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WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)
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Frank Bonner as Herb Tarlek
Episodes 90
DVD: Do My Eyes Say Yes?
"Do My Eyes Say Yes?" is a brief celebration of the Jennifer character.
Read MoreDVD: A Fish Story Story
"A Fish Story Story" lets Wilson explain why the famous episode is his least favorite.
Read MoreLes On a Ledge
Les is barred from locker-room interviews when his manhood is questioned.
Read MoreHoodlum Rock
Andy books a rock band whose members attack their audiences.
Read MoreBailey's Show
Bailey's show brings out the weirdest people in town.
Read MoreTurkeys Away
Carlson thinks up a wacko Thanksgiving promotional gimmick.
Read MoreLove Returns
Andy may have to leave WKRP when he rekindles his love for a touring rock star.
Read MoreMama's Review
In flashbacks, Andy and Carlson update WKRP's owner Mrs. Carlson on recent station happenings.
Read MoreA Date With Jennifer
Les invites Jennifer to a banquet, then suspects she only accepted out of pity.
Read MoreThe Contest Nobody Could Win
Johnny accidentally offers listeners $5000 instead of $50 as a contest prize.
Read MoreGoodbye, Johnny
Johnny is offered a job in California, so the staff devises a scheme to keep him in Cincinnati.
Read MoreJohnny Comes Back
Johnny comes back to WKRP expecting to get his job back. Instead, he is assigned to the predawn show.
Read MoreNever Leave Me, Lucille
Temporarily separated from his wife, Herb envisions a fanciful bachelorhood.
Read MoreI Want to Keep My Baby
Johnny refuses to relinquish an abandoned baby left at WKRP until he can contact the mother.
Read MoreA Commercial Break
Andy has doubts about an upbeat ad campaign for a mortician.
Read MoreWho is Gordon Sims?
Venus refuses to pose for an ad because he's wanted by the law.
Read MoreI Do, I Do... For Now
Jennifer tries to discourage a beau by revealing she's married--to Johnny Fever.
Read MoreYoung Master Carlson
Momma Carlson insists her grandson be allowed to roam around the station after he's booted out of military school.
Read MoreFish Story
Andy tells a journalist that WKRP is just a "run-of-the-mill" station, even though a staffer is running around in a "carp" suit.
Read MoreFor Love or Money (1)
Johnny forgets about his date with Bailey when he gets a call from Buffy, his old girlfriend from California. He borrows Jennifer's apartment to impress Buffy; however, that plan ends when she tells him she's suing him for palimony.
Read MoreFor Love or Money (2)
Johnny calls his friends over to Jennifer's apartment to help him deal with Buffy and her threat of a lawsuit. Buffy arrives and, after having a drink with Johnny, tells him that she put poison in his drink.
Read MoreJennifer Falls in Love
For the first time in her life, Jennifer is in love, with a penniless but handsome repairman who turns out to be even more of a gold digger than she is. Meanwhile, Les tries to get a raise, and Johnny becomes convinced that he's the man Jennifer is in love with.
Read MoreCarlson for President
Mr. Carlson runs for Cincinnati City Council. When Bailey discovers a potentially damaging piece of information about the front-runner in the election, Mr. Carlson considers using that information in a televised debate.
Read MoreMike Fright
During a citywide garbage strike, Johnny jokingly suggests that his listeners dump their garbage on the steps of City Hall. The joke is on him, and the station, when hundreds of listeners take him seriously. Johnny becomes aware of his power and develops a serious case of mike fright.
Read MoreThe Patter of Little Feet
Mr. Carlson's wife Carmen announces that she is pregnant. Mr. Carlson is overjoyed, and certain that Carmen feels the same way. However, Mama Carlson points out the potential dangers of middle-aged pregnancy and recommends an abortion.
Read MoreBaby, If You've Ever Wondered
The new ratings book arrives, and WKRP has climbed from 16th to 14th place in the Cincinnati market. Everyone is happy about the gain except Andy, who knows that the station has not improved enough, in part because of his own unwillingness to fire incompetent employees like Herb and Les.
Read MoreBailey's Big Break
When WKRP needs an assistant news reporter, Bailey applies for the job and gets it. Les, who doesn't want to work with anyone, least of all a woman, tries to keep Bailey from going on the air.
Read MoreJennifer's Home for Christmas
Jennifer tells her friends that she has nothing special planned for Christmas, and that she doesn't have a tree this year. Everyone begins to suspect that she might be alone for the holidays.
Read MoreGod Talks to Johnny
When Johnny thinks he's heard God's voice talking to him, everyone, including Johnny, thinks he's going insane.
Read MoreA Family Affair
Andy's sister Carol visits Cincinnati, and Andy sets up a date for her and Johnny. But Carol winds up going out with Venus instead, and Andy becomes instinctively angry about it.
Read MoreHerb's Dad
Herb's father, a lifelong salesman who shares Herb's taste in clothes, runs away from the Shady Hills Rest Home and visits the station.
Read MorePut Up or Shut Up
Bailey convinces Jennifer to accept a date with Herb in the hope that he'll get scared and back down.
Read MoreThe Americanization of Ivan
Bailey and Les attend a press conference given by a group of visiting Russian hog experts. One of the Russians falls for Bailey and asks her to help him defect to the United States.
Read MoreLes' Groupie
Les goes out on a date with a female fan, who proceeds to move into his apartment and take over his life.
Read MoreIn Concert
At a concert by the Who in Cincinnati on December 3, 1979, eleven kids were trampled to death when the crowd rushed to get seats. The first part of this episode takes place before that concert; the second act takes place the day after, and presents the characters' reactions to the tragedy.
Read MoreThe Doctor's Daughter
Johnny's daughter shows up and moves in, and Johnny has to decide whether to express his disapproval of the shiftless boyfriend she's brought along.
Read MoreFilthy Pictures (1)
Mr. Carlson convinces Jennifer and Andy to pose in bathing suits for a ""Surf's Up in Cincinnati"" poster. After the photo session, the photographer secretly takes nude photos of Jennifer while she's changing.
Read MoreFilthy Pictures (2)
Mr. Carlson convinces Jennifer and Andy to pose in bathing suits for a ""Surf's Up in Cincinnati"" poster. After the photo session, the photographer secretly takes nude photos of Jennifer while she's changing.
Read MoreVenus Rising
Venus is offered a job as program director of WREQ radio, but is disillusioned when he discovers how the station is run and why they want to hire him. Meanwhile, Herb circulates a rumor that he, too, has received a job offer.
Read MoreMost Improved Station
Everyone starts bickering after the station loses a broadcasting award.
Read MoreThe Airplane Show
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.
Read MoreJennifer Moves
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.
Read MoreReal Families
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.
Read MoreHotel Oceanview
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.
Read MoreA Mile in My Shoes
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.
Read MoreBah, Humbug
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.
Read MoreBaby, It's Cold Inside
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.
Read MoreThe Painting
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.
Read MoreDaydreams
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.
Read MoreFrog Story
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.""
Read MoreVenus and the Man
The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.
Read MoreDr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 1
Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
Read MoreDr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 2
Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
Read MoreAsk Jennifer
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.
Read MoreI Am Woman
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.
Read MoreSecrets of Dayton Heights
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.
Read MoreOut to Lunch
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.
Read MoreA Simple Little Wedding
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.
Read MoreNothing to Fear But...
Everyone is in the grip of urban paranoia after the station is robbed.
Read MoreTil Debt Do Us Part
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.
Read MoreClean Up Radio Everywhere
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.
Read MoreAn Explosive Affair (Part 1)
After the station receives a bomb threat, Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter tower while the station is being searched.
Read MoreAn Explosive Affair (Part 2)
Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter.
Read MoreRumors
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.
Read MoreStraight from the Heart
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.
Read MoreWho's on First?
With Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson pretends he is Herb and is impersonated by Les for an advertising client.
Read MoreThree Days of the Condo
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.
Read MoreJennifer and the Will
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.
Read MoreThe Consultant
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.
Read MoreLove, Exciting and New
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.
Read MoreYou Can't Go Out of Town Again
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.
Read MoreChanges
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.
Read MoreJennifer and Johnny's Charity
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.
Read MoreI'll Take Romance
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.
Read MoreCircumstantial Evidence
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.
Read MoreThe Creation of Venus
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.
Read MoreThe Impossible Dream
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.
Read MoreTo Err is Human
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.
Read MoreUp and Down the Dial
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.
Read More50th Anniversary Special
A special program that aired before the start of the series "The New WKRP In Cincinnati" for syndication in 1991.
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