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| Episode 1 - [An Explosive Affair (Part 1)] |
| Details : After the station receives a bomb threat Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter tower while the station is being searched. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rosemary Forsyth | Director : Linda Day | Writer : Steve Marshall | |
| Air Date : Oct. 07, 1981 |
| Episode 2 - [An Explosive Affair (Part 2)] |
| Details : Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rosemary Forsyth | Director : Linda Day | Writer : Steve Marshall | |
| Air Date : Oct. 14, 1981 |
| Episode 3 - [The Union] |
| Details : The staff of WKRP considers joining a union. Mr. Carlson is furious and rushes to his mother for advice while Andy tries to appear neutral in this labor-management conflict. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carol Bruce | Director : Linda Day | Writer : Blake Hunter | |
| Air Date : Oct. 21, 1981 |
| Episode 4 - [Rumors] |
| Details : While his apartment is being fumigated Johnny accepts Bailey's offer to stay at her place causing everyone at the station to think that the two are sleeping together. Johnny's also afraid that he's in danger of losing his time slot to Rex the afternoon DJ and when Bailey tries to cheer him up he mistakes her friendliness for a come-on. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sam Anderson as Rex Erhardt | Director : Linda Day | |
| Air Date : Oct. 28, 1981 |
| Episode 5 - [Straight From The Heart] |
| Details : Herb tells everyone that he's going on vacation but Les and Jennifer discover that he's actually checked into the hospital for heart tests. |
| Air Date : Nov. 04, 1981 |
| Episode 6 - [Who's On First] |
| Details : With Herb in the hospital Mr. Carlson pretends he is Herb and is impersonated by Les for an advertising client. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dennis Lipscomb | |
| Air Date : Nov. 11, 1981 |
| Episode 7 - [Three Days Of The Condo] |
| Details : When Johnny receives $24000 in a legal settlement Venus convinces him to use the money to invest in a condominium at Gone With the Wind Estates. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Lissa Levin | Director : Linda Day | |
| Air Date : Nov. 18, 1981 |
| Episode 8 - [Jennifer And The Will] |
| Details : Colonel Buchanan Jennifer's elderly gentleman friend dies suddenly. As executrix of his will Jennifer must deal with the press and with the Colonel's money-grubbing rumor mongering relatives. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ernie Lively | Pat O’Brien | Shony Alex Braun | Writer : Blake Hunter | |
| Air Date : Dec. 02, 1981 |
| Episode 9 - [The Consultant] |
| Details : Mama Carlson hires a professional radio consultant to evaluate WKRP. The man she's hired Norris Breeze is an old friend of Andy's who also runs a radio programming service. Andy soon realizes that Breeze intends to give the station a bad report unless it subscribes to the service. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carol Bruce | David Clennon | Ian Wolfe | Writer : Hugh Wilson | |
| Air Date : Dec. 30, 1981 |
| Episode 10 - [Love Exciting And New] |
| Details : Andy starts taking Mama Carlson out after hours in the hopes of getting her to pay for a new transmitter for the station. But he begins to suspect that she might have more-than-businesslike expectations of him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Colleen Camp | Carol Bruce | Ian Wolfe | Writer : Lissa Levin | Director : Frank Bonner | |
| Air Date : Jan. 06, 1982 |
| Episode 11 - [You Can't Go Out Of Town Again] |
| Details : Mr. Carlson goes with Carmen to a college reunion where he learns the disillusioning truth about how he and Carmen first met; Bailey is frustrated in her attempts to get a computer for billing; Venus can't get a moment alone in the booth with his latest date. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alice Nunn | Allyn Ann McLerie | Director : Howard Hesseman | |
| Air Date : Jan. 13, 1982 |
| Episode 12 - [Pills] |
| Details : Herb sells ad spots to a seller of diet pills; after it turns out that the pills are a legalized way of selling speed to teenagers it also turns out that the station can't legally get out of running the ads. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Max Wright | Robert Ridgely | Director : Asaad Kelada | Writer : Steve Marshall | |
| Air Date : Jan. 20, 1982 |
| Episode 13 - [Changes] |
| Details : When Venus learns that he's going to be interviewed by a militant black magazine he adopts a new wardrobe and manner in order to seem more in touch with black culture. Meanwhile Jennifer offers to change Herb's image starting with picking out new tasteful clothes for him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Art Metrano | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Jan. 27, 1982 |
| Episode 14 - [Jennifer And Johnny's Charity] |
| Details : When a fire destroys the kitchen at the Vine Street Mission Johnny recruits Jennifer to help raise the $40000 dollars to rebuild it. Jennifer throws a party for her rich friends and asks them to contribute and everything is going fine until the contributors meet the people involved. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carmen Filpi | Gloria LeRoy | Richard Derr | John Vivyan | Director : Will Mackenzie | Writer : Blake Hunter | |
| Air Date : Feb. 03, 1982 |
| Episode 15 - [I'll Take Romance] |
| Details : Herb fixes Les up with a date through his latest client the I'll Take Romance Dating Service. Les hits it off with his date immediately not knowing that the dating service is a front for prostitution. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Lissa Levin | Director : Asaad Kelada | |
| Air Date : Feb. 17, 1982 |
| Episode 16 - [Circumstantial Evidence] |
| Details : Venus's latest date gives him an expensive diamond earring as a gift and then runs out on him; it turns out that she's a thief who has used the stolen earring to frame Venus as her accomplice. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Pataki | Max Wright | Robert Hooks | Jack Kruschen | John Witherspoon | Director : Frank Bonner | |
| Air Date : Feb. 24, 1982 |
| Episode 17 - [Fire] |
| Details : Herb and Jennifer are trapped in an elevator when a fire breaks out in the Flimm Building. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Mar. 17, 1982 |
| Episode 18 - [Dear Liar] |
| Details : When Bailey writes a news story on the Northside Children's Clinic Les steals it and reads it on the air. This turns out to be a blow to the station's integrity in more ways than one when Bailey admits that she fictionalized part of the story. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Iona Morris | Writer : Steve Marshall | Director : Frank Bonner | |
| Air Date : Mar. 24, 1982 |
| Episode 19 - [The Creation Of Venus] |
| Details : When Venus lets it slip that he was a schoolteacher before he came to WKRP Andy has to tell Mama Carlson the truth about how he hired Gordon Sims as a DJ and how they came up with the persona of Venus Flytrap. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carol Bruce | Director : Gordon Jump | Writer : Blake Hunter | |
| Air Date : Mar. 31, 1982 |
| Episode 20 - [The Impossible Dream] |
| Details : On his birthday Les announces that he's going to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a world-famous broadcast journalist by auditioning for The CBS Evening News. |
| Air Date : Apr. 07, 1982 |
| Episode 21 - [To Err Is Human] |
| Details : After Herb screws up an important advertising account Mr. Carlson finally intends to fire him but Jennifer takes pity on Herb and tries to help him keep his job. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Tom Sullivan | Writer : Lissa Levin | Director : Linda Day | |
| Air Date : Apr. 14, 1982 |
| Episode 22 - [Up And Down The Dial] |
| Details : Just as WKRP hits #6 in the ratings Mama Carlson announces that she plans to switch the format of the station to 24 hours a day of news. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carol Bruce | Ian Wolfe | Director : George Gaynes | |
| Air Date : Apr. 21, 1982 |