WKRP in Cincinnati - Season 4

WKRP in Cincinnati - Season 4

Season 4

Network
Episodes22
DatesOct 7, 1981 - Apr 21, 1982
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Episodes

An Explosive Affair (1)
Season 4Episode 130 min

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
An Explosive Affair (2)
Season 4Episode 230 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
The Union
Season 4Episode 330 min

The Union

While the station's employees consider unionizing, Mr. Carlson deals with feelings of betrayal.

Oct 21, 1981
Rumors
Season 4Episode 430 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
Straight from the Heart
Season 4Episode 530 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
Who's on First?
Season 4Episode 630 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
Three Days of the Condo
Season 4Episode 730 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
Jennifer and the Will
Season 4Episode 830 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
The Consultant
Season 4Episode 930 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
Love, Exciting and New
Season 4Episode 1030 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
You Can't Go Out of Town Again
Season 4Episode 1130 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
Pills
Season 4Episode 1230 min

Pills

WKRP has to do commercials for a client whose "diet pills" are actually a legalized form of speed.

Jan 20, 1982
Changes
Season 4Episode 1330 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
Jennifer and Johnny's Charity
Season 4Episode 1430 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
I'll Take Romance
Season 4Episode 1530 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
Circumstantial Evidence
Season 4Episode 1630 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
Fire
Season 4Episode 1730 min

Fire

Herb and Jennifer are stuck in an elevator together when a fire shuts down the Flimm Building.

Mar 17, 1982
Dear Liar
Season 4Episode 1830 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
The Creation of Venus
Season 4Episode 1930 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
The Impossible Dream
Season 4Episode 2030 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
To Err is Human
Season 4Episode 2130 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
Up and Down the Dial
Season 4Episode 2230 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

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