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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!

The Best Episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4

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....

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  1. Background image for An Explosive Affair (Part 1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - An Explosive Affair (Part 1)

    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.

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    Director:Linda Day
  2. Background image for An Explosive Affair (Part 2)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - An Explosive Affair (Part 2)

    S4:E2

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

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    Director:Linda Day
  3. Background image for The Union
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Union

    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.

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    Director:Linda Day
  4. Background image for Rumors
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Rumors

    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.

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    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Straight from the Heart
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Straight from the Heart

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Who's on First?
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Who's on First?

    S4:E6

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Three Days of the Condo
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Three Days of the Condo

    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.

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    Director:Linda Day
  9. Background image for Jennifer and the Will
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Jennifer and the Will

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Consultant
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - The Consultant

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  11. Background image for Love, Exciting and New
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Love, Exciting and New

    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.

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    Director:Frank Bonner
  12. Background image for You Can't Go Out of Town Again
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - You Can't Go Out of Town Again

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Pills
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Pills

    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.

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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Changes

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Jennifer and Johnny's Charity
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Jennifer and Johnny's Charity

    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.

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  16. Background image for I'll Take Romance
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - I'll Take Romance

    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.

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    Director:Asaad Kelada
  17. Background image for Circumstantial Evidence
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Circumstantial Evidence

    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.

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    Director:Frank Bonner
    Writer:Unknown
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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Fire

    S4:E17

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Dear Liar
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Dear Liar

    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.

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  20. Background image for The Creation of Venus
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Creation of Venus

    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.

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    Director:Gordon Jump
  21. Background image for The Impossible Dream
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Impossible Dream

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for To Err is Human
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - To Err is Human

    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.

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    Director:Linda Day
  23. Background image for Up and Down the Dial
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Up and Down the Dial

    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.

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    Director:George Gaynes
    Writer:Unknown

Season 4 Ratings Summary

"An Explosive Affair (Part 1)" is the best rated episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati" season 4. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Linda Day and written by Steve Marshall, it aired on 10/7/1981. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "An Explosive Affair (Part 2)".