As of July 2026, WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 aired in 1981 with 22 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4

1981 22 Episodes Comedy ⭐ 8/10

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 is available on streaming right now. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. With 94 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Gary Sandy's performance alone is worth the time investment. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. Season 4 of WKRP in Cincinnati includes 22 episodes. It aired from October 1981 to April 1982. This season stars Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman and Tim Reid. Gary Sandy and Howard Hesseman lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1981. What keeps WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Gary Sandy's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.

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🎬 WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4 — Episode Guide

An Explosive Affair (Part 1)

After the station receives a bomb threat, Andy sends Johnny and Venus to broadcast from the transmitter tower while the station is being searched.

An Explosive Affair (Part 2)

Andy is unable to warn Johnny and Venus when he realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter.

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.

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, h...

Straight from the Heart

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.

Who's on First?

With Herb in the hospital, Mr. Carlson pretends he is Herb and is impersonated by Les for an advertising client.

Three Days of the Condo

When Johnny receives $24,000 in a legal settlement, Venus convinces him to use the money to invest in a condominium at Gone With the Wind Estates.

Jennifer and the Will

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.

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.

Love, Exciting and New

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.

You Can't Go Out of Town Again

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.

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.

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.

Jennifer and Johnny's Charity

When a fire destroys the kitchen at the Vine Street Mission, Johnny recruits Jennifer to help raise the $40,000 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.

I'll Take Romance

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.

Circumstantial Evidence

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.

Herb and Jennifer are trapped in an elevator when a fire breaks out in the Flimm Building.

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.

The Creation of Venus

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.

The Impossible Dream

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.

🎭 Cast of WKRP in Cincinnati Season 4

Gary Sandy

Howard Hesseman

Howard Hesseman

Dr. Johnny Fever

Tim Reid

Loni Anderson

Jennifer Marlowe

Frank Bonner

Gordon Jump

Richard Sanders

Richard Sanders

Jan Smithers

Bailey Quarters

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