Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'WKRP In Cincinnati' from 1970-1982:
- Frank Bonner as Herb Tarlek (1978-1982)
- Gary Sandy as Andy Travis (1978-1982)
- Gordon Jump as Arthur Carlson (1978-1982)
- Howard Hesseman as John 'Dr. Fever' Caravella (1978-1982)
- Jan Smithers as Bailey Quarters (1978-1982)
- Loni Anderson as Jennifer Marlowe (1978-1982)
- Richard Sanders as Les Nessman (1978-1982)
- Tim Reid as Venus Flytrap (1978-1982)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'WKRP In Cincinnati':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Hugh Wilson D: Jay Sandrich
With Sylvia Sidney (Mama Carlson).
Debut of a comedy series starring Gary Sandy and Gordon Jump, along with Loni Anderson, Richard Sanders, Tim Reid, Frank Bonner, Jan Smithers and Howard Hesseman. WKRP, a foundering radio station, is transformed from a format of musical nostalgia to hard-driving rock 'n' roll when Andy Travis, an ambitious young man with strong convictions, is hired as the new program director.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Hugh Wilson D: Michael Zinberg
With Richard Stahl (Wayne R. Coe), Delos V. Smith Jr. (Buzzy Milker), Nedra Volz (Mrs. Burstyn).
WKRP's new rock 'n' roll music policy has repercussions, with both advertisers and listeners threatening to leave the sinking ship, and it all falls on Andy Travis' head.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Hugh Wilson D: Asaad Kelada
A vulgar remark from a sportswriter leads WKRP's timid news editor, Les Nessman, to think his manhood is being questioned.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Hugh Wilson D: Michael Zinberg
With Ned Wertimer (Steve Pievy), Peter Elbling (Blood), Michael Des Barres (Sir Charles 'Dog' Weatherbee), Jim Henderson (Sir Nigel Weatherbee).
Andy Travis arranges for WKRP to sponsor a concert by a British rock group, Scum of the Earth, and the rocky results almost put an end to Andy's career.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Tom Chehak D: Asaad Kelada
With Garry Goodrow (Bob Burnatt), Bill Dial (Bucky Dornster), Hugh Wilson (Police Officer #1), Tom Chehak (Police Officer #2), Blake Hunter (Police Officer #3), Hamilton Camp (Del Murdock).
Herb's idea to broadcast from a stereo store seems like a good one until the store is held up during the broadcast.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Joyce Armor, Judie Neer D: Asaad Kelada
With Woodrow Parfrey (Dr. Hyman Monroe), Kathryn Ish (Mrs. Woodruff), Casey Brown (Roxanne), Berry Kroeger (Mr. Eisenhower).
WKRP is in an uproar when inexperienced Bailey Quarters produces a public serivce show.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Bill Dial D: Michael Zinberg
With Michael Fairman (Shoe Store Owner).
Mr. Carlson comes up with a rather unusual Thanksgiving promotional gimmick involving a helicopter and live turkeys.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Bill Dial D: Asaad Kelada
With Barrie Youngfellow (Linda Taylor), Hugh Gillin (Howard R. Sternworthy), Mickey McMeel (Roadie Ray).
Andy's ex-girlfriend, now a famous recording star, shows up in Cincinnati for a series of concerts.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Hugh Wilson D: Asaad Kelada
With Carol Bruce (Lillian "Mama" Carlson).
Mama Carlson roars into the station for a surprise inspection, and Andy and Mr. Carlson review recent changes at WKRP with her.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Michael Fairman, Richard Sanders D: Asaad Kelada
With Brad Crandall (Voice of Mr. Macho).
Les Nessman's farm news reporting wins him the coveted Silver Sow award, and he asks Jennifer to be his date for the banquet.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Casey Piotrowski D: Asaad Kelada
With Vincent Schiavelli (Don Pesola).
Andy's job is in jeopardy when Johnny mistakenly announces a $50 contest prize as being $5,000.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Blake Hunter D: Will Mackenzie
With David Chow (Japanese Executive #1), Bill Saito (Japanese Executive #2), Rene Enriquez (Jose Rodriguez).
A tornado hits, and only Jennifer seems to be able to cope with it.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Blake Hunter D: Asaad Kelada
With Janet Meshad (Waitress), Edie McClurg (Lucille Tarlek).
Dr. Johnny Fever is offered a job in California at three times his present salary, but Arthur Carlson comes up with a sneaky plan to dissuade Johnny from taking the job.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Blake Hunter D: Asaad Kelada
With Jeff Altman (Murray Gressler), Philip Charles MacKenzie (Doug Winner), Sam Anderson (Mason Nobel).
Just when Andy has finally found a new disc jockey to replace Dr. Johnny Fever, Johnny shows up in Cincinnati again.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Bill Dial D: Asaad Kelada
With Jim Begg (Waiter), Edie McClurg (Lucille Tarlek).
Herb becomes separated from his wife and begins planning for his new, swinging bachelor life.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Hugh Wilson D: Asaad Kelada
With Mary Betten (Lorraine Brown), Michael Flanagan (Chic Hudspeth).
Johnny Fever becomes an instant father when a young woman leaves her baby on WKRP's doorstep.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Richard Sanders, Michael Fairman D: Rod Daniel
With Fred Stuthman (Randall Ferryman).
An undertaking tycoon, trying to sell his funeral package to young people, decides to advertise on WKRP.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Tom Chehak D: Rod Daniel
With Nicholas Worth (Major Hunter).
An advertising campaign to promote WKRP results in a startling revelation by Venus Flytrap.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Tom Chehak D: Will Mackenzie
With Hoyt Axton (T.J. Watson).
Jennifer's childhood sweetheart arrives from West Virginia to make her keep her one-time promise to marry him.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Hugh Wilson D: Will Mackenzie
With Sparky Marcus (Arthur Carlson Jr.), Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson).
When Arthur's 11-year-old son is kicked out of military school, Mama Carlson decides it's time for him to join his father in the radio business.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Hugh Wilson D: Asaad Kelada
With Lee Bergere (WPIG Mascot), Jerry Hardin (Officer Plyler), M.G. Kelly (Quentin Stone), Steven Wright (Security Officer).
While Andy is trying to impress a writer doing a story on WKRP, Johnny Fever and Venus take part in an on-air alcohol drinking contest.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Bill Dial D: Michael Zinberg
With Michael Keenan (Reverend Little Ed Pembrook), John Chappell (Reverend Drinkwater), Arthur Malet (Father O'Riley), Jeremiah Morris (Rabbi Fishbein), Suzanne Kent (Sister of Melody #3), Mary Steelsmith (Sister of Melody #1), Cynthia Szigeti (Sister of Melody #2).
Mr. Carlson tells Andy to stop a 300-pound ex-wrestler turned church leader from using his radio air time to sell religious artifacts.
September 17, 1979: For Love Or Money (1)
Season 2, episode 1
W: Mary Maguire D: Will Mackenzie
With Julie Payne (Buffy Denver).
Season premiere. Johnny's ex-girlfriend Buffy drops by to tell him that she is suing him for half the money he made while they lived together.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Mary Maguire D: Will Mackenzie
With Julie Payne (Buffy Denver).
While Johnny's girlfriend is impatiently waiting for hm at the station, Johnny and the WKRP staff try to convince his ex-girlfriend not to sue him.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Hugh Wilson D: Hugh Wilson
With Bill Dial (Bucky Dornster), Ross Bickell (Clark Callahan), Wyatt Johnson (Umpire).
Les challenges rival radio station WPIG to a winner-take-all baseball game against the WKRP staff, but finds his own team less than enthusiastic about the prospect.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Gene Fournier, Tom Joachim D: Will Mackenzie
With William Glover (J. Garrett Hopkins), Helena Carroll (Tiffany Hopkins).
Just after Herb, who is moonlighting as an insurance salesman, sells Les a huge policy, Les becomes involved in a bizarre accident.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Paul Robinson Hunter D: Will Mackenzie
With Thomas Calloway (Steel Hawthorne).
Jennifer falls for a penniless but handsome repairman, and Les tries to work up enough courage to ask Carlson for a raise.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Jim Paddock D: Will Mackenzie
With Howard Witt (Charles Tillman), Lillian Garrett (Mitzi Monahan), Howard Morton (Wendel Brooks), Dick McGarvin (Barry Schifrin).
The WKRP staff turn into political campaigners when Arthur decides to impress his mother and run for city council.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Dan Guntzelman D: Will Mackenzie
With Christian Seaborn (Elgar Neece), Tim Culbertson (Trucker).
The trash hits the fan when Johnny Fever tells his listeners to take their garbage and dump it on the steps of City Hall.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Blake Hunter D: Will Mackenzie
With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson), Allyn Ann McLerie (Carmen Carlson).
Arthur is shocked and ecstatic when his wife announces that he is about to become a father again.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Bill Dial D: Rod Daniel
Everybody except Andy is ready to celebrate when, for the first time in seven years, the radio station's ratings go up.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Steve Marshall D: Will Mackenzie
Les reacts badly when he learns Bailey has been promoted to newscaster and he has to share air time with a female.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall D: Rod Daniel
With George Gaynes (Henri), Don Diamond (Delivery Man # 1), Steve Marshall (Delivery Man # 2).
The WKRP staff, suspecting that Jennifer is going to be alone for Christmas, come up with some unique presents to ease her loneliness.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Peter Torokvei, Steven Kampmann D: Rod Daniel
With Sparky Anderson (Himself), Hugh Gillin (Cal Owens), Andrew Bloch (Derek Doogle).
Arthur Carlson hires former Cincinnati Reds' manager Sparky Anderson to host WKRP's new sports show.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Hugh Wilson D: Will Mackenzie
When Johnny thinks he's heard God's voice talking to him, everyone, including Johnny, thinks he's going insane.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Tim Reid D: Rod Daniel
With Allison Argo (Carol Travis), Don Pulford (Trucker).
Andy has a heated confrontation when Travis' sister Carol visits Cincinnati and sets up a date for herself with Venus Flytrap.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei D: Rod Daniel
With Bert Parks (Herbert Tarlek Sr.).
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.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Blake Hunter, Steven Kampmann, Steve Marshall D: Will Mackenzie
Jennifer finally accepts a date with Herb in the hopes that he'll back down and stop hassling her.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall D: Hugh Wilson
With Michael Pataki (Ivan Popasonaviski), Alex Rodine (Interpreter), Sam Anderson (Mr. Anderson).
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.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Steve Marshall D: Rod Daniel
With Kristina Callahan (Darlene).
Les goes out on a date with a female fan, who proceeds to move into his apartment and take over his life.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Steven Kampmann D: Linda Day
The staff find themselves consumed with guilt for promoting a concert at Riverfront Coliseum when its general admission policy causes a terrible tragedy.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Lissa Levin D: Frank Bonner
With Patrie Allen (Laurie Caravella), Milt Oberman (Salesman), Derrel Maury (Justin).
Johnny's daughter arrives and moves in, and Johnny has to decide whether to express his disapproval of the shiftless boyfriend she's brought along.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Steve Marshall, Dan Guntzelman D: Rod Daniel
With George Wyner (D. Arnold Gonzer).
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.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Steve Marshall, Dan Guntzelman D: Rod Daniel
With George Wyner (D. Arnold Gonzer).
The gang from the station make an attempt to save Jennifer's reputation, but they mess up in the process.
Season 2, episode 23
W: Steve Marshall, Dan Guntzelman D: Nick Stamos
With Terry Kiser (Jason Realli), Brenda Elder (Amanda Dean).
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.
Season 2, episode 24
W: Michael Fairman, Richard Sanders D: Rod Daniel
With Colleen Kelly (Celeste).
Everyone starts jealously bickering after the station loses a broadcasting award, but Johnny wins one.
November 1, 1980: The Airplane Show
Season 3, episode 1
W: Richard Sanders, Michael Fairman D: Rod Daniel
With Michael Fairman (Buddy Barker), Harold Johnson (Stunt Pilot).
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.
Season 3, episode 2
W: Hugh Wilson D: Linda Day
With Judith-Marie Bergan (Dottie Dahlquist), Terry Wills (Ken Dahlquist), Kenneth Kimmins (Wayne Craven), Dan Barrows (Mr. Furgood), Milt Tarver (Cop), Georgia Schmidt (Old Lady).
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.
Season 3, episode 3
W: Peter Torokvei D: Rod Daniel
With Peter Marshall (Phil Tarry), Daphne Reid (Elaine Parker), Stacy Heather Tolkin (Bunny Tarlek), N.P. Schoch (Herb Tarlek III), Jim Hudson (Vargus Enswiller), Edie McClurg (Lucille Tarlek).
When Herb's family is featured in the show Real Families, the clean-living image Herb wants to convey is different from the reality shown on the screen.
Season 3, episode 4
W: Blake Hunter D: Rod Daniel
With Andy Romano (Dr. Levin), Edward Marshall (Receptionist), Jacque Lynn Colton (Nurse Smith), Dolores Albin (Peggy Sue), Darian Mathias (Candy Striper), Allyn Ann McLerie (Carmen Carlson).
Mr. Carlson's wife goes into labor and the WKRP staffers gather at the hospital to be there when she gives birth.
Season 3, episode 5
W: Steven Kampmann D: Rod Daniel
With Linda Carlson (Nikki Sinckler), Larry Hankin (Mickey Broadhead), Dr. Joyce Brothers (Vicky Von Vickey).
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.
Season 3, episode 6
W: Dan Guntzelman D: Rod Daniel
With Noble Willingham (Smilin' Al), Walter Janowitz (Old Man), Jessica Nelson (Young Lady), Joseph Reale (Young Man).
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; Les plans to disguise himself as a black man so that he can do a series of reports based on the book 'Black Like Me'.
Season 3, episode 7
W: Lissa Levin D: Rod Daniel
With Parley Baer (Mr. Armor), Don Diamond (Don Bassett), Merie Earle (Mrs. Butterworth).
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 to show him the error of his ways.
Season 3, episode 8
W: Blake Hunter D: Rod Daniel
With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson).
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. She joins in, letting the staff see a new side of her.
Season 3, episode 9
W: Steven Kampmann D: Rod Daniel
At Mr. Carlson's church auction, Herb buys a painting that Bailey loves and then tries to get Mr. Carlson or Bailey to buy it from him -- until he learns that it might be valuable.
Season 3, episode 10
W: Peter Torokvei D: Rod Daniel
During Mr. Carlson's rehearsal of a dull speech, the staff 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.
Season 3, episode 11
W: Bob Dolman D: Rod Daniel
With Kenneth Tigar (Dr. Hunnisett), Stacy Heather Tolkin (Bunny Tarlek).
Herb has accidentally spray-painted his daughter's pet frog pink, and brings the frog to the station trying to find a way to save its life; Les convinces Johnny that he is suffering from the dreaded "schistosomiasis."
Season 3, episode 12
W: Hugh Wilson D: Rod Daniel
With Keny Long (Arnold Isley), Veronica Redd (Cora Isley).
The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.
Season 3, episode 13
W: Steve Marshall D: Rod Daniel
With Mary Frann (Avis Dropkin).
When Johnny is forced by contractual obligations to host a TV disco dance show, he adopts the persona of Rip Tide, a sleazy, phony, disco-spinning host.
Season 3, episode 14
W: Steve Marshall D: Rod Daniel
With Mary Frann (Avis Dropkin).
Johnny regrets his new TV persona when starts to realize that the dark side of his personality, as represented by "Rip Tide", is taking over.
Season 3, episode 15
W: Joyce Armor, Judie Neer D: Linda Day
With Eileen Barnett (Arlene Allen), Mickey Cherney (Dr. Van Housen), Wayne Morton (Herb's Cousin).
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.
Season 3, episode 16
W: Lissa Levin D: Linda Day
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.
Season 3, episode 17
W: Jon Smet D: Frank Bonner
With Sam Anderson (Agent Berwick), Bill McLean (Harvey Moorhouse).
The secret service refuses to grant Les credentials for a presidential press conference, suspecting him of having radical affiliations.
Season 3, episode 18
W: Peter Torokvei D: Dolores Ferraro
With Craig T. Nelson (Charlie Bathgate), Michael Sherman (Ray Margison), Alan Toy (Bartender), Cindy Jump (Girl in Bar).
Herb's three-martini business lunches with ad agency representatives are causing him to mess up even more than usual, and his use of alcohol as a sales tool is turning into a drinking problem.
Season 3, episode 19
W: Blake Hunter D: Nick Stamos
With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson), Holly Smith, Mavis Neal Palmer, Mary Ann Gibson, Feather Austen (Stripper), Allyn Ann McLerie (Carmen Carlson), Ian Wolfe (Hirsch).
In honor of their twenty-fifth anniversary, Arthur and Carmen Carlson plan to get married again. They want a small, private ceremony, but Mama Carlson has other ideas.
Season 3, episode 20
W: Dan Guntzelman D: Asaad Kelada
With Kelly Greer (Coatcheck Girl), Linda Rand (Mailroom Girl), Robert O'Donnell (Intellectual).
Everyone is in the grip of urban paranoia after the station is robbed.
Season 3, episode 21
W: Howard Hesseman, Steven Kampmann D: Frank Bonner
With Ruth Silveira (Paula), Hamilton Camp (Buddy Gravers), Naomi Serotoff (Abdul's Wife).
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.
Season 3, episode 22
W: Max Tash, Hugh Wilson D: Linda Day
With Richard Paul (Dr. Bob Halyers), Ralph Manza (Harvey Green).
Dr. Bob Halyers, head of Clean Up Radio Everywhere (CURE), visits Mr. Carlson with a list of "obscene" songs that he wants the station to stop playing -- or else.
October 7, 1981: An Explosive Affair (1)
Season 4, episode 1
W: Steve Marshall D: Linda Day
With Rosemary Forsyth (Joyce Armor), Lou Richards (Officer Madigan).
The station receives a bomb threat from a terrorist group; the station's former receptionist visits and tells Mr. Carlson she has a "hot proposition" for him.
Season 4, episode 2
W: Steve Marshall D: Linda Day
With Rosemary Forsyth (Joyce Armor), Lou Richards (Officer Madigan).
Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter; Mr. Carlson's resistance to his old receptionist weakens and he visits her hotel room.
Season 4, episode 3
W: Blake Hunter D: Linda Day
With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson), Robert Starr (Delivery Man).
The staff of WKRP is encouraged to unionize after the station's ratings soar. A furious Mr. Carlson rushes to his mother for advice, while Andy tries to appear neutral in the labor-management conflict.
Season 4, episode 4
W: Peter Torokvei D: Linda Day
With Sam Anderson (Rex Erhardt).
While his apartment is being fumigated, Johnny accepts Bailey's offer to stay with her, 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 the afternoon DJ, and when Bailey tries to cheer him up he mistakes her friendliness for a come-on.
Season 4, episode 5
W: Dan Guntzelman D: Dan Guntzelman
With Bonnie Urseth (Nurse), John Brent (Buzzy).
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.
Season 4, episode 6
W: Dan Guntzelman D: Dan Guntzelman
With Dennis Lipscomb (Pat Perillo), Mickey Morton (Dave), E.A. Sirianni (Howard Liske), Bonnie Urseth (Nurse).
To finalize an advertising deal while Herb is in the hospital, Mr. Carlson pretends to be Herb and Jennifer gets Les to be Mr. Carlson; Johnny, who owes a gambling debt to a mobster, pretends to be Andy in order to escape from a hired thug.
Season 4, episode 7
W: Lissa Levin D: Linda Day
With Constance Pfeifer (Ms. Archer), Weldon Bleiler (Mr. Wainwright), Maryann Furman (Nadyne), Denise McKenna (Roberta).
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.
Season 4, episode 8
W: Blake Hunter D: Dolores Ferraro
With Pat O'Brien (Colonel Buchanan), John Terry Bell (Howerton), Roger Til (Andre), Brian Wood (Chester), Janet Clark (Cloris), Ernie Brown (Cedric), Charles Alvin Bell (Skip).
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 relatives.
Season 4, episode 9
W: Hugh Wilson D: Dolores Ferraro
With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson), David Clennon (Norris Breeze), Ian Wolfe (Hirsch).
Mama Carlson hires a consultant who's an old friend of Andy's to evaluate WKRP. Andy soon realizes that his friend intends to give the station a bad report unless it subscribes to his service.
Season 4, episode 10
W: Lissa Levin D: Frank Bonner
With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson), Colleen Camp (Herself), Ian Wolfe (Hirsch).
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.
Season 4, episode 11
W: Dan Guntzelman D: Howard Hesseman
With Claude Earl Jones (Hank), Joy Claussen (Fluffy), Renee Jones (Jackie Winston), Alice Nunn (Mrs. Hutchinson), Allyn Ann McLerie (Carmen Carlson).
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.
Season 4, episode 12
W: Steve Marshall D: Asaad Kelada
With Robert Ridgely (Dave Wickerman), Max Wright (Frank Bartman).
WKRP accepts ads from a seller of "diet pills". Even after it turns out that the pills are just a legal way of selling speed to teenagers, the station can't get out of running the ads.
Season 4, episode 13
W: Peter Torokvei D: Will Mackenzie
With Tom Dreesen (Rick Jesperson), Art Metrano (Ted Jeffrey), Jim Hardie (Waiter).
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.
Season 4, episode 14
W: Blake Hunter D: Will Mackenzie
With Perry Cook (Charlie), Richard Derr (Judge Randall), Carmen Filpi (Percy Romanoff), Helen Heigh (Mrs. Mittenhoff), Gloria LeRoy (Sheila Morgan), John Vivyan (Mr. Mittenhoff), Lynn Wood (Mrs. Randall).
When a fire destroys the kitchen at the Vine Street Mission, Johnny recruits Jennifer to help raise $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.
Season 4, episode 15
W: Lissa Levin D: Asaad Kelada
With Livia Genise (Lorrayne Marvin).
Herb fixes Les up with a date through his latest client, a computer dating service. Les hits it off with his date immediately, not knowing that the company is a front for prostitution.
Season 4, episode 16
W: Tim Reid, Peter Torokvei D: Frank Bonner
With John Witherspoon (Detective Davies), Robert Hooks (Prosecutor), Jack Kruschen (Judge Newcomb), Max Wright (Frank Bartman), Daphne Reid (Jessica Langtree), Michael Pataki (Detective Alcorn).
Venus's latest date gives him an expensive diamond earring as a gift and then runs out on him. She's actually a thief who has used the stolen earring to frame Venus as her accomplice.
Season 4, episode 17
W: Dan Guntzelman D: Will Mackenzie
Herb and Jennifer are trapped in an elevator when a fire breaks out in the Flimm Building, and the rest of the WKRP staff makes a bungling attempt to rescue them.
Season 4, episode 18
W: Steve Marshall D: Frank Bonner
With Barbara Cason (Edna Parkins), Iona Morris (Clerk), Bill Ewing (Doctor), Susan McIver (Secretary).
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.
Season 4, episode 19
W: Blake Hunter D: Gordon Jump
With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson), Nora Boland (Mrs. Murphy).
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.
Season 4, episode 20
W: Richard Sanders, Michael Fairman D: Nick Stamos
With Carol Carrington (Tiffany), Eleanor McCoy (Adele).
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.
Season 4, episode 21
W: Lissa Levin D: Linda Day
With Tom Sullivan (Hester Sherman), Sue Ann Gilfillan (Ms. Beeler), James Gallery (Salesman).
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.
Season 4, episode 22
W: Dan Guntzelman D: George Gaynes
With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson), Nicholas Hormann (Charles Von Sanker), Ian Wolfe (Hirsch).
Just as WKRP moves up to #6 in the ratings, Mama Carlson announces that she plans to switch the format of the station to 24 hour-a-day news. (Last show of the series.)