i had a crush on baily as a kid, but jesus! what a beautiful creature. need more women like her in television, not kardashian boob jobs and silicon lips.
Jan Smithers sat behind me in highschool. She and her sister were the most beautiful girls in our school. I had such a crush on her. Its 2022 i hope she is alive and well . I would love to speak to her. She should be 72. God bless her she was totally sweet, a total beauty who was not stuck up.
@@leezurligen227 Give me a freaking break. LMAO! It was obviously a typo that I didn't catch. I know her last name is Smithers. Nothing worse than a smart elect spell checker. 😂
They had one of the best theme songs in television history. Over 40 years later I can still sing the entire song from memory. As close as I ever got to Cincinnati.
Too bad. The Queen City is special. We used to go to King's Island every summer and my dad would take me to see the Cincinnati Reds many years. Skyline chili is the best.
I watched this show as a kid. My sister and I loved it. I was totally floored when as an adult I was in the Greater Cincinnati area tuning the radio around when I heard, "This is WKRP in Cincinnati" I was like, It's real!
This review really brought back some fond memories. I was 12 when it came out. Bailey Quarters was one of my first actress crush's and she never got enough screen time.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but today's date needs to be in the Comment Section. Howard Hesseman, "Dr. Johnny Fever" passed today, at the age of 81. Booger.
Growing up in the Cincinnati area, of course, this show was extremely popular around here. But then, a lot of those ensemble cast shows were great. You often felt like the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.
Bailey was my Favorite. She played a Beautiful Women with Brains. I Love Smart women. She also probably wound up being the Highest paid member of the cast. In order to pay for Loni Andersons salary demands. The studio offered Bailey less money per episode and gave her royalties for if the show became syndicated. As you know the show was more popular in Re runs than when on the air originally.
Interesting, I never knew this. Yeah she definitely got the last laugh taking the back end. It probably seemed like a bad idea in the early 80s but it was likely the best contract of any of them.
She was beautiful before this show when she played Devola in "Where the Lilies Bloom" with Rance Howard and Harry Dean Stanton. This was I believe around 1974. She portrayed a teenage mountain girl with her head in the clouds and fooled everyone in the end by showing how much sense she really had. Great actress!
Thank goodness for repeats. Me TV is running WKRP on Saturday or Sunday late afternoons. I wish Ya'll would have talked about a few EPS. The Who concert and afterwards was a great one, also when Fever told off Carlton's Mother when she wanted to change the format to talk radio. Was a great one too.
I was just talking about the Who episode yesterday. Very cool of them to break the reality wall and address a real life local tragedy. Every sitcom had their episodes about drugs and domestic violence and child molesters and all the other PSA stuff, but WKRP was rare in how they used an actual event that happened, and did it tastefully. That was only like halfway though the first season too, daring for a comedy show.
One of my favorite episodes and memorable episodes, was when the cop was getting Johnny fever and Venus fly trap to get drunk on air. The more Johnny fever drank the quicker he became, which was totally pissing the cop off🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for this! It was indepth and hilarious. How you dubbed the "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles" swearing scene with Jive talk from "Airplane!": GOLD!
This reminds me of my Daddy, he loved this show when I was little. I really miss him - God Bless his soul. I wish they would do a remake, these were so funny! 🙏🏻✝✨
Same here, almost! My late older sister was blind and mentally disabled. But she loved this show, and could memorize the dialogue nearly word-for-word. We had fun watching it and talking about the show and our favorite characters and episodes years later! It was one of the many special moments that we had with each other. R.I.P. Renee!
Ah, Bailey! Always the stunner on this show. Reason I watched the show. Well that, & because the show was funny as all hell. But Bailey, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad I have the whole series on dvd. Now I can see Bailey whenever I want. And that's a lot. I'm one lucky ass sumbitch!!! lol
@@MikeKilo1969 Yeah, I never much cared for the blonde. Then again I was never really much into blondes to begin with especially her. Too me, she struck me as being so stuck on herself & being such a phony & you could tell that, just by her demeanor. Nah, for me it's Jan Smithers ALL THE WAY. I always picture her standing in front of a bedroom window with one of those oversized short sleeve shirts going down to her knees with the early morning sun glistening over her shoulders through the window. Now THAT'S an image that's SWEET! And thank my country cousin out west for getting me the whole WKRP dvd series & complete with ALL ORIGINAL music for my Xmas present a few years ago. Don't know how she pulled that one off, but that was SWEET too. I'm one lucky S.O.B. lol About the only blondes I really DO like are Donna Douglas (deceased) & of course Judy Landers. Her sister Audrey Landers is a HOTTIE too! Myself though, I love my redheads. Just love their short hot tempers. Just don't piss em off though! lol
@@MikeKilo1969 Hey, here's some more food for thought in regards to Jan Smithers. I just watched a video here with Gary Sandy who played Andy Travis on WKRP & he said about Jan, "She's a beautiful woman & though couldn't tell it by the wardrobe she wore on the show, she was STACKED!" Of course I already knew this. Just go back & watch that episode where WKRP played WPIG in that softball game. Just look at that red WKRP shirt Jan had on. A feller would have to be blind not to see just how STACKED Jan really was. lol But all kidding aside, she really was the cats meow in my opinion. Damn was she ever might the purdy one. And thanks to my dvd set, I Have Jan all to myself. Talk about one lucky sumbitch, that I am! lol
I was in radio in the '70s in Salina, Kansas, and I loved this show because it was so accurate! The cast actually mirrored everyone on KSKG, the station I worked for -- I wrote ad copy and did voiceovers -- so I totally identified with Bailey! I even dressed like her -- uncanny!
I spent a couple of weeks in Salina Kansas one weekend in September 1973 and listened to that station. I’m now in NYC retired and thinking of going back.
These videos are FANTASTIC! Thanks so much for doing them! Also, I’ve decided that the next time anyone questions my blackness, I’ll lay ‘em out with Howard Hesseman’s “Fellow Baby” bit at 18:25 ! ✊🏾😎
Hugh Wilson, creator of WKRP, spoke at the spring 1981 graduation ceremonies at the University of Florida. I know this because I was one of the people in cap-and-gown that day. Hugh Wilson had a UF degree in journalism from 1964.
I use love beetle juice 🥤. Especially the cartoon. Brings me back to my childhood. I love different strokes to specially specially Arnold Jackson, What you talk about Willis?😅😅❤❤😅😅😊😊
The first time I noticed Howard was when he was a hippy on another cult classic, Billy Jack. And I remember watching the Different Strokes episode with Gordon and how disturbing it was to watch. He played it brilliantly, but a pretty rough topic.
Fun facts: After WKRP's last airing, its time slot was replaced with the second Bob Newhart show, "Newhart", which ran another 8 years. The one where he dreamed he ran an inn in Vermont. All three, including the original Bob Newhart, were by Mary Tyler Moore productions. WKRP was shot on the same soundstage as the original Mary Tyler Moore Show.
What a great show that was. Gordon Jump played down the social interactions. Even though it was a role he did not want to offend the members and the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. A class guy all around.
WKRP CINCINNATI and TAXI 1. In WKRP, in the Thanksgiving Episode when the turkeys were dropped from the helicopter. 2. In Taxi when Reverend Jim was taking his driver's license exam. "What does a yellow light mean"? Response: "Slow Down". Both these shows had EPIC episodes.
11:30 She was so funny in Farris Buller's Day off. When she is pulling all the pencils out of her hair, that started out as an on set joke. Someone challenged her to see how many pencils she could put in her hair without them being seen. I think it was quite a large number. Maybe over 10.
I use to love this show as a kid. The opening theme song made me nostalgic, even back then. Like a tale of those who had gone before me and a forshadowing of life to come. 🎶"Baby, if you ever wonder, wonder what ever became of me..." 🎶
Here's a little trivia on Les Nessman........the spelling is a typo known to we old newsmen.....miss the W on the keyboard and you are likely to hit the S which sits right under it on the qwerty board.....its an insider joke to the real newsmen who could also type. Yer welcome
Bailey was exceptionally beautiful 😍
i had a crush on baily as a kid, but jesus! what a beautiful creature. need more women like her in television, not kardashian boob jobs and silicon lips.
I loved Bailey so much more than Jennifer. Same thing with Gilligan's island, I liked Maryanne so much more than Ginger.
Bailey was gorgeous.
She still is, at 73.
And her voice was like a rose petal on our ears…so soft, so feminine.
Jan Smithers sat behind me in highschool. She and her sister were the most beautiful girls in our school. I had such a crush on her. Its 2022 i hope she is alive and well . I would love to speak to her. She should be 72. God bless her she was totally sweet, a total beauty who was not stuck up.
Jan Smithers was drop dead gorgeous. I had the biggest crush on her.
My mom and I watched this show every week. She laughed so hard when Johnny Fever played air guitar. Howard Hesseman was a great actor. May he RIP.
'As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.'
Still the funniest Thanksgiving special episode ever.
"They are hitting the ground like bags of wet cement", LMAO still today when I here that routine
Apparently that was based on a real event in the 50's...
Just about the funniest episode ever of any series.😂😂😂
@@theboyisnotright6312: I watched that episode the night it aired back in 1978. I laughed so hard I nearly injured myself. What a great show!
@@heywardmorgan7699 Actually they can fly for short distances.
Love Jan Smithers since I first saw her in person in Vail, CO. She's even more beautiful in person. ❤️
Yet you don’t know how to spell her name?
@@leezurligen227 Give me a freaking break. LMAO! It was obviously a typo that I didn't catch. I know her last name is Smithers. Nothing worse than a smart elect spell checker. 😂
@@donaldholderdoc2910 Elect?
@@leezurligen227 That was a deliberate pun to see just how petty some will be.
@@donaldholderdoc2910 Sorry, that’s not a pun.
I remember this show too I love married with children, too. I used to watch it all the time, diing with laughter.😂😂😅❤❤❤
They had one of the best theme songs in television history. Over 40 years later I can still sing the entire song from memory. As close as I ever got to Cincinnati.
Too bad. The Queen City is special. We used to go to King's Island every summer and my dad would take me to see the Cincinnati Reds many years. Skyline chili is the best.
The show should have won all kinds of awards.
That rockin outro theme though, that was something else!
@@kimr45 With non-sensical lyrics.
Very first Major League Baseball game I saw was in 1963 at Crosley Field. Sandy Koufax pitched. Pete Rose was a rookie and got two hits.
I watched this show as a kid. My sister and I loved it.
I was totally floored when as an adult I was in the Greater Cincinnati area tuning the radio around when I heard, "This is WKRP in Cincinnati"
I was like, It's real!
This review really brought back some fond memories. I was 12 when it came out. Bailey Quarters was one of my first actress crush's and she never got enough screen time.
I'll bet you were a fan of Mary Ann, too.
@@crankychris2 You got it!!
@@crankychris2 Heidi from Home Improvements "Tool Time" also a favorite.
@@crankychris2 Wasn’t everyone a fan of Mary Ann?
They were all fine actors.
"Herb will you quit picking on Les!" Is still one of the best lines in television history🤣
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but today's date needs to be in the Comment Section.
Howard Hesseman, "Dr. Johnny Fever" passed today, at the age of 81.
Booger.
Not everyday you can look at your grandmother and say, wow she was HOT !!!!
@@sparkyrunner4283 You reply is misplaced.
@@jakeornot6306 shut up
Growing up in the Cincinnati area, of course, this show was extremely popular around here. But then, a lot of those ensemble cast shows were great. You often felt like the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.
the golden days of TV....
RIP Dr Johnny Fever
Bailey was my Favorite. She played a Beautiful Women with Brains. I Love Smart women. She also probably wound up being the Highest paid member of the cast. In order to pay for Loni Andersons salary demands. The studio offered Bailey less money per episode and gave her royalties for if the show became syndicated. As you know the show was more popular in Re runs than when on the air originally.
Interesting, I never knew this. Yeah she definitely got the last laugh taking the back end. It probably seemed like a bad idea in the early 80s but it was likely the best contract of any of them.
She was beautiful before this show when she played Devola in "Where the Lilies Bloom" with Rance Howard and Harry Dean Stanton. This was I believe around 1974. She portrayed a teenage mountain girl with her head in the clouds and fooled everyone in the end by showing how much sense she really had. Great actress!
Thank goodness for repeats. Me TV is running WKRP on Saturday or Sunday late afternoons. I wish Ya'll would have talked about a few EPS. The Who concert and afterwards was a great one, also when Fever told off Carlton's Mother when she wanted to change the format to talk radio. Was a great one too.
Thank goodness for moving pictures
I was just talking about the Who episode yesterday. Very cool of them to break the reality wall and address a real life local tragedy. Every sitcom had their episodes about drugs and domestic violence and child molesters and all the other PSA stuff, but WKRP was rare in how they used an actual event that happened, and did it tastefully. That was only like halfway though the first season too, daring for a comedy show.
@@D-Fens_1632 Strange as it sounds, I was very proud of WKRP. I never missed an episode after that. No matter how silly it was.
One of my favorite episodes and memorable episodes, was when the cop was getting Johnny fever and Venus fly trap to get drunk on air. The more Johnny fever drank the quicker he became, which was totally pissing the cop off🤣🤣🤣
One of my favourite shows from the 70s. I watched it every week. Dr Johnny was my fave
I never missed an episode as a kid or when they started showing reruns. Best show ever!
WKRP rules!RIP Johnny Fever will always be missed
Robin
R.I.P. Dr Johnny Fever.
I LOVE this show!! It was, and still is, AWESOME!
2022 and WKRP is still the best thing to be casted from Cincinnati
Less Nessman and the turkey drop 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of my all time favorites wish reruns will come back
12:22 .... be still, my beating heart
Thank you for this! It was indepth and hilarious. How you dubbed the "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles" swearing scene with Jive talk from "Airplane!": GOLD!
I had this playing in the background, so I wasn’t actually watching when I heard the Airplane bit…nearly did an ACTUAL spit take! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jan was the real babe on that show!
The joke about throwing matches at Herb's Polyester suit. Although, the material is slow to ignite, once ignited, severe melting and dripping occurs.
This reminds me of my Daddy, he loved this show when I was little. I really miss him - God Bless his soul. I wish they would do a remake, these were so funny! 🙏🏻✝✨
Redo would not do. First is last, I fear. But you have the memory. 74 and from your dad's generation, and he appreciated having you, too.
I agree. It was the right show at the right time with the right people with the right scripts. I don't think it could be duplicated.
Same here, almost! My late older sister was blind and mentally disabled. But she loved this show, and could memorize the dialogue nearly word-for-word. We had fun watching it and talking about the show and our favorite characters and episodes years later! It was one of the many special moments that we had with each other. R.I.P. Renee!
RIP Fever.
Ah, Bailey! Always the stunner on this show. Reason I watched the show. Well that, & because the show was funny as all hell. But Bailey, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad I have the whole series on dvd. Now I can see Bailey whenever I want. And that's a lot. I'm one lucky ass sumbitch!!! lol
I was always on Team Smithers, despite everybody else being on Team Anderson.
@@MikeKilo1969 Think it's safe to say Team Smithers especially Jan herself made that phony blonde look like rin tin tin. Just saying.
@@allancove4483 😂 agreed!
@@MikeKilo1969 Yeah, I never much cared for the blonde. Then again I was never really much into blondes to begin with especially her. Too me, she struck me as being so stuck on herself & being such a phony & you could tell that, just by her demeanor. Nah, for me it's Jan Smithers ALL THE WAY. I always picture her standing in front of a bedroom window with one of those oversized short sleeve shirts going down to her knees with the early morning sun glistening over her shoulders through the window. Now THAT'S an image that's SWEET! And thank my country cousin out west for getting me the whole WKRP dvd series & complete with ALL ORIGINAL music for my Xmas present a few years ago. Don't know how she pulled that one off, but that was SWEET too. I'm one lucky S.O.B. lol About the only blondes I really DO like are Donna Douglas (deceased) & of course Judy Landers. Her sister Audrey Landers is a HOTTIE too! Myself though, I love my redheads. Just love their short hot tempers. Just don't piss em off though! lol
@@MikeKilo1969 Hey, here's some more food for thought in regards to Jan Smithers. I just watched a video here with Gary Sandy who played Andy Travis on WKRP & he said about Jan, "She's a beautiful woman & though couldn't tell it by the wardrobe she wore on the show, she was STACKED!" Of course I already knew this. Just go back & watch that episode where WKRP played WPIG in that softball game. Just look at that red WKRP shirt Jan had on. A feller would have to be blind not to see just how STACKED Jan really was. lol But all kidding aside, she really was the cats meow in my opinion. Damn was she ever might the purdy one. And thanks to my dvd set, I Have Jan all to myself. Talk about one lucky sumbitch, that I am! lol
I was in radio in the '70s in Salina, Kansas, and I loved this show because it was so accurate! The cast actually mirrored everyone on KSKG, the station I worked for -- I wrote ad copy and did voiceovers -- so I totally identified with Bailey! I even dressed like her -- uncanny!
Uncanny...I lived in Salina and named my daughter Bailey
Were you also stunningly beautiful? Oh, why ask, of COURSE you were!
I spent a couple of weeks in Salina Kansas one weekend in September 1973 and listened to that station. I’m now in NYC retired and thinking of going back.
I was in small town radio in the 80's and 90's. Everyone always asked me "is working in radio REALLY like that?"
Yes! Yes it was!
I’d even bet guys had a crush on you like Bailey. 😁
There are no shows on TV like this today.
These videos are FANTASTIC! Thanks so much for doing them! Also, I’ve decided that the next time anyone questions my blackness, I’ll lay ‘em out with Howard Hesseman’s “Fellow Baby” bit at 18:25 ! ✊🏾😎
"As god as my witness, i thought turkeys could fly!"
Many legends. Gordon Jump is the man!!!
Hugh Wilson, creator of WKRP, spoke at the spring 1981 graduation ceremonies at the University of Florida. I know this because I was one of the people in cap-and-gown that day. Hugh Wilson had a UF degree in journalism from 1964.
I was fortunate to work for 5/3rd Bank at Fountain Square and this series always puts me in my happy place.
My favorite KRP moment was Mr. Carlson mistaking cocaine for foot powder and smacking his foot with his shoe. Comedy gold!
My favorite episode also, I laughed so hard when he mistook the coke for foot powder.
"I've got a monkey on my foot!" That line had me rolling, lol.
Bailey over Jennifer every day
I was always on Team Smithers, despite everybody else being on Team Anderson.
Bailey, all day, every day. She sets my shirt on fire.
Bailey and Mary Ann, Always top choice.
Jan Smithers was my first love. lol
RIP Johnny
Johnny: Wow! Look what I'm doing with teenage boys! Lol!😆😆
RIP Howard Hesseman.
Excellent work. Loved this show.
I use love beetle juice 🥤. Especially the cartoon. Brings me back to my childhood. I love different strokes to specially specially Arnold Jackson, What you talk about Willis?😅😅❤❤😅😅😊😊
Jennifer & Wonder Woman on the same show? Oh my my.
September 21, 1978 I was not even a memory. Still love the show though. WKRP and shows like it in the era gave honest to goodness laughs.
Very funny, thank you! And well researched.
Howard Hessman was also in Billy Jack
Loved this show along with Barney miller
The first time I noticed Howard was when he was a hippy on another cult classic, Billy Jack.
And I remember watching the Different Strokes episode with Gordon and how disturbing it was to watch. He played it brilliantly, but a pretty rough topic.
I shall always miss Gordon Jump (The Big Guy) and Frank Bonner {Herb) and, of course, Howard Hessman (Dr Johnny Fever).
When Bailey was throwing the matches.....her look, her hair, just gorgeous!
RIP Howard Hesseman
A fun way to start the day! Seeing this great clip
Loved the show RIP to both Frank Bonner and Howard hedsman Frank died last year and Howard died at the end of last month
Bailey Quarters was my favorite on that show. Had a huge crush on Jan Smithers.
Fun facts: After WKRP's last airing, its time slot was replaced with the second Bob Newhart show, "Newhart", which ran another 8 years. The one where he dreamed he ran an inn in Vermont. All three, including the original Bob Newhart, were by Mary Tyler Moore productions. WKRP was shot on the same soundstage as the original Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Rest In Power Dr Johnny
What a great show that was. Gordon Jump played down the social interactions. Even though it was a role he did not want to offend the members and the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. A class guy all around.
I never missed this show. Was hilarious
When I was a teen, I had the hots for Loni Anderson. As I've gotten older, I've come to see Jan as the prettier. Not that it's a competition.
Why not both?😂😂😂. I'm a dirty man😂😂😂
@@theboyisnotright6312 that's just...not right!
I always preferred Jan Smithers. She’s like the girl next door.
Howard Hessman, Frank Bonner, Gordon Jump; gone but not forgotten.
WKRP CINCINNATI and TAXI
1. In WKRP, in the Thanksgiving Episode when the turkeys were dropped from the helicopter.
2. In Taxi when Reverend Jim was taking his driver's license exam. "What does a yellow light mean"? Response: "Slow Down".
Both these shows had EPIC episodes.
Everything about this show was perfect.
Every time I see Mr. Carleson realizes he put cocaine on his foot it breaks me up.
That was my favorite
Oh my God I loved it syndication
Awesome show. Johnny Fever loved his FEVER Additude .
Loni Anderson could never even hold a candle to Bailey
The Bicycle Man was devistating.
I remember Herb saying sex and tasteless in advertising sells. Loved Herb’s polyester outfits and white belt and shoes.
11:30 She was so funny in Farris Buller's Day off. When she is pulling all the pencils out of her hair, that started out as an on set joke. Someone challenged her to see how many pencils she could put in her hair without them being seen.
I think it was quite a large number. Maybe over 10.
This was a great show. as a relocated Buckeye, I give it a thousand thumbs up.!! (Wish I was home.)
Warmed my Heart & reminded of a DJ I knew ! Neal RIP.
I know what happened to Bailey. She came to me in my dreams, and i came to her in my sleep.
I use to love this show as a kid. The opening theme song made me nostalgic, even back then. Like a tale of those who had gone before me and a forshadowing of life to come.
🎶"Baby, if you ever wonder, wonder what ever became of me..." 🎶
Taft highclass of 1967
“Hi are you Bailey Nichols?” “No. Bailey Quarters.”
Loved the show!
Great fun, thanks :-)
My gig at WKTG was fleeting!
,retired deejay, who loved the series, can't wait to see this(even though, I know where most of the cast went). Update: watched and, loved it.
Love this show
The only reason I clicked on this was because YT flicked it up in my face for a week strait. I've never seen it before in my life.
awesome tribute
Love yoir channel
Best times of my life watching the shows Great Piece of Americana and very talented people to pull it off
Curious about why the clip (starting at 2:07 appears to have been flipped left to right?
The thanksgiving skit was pure art. We need more Good comady .
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As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly. (Hilarious)
Here's a little trivia on Les Nessman........the spelling is a typo known to we old newsmen.....miss the W on the keyboard and you are likely to hit the S which sits right under it on the qwerty board.....its an insider joke to the real newsmen who could also type. Yer welcome
Such a good show
Was one of the greats on TV!
This was a hilarious and funny 😅😂but the remake with Richard Sanders who played Les Nesman
I loved Howard on Head of the Class
That picture of Les Nesman looks amazingly like Neil Patrick Harris.🤔
Back when I liked TV.
Howard Hesseman played in the cult classic movie "Billy Jack."
Softball is Baseball, Hardball is Baseball too.
Oh man, Jan Smithers!!!