The Best Episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.6/10(171 votes)

   #1 - An Explosive Affair (Part 1)

   S4:E110/7/1981

   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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   Director:Linda Day

   Writer:Steve Marshall
2. 

   8.7/10(164 votes)

   #2 - An Explosive Affair (Part 2)

   S4:E210/14/1981

   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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   Director:Linda Day

   Writer:Steve Marshall
3. 

   7.8/10(136 votes)

   #3 - The Union

   S4:E310/21/1981

   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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   Director:Linda Day

   Writer:Blake Hunter
4. 

   8.2/10(136 votes)

   #4 - Rumors

   S4:E410/28/1981

   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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   Director:Linda Day

   Writer:Unknown
5. 

   7.5/10(130 votes)

   #5 - Straight from the Heart

   S4:E511/4/1981

   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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6. 

   8.2/10(146 votes)

   #6 - Who's on First?

   S4:E611/11/1981

   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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7. 

   7.7/10(137 votes)

   #7 - Three Days of the Condo

   S4:E711/18/1981

   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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   Director:Linda Day

   Writer:Lissa Levin
8. 

   8.4/10(170 votes)

   #8 - Jennifer and the Will

   S4:E812/2/1981

   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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   Writer:Blake Hunter
9. 

   8.6/10(206 votes)

   #9 - The Consultant

   S4:E912/30/1981

   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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   Writer:Hugh Wilson
10. 

    7.9/10(143 votes)

    #10 - Love, Exciting and New

    S4:E101/6/1982

    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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    Director:Frank Bonner

    Writer:Lissa Levin
11. 

    7.7/10(134 votes)

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

    S4:E111/13/1982

    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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    Director:Howard Hesseman

    Writer:Unknown
12. 

    8.2/10(141 votes)

    #12 - Pills

    S4:E121/20/1982

    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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    Director:Asaad Kelada

    Writer:Steve Marshall
13. 

    8.1/10(143 votes)

    #13 - Changes

    S4:E131/27/1982

    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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    Director:Will Mackenzie

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14. 

    7.6/10(136 votes)

    #14 - Jennifer and Johnny's Charity

    S4:E142/3/1982

    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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    Director:Will Mackenzie

    Writer:Blake Hunter
15. 

    8.0/10(129 votes)

    #15 - I'll Take Romance

    S4:E152/17/1982

    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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    Director:Asaad Kelada

    Writer:Lissa Levin
16. 

    7.7/10(139 votes)

    #16 - Circumstantial Evidence

    S4:E162/24/1982

    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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    Director:Frank Bonner

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17. 

    8.1/10(133 votes)

    #17 - Fire

    S4:E173/17/1982

    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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    Director:Will Mackenzie

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18. 

    8.0/10(137 votes)

    #18 - Dear Liar

    S4:E183/24/1982

    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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    Director:Frank Bonner

    Writer:Steve Marshall
19. 

    8.3/10(141 votes)

    #19 - The Creation of Venus

    S4:E193/31/1982

    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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    Director:Gordon Jump

    Writer:Blake Hunter
20. 

    7.8/10(125 votes)

    #20 - The Impossible Dream

    S4:E204/7/1982

    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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21. 

    8.4/10(140 votes)

    #21 - To Err is Human

    S4:E214/14/1982

    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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    Director:Linda Day

    Writer:Lissa Levin
22. 

    8.8/10(180 votes)

    #22 - Up and Down the Dial

    S4:E224/21/1982

    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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    Director:George Gaynes

    Writer:Unknown