WKRP in Cincinnati

Andy tries to convince WKRPs owner that rock and roll will cure the stations ailing ratings.

Les is barred from locker-room interviews when his manhood is questioned.

A broadcast from a stereo shop is disrupted by a holdup.

Carlson thinks up a wacko Thanksgiving promotional gimmick.

In flashbacks, Andy and Carlson update WKRPs owner Mrs. Carlson on recent station happenings.

Johnny accidentally offers listeners $5000 instead of $50 as a contest prize.

Johnny is offered a job in California, so the staff devises a scheme to keep him in Cincinnati.

Temporarily separated from his wife, Herb envisions a fanciful bachelorhood.

Andy has doubts about an upbeat ad campaign for a mortician.

Jennifer tries to discourage a beau by revealing shes married--to Johnny Fever.

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.

Johnny forgets about his date with Bailey when he gets a call from Buffy, his old girlfriend from California. He borrows Jennifers apartment to impress Buffy; however, that plan ends when she tells him shes suing him for palimony.

The staff plays against the team from rival station WPIG in a softball game.

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 hes the man Jennifer is in love with.

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.

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.

Jennifer tells her friends that she has nothing special planned for Christmas, and that she doesnt have a tree this year. Everyone begins to suspect that she might be alone for the holidays.

When Johnny thinks hes heard Gods voice talking to him, everyone, including Johnny, thinks hes going insane.

Herbs father, a lifelong salesman who shares Herbs taste in clothes, runs away from the Shady Hills Rest Home and visits the station.

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.

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.

Mr. Carlson convinces Jennifer and Andy to pose in bathing suits for a ""Surfs Up in Cincinnati"" poster. After the photo session, the photographer secretly takes nude photos of Jennifer while shes changing.

Everyone starts bickering after the station loses a broadcasting award.

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 isnt as pleasant as she thought it would be.

Mr. Carlsons wife goes into labor and the WKRP staffers all visit the hospital to be there when she gives birth.

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 Less plan to disguise himself as a black man so that he can do a series of reports based on the book Black Like Me.

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.

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.

The stations cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.

Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.

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 mothers permission to build a new and better building.

Herbs 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.

Everyone is in the grip of urban paranoia after the station is robbed.

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.

Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter.

While his apartment is being fumigated, Johnny accepts Baileys offer to stay at her place, causing everyone at the station to think that the two are sleeping together. Johnnys also afraid that hes 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.

With Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson pretends he is Herb and is impersonated by Les for an advertising client.

Colonel Buchanan, Jennifers elderly gentleman friend, dies suddenly. As executrix of his will, Jennifer must deal with the press and with the Colonels money-grubbing, rumor mongering relatives.

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.

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 cant legally get out of running the ads.

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.

Venuss latest date gives him an expensive diamond earring as a gift and then runs out on him; it turns out that shes a thief who has used the stolen earring to frame Venus as her accomplice.

When Bailey writes a news story on the Northside Childrens Clinic, Les steals it and reads it on the air. This turns out to be a blow to the stations integrity in more ways than one when Bailey admits that she fictionalized part of the story.

On his birthday, Les announces that hes going to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a world-famous broadcast journalist by auditioning for The CBS Evening News.

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.