news format.