What a great episode. Watching Bailey grow in ability and confidence is so endearing. She just makes your heart melt. She also is absolutely irresistible. What a gem!!!!
I wanted Bailey... when I was a Grown TEEN, and Jenifer too, but just 1on1 at a time Ladies... This was a great episode. The WKRP Series was a Great run of, "good values for sale by good people in Normal Times".
Thank You, Keith Lambert for posting this!!! What American guy, didn't drool over Jan Smithers?? Absolutely Stunning!!! Why would James Brolin leave her, for Barbara Streisand??? Geeeeeeeeezzzzzz!!!!!
I often asked myself the same question, for what it is worth, he has stated what a good mom she was and it was mostly on him for their marriage coming undone
You can throw Canadian men in there too! I live across the border from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario and I watched WKRP on Detroit television back in the day and was head over heels in love with the Bailey character. It's hard to find anything wrong with Jennifer mind you, but for my tastes, Bailey had it all and even that voice got to me! Easily among the most beautiful women I ever saw.
Babs never did anything personally for me...by looks...and never listened to any of her albums a day in my life! I'd say Jan 's better off and found somebody more deserving of her! She's a sweetheart!
@@wileycoyote64 im.glad he took responsibility. As long as it lessened the pain..I'm sure she healed up too and has since moved past and beyond to a happier marriage and other endeavors.
@@wileycoyote64 I can. Jennifer was ridiculous looking, almost cartoonish. How did anyone think her hair looked good? No wonder there was a hole in the ozone layer- it all went into her ridiculous helmet hair. Seriously, it looks like it was sprayed on. Bailey is hotter, has a better body, she's more interesting, I could go on and on. Go check out Jan Smithers' modelling pics from pre-WKRP days. She's absolutely gorgeous.
Levis and Jeans were the Ohio uniform of the day, well into the 70s and 80s... and beyond. Her body made those Jeans light up, tjfreak..... My jeans became stressed denim during those episodes....
Yup. Tight jeans were just the style at the time. We laugh about it today. Andy looks kinda silly. Bailey rocked a pair of jeans like few women could, then or now.
This was the first episode that Steve Marshall wrote. He had been the PD for radio station KNX in Los Angeles but wanted to write for television. He knew about radio and he figured WKRP would be a series he could write for so he wrote "Bailey's Big Break". When he went over to MTM to drop the script off they knew who he was from KNX and immediately invited him to sit in a writer's meeting with Hugh Wilson and all the writers for the series. Not only did they buy the script, they hired him as a story editor for the next season. So it was actually Steve's Big Break!
Watching WKRP makes me realize how much I loved the 70's and early 80's and how much I detest the time I'm living in now. We haven't gotten better (a little more tolerant sure) but in many ways we have just gotten cruder and stupider
She's beautiful...I love her beautiful letdown hair...I love her brains...good figure..and yes she was a sweetheart! Inside and out, had I beem a straight male in the late 70's and blew into Cincinnati, I'd be romancing Bailey Quarters with flowers for a date...over Jennifer Marlowe(Too fake!)
I work in radio. I work with women. Women are great to work with when they're nice like my coworkers Darcie and Sharon and Mary. Bailey is like them so I'm happy that she got her opportunity :)
Jennifer and bailey both were easy on the eyes. Bailey was over shadowed by a blond bombshell in all the stereotypical ways americans love. The show did everything to reinforce that (notice the highly-desired-by-every-man Jennifer glorification in practically every show. It was a running theme. Im so glad they gave her some redeeming depth of personality characteristics otherwise the character wouldnt have been beloved! Later i realized baileys understated beauty.
They could have made a show of Bailey Quarters sitting at her desk and I would have watched it every week. Jan Smithers was among the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Period.
@@ABCDEFG-bk9gx Loni (as Jennifer) had a "manufactured," "artificially constructed" look to her. Jan (as Bailey) was totally naturally beautiful. One imagines she could be changing the oil in her car and be breathtaking--Jennifer would have to take an hour and a half in the bathroom before walking outside to drive to the Jiffy Lube.
I wish I could travel back in time and date Bailey Quarters.. Also Phoebe Cates.. And Virginia Madison too. We could all go on a road trip together. That would be so nice.
God Less was a buffoon..hard to believe he was only 39 here(making him at least 82 today AND he looked 82 here) I'm 42 today and don't look a day over than 25-30...and dress like it too..the tides sure have turned!
Is it me, or does it sound like Richard Sanders (AKA Les Nessman) sings the opening theme to this show. It is interesting, because the "Packing and Unpacking...Up and Down the Dial" story is basically Andy's. They should have had Gary Sandy sing the theme.
Wish I knew what the frick the closing theme song says...what weirdness! But if course I like the " WKRP in Cincinnati" will return and the MTM cat meowing!
@@davidbrunson8407 The closing theme lyrics are just nonsense vocals. There are no words. I have read that the recording was made with the intention that actual lyrics would replace the nonsense vocals. But it sounded so good, the closing theme was not re-recorded with actual lyrics.
In TV Guide, this was always listed with the info behind the episode as "It's not happy news to Les when Bailey is offered a time slot vacating his broadcast."
Did the writers give a nod at the beginning of the show, to the TV news crew who provided the live coverage of The Beverly Hills Supper Club tragedy? The older I get, the more I catch of these little snippets of Cincinatti/Newport history. That news coverage of the fire was one of the first live cam news reports made in the area, and portrayed the shock of the event.
Their is a connection with WKRP, Head of the class, Growing Pains, The Young Riders, & Starkey and Hutch. If viewers of all these shows know will see the connection.
1950's: Marilyn vs Jackie; I'll take Marilyn 1960's: Ginger vs Mary Ann; I'll take Mary Ann 1970's Jennifer vs Bailey; I'll take Bailey 1980's Diane vs Rebecca; I'll take Diane 1990's Monica vs Rachel; I'll take Monica
No, it's a singer named Steve Carlisle. But the lyrics are basically Andy's story, even though Andy was the PD and therefore didn't get to "live on the air." However, some PDs actually do airshifts, too. Radio is notoriously unstable and you really have to love it to stay in it. You will likely change jobs many times during a career. I think the original idea was that Andy would be the main character, but the ensemble was so strong that the writers developed all the characters well and gave them all a chance to shine. The show was all the stronger for it.
@therealniksongs interesting, did not know that. After listening to this episode, it just struck me that Les's voice is very close to that of the singer, at least to me anyway. I remember watching is as a kid and I enjoyed the show. Extra hilarious factoid is the Thanksgiving turkey bombing was actually a true story of a station also in Ohio, late 60s that did drop domestic turkeys thinking they could fly like wild ones can...
Smoking hot Bailey Quarters [Johnny's on air apology episode. Looking up at Bailey for support] ... "Hello, and good afternoon, Cincinnati. I sure would like to take you home and kiss you all over in the dark..."
It's a great show, but not reality. Anyone in radio can be fired at any time for no reason. I have worked in the business. I still love the show. Our secretary at one station was the smartest one in the building.
Nothing on TV is reality. Especially not the "reality shows." But WKRP was fresh and original in its use of a radio station and all that goes with it as the setting for a TV sitcom. The idea was truly inspired and allowed for some great ensemble work, like Cheers did a few years later.
@@theotterguy Yeah, I think that's also deliberate. This station was so far behind the times they were still using little three or five inch open reel decks for auditions instead of cassettes, which by the late 70s were very common. I can imagine a little Wollensak...or, given their budget, maybe a Realistic...
Probably. But that would have been too much like "real" radio. And Mr. Carlson was too nice a guy to do that, haha. His mama wanted the station to continue to lose money as a tax write off, lol, and it was kinda his job to see that they did, whether he knew it or not, which tells you what she thought of her son's management skills. So glad they stayed--they provided an awful lot of laffs!
Too nice a guy. Never wanted to offend anyone. Scared to death of Jennifer, haha...Funny as hell as played by Gordon Jump, who never got to fix a Maytag, either....
It seems like things were better before women got involved, and I'm female. I just can't think of a single thing a woman has improved. Look at how nice everyone used to be.
"Employers need to hire and promote the best person for the job no matter what gender, race or religion they happen to be." It's everything but that, unless your a chameleon & an amazing game player & "fit in" your toast.
Les really ruined this show for me with this episode. I had thought he was a great character but he was such a jacka$$ in this episode I can barely stand to hear him or see him now! Oh well, maybe I’ll get over it.
This was a great show but the intro was terrible. I remember when the show was running the network advertisements for the show were better than the shows intro. The intro would be appropriate if it was about an easy listening station, but it was about a rock station. Taxi was another show that had a bad intro. An example of a great intro of that time was the one for Magnum P.I.
What a great episode. Watching Bailey grow in ability and confidence is so endearing. She just makes your heart melt. She also is absolutely irresistible. What a gem!!!!
I wanted Bailey... when I was a Grown TEEN, and Jenifer too, but just 1on1 at a time Ladies... This was a great episode. The WKRP Series was a Great run of, "good values for sale by good people in Normal Times".
This show had a heart. Bailey Quarters forever.
Bailey is sweet, smart and sexy for sure. Too bad life isn't like a TV show.
Thank You, Keith Lambert for posting this!!! What American guy, didn't drool over Jan Smithers?? Absolutely Stunning!!! Why would James Brolin leave her, for Barbara Streisand??? Geeeeeeeeezzzzzz!!!!!
I often asked myself the same question, for what it is worth, he has stated what a good mom she was and it was mostly on him for their marriage coming undone
money, fame
You can throw Canadian men in there too! I live across the border from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario and I watched WKRP on Detroit television back in the day and was head over heels in love with the Bailey character. It's hard to find anything wrong with Jennifer mind you, but for my tastes, Bailey had it all and even that voice got to me! Easily among the most beautiful women I ever saw.
Babs never did anything personally for me...by looks...and never listened to any of her albums a day in my life! I'd say Jan 's better off and found somebody more deserving of her! She's a sweetheart!
@@wileycoyote64 im.glad he took responsibility. As long as it lessened the pain..I'm sure she healed up too and has since moved past and beyond to a happier marriage and other endeavors.
Bailey was wayyyyy prettier and hotter for sure! And cute? Omg who couldn't love her!😘😘😘😘
Not at the time.
But yes… underrated hottie
Bailey was my favorite too, But you cant deny Jennifer was a bombshell
Two tens made a twenty in those days... yummy
I did 💓
@@wileycoyote64 I can. Jennifer was ridiculous looking, almost cartoonish. How did anyone think her hair looked good? No wonder there was a hole in the ozone layer- it all went into her ridiculous helmet hair. Seriously, it looks like it was sprayed on. Bailey is hotter, has a better body, she's more interesting, I could go on and on. Go check out Jan Smithers' modelling pics from pre-WKRP days. She's absolutely gorgeous.
She lit up jeans like no one else.
Levis and Jeans were the Ohio uniform of the day, well into the 70s and 80s... and beyond. Her body made those Jeans light up, tjfreak..... My jeans became stressed denim during those episodes....
Yup. Tight jeans were just the style at the time. We laugh about it today. Andy looks kinda silly. Bailey rocked a pair of jeans like few women could, then or now.
@@bongodave13Andy was HOT! 😁 (imo)
This was the first episode that Steve Marshall wrote. He had been the PD for radio station KNX in Los Angeles but wanted to write for television. He knew about radio and he figured WKRP would be a series he could write for so he wrote "Bailey's Big Break". When he went over to MTM to drop the script off they knew who he was from KNX and immediately invited him to sit in a writer's meeting with Hugh Wilson and all the writers for the series. Not only did they buy the script, they hired him as a story editor for the next season. So it was actually Steve's Big Break!
Bailey was SO hot!
Its the whole ginger vs. Mary anne, Chrissy vs Janet, even Betty vs Wilma, thing. But Bailey was Somkin Hot!
John Kyle Had a girlfriend who could almost be her twin! And when she wore her glasses I'd call her the naughty librarian!😂😂😂😂😋
Schmedly Whiplash whos John Kyle. And whos the sexy librarian ??!!!.
Oops never mind.. i see that its Directed at John not John had a gf!!!
Go google her pre-WKRP modelling pics.
Watching WKRP makes me realize how much I loved the 70's and early 80's and how much I detest the time I'm living in now. We haven't gotten better (a little more tolerant sure) but in many ways we have just gotten cruder and stupider
Those were good times man...
Yeah ... between 30 and 40 years ago ... I was ... like ... 30 or 40 years younger than I am now ...
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@@BobSmith-dk8nw ... Lol ... Right!
@Shao Yu Mai Wang Trans is not extreme if you are trans. It's all perspective, and yours is not more important than anyone else's.
@Shao Yu Mai Wang I responded to you. Someone else must have flagged it.
I think Bailey is awesome, she's a nice person :) She just needs to be more confident in herself.
She's beautiful...I love her beautiful letdown hair...I love her brains...good figure..and yes she was a sweetheart! Inside and out, had I beem a straight male in the late 70's and blew into Cincinnati, I'd be romancing Bailey Quarters with flowers for a date...over Jennifer Marlowe(Too fake!)
@@davidbrunson8407 Jennifer is as quality as Bailey.
I work in radio. I work with women. Women are great to work with when they're nice like my coworkers Darcie and Sharon and Mary. Bailey is like them so I'm happy that she got her opportunity :)
Les moved up to leadership role there at the end. Delegating busywork has its rewards too.
I always wondered why Jan Smithers wasn't featured in more episodes of WKRP.
You could take Jennifer, I would take Bailey anytime. ☺️😉
Just like we would all take Mary Ann over Ginger, we'd also take Bailey over Jennifer.
I've heard many people say the same thing.
So would I!! Bailey over Jennifer any day and Jenny is awful hot herself but Bailey was just a sweetheart ❤
Jennifer is the woman every man fantasize but Bailey is the one they will ultimately settle down with.
Jennifer and bailey both were easy on the eyes. Bailey was over shadowed by a blond bombshell in all the stereotypical ways americans love.
The show did everything to reinforce that (notice the highly-desired-by-every-man Jennifer glorification in practically every show. It was a running theme. Im so glad they gave her some redeeming depth of personality characteristics otherwise the character wouldnt have been beloved!
Later i realized baileys understated beauty.
Bailey was my absolute favorite, I love her! ❤❤❤❤
They could have made a show of Bailey Quarters sitting at her desk and I would have watched it every week.
Jan Smithers was among the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Period.
No woman that I ever seen on TV, filled out a pair of jean like Jan Smithers.she was a doll.Loni Anderson couldn't hold a candle to her.no contest.
They're both hot.
@@ABCDEFG-bk9gx Loni (as Jennifer) had a "manufactured," "artificially constructed" look to her. Jan (as Bailey) was totally naturally beautiful. One imagines she could be changing the oil in her car and be breathtaking--Jennifer would have to take an hour and a half in the bathroom before walking outside to drive to the Jiffy Lube.
17:55 "Anybody here flown the Concorde?" I love Mr. Carlson... :-) (Notice the nose on the plane is tilted down like the Concorde). lol
And it nose dived down like it was crashing ;-)
Gordon Jump is criminally underrated as a comedic actor. Just perfect for the role of Mr Carlson.
lol "i do everything on the basis of sex"
This show was hillarious, yet they touched on a lot of issues of the times.
No one filled put a pair of jeans like Gary Sandy💙💙💙
Or a pair of speedos when he had to don one for a photoshoot with Jennifer.
I wish I could travel back in time and date Bailey Quarters.. Also Phoebe Cates.. And Virginia Madison too. We could all go on a road trip together. That would be so nice.
Calm down...
Sounds like this guy's havin' a wet dream
@Sekar Kuno You have excellent sophisticated taste.
Bailey is HOT
It's interesting she was almost 30 when this show started. She seems much younger.
What Les is really upset about is that she's a much better newsman than he is or will ever be.
God Less was a buffoon..hard to believe he was only 39 here(making him at least 82 today AND he looked 82 here) I'm 42 today and don't look a day over than 25-30...and dress like it too..the tides sure have turned!
Is it me, or does it sound like Richard Sanders (AKA Les Nessman) sings the opening theme to this show. It is interesting, because the "Packing and Unpacking...Up and Down the Dial" story is basically Andy's. They should have had Gary Sandy sing the theme.
Richard Sanders didn't sing the opening theme.
Steve Carlisle sang the song.
Wish I knew what the frick the closing theme song says...what weirdness! But if course I like the " WKRP in Cincinnati" will return and the MTM cat meowing!
@@davidbrunson8407 The closing theme lyrics are just nonsense vocals. There are no words. I have read that the recording was made with the intention that actual lyrics would replace the nonsense vocals. But it sounded so good, the closing theme was not re-recorded with actual lyrics.
She was a cute leaving as well as coming. Beautiful is an understatement.
Herb and Les-the oddest bromance ever. But too funny.
In TV Guide, this was always listed with the info behind the episode as "It's not happy news to Les when Bailey is offered a time slot vacating his broadcast."
I❤Bailey Quarters (Jan Smithers )
You know from a female view, Andy filled out a pair of jeans awfully good.😊😅❤
Did the writers give a nod at the beginning of the show, to the TV news crew who provided the live coverage of The Beverly Hills Supper Club tragedy? The older I get, the more I catch of these little snippets of Cincinatti/Newport history. That news coverage of the fire was one of the first live cam news reports made in the area, and portrayed the shock of the event.
Bailey Bailey Bailey
Every radio air personality looked up to her
Bailey sure has a nice backside too!
I Will Always Love You, Jan Smithers, As Bailey Quarters
Their is a connection with WKRP, Head of the class, Growing Pains, The Young Riders, & Starkey and Hutch. If viewers of all these shows know will see the connection.
I see there's an advertising poster promoting Smokey Robinson's "Where There's Smoke" album containing the Top 5 hit "Cruisin' "
1950's: Marilyn vs Jackie; I'll take Marilyn
1960's: Ginger vs Mary Ann; I'll take Mary Ann
1970's Jennifer vs Bailey; I'll take Bailey
1980's Diane vs Rebecca; I'll take Diane
1990's Monica vs Rachel; I'll take Monica
1990's? Phoebe, no contest.
Cheryl Ladd or Jaqueline Smith?
You videos are great thank you. One thing however, they seem to be zoomed in and I can't adjust the picture. Any suggestions?
Love Les.
Out of curiosity how many people think that they would have gotten more advertisers because of the change
God i Loved her!!!
Trivia question: How many people here got the joke about "Portrait of a Teenage Runaway Sex-Crazed Hustling Housewife?"
… and the coffee commercial.
Had "Lifetime" written all over it, though the network may have a different name now.
I haven't watched it for a really, really long time.
@@markcraven8386: It was a parody of the TV movie "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway." www.imdb.com/title/tt0074376/reference
Still sounds just like a Lifetime movie.
Makes more sense for Johnny to dis a network or media as opposed to a particular movie. At least, to me.
@@markcraven8386: Well, this was 1979 and Lifetime debuted in 1984.
5:59 F I N E!
I'm guessing this aired in early December 1979.
7:53 - Dennis Miller.
My mom named me after Bailey.
I Wonder how many play this twice?
Dumb question that has taken 40 ish years to notice... But is Les the person who actually sings the theme song?
No, it's a singer named Steve Carlisle. But the lyrics are basically Andy's story, even though Andy was the PD and therefore didn't get to "live on the air." However, some PDs actually do airshifts, too. Radio is notoriously unstable and you really have to love it to stay in it. You will likely change jobs many times during a career.
I think the original idea was that Andy would be the main character, but the ensemble was so strong that the writers developed all the characters well and gave them all a chance to shine. The show was all the stronger for it.
@therealniksongs interesting, did not know that. After listening to this episode, it just struck me that Les's voice is very close to that of the singer, at least to me anyway.
I remember watching is as a kid and I enjoyed the show.
Extra hilarious factoid is the Thanksgiving turkey bombing was actually a true story of a station also in Ohio, late 60s that did drop domestic turkeys thinking they could fly like wild ones can...
Smoking hot Bailey Quarters [Johnny's on air apology episode. Looking up at Bailey for support] ... "Hello, and good afternoon, Cincinnati. I sure would like to take you home and kiss you all over in the dark..."
Very funny and absolutely what so many of us were thinking whenever we saw Bailey....
Yes, that is indeed, Les Nessman, Singing the Original Theme Song
No,it was Steve Carlisle.
Mr.Lambert
Hmmmm
Would you show these good people the dog kennels please
YT must be changing bringing up the past from 7 to 15 yrs ago
Watching these as an adult and I see Les as quirky and more an office arse.
4:02 - 4:26 Oh Yeah!
It's a great show, but not reality. Anyone in radio can be fired at any time for no reason. I have worked in the business. I still love the show. Our secretary at one station was the smartest one in the building.
Nothing on TV is reality. Especially not the "reality shows." But WKRP was fresh and original in its use of a radio station and all that goes with it as the setting for a TV sitcom. The idea was truly inspired and allowed for some great ensemble work, like Cheers did a few years later.
Ginger or Maryann, Janet or Chrissy. Always the brunette.
Poor Les again
Jennifer's a Cadillac Bailey a. Firebird
Poor Les
Around 9:32 , that had better not be the Empire State Building outside the window.
I looked it up. The Empire State design was partly inspired by Cincis tallest bldg, The Carew. Hmm....
Umm.. that wasn't a cassette tape lol
You weren't around for reel to reel?
@@theotterguy Yeah, I think that's also deliberate. This station was so far behind the times they were still using little three or five inch open reel decks for auditions instead of cassettes, which by the late 70s were very common. I can imagine a little Wollensak...or, given their budget, maybe a Realistic...
Les and Herb should have been fired the day Travis arrived.
Probably. But that would have been too much like "real" radio. And Mr. Carlson was too nice a guy to do that, haha. His mama wanted the station to continue to lose money as a tax write off, lol, and it was kinda his job to see that they did, whether he knew it or not, which tells you what she thought of her son's management skills. So glad they stayed--they provided an awful lot of laffs!
Loni plastic Jan fantastic
I never liked Les's character.
Your coffee stinks!
AC was such a wuss. he could never make a decision.
Too nice a guy. Never wanted to offend anyone. Scared to death of Jennifer, haha...Funny as hell as played by Gordon Jump, who never got to fix a Maytag, either....
I liked Bailey ,,, I would take her anytime over Loni Anderson
It seems like things were better before women got involved, and I'm female. I just can't think of a single thing a woman has improved. Look at how nice everyone used to be.
"Employers need to hire and promote the best person for the job no matter what gender, race or religion they happen to be." It's everything but that, unless your a chameleon & an amazing game player & "fit in" your toast.
Just stand still and don't squirm was good and less would bore me
Les really ruined this show for me with this episode. I had thought he was a great character but he was such a jacka$$ in this episode I can barely stand to hear him or see him now! Oh well, maybe I’ll get over it.
Les was SO threatened by Bailey. Les thought he was Edward R. Murrow when he was really more like that douchebag Stephen Colbert.
240p? How generous of you.
This was a great show but the intro was terrible. I remember when the show was running the network advertisements for the show were better than the shows intro. The intro would be appropriate if it was about an easy listening station, but it was about a rock station. Taxi was another show that had a bad intro. An example of a great intro of that time was the one for Magnum P.I.
They should've just fired his incompetent ass.
😂❤😂