WKRP in Cincinnati
(1978)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 4
Up and Down the Dial
Episode 22 - 4-21-1982
25m
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.
8.8/10
Haven't Seen
To Err is Human
Episode 21 - 4-14-1982
25m
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.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
The Impossible Dream
Episode 20 - 4-07-1982
24m
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.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
The Creation of Venus
Episode 19 - 3-31-1982
25m
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.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
Dear Liar
Episode 18 - 3-24-1982
25m
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.
8/10Haven't Seen
Fire
Episode 17 - 3-17-1982
25m
Herb and Jennifer are trapped in an elevator when a fire breaks out in the Flimm Building.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Circumstantial Evidence
Episode 16 - 2-24-1982
25m
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.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
I'll Take Romance
Episode 15 - 2-17-1982
25m
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.
8/10Haven't Seen
Jennifer and Johnny's Charity
Episode 14 - 2-03-1982
25m
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.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
Changes
Episode 13 - 1-27-1982
25m
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.
8/10Haven't Seen
Pills
Episode 12 - 1-20-1982
24m
Herb sells ad spots to a seller of ""diet pills""; after it turns out that the pills are a legalized way of selling speed to teenagers, it also turns out that the station can't legally get out of running the ads.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
You Can't Go Out of Town Again
Episode 11 - 1-13-1982
24m
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.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Love, Exciting and New
Episode 10 - 1-06-1982
24m
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.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
The Consultant
Episode 9 - 12-30-1981
24m
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.
8.6/10Haven't Seen
Jennifer and the Will
Episode 8 - 12-02-1981
24m
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.
8.4/10Haven't Seen
Three Days of the Condo
Episode 7 - 11-18-1981
24m
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.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
Who's on First?
Episode 6 - 11-11-1981
24m
With Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson pretends he is Herb and is impersonated by Les for an advertising client.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
Straight from the Heart
Episode 5 - 11-04-1981
24m
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.
7.5/10Haven't Seen
Rumors
Episode 4 - 10-28-1981
24m
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.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
The Union
Episode 3 - 10-21-1981
24m
The staff of WKRP considers joining a union. Mr. Carlson is furious and rushes to his mother for advice, while Andy tries to appear neutral in this labor-management conflict.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
An Explosive Affair (Part 2)
Episode 2 - 10-14-1981
24m
Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter.
8.7/10Haven't Seen
An Explosive Affair (Part 1)
Episode 1 - 10-07-1981
24m
After the station receives a bomb threat, Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter tower while the station is being searched.
8.6/10Haven't Seen
Season 3
Clean Up Radio Everywhere
Episode 22 - 4-12-1981
25m
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.
8.7/10Haven't Seen
Til Debt Do Us Part
Episode 21 - 4-05-1981
25m
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.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Nothing to Fear But...
Episode 20 - 3-28-1981
25m
Everyone is in the grip of urban paranoia after the station is robbed.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
A Simple Little Wedding
Episode 19 - 3-21-1981
25m
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.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Out to Lunch
Episode 18 - 3-14-1981
25m
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.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
Secrets of Dayton Heights
Episode 17 - 2-28-1981
25m
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.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
I Am Woman
Episode 16 - 2-21-1981
25m
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.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
Ask Jennifer
Episode 15 - 2-14-1981
25m
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.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 2
Episode 14 - 2-07-1981
24m
Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 1
Episode 13 - 2-07-1981
24m
Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
Venus and the Man
Episode 12 - 1-31-1981
24m
The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Frog Story
Episode 11 - 1-24-1981
25m
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.""
8/10Haven't Seen
Daydreams
Episode 10 - 1-17-1981
25m
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.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
The Painting
Episode 9 - 1-10-1981
25m
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.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Baby, It's Cold Inside
Episode 8 - 1-03-1981
25m
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.
8.7/10Haven't Seen
Bah, Humbug
Episode 7 - 12-20-1980
24m
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.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
A Mile in My Shoes
Episode 6 - 12-06-1980
25m
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.
8/10Haven't Seen
Hotel Oceanview
Episode 5 - 11-29-1980
24m
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.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
The Baby
Episode 4 - 11-22-1980
24m
Mr. Carlson's wife goes into labor and the WKRP staffers all visit the hospital to be there when she gives birth.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Real Families
Episode 3 - 11-15-1980
25m
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.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
Jennifer Moves
Episode 2 - 11-08-1980
25m
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.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
The Airplane Show
Episode 1 - 11-01-1980
24m
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.
7/10Haven't Seen
Season 2
Most Improved Station
Episode 24 - 3-31-1980
25m
Everyone starts bickering after the station loses a broadcasting award.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Venus Rising
Episode 23 - 3-10-1980
25m
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.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Filthy Pictures (2)
Episode 22 - 3-03-1980
25m
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.
8.7/10Haven't Seen
Filthy Pictures (1)
Episode 21 - 3-03-1980
25m
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.
8.6/10Haven't Seen
The Doctor's Daughter
Episode 20 - 2-18-1980
25m
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.
7.3/10Haven't Seen
In Concert
Episode 19 - 2-11-1980
25m
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.
8.7/10Haven't Seen
Les' Groupie
Episode 18 - 2-04-1980
25m
Les goes out on a date with a female fan, who proceeds to move into his apartment and take over his life.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
The Americanization of Ivan
Episode 17 - 1-28-1980
25m
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.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Put Up or Shut Up
Episode 16 - 1-21-1980
25m
Bailey convinces Jennifer to accept a date with Herb in the hope that he'll get scared and back down.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
Herb's Dad
Episode 15 - 1-14-1980
25m
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.
7.3/10Haven't Seen
A Family Affair
Episode 14 - 1-07-1980
24m
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.
7.5/10Haven't Seen
God Talks to Johnny
Episode 13 - 12-31-1979
25m
When Johnny thinks he's heard God's voice talking to him, everyone, including Johnny, thinks he's going insane.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
Sparky
Episode 12 - 12-24-1979
24m
Mr. Carlson hires legendary baseball manager Sparky Anderson as the host of a new sports interview show. But when the show proves a complete disaster, it falls to Mr. Carlson to fire his hero.
7.3/10Haven't Seen
Jennifer's Home for Christmas
Episode 11 - 12-17-1979
25m
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.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
Bailey's Big Break
Episode 10 - 12-10-1979
25m
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.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Baby, If You've Ever Wondered
Episode 9 - 12-03-1979
25m
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.
8/10Haven't Seen
The Patter of Little Feet
Episode 8 - 11-26-1979
25m
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.
7.5/10Haven't Seen
Mike Fright
Episode 7 - 11-12-1979
25m
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.
8.4/10Haven't Seen
Carlson for President
Episode 6 - 11-05-1979
25m
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.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Jennifer Falls in Love
Episode 5 - 10-22-1979
25m
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.
7.5/10Haven't Seen
Bad Risk
Episode 4 - 10-22-1979
25m
Herb starts selling insurance as a sideline, and sells a comprehensive policy to Les, who promptly has an accident.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
Baseball
Episode 3 - 10-15-1979
25m
The staff plays against the team from rival station WPIG in a softball game.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
For Love or Money (2)
Episode 2 - 9-24-1979
25m
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.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
For Love or Money (1)
Episode 1 - 9-17-1979
25m
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.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Season 1
Preacher
Episode 22 - 6-04-1979
24m
A wrestler turned preacher uses his radio sermon to sell merchandise.
7.7/10Buy
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Fish Story
Episode 21 - 5-28-1979
24m
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.
8.8/10Buy
Haven't Seen
Young Master Carlson
Episode 20 - 4-30-1979
25m
Momma Carlson insists her grandson be allowed to roam around the station after he's booted out of military school.
7.1/10Buy
Haven't Seen
I Do, I Do... For Now
Episode 19 - 4-23-1979
25m
Jennifer tries to discourage a beau by revealing she's married--to Johnny Fever.
7.8/10Buy
Haven't Seen
Who is Gordon Sims?
Episode 18 - 4-02-1979
25m
Venus refuses to pose for an ad because he's wanted by the law.
8.3/10Buy
Haven't Seen
A Commercial Break
Episode 17 - 3-26-1979
25m
Andy has doubts about an upbeat ad campaign for a mortician.
8.2/10Buy
Haven't Seen
I Want to Keep My Baby
Episode 16 - 3-12-1979
25m
Johnny refuses to relinquish an abandoned baby left at WKRP until he can contact the mother.
7.3/10Buy
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Never Leave Me, Lucille
Episode 15 - 3-05-1979
25m
Temporarily separated from his wife, Herb envisions a fanciful bachelorhood.
7.5/10Buy
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Johnny Comes Back
Episode 14 - 2-26-1979
25m
Johnny comes back to WKRP expecting to get his job back. Instead, he is assigned to the predawn show.
8.1/10Buy
Haven't Seen
Goodbye, Johnny
Episode 13 - 2-19-1979
24m
Johnny is offered a job in California, so the staff devises a scheme to keep him in Cincinnati.
7.9/10Buy
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Tornado
Episode 12 - 2-05-1979
25m
A tornado strikes while Japanese businessmen are touring the station.
8.2/10Buy
Haven't Seen
The Contest Nobody Could Win
Episode 11 - 1-29-1979
25m
Johnny accidentally offers listeners $5000 instead of $50 as a contest prize.
8.2/10Buy
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A Date With Jennifer
Episode 10 - 1-22-1979
25m
Les invites Jennifer to a banquet, then suspects she only accepted out of pity.
8.2/10Buy
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Mama's Review
Episode 9 - 1-15-1979
25m
In flashbacks, Andy and Carlson update WKRP's owner Mrs. Carlson on recent station happenings.
6.6/10Buy
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Love Returns
Episode 8 - 11-06-1978
25m
Andy may have to leave WKRP when he rekindles his love for a touring rock star.
6.8/10Buy
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Turkeys Away
Episode 7 - 10-30-1978
24m
Carlson thinks up a wacko Thanksgiving promotional gimmick.
9.6/10Buy
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Bailey's Show
Episode 6 - 10-23-1978
25m
Bailey's show brings out the weirdest people in town.
7.7/10Buy
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Haven't Seen
Hoodlum Rock
Episode 4 - 10-09-1978
25m
Andy books a rock band whose members attack their audiences.
8.3/10Buy
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Les On a Ledge
Episode 3 - 10-02-1978
25m
Les is barred from locker-room interviews when his manhood is questioned.
8.2/10Buy
Haven't Seen
Pilot (2)
Episode 2 - 9-25-1978
25m
Andy faces a fiscal crisis: Carlson won't finance a breaking-in period for the new format.
8/10Buy
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Pilot (1)
Episode 1 - 9-18-1978
25m
Andy tries to convince WKRP's owner that rock and roll will cure the station's ailing ratings.
8.1/10Buy
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Top 5 Highest Rated Episodes 9.6/10
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Turkeys Away
Episode 7 - 10-30-1978
24m
Carlson thinks up a wacko Thanksgiving promotional gimmick.
9.6/10Buy
Haven't Seen
Fish Story
Episode 21 - 5-28-1979
24m
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.
8.8/10Buy
Haven't Seen
Up and Down the Dial
Episode 22 - 4-21-1982
25m
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.
8.8/10Haven't Seen
In Concert
Episode 19 - 2-11-1980
25m
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.
8.7/10Haven't Seen
Filthy Pictures (2)
Episode 22 - 3-03-1980
25m
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.
8.7/10Haven't Seen
