The WORST episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati

#1 - Love Returns

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1978

Andy falls back in love with an old girlfriend, now a famous singer, and must decide whether to follow her on the road.

#2 - Young Master Carlson

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/1979

Mr. Carlson's troubled young son escapes from his military school and visits WKRP, where he manages to offend most of the staff.

#3 - Mama's Review

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/15/1979

Mama Carlson conducts a quarterly review of WKRP's personnel and profits, with clips from previous episodes illustrating the show's best moments to date.

#4 - Fish Story

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/28/1979

Herb wears a carp costume to represent WKRP and fights a rival station's pig mascot, while Johnny and Venus take an on-air test to demonstrate the effects of alcohol on human reflexes.

#5 - Never Leave Me, Lucille

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/5/1979

Herb separates from his wife Lucille and stays at Johnny's apartment while Jennifer tries to reunite the couple.

#6 - Who Is Gordon Sims?

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/1979

Venus reveals that he is a military deserter, and Mr. Carlson helps him clear his name.

#7 - 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.

#8 - I Do, I Do... For Now

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/23/1979

To fend off a childhood sweetheart, Jennifer pretends to be married to Johnny.

#9 - Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide (Part 2)

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/1981

#10 - Preacher

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/4/1979

WKRP's Sunday morning evangelist (and former wrestler) may be a fraud, but no one has the nerve to fire him.

#11 - 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.

#12 - Sparky

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1979

Mr. Carlson hires baseball manager Sparky Anderson to host a new sports-talk show.

#13 - I Want to Keep My Baby

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/12/1979

After a young single mother leaves her baby at the station, Johnny becomes attached to the infant.

#14 - Circumstantial Evidence

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1982

Venus is in hot water when an ex-lover leaves him with stolen property.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - Dear Liar

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/24/1982

Bailey's news story about a children's clinic is revealed to be fictional.

#18 - 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.

#19 - Jennifer and Johnny's Charity

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1982

Johnny asks Jennifer to help him raise money to rebuild a homeless shelter.

#20 - Carlson for President

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1979

Mr. Carlson runs for Cincinnati City Council. When Bailey discovers a potentially damaging piece of information about the front-runner in the election, Mr. Carlson considers using that information in a televised debate.

#21 - Goodbye, Johnny

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/19/1979

Johnny is offered a job in Los Angeles, so the other staffers throw him a party in which they try to manipulate him into staying.

#22 - Changes

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/1982

To prepare for an interview with a black magazine, Venus adopts a new wardrobe and manner.

#23 - The Contest Nobody Could Win

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/29/1979

After Johnny announces the incorrect prize amount for a song-guessing contest promotion, the crew scrambles to make the contest so difficult that no one can win.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.