[BC] WKRP - The Phone Cops!

[Rob Atkinson]

Anyone remember the episode in which Johnny quits to host a tv dance show 
(Gotta Dance!)?

Was Venus Flytrap based on any real life radio character?

The actor Tim Reid went on to a short lived sitcom that was set in new 
orleans.  In it he inherited a bar.  it was a good show but it didn't last 
unfortunately.

rob atkinson
St. Charles IL




From: "Joseph M. Davis" <Joseph.Davis at cmdconsulting.com>
Reply-To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: [BC] WKRP - The Phone Cops!
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:18:49 -0400

------ 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

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