The WORST episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati

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

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

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - Three Days of the Condo

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1981

Johnny receives a large legal settlement and buys a condominium.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide (Part 1)

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/1981

Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.

#10 - 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.

#11 - Put Up or Shut Up

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1980

Bailey convinces Jennifer to accept a date with Herb in the hope that he'll get scared and back down.

#12 - 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.

#13 - Filthy Pictures (2)

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/1980

#14 - Real Families

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/15/1980

When Herb's family is featured in the show "Real Families", he is sure that they can serve as an example of a clean living family. Unfortunately, the image Herb wants to convey is different from the reality shown on screen.

#15 - Hotel Oceanview

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/29/1980

Andy, Mr. Carlson and Herb visit Dayton to try and land the advertising account for Vicky Von Vickey jeans. While Mr. Carlson worries about the notorious Dayton poisoner, Herb romances an old high school acquaintance and Andy has trouble with his slide projector.

#16 - A Mile in My Shoes

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/6/1980

When Herb is called for jury duty, Andy takes over as sales manager and soon discovers just how tough it is trying to sell advertising time or collect from deadbeat clients. Meanwhile, Venus becomes acting program director and has to deal with Les's plan to disguise himself as a black man so that he can do a series of reports based on the book Black Like Me.

#17 - The Painting

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/10/1981

At Mr. Carlson's church auction, Herb buys a painting that Bailey loves. He tries to get Mr. Carlson or Bailey to buy it from him...until he learns that it might be valuable.

#18 - Frog Story

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/24/1981

Herb has accidentally spray-painted his daughter's pet frog Greenpeace pink, and brings the frog to the station trying to find a way to save its life. Meanwhile, Les convinces Johnny that he is suffering from the dreaded "schistosomiasis."

#19 - Venus and the Man

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/31/1981

The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.

#20 - Secrets of Dayton Heights

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/28/1981

The Secret Service refuses to grant Les credentials for a Presidential press conference, suspecting him of having radical affiliations. It turns out that the man who raised Les wasn't his father, and that his real father was a card-carrying Communist.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.