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The Best Episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4

Every episode of WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4!

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When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 2 - An Explosive Affair (Part 2)
    8.8/10(165 votes)

    S4:E2

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

    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Steve Marshall

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  2. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 22 - Up and Down the Dial
    8.8/10(185 votes)

    S4:E22

    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.

    Director:George Gaynes
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 1 - An Explosive Affair (Part 1)
    8.6/10(169 votes)

    S4:E1

    After the station receives a bomb threat, Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter tower while the station is being searched.

    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Steve Marshall

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  4. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 9 - The Consultant
    8.6/10(208 votes)

    S4:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hugh Wilson

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  5. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 8 - Jennifer and the Will
    8.4/10(173 votes)

    S4:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Blake Hunter

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  6. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 21 - To Err is Human
    8.4/10(148 votes)

    S4:E21

    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.

    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Lissa Levin

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  7. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 4 - Rumors
    8.3/10(142 votes)

    S4:E4

    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.

    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 19 - The Creation of Venus
    8.3/10(150 votes)

    S4:E19

    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.

    Director:Gordon Jump
    Writer:Blake Hunter

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  9. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 6 - Who's on First?
    8.2/10(154 votes)

    S4:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 12 - Pills
    8.2/10(147 votes)

    S4:E12

    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.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Steve Marshall

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  11. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 15 - I'll Take Romance
    8.1/10(135 votes)

    S4:E15

    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.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Lissa Levin

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  12. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 17 - Fire
    8.1/10(141 votes)

    S4:E17

    Herb and Jennifer are trapped in an elevator when a fire breaks out in the Flimm Building.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 13 - Changes
    8.0/10(149 votes)

    S4:E13

    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.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 18 - Dear Liar
    8.0/10(142 votes)

    S4:E18

    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.

    Director:Frank Bonner
    Writer:Steve Marshall

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  15. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 3 - The Union
    7.8/10(143 votes)

    S4:E3

    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.

    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Blake Hunter

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  16. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 10 - Love, Exciting and New
    7.8/10(152 votes)

    S4:E10

    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.

    Director:Frank Bonner
    Writer:Lissa Levin

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  17. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 20 - The Impossible Dream
    7.8/10(134 votes)

    S4:E20

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 7 - Three Days of the Condo
    7.7/10(146 votes)

    S4:E7

    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.

    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Lissa Levin

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  19. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 11 - You Can't Go Out of Town Again
    7.7/10(141 votes)

    S4:E11

    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.

    Director:Howard Hesseman
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 14 - Jennifer and Johnny's Charity
    7.6/10(142 votes)

    S4:E14

    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.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Blake Hunter

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  21. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 16 - Circumstantial Evidence
    7.6/10(146 votes)

    S4:E16

    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.

    Director:Frank Bonner
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode 5 - Straight from the Heart
    7.5/10(137 votes)

    S4:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"An Explosive Affair (Part 2)" is the best rated episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati" season 4. It scored 8.8/10 based on 165 votes. Directed by Linda Day and written by Steve Marshall, it aired on 10/14/1981. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Up and Down the Dial".