[BC] WKRP - The Phone Cops!

[Joseph M. Davis]

------ At 11:58 PM 9/30/05 -0400, Scott Fybush wrote: -------
It's my understanding that the "transmitter site" scenes - there was 
at least the one episode where the power went out and Johnny had to 
broadcast from the tower site, with Bucky's help - were NOT shot



While the "Turkey Drop" was a classic episode, one of my favorites 
was when there was a bomb threat to WKRP, so Johnny & Venus went to 
the TX site to broadcast so the studio could be evacuated.  While 
there, Johnny got upset talking to his bookie and destroyed the 
transmitter site's phone with a toolbox.  By then the studio staff 
figured that the bomb was really at the transmitter but they couldn't 
get though on the phone, so they notified police to save Johnny & 
Venus.  When Johnny heard the sirens coming he was convinced that the 
PHONE COPS were coming to get him for smashing the phone.

Back in the day when Ma Bell knew and controlled everything....  a classic!

Joe Davis



Joseph M. Davis, P.E.
Cavell, Mertz & Davis, Inc.
Broadcast & Communications Consulting Engineers
www.cmdconsulting.com