I'd forgotten just how intelligent and troubling and yet comforting this show was. Comedic genius for it's time.

@octavius8562

11 ай бұрын

A lot of comedic genius going on in the 50s, 60s and 70s. It wasn't uncommon.

@hudsony777

6 ай бұрын

Never watched it when it was on; liking it now!

@NormAppleton

3 ай бұрын

it was dark yet sweet, honest mostly

@thekitchencounterauthor

Ай бұрын

Didn't know this was going to happen but, when I heard the theme tune, I smiled. I smiled because of a memory from the late 70s, early 80s. That is so freaking unlikely, that it is worth writing down.

@michaelparks6120

Ай бұрын

Tremendous show!!😊

There are multiple moments in that staff meeting sequence where it inches towards being overly heartwarming or even syrupy, and then there's a perfectly timed joke to cut against it and "reset" the scene. Stellar writing, impeccably performed.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

"Go on, get used to each other's bodies!" ... that didn't break the tension! It made it worse! LOL

@gaylenewood7707

Ай бұрын

That one guy in the back with the cowboy hat wearing brown vest he was on the 70s show playing has hyde's long lost father..

Nice to escape this crazy world right now with this great show...❤️❤️

God I forgot how much I love this show. I love every single character so much.

I am so very glad to be able to see these old WKRP shows on You~Tube. They still have a way of turning my bad moods and even bad days into better ones. This was absolutely true and real comedy. Nothing at all today can compare with these old shows. These actors of today just try acting funny and look more stupid than anything. Thank you You~Tube and the uploaders!!!

@cynthiapressley8455

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

@shelleycorum9977

2 жыл бұрын

I started listening to them at night at work and I feel like I'm among friends. I work alone so it's fun. ❤️

@ronaldanderson4185

Ай бұрын

Àà³​@@shelleycorum9977

"I could've been a forest ranger!!" .... I just love that line!!

WKRP, Barney Miller, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi: The most perfectly cast, best written and funniest workplace sitcoms ever!

@BBAKER22

Ай бұрын

Barney Miller? Lol..WTF is WRONG with you?

@rangerannie5636

Ай бұрын

and Murphy Brown

@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL

Ай бұрын

@@rangerannie5636 Too topical. Who's Ed Meese again?

@elldre3

Ай бұрын

@@rangerannie5636 Nahhhh. Candice Bergen = loud exaggerated overacting, and the show could be overbearingly cute in targeting Beltway foibles and follies for episodic content. Watch the British 'The Thick of It' for subtle and witty TRUE political satire.

@morthedgebuckle227

Ай бұрын

I always loved watching Benson as well.

This show was hitting its stride when the studio pulled the plug. One of the great tragedies of the early 80's in my TV world.

@11Stucat

7 жыл бұрын

Rumor has it, the higher ups at MTM studios were jealous and didnt like the way the writers went off the "standard" way of doing things.

@Albendova666

6 жыл бұрын

Amen, It’s taken decades but with WKRP finally airing on me-tv, I think it’s genius will finally be realized. Insane that it was canceled, made zero sense.

@seanmichael5508

6 жыл бұрын

NuWorldMann this is how i first caught the show on metv. And i love it. Watching it on here now.

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

11Stucat, I really doubt that. MTM was known for the wide creative latitude it gave shows. Grant Tinker’s philosophy was to get really talented people and then get out of their way and let them do wht they do best. Regardless, MTM had no control over either the show’s scheduling or cancellation. Those are entirely network decisions. CBS did it to other popular shows and would do it again. I often think that television executives often create issues and make decisions to justify their jobs.

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

11Stucat, in fact, in an interview creator High Wilson stated that it was, in fact, a new CBS executive, Harvey Shepherd, who decided to scrap the show. He decided to keep "Alice" and axe "WKRP" instead. He left CBS four years later saying that the pressure to maintain ratings was too great.

"Herb, will you quit picking on Les" is one of the best lines ever delivered on television.

@brendaamata9233

Ай бұрын

Also sad

Love WKRP. This is one of the funniest episodes. Les choking Herb and Andy saying "Herb would you quit picking on Les." lol

The writing is the basis for WKRP, but it takes top caliber actors to pull it off. What a cast

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

Edward Bliss, yes, indeed. I just commented on another video yesterday that the casting was absolutely superb. According to Hugh Wilson, the creator, CBS’s only requirement be that Gary Sandy be the lead. Other than that they could cast whomever they wanted. They made it an ensemble cast show to which Gary Sandy did not object at all.

@normangabbard8816

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree.. This cast was unique in quality.. I mean,they couldnt have picked a better cast. Like they were put on earth to act out WKRP...

@sandrajovic9078

3 жыл бұрын

@@normangabbard8816 I agree

@cynthiapressley8455

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent! They don't make em like this anymore.

@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL

Ай бұрын

@@inkyguy (Gary Sandy was Travis)

Perfect throw with the danish Bailey!!

@sandrajovic9078

3 жыл бұрын

💖

@lioneldegrandpre8870

3 жыл бұрын

And lets hear it for Tarleks catch, lol...Great Hands

My favorite episode is the Thanksgiving one where they released the turkeys from the helicopter, thinking they could fly. Comedic gold!🦃

@janisneubert7359

20 күн бұрын

Best show ever.

Still love this show in 2020!!

@MrMenefrego1

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, Vickey! I really miss the late '70's early '80's this is as close as we can get!

@brendaamata9233

Ай бұрын

2024

When this was on the air, Wilmington College was the home of the training camp for the Cincinnati Bengals. All the subtle Cincinnati references are a nice touch.

@haplessasshole9615

Ай бұрын

I think the creators must have consulted with the then-owners of WEBN. The transmitter on the hill in the intro was WEBN's, and the building used in establishing shots as the WKRP HQ is the building on Hyde Park Square where WEBN was located. I was always half expecting to hear gag ads for Tree Frog Beer or the DeLorean Snowmobile. The latter fake ad was recorded and put in rotation about 20 minutes after John DeLorean was busted for smuggling the white powder which was insanely popular at the time. Yeah, his attorneys were successful in defending him on the basis of entrapment, but the fact he was an idiot remained.

Bailey looks like she could take the glasses off, spin and become Wonder Woman. 😉

@NortonsNestMonthly

6 жыл бұрын

Jan Smithers forever!

@sandrajovic9078

3 жыл бұрын

I could totally see that 💫

@stevestringer7351

3 жыл бұрын

Well, the thought of Bailey spinning was very pleasant

@cynthiapressley8455

3 жыл бұрын

💃yes!

@MrMenefrego1

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevestringer7351 😂 Isn't it though!

This was such a fantastic show! I loved it as a kid & appreciate it more as an adult. Always loved Dr. Johnny Fever, but they were all great actors and the writing was excellent. Funny, but touching, it's a lesson on how different personalities CAN work together too. Well, minus Les choking Herb, but you get what I mean 🤣

Fever and Mr. Carlson sleeping during the meeting is hilarious.

Brilliant. This show is one of the best

Andy did nave nice hair, and nice Buns too. 😛😋 I envy the chairs he sat on!

Jan "Bailey Quarters" Smithers ...so nerdy but cute , killer smile ..

@morthedgebuckle227

Ай бұрын

A honey bear

Thanks for Posting👍 I remember when Jerry Springer and Norma Rashid anchored the evening news on the NBC affiliate in Cincinnati and Nick Clooney (George Clooney's father) anchored the evening news on the ABC affiliate.

Thank you for posting this classic series! Oh, I long for the days of my youth!

No laugh machines needed for this show.... The adudience got it..

@kendallrivers1119

2 жыл бұрын

Most comedies back then didn't need laugh tracks. They actually worked hard for the big laughs.

I think the staff meeting sequence is truly wonderful.

@carolleslie517

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree!

@edoedo8686

4 жыл бұрын

I worked in small stations and newspapers all my life (64 years old, broke, etc). All this was real--and worse. For example, an obese newspaper editor threw a typewriter at me....so, I adored this show. Made me laugh at a lot of painful sh....t...

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

@@edoedo8686 Lou? Looooouuuuu ...

Comedic art in motion Not a weak link in the writing, or the characters

Please zap me back to this time. I much prefer it.

@cynthiapressley8455

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

This episode was great. Thanks for posting

One of the greatest shows ever, each episode gets better.

I worked in radio a number of years and it really can be this crazy.

Herb's silent gesture bit at 23:55 is just gold.

@stevestringer7351

3 жыл бұрын

The whole show was pure gold!

great show and the theme song is GREAT

Check out The Pretenders poster behind Johnny's desk! Dr. Fever was the man!

@sandrajovic9078

3 жыл бұрын

He always had good posters up

"I could've been a forest ranger".....classic Andy

@bonnieriffle8371

7 ай бұрын

I was born,( Everyone moans) Well I was, Lol! 😆😆😆

Great ensemble comedy at it's best. So many memorable lines...Les: "This meeting is losing some of it's bitterness!" 😝

@TrishaMiller-fn2vv

2 ай бұрын

That was brilliant.

"Stuff it, you lousy punk!" Damn Herb 😅

Is this your "little award"...I love Bailey like that 😁😁😁😁

A more innocent time. I miss it.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

10 ай бұрын

I have this nagging suspicion we're on the other side of smart.

"...he keeps talking about 'taking Ohio, first' ". LOL

Jan Smithers was such a babe back then what a sexy figure.....

@badad0166

3 жыл бұрын

I never really crystallized on the "Mary-ann/Ginger" aspect of Jennifer/Bailey dynamic until I saw this comment. And this clip 15:01

Love the Undertones poster on the studio wall.

Lunch!! Lmao! A good end to a long hard day at work. Thanks so much for the laughs!

"Wait just a minute! This meeting is starting to lose some of its bitterness!" Me in every conversation with my wife.

Gary Sandy (Andy) is such a cutie pie...Hubba, hubba

"Mr. Carlson...this is ALMOST important!" lol

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm busy all week." Ripped from real life, that one.

*BRILLIANT SHOW!* Damn how I miss the 1970's & '80's!

I love this show

This meeting is starting to lose some of it's bitterness!!. les nessman LOL. 18:20

Station WTNA?! I almost choked on my coffee

@dpm-jt8rj

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they didn't mean anything by using those particular call letters. Then again, another example of excellence in writing and pulling it off by the cast. Hillarious!

@MountainFisher

5 жыл бұрын

dpm1982 ; T N A was at the time an explicit reference to 'tits n' ass''.

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

I have no doubt whatsoever it was intentional.

@sandrajovic9078

3 жыл бұрын

@@inkyguy i think so too

@jeffreyknickman5559

3 жыл бұрын

@@MountainFisher It's not anymore?

Looking back at these clips, it's amazing how THIN everybody - well except for Mr. Carlson - how THIN everybody was, before the days of hormones in our food, etc.

@zibikit

Жыл бұрын

Naturally thin. Not with illnesses (and I'm not talking the obvious ED here, primarily genetic, or immune), muscle wasting, dark circles, bad skin and hair thinning or baldness. Notice how *healthy* everyone looks in old TV shows ! No denture teeth (my word for those with the modern day idea of white teeth). Most have had little to no plastic surgery. They look normal.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

The only hormones are the ones that keep your fork in your hand.

loved it hoping to set up a studio like the one on there but stuff is hard to find these days

yup. this is one of my fav., or at least there are some memorable lines - "he has nice hair." 🤣

This Is A Good Show

So Mr. Carlson son became the leader of the Proud Boys and is now serving 45 to life.

Hysterical

This was my show-mary Tyler Moore studios.march2021.

I feel a Group Hug coming..lol

Jan Smithers, so beautiful

« This almost important »

without a doubt one of the funniest shows in tv history,and Loni Anderson is so hot.

@dpm-jt8rj

6 жыл бұрын

So is Jan Smithers. Those glasses do a lot...

@cynthiapressley8455

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree.

@jeffclement2468

5 ай бұрын

Team Bailey here without a doubt! 😻🌹

W KRP Wild Krazy Real People

jennifer said it all ! thanks

"You are a sleeze bag, Johnny.".. LOL!

13:09 "Boom dip!" Oh, hell, well, forget it. Nobody will notice and this will never be seen again. "Ok then!". I love this show.

thanks

I know this is slightly off topic but watching this reminded me of something that happened during the run of the Seinfeld show. They had Gordon Jump appear as George's boss at PlayNow for 2 episodes I believe. In the entire run of that brilliant show, they didn't make many mistakes, but letting that guy go so early was a big one! They could have gotten a ton of mileage out of that and Jump was hysterical, far funnier than the boss from the industrial smoothing company, that's for sure.

I coulda been a forest ranger. 😅😂Great❤

_"What?!?! This thing supposed to be fixed!!!"_

When I think of AC, I think of Henry Blake. It's his mother that's his hounder.

I saw the boom mike around 13:06

@anotheryoutubeaccount9852

5 жыл бұрын

I saw that you edited your post.

"Jennifer...what's happening??" "I don't know" "Oh, don't lie to me.." 😂😂 Genius

Great stuff

13:09 - you can briefly see the boom mic over Carlson's shoulder.

WREQ was an automated station -- who were the people at the banquet table?

@kathyflorcruz552

4 жыл бұрын

Technicians?

@johndough9187

3 жыл бұрын

Automatons

fruit of the looms a little tight??..lmao.

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

They gave him some of the best one liners.

amazon has these,and a lot better quality and not too expensive.

Bailey was so hot...a fan favorite.

Why are we all here? The Spocker.... two in the pink and two in the stink. ;D

Herb does the 2 in the pink 1 in the stink when whispers to Les.

13:09-13:11 Overhead mic visible on screen.

Why are we HERE? Because we're not THERE! 😅

Mr. Carlson's 12 year old son wants to join the American Nazi Party? Everyone is obsessed with WTNA but misses that?!

@DP-hy4vh

3 жыл бұрын

There was an episode where Little Arthur was visiting from a military academy and was racist to Venus.

Why does Herb's jacket have shoulder epaulets. Was that ever a thing?

@chrisdonaldson8902

3 жыл бұрын

It was a short fad , but by 1980 becoming passe & going out of style . Boys in my highschool wore them for proms and graduations I remember .

Boom mic during the meeting ha!

WTNA...the writing on this show is to smart for that not to be an intentional joke😁

I feel like Les Nessman and Bubbles are one in the same

I'm sorry I'm busy all week.

all of this constant stalking my choices are getting creepy !

Danishes ? Its Danish ! whatever ! Anyways i'm not one to pick at these things but check out the boom mic at 13:09

I know what Herb said at the end and Darwin would say he is right 👍

Richard Sanders sings the theme song

They sure as heck don't make great shows like this anymore

That brunette presenter for johnny's award at the outset was just as fine as bailey and jennifer.

at 13:10, the mike boom comes down above their heads.

Good 👍 years

when les attacked herb i couldn't stop laughing..

i dont remember this episode.😮

Hockey Gods 🏒🛸🇨🇦👍

wonder what herb said at the end