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#1 - Mama's Review
Season 1 Episode 9
Aired 1/15/1979
In flashbacks, Andy and Carlson update WKRP's owner Mrs. Carlson on recent station happenings.
Director: Asaad Kelada
Writer: Hugh Wilson
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#2 - Love Returns
Season 1 Episode 8
Aired 11/6/1978
Andy may have to leave WKRP when he rekindles his love for a touring rock star.
Director: Asaad Kelada
Writer: N/A
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#3 - The Airplane Show
Season 3 Episode 1
Aired 11/1/1980
Trying to compete with WPIG's traffic helicopter, Les starts doing traffic reports from a World War I biplane piloted by a crazy war veteran.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: N/A
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#4 - Daydreams
Season 3 Episode 10
Aired 1/17/1981
When Mr. Carlson rehearses a dull speech in front of the WKRP staff, all the staffers drift off into daydreams about what they would most like to be: Herb as a Latin-American dictator, Jennifer as a '30s movie star, Les as a reporter covering the Blitz in 1940, Bailey as the President of the United States, Andy as a radio Mafioso, Venus as a standup comedian, and Johnny as a rock star.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Young Master Carlson
Season 1 Episode 20
Aired 4/30/1979
Momma Carlson insists her grandson be allowed to roam around the station after he's booted out of military school.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Hugh Wilson
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#6 - Til Debt Do Us Part
Season 3 Episode 21
Aired 4/5/1981
When Johnny learns that his first ex-wife is planning to remarry, he is overjoyed at the thought of not having to pay alimony, and celebrates by inviting Bailey to take a trip with him. But he feels less happy about the situation when he meets the obnoxious womanizer his ex-wife is going to marry.
Director: Frank Bonner
Writer: N/A
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#7 - I Want to Keep My Baby
Season 1 Episode 16
Aired 3/12/1979
Johnny refuses to relinquish an abandoned baby left at WKRP until he can contact the mother.
Director: Asaad Kelada
Writer: Hugh Wilson
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#8 - Sparky
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 12/24/1979
Mr. Carlson hires legendary baseball manager Sparky Anderson as the host of a new sports interview show. But when the show proves a complete disaster, it falls to Mr. Carlson to fire his hero.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: N/A
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#9 - Herb's Dad
Season 2 Episode 15
Aired 1/14/1980
Herb's father, a lifelong salesman who shares Herb's taste in clothes, runs away from the Shady Hills Rest Home and visits the station.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: N/A
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#10 - The Doctor's Daughter
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 2/18/1980
Johnny's daughter shows up and moves in, and Johnny has to decide whether to express his disapproval of the shiftless boyfriend she's brought along.
Director: Frank Bonner
Writer: Lissa Levin
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#11 - For Love or Money (1)
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 9/17/1979
Johnny forgets about his date with Bailey when he gets a call from Buffy, his old girlfriend from California. He borrows Jennifer's apartment to impress Buffy; however, that plan ends when she tells him she's suing him for palimony.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: N/A
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#12 - The Baby
Season 3 Episode 4
Aired 11/22/1980
Mr. Carlson's wife goes into labor and the WKRP staffers all visit the hospital to be there when she gives birth.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: Blake Hunter
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#13 - Never Leave Me, Lucille
Season 1 Episode 15
Aired 3/5/1979
Temporarily separated from his wife, Herb envisions a fanciful bachelorhood.
Director: Asaad Kelada
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Jennifer Falls in Love
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 10/22/1979
For the first time in her life, Jennifer is in love, with a penniless but handsome repairman who turns out to be even more of a gold digger than she is. Meanwhile, Les tries to get a raise, and Johnny becomes convinced that he's the man Jennifer is in love with.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: N/A
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#15 - The Patter of Little Feet
Season 2 Episode 8
Aired 11/26/1979
Mr. Carlson's wife Carmen announces that she is pregnant. Mr. Carlson is overjoyed, and certain that Carmen feels the same way. However, Mama Carlson points out the potential dangers of middle-aged pregnancy and recommends an abortion.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Blake Hunter
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#16 - A Family Affair
Season 2 Episode 14
Aired 1/7/1980
Andy's sister Carol visits Cincinnati, and Andy sets up a date for her and Johnny. But Carol winds up going out with Venus instead, and Andy becomes instinctively angry about it.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: N/A
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#17 - A Simple Little Wedding
Season 3 Episode 19
Aired 3/21/1981
In honor of their 25th anniversary, Arthur and Carmen Carlson plan to get married again. They want a small, private ceremony, but Mama Carlson has other ideas.
Director: N/A
Writer: Blake Hunter
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#18 - Straight from the Heart
Season 4 Episode 5
Aired 11/4/1981
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Preacher
Season 1 Episode 22
Aired 6/4/1979
A wrestler turned preacher uses his radio sermon to sell merchandise.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
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#20 - For Love or Money (2)
Season 2 Episode 2
Aired 9/24/1979
Johnny calls his friends over to Jennifer's apartment to help him deal with Buffy and her threat of a lawsuit. Buffy arrives and, after having a drink with Johnny, tells him that she put poison in his drink.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: N/A
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#21 - God Talks to Johnny
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 12/31/1979
When Johnny thinks he's heard God's voice talking to him, everyone, including Johnny, thinks he's going insane.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Hugh Wilson
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#22 - Jennifer and Johnny's Charity
Season 4 Episode 14
Aired 2/3/1982
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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#24 - Bad Risk
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/22/1979
Herb starts selling insurance as a sideline, and sells a comprehensive policy to Les, who promptly has an accident.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: N/A
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#25 - Les' Groupie
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 2/4/1980
Les goes out on a date with a female fan, who proceeds to move into his apartment and take over his life.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: Steve Marshall
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Mama's Review" is the worst rated episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati". It scored 6.5/10 based on 228 votes. Directed by Asaad Kelada and written by Hugh Wilson, it aired on 1/15/1979. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Love Returns".