Pilot (1)
Episode 1
Andy tries to convince WKRP's owner that rock and roll will cure the station's ailing ratings.
Andy tries to convince WKRP's owner that rock and roll will cure the station's ailing ratings.
Andy faces a fiscal crisis: Carlson won't finance a breaking-in period for the new format.
Andy may have to leave WKRP when he rekindles his love for a touring rock star.
In flashbacks, Andy and Carlson update WKRP's owner Mrs. Carlson on recent station happenings.
Les invites Jennifer to a banquet, then suspects she only accepted out of pity.
Johnny accidentally offers listeners $5000 instead of $50 as a contest prize.
Johnny is offered a job in California, so the staff devises a scheme to keep him in Cincinnati.
Johnny comes back to WKRP expecting to get his job back. Instead, he is assigned to the predawn show.
Temporarily separated from his wife, Herb envisions a fanciful bachelorhood.
Johnny refuses to relinquish an abandoned baby left at WKRP until he can contact the mother.
Jennifer tries to discourage a beau by revealing she's married--to Johnny Fever.
Momma Carlson insists her grandson be allowed to roam around the station after he's booted out of military school.
Andy tells a journalist that WKRP is just a "run-of-the-mill" station, even though a staffer is running around in a "car