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 Bailey Quarters, 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.
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Air Date: 1978-09-18
Andy tries to convince WKRP's owner that rock and roll will cure the station's ailing ratings.
Air Date: 1978-09-25
Andy faces a fiscal crisis: Carlson won't finance a breaking-in period for the new format.
Air Date: 1978-10-02
Les is barred from locker-room interviews when his manhood is questioned.
Air Date: 1978-10-09
Andy books a rock band whose members attack their audiences.
Air Date: 1978-10-16
A broadcast from a stereo shop is disrupted by a holdup.
Air Date: 1978-10-23
Bailey's show brings out the weirdest people in town.
Air Date: 1978-10-30
Carlson thinks up a wacko Thanksgiving promotional gimmick.
Air Date: 1978-11-06
Andy may have to leave WKRP when he rekindles his love for a touring rock star.
Air Date: 1979-01-15
In flashbacks, Andy and Carlson update WKRP's owner Mrs. Carlson on recent station happenings.
Air Date: 1979-01-22
Les invites Jennifer to a banquet, then suspects she only accepted out of pity.
Air Date: 1979-01-29
Johnny accidentally offers listeners $5000 instead of $50 as a contest prize.
Air Date: 1979-02-05
A tornado strikes while Japanese businessmen are touring the station.
Air Date: 1979-02-19
Johnny is offered a job in California, so the staff devises a scheme to keep him in Cincinnati.
Air Date: 1979-02-26
Johnny comes back to WKRP expecting to get his job back. Instead, he is assigned to the predawn show.
Air Date: 1979-03-05
Temporarily separated from his wife, Herb envisions a fanciful bachelorhood.
Air Date: 1979-03-12
Johnny refuses to relinquish an abandoned baby left at WKRP until he can contact the mother.
Air Date: 1979-03-26
Andy has doubts about an upbeat ad campaign for a mortician.
Air Date: 1979-04-02
Venus refuses to pose for an ad because he's wanted by the law.
Air Date: 1979-04-23
Jennifer tries to discourage a beau by revealing she's married--to Johnny Fever.
Air Date: 1979-04-30
Momma Carlson insists her grandson be allowed to roam around the station after he's booted out of military school.
Air Date: 1979-05-28
Andy tells a journalist that WKRP is just a "run-of-the-mill" station, even though a staffer is running around in a "...
Air Date: 1979-06-04
A wrestler turned preacher uses his radio sermon to sell merchandise.