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WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Wednesday, October 7, 1981

Ended: Wednesday, April 21, 1982

When does WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 come out?

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 premiered Wednesday, October 7, 1981 on CBS and ended Wednesday, April 21, 1982. The season has 22 episodes.

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WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 release schedule

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 episode release dates
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1. An Explosive Affair (Part 1)

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

Wednesday · 45 years ago

2. An Explosive Affair (Part 2)

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

Wednesday · 45 years ago

3. The Union

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.

Wednesday · 45 years ago

4. Rumors

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.

Wednesday · 45 years ago

5. Straight from the Heart

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.

Wednesday · 45 years ago

6. Who's on First?

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

Wednesday · 45 years ago

7. Three Days of the Condo

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.

Wednesday · 45 years ago

8. Jennifer and the Will

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

9. The Consultant

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

10. Love, Exciting and New

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

11. You Can't Go Out of Town Again

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

12. Pills

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

13. Changes

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

14. Jennifer and Johnny's Charity

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

15. I'll Take Romance

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

16. Circumstantial Evidence

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

17. Fire

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

Wednesday · 44 years ago

18. Dear Liar

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

19. The Creation of Venus

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

20. The Impossible Dream

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

21. To Err is Human

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

22. Up and Down the Dial Finale

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.

Wednesday · 44 years ago

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 guest stars

  • Rosemary Forsyth

    Rosemary Forsyth

  • Alice Nunn

    Alice Nunn

  • Michael Pataki

    Michael Pataki

    Ivan Popasonaviski

  • Max Wright

    Max Wright

    Frank Bartman

  • Colleen Camp

    Colleen Camp

  • Ernie Lively

    Ernie Lively

  • Carmen Filpi

    Carmen Filpi

  • Art Metrano

    Art Metrano

  • Tom Sullivan

  • Iona Morris

    Iona Morris

  • Robert Hooks

    Robert Hooks

  • Allyn Ann McLerie

    Allyn Ann McLerie

  • Carol Bruce

    Carol Bruce

    Lillian Carlson

  • Dennis Lipscomb

    Dennis Lipscomb

    Pat Perillo

  • David Clennon

    David Clennon

    Norris Breeze

  • Pat O'Brien

    Pat O'Brien

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 FAQ

When does WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 come out?

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 premiered Wednesday, October 7, 1981 on CBS.

How many episodes are in WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4?

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 has 22 episodes.

Are new episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 finale?

The WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 finale (Episode 22) aired Wednesday, April 21, 1982.

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