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NewsRadio Season 4 |
| NewsRadio Season 4 : |
| This is a detailed list of fourth season NewsRadio episodes. |
| Episode 1 - [Jumper] |
| Details : Bill tries to get an exclusive on-air story when a suicidal man is perched outside Dave's window. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Paul Simms | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Sep. 23, 1997 |
| Episode 2 - [Plan Bee] |
| Details : Jimmy hires Andrea an efficiency expert when the station needs to cut funds. The staffers rally around an inept Matthew to try to preserve his job. Bill auditions for a television job. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lauren Graham as Andrea | Writer : Brian Kelley | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Sep. 30, 1997 |
| Episode 3 - [The Public Domain] |
| Details : Dave tries to get Matthew rehired amidst chaos. Andrea hires a man to share Dave's Job Jimmy brings a camera crew into the office to film a documentary and Bill prepares for a new career as a singing political satirist a la Mark Russell. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Paul Gleason | Lauren Graham as Andrea | Writer : Joe Furey | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Oct. 28, 1997 |
| Episode 4 - [Super Karate Monkey Death Car] |
| Details : Andrea forces the staff to take lie detector tests. Lisa fears she will not pass the test due to her extensive criminal past. Jimmy has his book which failed in the U.S. translated into Japanese then back into English. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Brian Posehn | Lauren Graham as Andrea | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Josh Lieb | |
| Air Date : Nov. 04, 1997 |
| Episode 5 - [French Diplomacy] |
| Details : Dave and Lisa breakup. Bill gets himself into trouble when he advocates the beating of foreign diplomats. Matthew opens his own dentistry practice. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lauren Graham as Andrea | Writer : Paul Simms | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Nov. 11, 1997 |
| Episode 6 - [Pure Evil] |
| Details : Dave hatches a scheme of 'pure evil' to get his job as news director back including approving Bill's obscenity laced imaginary conversations with the president. Lisa tries hard to do a good job as news director. Matthew lives in the office. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Paul Simms | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Nov. 18, 1997 |
| Episode 7 - [Catherine Moves On] |
| Details : Each staffer offers up a very different version of events of the day Catherine announces she's leaving WNYX. Joe realizes that Catherine's always yearned for him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Josh Lieb | |
| Air Date : Nov. 25, 1997 |
| Episode 8 - [Stupid Holiday Charity Talent Show] |
| Details : Dave unveils a previously hidden talent to compete in a charity talent show. If a WNYX staff member wins Mr. James will re-hire Matthew in this incredibly hilarious episode. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Alan J. Higgins | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Dec. 16, 1997 |
| Episode 9 - [The Secret Of Management] |
| Details : Bill hire's a gentleman's gentleman Cadbury to oversee his life. Mr. James teaches Lisa 'The Secret of Management'. Matthew feels left out when Bill doesn't congratulate him on being rehired. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Joe Furey | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Jan. 01, 1998 |
| Episode 10 - [Look Who's Talking] |
| Details : Bill announces plans to adopt a child. Beth and Joe attend a charity bachelor auction with Beth impersonating a duchess and Joe playing her homosexual bachelor friend to bid on Mr. James. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Joe Furey | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Jan. 06, 1998 |
| Episode 11 - [Chock] |
| Details : Dave finds it hard to say no when his old college a cappella singing group 'Chock Full o' Notes' reunites for Dave's 32nd birthday hoping to take the pop charts by storm. Meanwhile Lisa tries to motivate Matthew without reducing him to tears. Joe has a beef with one of Dave's friends. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Brian Posehn | David Cross | Writer : Chris Marcil | Writer : Sam Johnson | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Jan. 13, 1998 |
| Episode 12 - [Who's The Boss-Part 1] |
| Details : After Bill pesters Lisa once again Dave and Lisa hatch an evil plan to make Bill the boss to teach him a lesson. Bill's reign is eerily efficient. Joe goes on a sympathy strike to support another of Mr. James companies. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Josh Lieb | |
| Air Date : Jan. 20, 1998 |
| Episode 13 - [Who's The Boss-Part 2] |
| Details : Mr. James announces an election for station manager which neither Dave nor Lisa want to win. Joe's dysfunctional brothers visit the station to plan a surprise party for their parents. Matthew runs for floor fire marshal. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Brian Kelley | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Feb. 03, 1998 |
| Episode 14 - [Security Door] |
| Details : Dave struggles vainly to get the staffers to properly use the recently installed security door. Bill enlists Lisa to do the negotiating when he's offered a job in a blue jean's commercial. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Chris Marcil | Writer : Sam Johnson | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Feb. 24, 1998 |
| Episode 15 - [Big Brother] |
| Details : Matthew is assigned a Big Brother who makes eyes at Beth; Joe Jimmy and Bill try to uncover Lisa's love life. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Lewis Morton | |
| Air Date : Mar. 03, 1998 |
| Episode 16 - [Beep Beep] |
| Details : Mr. James gives Matthew a small toy car. Mr. James urges Dave and Lisa to get back together when a secret study reveals they're more productive when they're a couple. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Alan J. Higgins | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Mar. 18, 1998 |
| Episode 17 - [Balloon] |
| Details : Jimmy plans to go around the world in a hot air balloon until Dave finds that he is full of hot air. Meanwhile Bill switches from cigarettes to chewing tobacco. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Josh Lieb | |
| Air Date : Mar. 25, 1998 |
| Episode 18 - [Copy Machine] |
| Details : The office mourns the loss of Ted from accounting until Dave realizes that nobody knew him at all. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Drake Sather | |
| Air Date : Apr. 08, 1998 |
| Episode 19 - [Monster Rancher] |
| Details : Matthew takes Lisa on a date. The office has trouble adapting to a new intern Mr. James' nephew Walt. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Chris Marcil | Writer : Sam Johnson | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : Apr. 15, 1998 |
| Episode 20 - [420] |
| Details : Joe fights Matthew in a no-holds-barred match at Mr. James' men's club smoker. Bill is extremely worried that Walt will ask Lisa on a date. We learn Dave's technique for getting rid of an unwanted visitor; act insane. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Paul Simms | |
| Air Date : Apr. 29, 1998 |
| Episode 21 - [Jackass Junior High] |
| Details : Lisa is treated like a male by office co-workers who revert to their boorish selves when all other females are out sick. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Joe Furey | Writer : Alan J. Higgins | Director : Tom Cherones | |
| Air Date : May. 06, 1998 |
| Episode 22 - [Sinking Ship] |
| Details : The episode spoofs the movie Titanic where Walt and Dave sketch Lisa nude and give her heart shaped necklaces. Soon though the ship starts to sink... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Joe Furey | Writer : Brian Kelley | Writer : Sam Johnson | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Josh Lieb | |
| Air Date : May. 12, 1998 |