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 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - Circumstantial Evidence

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

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

#12 - Dear Liar

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

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

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

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

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - Sparky

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

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

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - Nothing to Fear But...

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/28/1981

Everyone is in the grip of urban paranoia after the station is robbed.

#24 - The Americanization of Ivan

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1980

Bailey and Les attend a press conference given by a group of visiting Russian hog experts. One of the Russians falls for Bailey and asks her to help him defect to the United States.

#25 - Out to Lunch

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/1981

Herb's three-martini business lunches with an ad agency representative are causing him to mess up even more than usual, and it begins to seem that his use of alcohol as a sales tool is turning into a drinking problem.