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- The misadventures of the staff of a struggling Top 40 rock radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- A white former NBA professional retires from the pro game and gets a job as a basketball coach in a predominantly Black inner-city high school.
- The story of one man's hilarious - and doomed - attempts to wield life's ultimate double-edged sword: infidelity.
- Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.
- Football jock Rocky Bleier makes it all the way to the pros with the Pittsburgh Steelers, only to be drafted in the Vietnam War. Wounded by a hand grenade overseas, Bleier returns to the U.S., and told he will never walk again. However, after a lengthy, grueling rehabilitation, Bleier ultimately walks again. Soon, he trains with his old team for inspiration. Boss Art Rooney's sympathy and regard for Bleier pays off when Bleier improbably comes all the way back, ultimately playing for a Super Bowl Championship with the Steelers. But are all the good feelings and inspiration Bleier engenders enough to carry him to an NFL championship?
- The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how her subsequent mastectomy changed her marriage, her philosophy and her entire life.
- True story about James Thornwell, who was serving the Army in Europe when some military documents went missing. He was wrongfully accused of the theft, brutally interrogated and given drugs to force a confession out of him. That didn't happen and the whole thing was covered up. 16 years later Thornwell through the Freedom of Information Act obtain documentation of what was done to him and sued the Army.
- Role reversal was the theme of this show: Stuart Hibbard worked at home and did the cooking and cleaning while his wife Judy commuted to Los Angeles to work for photographer Damon Jerome. Ken Redford lived next door and drove Stuart crazy while Dee Dee Baldwin, a model at the photography studio, drove Judy crazy. Donna was the studio secretary.
- "Hill Street Station" introduces us to the many stories on the street, in the squad room, and in the homes of both the uniform and plainclothes officers at Hill Street. After Sergeant Phil Esterhaus completes Roll Call, we begin to learn something of the regulars. John "J.D." LaRue goes out of his way to hit on Assistant DA Joyce Davenport. She's at the Hill and livid with Captain Frank Furillo and his sergeants, who explain that they have "temporarily misplaced" the suspect she is supposed to have in court in just a few minutes. Meanwhile, while on patrol, street cops Andy Renko and Bobby Hill stumble on a liquor store heist that ends in a hostage standoff. Clashes occur between Detective Henry Goldblume, who believes in negotiation and talking to suspects, and Lt. Howard Hunter, a gung-ho commander of a type of SWAT team on the Hill. Add to this mix gang leader Jesus Martinez whose gang members planned the robbery and tries to end it only to yell at his members, and Capt. Furillo finds only by showing up on the scene himself can he end the situation. Amongst this we meet Sgt. Mick Belker, a tough undercover cop who has a penchant for biting his suspects if they try to resist him in any way. Belker has his first run in of several with a pickpocket he picks up in the crowd at the liquor store holdup. Personal relationships are also introduced, when we meet Furillo's ex-wife Fay, who wants more child support, Esterhaus's new love interest, a high-school senior (he's in his 50s), and a secret love affair between Assistant DA Davenport and someone on the Hill. The episode ends with a cliffhanger when Hill and Renko, looking for a phone after their squad car is stolen while they respond to a domestic dispute, stumble onto kids using drugs who shoot the two officers and leave them for dead.
- The President of the United States wants to visit the Hill, and the station has to deal with how to make it happen.
- The staff of WKRP is tasked with creating a commercial for a lucrative advertising contract with a funeral home, to Mr. Carlson's growing discomfort.
- Mr. Carlson has been on a tear writing memo after memo instituting new station policies. Amidst Mr. Carlson's memo-writing, Les announces that he has won the "coveted" Silver Sow award. Regardless of the cost cutting measures he's announced in memos, Mr. Carlson says that the station will pay for tickets to the awards banquet for Les and his date. With cues around him making him feel like he has no chance with women, Les asks any of the guys, like Herb or Andy, if they'd like to go to the banquet with him. Taking the bulls by the horns, Herb, as Les' pal, shows him how to ask women out so that he can get a real date for the banquet. Despite or because of Herb's smarmy pick-up tactics, Les is able to secure a date, specifically with Jennifer, who in large part wants to show Herb that decency, and not smarm, is what works. Les, in turn, wants to be what he considers a real man when he has Jennifer on his arm. Herb does a one hundred eighty degree turn in doing whatever he can to make the date with Jennifer not happen in his jealousy, he using an unwitting Mr. Carlson as his unsuspecting pawn.
- Andy's sister Carol is visiting and Andy sets her up on a blind date with Johnny. But when Carol visits the radio station, she meets Venus and they set up their own date. Andy does not approve, but then he has to prove his is not a racist.
- Andy tells Herb to collect past due bills from sales clients. But Herb is called for jury duty so Andy takes over the sales department. Andy finds out just how hard it is to deal with the clients. Venus becomes acting Programming Director.
- Arthur and Carmen's 25th wedding anniversary is approaching and they plan to have the wedding ceremony they never had because their marriage was an elopement. Unfortunately, Mama Carlson has her own plans for their ceremony.
- 1978–198224mTV-PG8.6 (158)TV EpisodeIn the first of this two-part episode, WKRP receives a terrorist bomb threat.
- 1978–198224mTV-PG8.7 (152)TV EpisodeConclusion of two-part series. WKRP receives a terrorist bomb threat.
- The station starts a phone-in advice show, and Jennifer eventually proves to be the best host for it.
- To help make ends meet, Herb is selling insurance on the side, he seeing his first potential customers being the staff at the station. While some are able to avoid Herb upon hearing what he's doing, others, like Les and Mr. Carlson, are relatively easy prey for Herb's heavy handed sales tactics, Les in particular who Herb is able to oversell. Part of Les' issue is that he is in a funk, largely in having to gather and report on the largely depressing news, which is getting into his psyche. Once Andy finds out about Herb's moonlighting job, he wants to put an end to it at the station as he is being paid to do other work while he's at the office, and as he believes, if Herb is involved with them, they must be a fly by night operation. Herb may ultimately regret this new sales job and Les may get out of his funk all related to their encounter with a middle aged British couple who just wanted to have a quiet cuppa tea in peace.
- Mr Carlson eats one of Johnny's special brownies and falls asleep at the station. He has a Christmas Carol dream about being a Scrooge for not giving the radio staff a Christmas bonus.
- Public Service Announcements (PSAs) at WKRP were all about forest fires before Bailey had her big idea: "Cincinnati Beat," where regular citizens are interviewed by the resident Doctor. Bailey is excited to be producing the show. But, when all of the prospective guests turn out to be freaks, aliens and weirdoes, Bailey has a crisis of confidence.
- As he covers all the news including sports, Les unilaterally accepts a $200 wager from Clark Callahan, station manager at WPIG, on a co-ed slo-pitch game between the two radio stations. Les, who never played any sports, including softball, when he was growing up, he stuck inside taking violin lessons instead, sees the game and the challenge as a rite of passage he never went through but should have as a child. No one else at the station wants to play, largely because they don't want to lose as, unaware to Les, WPIG plays in a city league and plays well. But a series of statements leads to the staff changing their minds and agreeing to defend WKRP's honor on the mound. As sports director, Les still wants to lead the team, including pitch, but quickly learns he is way out of his depth. And despite having played in college, Mr. Carlson shows that his softball prowess doesn't live up to the hype that surrounded him. Although they do devise ways to keep the game close, both Mr. Carlson and Les will literally and figuratively have to step up to plate if WKRP has any hope of winning. That task is all the more difficult as all Les can hear in his head is himself playing the violin, which, to him, is the antithesis of what he is now trying to achieve.
- Carlson runs for city council. His only hope for victory is a bit of gossip he finds out about the incumbent's drinking problem and poor attendance at council meetings.
- Herb decides it's time for a change in his wardrobe and enlists Jennifer to help him. Meanwhile, Venus is interviewed by Black Life magazine.
- Venus' girlfriend gives him a diamond earring, and then excuses herself from the room and leaves. While he wonders where she went, the police visit the station and question Venus. The earring was stolen, and they think Venus is the thief.
- A preacher with Clean Up Radio Everywhere wants WKRP to stop playing specific songs due to the lyrics. Mr. Carlson thinks the station should cooperate, while the rest say the songs are classics and shouldn't be subjected to censorship.
- When Les jealously plagiarizes Bailey's initial draft of a partially fictional news story on air, the station's broadcast license is put in jeopardy.
- 1978–198224mTV-PG7.9 (142)TV EpisodeJohnny will host a rock and roll dance show to earn extra money. He thinks he is going to be able to do the show his way but he finds he has to wear their outfits and play their songs. He creates a new personality, Rip Tide, to do the show.
- 1978–198224mTV-PG7.9 (134)TV EpisodeAfter creating a Rip Tide personality to do a dance show on TV, the new personality starts taking over Johnny Fever's life. Herb tries to take advantage of it by marketing Rip Tide, while the others help him drop the act.
- Andy and Jennifer agree do a photo shoot for a charity. While dressing after the session is done, the photographer for the photo shoot, takes nude photos of Jennifer without her knowledge and tries to blackmail her.
- After the nude photos of Jennifer and the blackmail plot is revealed, the radio staff tries to recover the photos and negatives from the unscrupulous photographer.
- On the day Carlson and Travis are being interviewed by a newspaper, everything around them goes wrong in the silliest way possible.
- After thinking about doing so for quite some time, Bailey finally has the nerve to ask Johnny out on a date. While Johnny knows that the outing will just be the two of them, he considers it something quite different than Bailey. Their date may end up taking a back seat in Johnny's life when he receives a telephone call from new ageist Buffy Denver, with who he had a two year relationship in Los Angeles after his first divorce and who, in town, wants to meet with him. As Johnny considers Buffy one of the great passions in his life, he does whatever he can to make his reunion with her special. Beyond romance, Buffy may have other things on her mind. These two dates lead to some misunderstandings among the other staff at the station, some thinking "the date" referring to Johnny and Bailey, while others thinking it referring to Johnny and Buffy.
- It's in the evening at the radio station. Venus is in the control booth finishing up his show. Mr. Carlson and Andy are working late on the financials. And Bailey is wandering around feeling sorry for herself having been stood up by Johnny, the two who were supposed to go on a date - what would have been their first - to see a Humphrey Bogart movie. The quiet at the station changes when Venus receives a frantic telephone call from Johnny, who, at Jennifer's apartment, is trying to figure out what to do about Buffy's vow to sue him for half of everything he has. The four at the station, including Bailey, rush over to Jennifer's apartment to help their friend. While they all do try to figure out how Johnny should deal with the matter, the question then becomes if Johnny will remember that he, in turn, was a heel for standing up Bailey. The situation takes another turn when Buffy returns both with a confession and counter to what she stated she was going to do to Johnny earlier in the evening that may have an even more negative effect on him.
- Herb accidentally sprayed his daughter's pet frog pink, and brings it into the station in hopes someone will know how to fix it before his daughter finds out. The frog does not look healthy.
- Johnny gets a job offer and a chance to return to the Los Angeles radio market (the place of his greatest success.) The staff of WKRP try to trick Fever into staying by showing how much they mean to him.
- Herb's father visits the station to see his son. Herb Sr is a born salesman just like Herb Jr, and has run away from the retirement home where he was living. Herb Sr wants his son to give him money so he can go to California.
- Herb manages to ensnare a new client, Del's Stereo Shop, by promising a live remote broadcast with the doctor, himself. The remote turns into a disaster when Bucky, the Union and Bobby Boogie all intervene.
- WKRP promotes a concert for the well dressed and spoken, and gleefully violent, rock band, Scum of the Earth.
- WKRP books a meeting room at the Hotel Oceanview in Dayton, to entice the Vicki Von Vicki Jeans company to advertise with them. Andy has problems with the slide projector while Mr. Carlson worries about the Dayton poisoner and whether he will be the next victim. Herb is pleasantly surprised when Ms. Vicki's personal assistant comes on to him, but his happiness is short-lived when he finds out her secret.
- T. J. Watson, a wannabe country music star and former childhood friend of Jennifer shows up at WKRP. Jennifer is nervous that he is trying to collect on a joking pledge for her to marry him. Jennifer claims to already by married to Johnny.
- A young mother, with no money, no friends, and nowhere to turn, leaves her baby for Johnny at the station.
- Herb sets Les up with a blind date through his latest client. Les enjoys the date, but does not realize the Ill Take Romance Dating Service is actually a front for prostitution.
- Jennifer is in love with a blonde haired model of a guy named Steel Hawthorne. The only problem? He is poor. And he also seems interested in her because she has money. Is he treating her the way she treats other men?
- Jennifer buys a large house in a quiet suburb and asks the WKRP staffers to help her move. While moving furniture into an upper room Les hears demonic voices, and a telephone installation man appears to be a lot more sinister than he should be. Mr. Carlson has problems trying to get Jennifer's piano into the house and Jennifer begins to have second thoughts about her purchase.
- 1978–198225mTV-PG7.6 (125)TV EpisodeA fire at the Vine Street Mission that destroys the kitchen. Johnny starts a donation fund and asks Jennifer to ask her wealthy friends to contribute. She throws a party and all goes well -until the homeless show up to show their gratitude.
- When an elderly gentleman friend of Jennifer's dies, the man's family blames her for stealing his fortune.
- 1978–198225mTV-PG8.3 (162)TV EpisodeChristmas is coming up and everyone at the station is anxious to leave and start their holiday plans...everyone, except for Jennifer. Jennifer seems as if she has no holiday plans and is dismayed that the rest of the staff don't want to celebrate Christmas as a family. The gang joins together to give Jennifer a warm Christmas.
- Johnny returns to WKRP only to discover he has already been replaced by a DJ who is secretly taking payola in the form of cocaine.
- Newsman Les Nessman is surprised to learn he has a female "groupie" who loves his news show very much, but also loves him to the point of unreasonably interfering with and taking over his life at home and work.