Q 01/05

In WKRP in Cincinnati's famous Thanksgiving episode, live turkeys are dropped on a shopping mall from what?

A) A hot-air balloon

B) A crop duster

C) A helicopter

D) A rooftop

Answer · why

C) A helicopter

A helicopter carried the birds on screen, but the real promotion behind the story tossed live turkeys off the back of a truck. Station manager Arthur ...

Q 02/05

Which actress earned three Golden Globe nominations as glamorous Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati?

A) Loni Anderson

B) Suzanne Somers

C) Cheryl Ladd

D) Farrah Fawcett

Answer · why

A) Loni Anderson

Loni Anderson was offered the part after producers saw a poster of her in a red swimsuit. She disliked the character as first written and reshaped the...

Q 03/05

Creator Hugh Wilson first wanted which future late-night host to play WKRP program director Andy Travis?

A) Jay Leno

B) David Letterman

C) Garry Shandling

D) Pat Sajak

Answer · why

B) David Letterman

David Letterman was the first pick, but the studio put him in a variety show that lasted three weeks, and Gary Sandy won the part instead.

Q 04/05

WKRP in Cincinnati's episode In Concert dealt with a real hometown crowd tragedy outside a show by which band?

A) Led Zeppelin

B) The Kinks

C) Pink Floyd

D) The Who

Answer · why

D) The Who

The Who were the headliners when eleven fans died in a crush outside Riverfront Coliseum. The episode aired ten weeks later and follows the station st...

Q 05/05

Les Nessman's horrified live report of WKRP's turkey giveaway echoes the famous radio account of which disaster?

A) The Morro Castle

B) Pearl Harbor

C) The Hindenburg

D) The Titanic

Answer · why

C) The Hindenburg

The Hindenburg airship burned in 1937 while reporter Herbert Morrison described it in anguish, and Les borrows his tone as the birds fall. The chaos i...