The essential episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati
Watch these 15 in order and you've got WKRP in Cincinnati — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Andy tries to convince WKRP's owner that rock and roll will cure the station's ailing ratings.
- 02
Andy faces a fiscal crisis: Carlson won't finance a breaking-in period for the new format.
- 03
A broadcast from a stereo shop is disrupted by a holdup.
- 04
Bailey's show brings out the weirdest people in town.
- 05
Carlson thinks up a wacko Thanksgiving promotional gimmick.
- 06
Les invites Jennifer to a banquet, then suspects she only accepted out of pity.
- 07
Johnny accidentally offers listeners $5000 instead of $50 as a contest prize.
- 08
Johnny comes back to WKRP expecting to get his job back. Instead, he is assigned to the predawn show.
- 09
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.
- 10
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.
- 11
The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.
- 12
After the station receives a bomb threat, Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter tower while the station is being searched.
- 13
Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter.
- 14
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.
- 15
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.
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