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S04E22 - "Up and Down the Dial"
Ausgestrahlt am Apr 22, 1982, 2:00 AM
Nächste Episode
Serie beendet
Beschreibung
Episoden (4 Staffeln · 90 Episoden)
An Explosive Affair (1)
WKRP receives a bomb threat from the terrorist group "Black Monday," and Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter while the station is being searched. Meanwhile, Mr. Carlson's former secretary visits, and he misreads her desire to meet for lunch.
Oct 7, 1981
30 Min.
An Explosive Affair (2)
Andy realizes the threatened bomb is actually at the transmitter where he's sent Johnny and Venus. He tries to contact them, but Johnny has smashed the phone out of frustration over a missed bet on a horse. Luckily, with help from the police, Johnny and Venus get out before the bomb explodes.
Oct 14, 1981
30 Min.
The Union
While the station's employees consider unionizing, Mr. Carlson deals with feelings of betrayal.
Oct 21, 1981
30 Min.
Rumors
Johnny stays at Bailey's place while his apartment is being fumigated, leading to rumors that the two are having a sexual affair.
Oct 28, 1981
30 Min.
Straight from the Heart
Herb secretly checks into a hospital for heart tests, but then sneaks out and takes Les to a 3D pornographic movie.
Nov 4, 1981
30 Min.
Who's on First?
Mr. Carlson has to pretend to be Herb to make a sale while Herb is in the hospital, while Les pretends to be Mr. Carlson, and Johnny pretends to be Andy to avoid paying a gambling debt.
Nov 11, 1981
30 Min.
Three Days of the Condo
Johnny receives a $24,000 legal settlement from the L.A. station that fired him. To stop Johnny from wasting the windfall, Venus advises Fever to invest in a condo at Gone With the Wind Estates.
Nov 18, 1981
30 Min.
Jennifer and the Will
After Jennifer's elderly boyfriend Colonel Buchanan dies while out on a date with her, she discovers she has been named executrix of his will.
Dec 2, 1981
30 Min.
The Consultant
Mama Carlson hires a professional radio consultant to evaluate WKRP, and the consultant threatens Andy with a bad report unless the station subscribes to his programming services.
Dec 30, 1981
30 Min.
Love, Exciting and New
Andy goes out with Lillian to discuss getting a new transmitter for the station, but Lillian has other plans when she realizes that everyone thinks she and Andy are dating.
Jan 6, 1982
30 Min.
You Can't Go Out of Town Again
Mr. Carlson learns that his wife Carmen first went out with him in college only because her sorority dared her to date someone on the "dip list."
Jan 13, 1982
30 Min.
Pills
WKRP has to do commercials for a client whose "diet pills" are actually a legalized form of speed.
Jan 20, 1982
30 Min.
Changes
Venus tries to act and dress more stereotypically "black" to prepare for an interview with a militant magazine, whose writer turns out to be white; meanwhile, Herb adopts a classier image with Jennifer's help.
Jan 27, 1982
30 Min.
Jennifer and Johnny's Charity
Class conflict is in the air when Johnny's friends from the fire-damaged Vine Street Mission meet Jennifer's wealthy friends who are preparing to donate money to rebuild it.
Feb 3, 1982
30 Min.
I'll Take Romance
Les goes out with a woman he met through a computer dating service, not realizing the service is a front for prostitution.
Feb 17, 1982
30 Min.
Circumstantial Evidence
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.
Feb 24, 1982
30 Min.
Fire
Herb and Jennifer are stuck in an elevator together when a fire shuts down the Flimm Building.
Mar 17, 1982
30 Min.
Dear Liar
In a take-off on the Janet Cooke scandal, 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.
Mar 24, 1982
30 Min.
The Creation of Venus
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.
Mar 31, 1982
30 Min.
The Impossible Dream
Egged on by his mother, Les announces that he is going to fulfil his lifelong dream by going to New York to audition for the CBS Evening News.
Apr 7, 1982
30 Min.
To Err is Human
Herb screws up yet again and Mr. Carlson is finally ready to fire him, but Jennifer tries to find a way to save Herb's job by talking to the businessman Herb offended. (This was actually the last episode filmed for the series).
Apr 14, 1982
30 Min.
Up and Down the Dial
The new ratings arrive, and WKRP has finally become a successful station, rising to #6 in the Cincinnati market with Johnny Fever as the #1 DJ. But when a new news director shows up and says he was hired by Mama Carlson, Andy soon finds out that she plans to change the station to a 24-hour news format.
Apr 21, 1982
30 Min.
Galerie
