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List Of WKRP In Cincinnati Episodes
''WKRP in Cincinnati'' is an American situation comedy television series that features the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and originally aired on CBS from September 1978 to April 1982. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1978–79) *Producer: Hugh Wilson *Story editors: Tom Chehak, Bill Dial, Blake Hunter Season 2 (1979–80) *Executive producer: Hugh Wilson *Producers: Bill Dial, Rod Daniel *Executive story consultant: Blake Hunter *Story editors: Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall, Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei Season 3 (1980–81) *Executive producer: Hugh Wilson *Supervising producer: Rod Daniel *Producers: Blake Hunter, Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei *Story consultants: Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall *Story editor: Lissa Levin Season 4 (1981–82) *Executive producer: Hugh Wilson *Producers: Blake Hunter, Peter Torokvei, Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall *Story consu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKRP In Cincinnati
''WKRP in Cincinnati'' is an American sitcom television series about the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional AM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson. It was based upon his experiences observing at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta. Many of the characters were based on people at that station. Wilson once told ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' that he selected WKRP as the call sign to stand for C-R-A-P. The ensemble cast consists of Gary Sandy (as Andy Travis), Howard Hesseman (Dr. Johnny Fever), Gordon Jump (Arthur Carlson), Loni Anderson (Jennifer Marlowe), Tim Reid (Venus Flytrap), Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters), Richard Sanders (Les Nessman) and Frank Bonner (Herb Tarlek). The series won a Humanitas Prize and received 10 Emmy Award nominations, including three for Outstanding Comedy Series. Andy Ackerman won an Emmy Award for Videotape Editing in Season 3. ''WKRP'' premiered on September 18, 1978, on the CBS telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrie Youngfellow
Barrie Youngfellow Freed (born Barrie Sarah Rivchun; October 22, 1946 – March 28, 2022) was an American actress. She was the wife of stage and screen actor Sam Freed. Career Youngfellow was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and began her career there in stage productions of ''Peter Pan''. She appeared in a small role in a 1973 episode of '' The New Temperatures Rising Show''. She appeared as a guest in episodes of numerous American television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including ''Emergency!'', ''The Streets of San Francisco'', ''Fernwood 2 Night'', ''WKRP in Cincinnati'', ''Barney Miller'', ''The Jeffersons'' and ''Three's Company''. She also starred in numerous films and made-for-TV movies including '' Nightmare in Blood'' (1978), ''Vampire'' (1979), '' It Came Upon the Midnight Clear'' (1984), '' The Lady from Yesterday'' (1985) and '' The Scarlett O'Hara War'' (1980), in which she portrayed Joan Crawford. Youngfellow is perhaps best known for her role as sharp-tongued and sarcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparky Marcus
Sparky Marcus (born Marcus Issoglio; December 6, 1967) is an American former actor. Early life Marcus was born in Hollywood, California. Career Marcus was well known for playing the role of the precocious child but also worked extensively as a voice actor for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1980s. He started acting at five playing Shelby on '' Sigmund and the Sea Monsters'' (1973–1975). He also appeared on '' The Nancy Walker Show'' (1976), '' Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'' (1976–77) (Marcus played child evangelist Jimmy Joe Jeeter, who died of electrocution in the bathtub), '' Grandpa Goes to Washington'' (1978), ''The Bad News Bears'' and '' Goodtime Girls'' (1980). Voice acting As a voice actor for cartoons, he is probably best known for his role as Richie Rich from the Hanna-Barbera series '' Richie Rich'' (1980–1982). He later had regular roles as a voice actor on '' Shirt Tales'' (1982–1984), ''Space Stars'' (1981), '' Saturday Supercade'' as the voice of Dexter on ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoyt Axton
Hoyt Wayne Axton (March 25, 1938 – October 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. Among his best-known songs are " Joy to the World", "The Pusher", "No No Song", "Greenback Dollar", "Della and the Dealer", "Never Been to Spain", and "Boney Fingers". He was also a prolific character actor, with many film and television roles to his credit, often playing a father figure in a number of films, including '' The Black Stallion'' (1979), '' Heart Like a Wheel'' (1983), and ''Gremlins'' (1984). Early life Born in Duncan, Oklahoma, Axton spent his preteen years in Comanche, Oklahoma, with his brother John. His mother Mae Boren Axton, a songwriter, cowrote the song "Heartbreak Hotel", which became a major hit for Elvis Presley. Some of Hoyt's own songs were later recorded by Presley. Axton's father John Thomas Axton was a na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct United States in the Vietnam War, US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian Civil War, Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming Communism, communist in 1975. After the defeat of the French Union in the First Indoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AWOL
Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning. This contrasts with unauthorized absence (UA) or absence without leave (AWOL ), which are temporary forms of absence. Desertion versus absence without leave In the United States Army, United States Air Force, British Armed Forces, Australian Defence Force, New Zealand Defence Force, Singapore Armed Forces and Canadian Armed Forces, military personnel will become AWOL if absent from their post without a valid pass, liberty or leave. The United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, and United States Coast Guard generally refer to this as unauthorized absence. Personnel are dropped from their unit rolls after thirty days and then listed as ''deserters''; however, as a matter of U.S. military law, desertion is not measured by time away from the unit, but rather: * by leaving or remaining absent from their unit, organiza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deserter
Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or Military base, post without permission (a Pass (military), pass, Shore leave, liberty or Leave (U.S. military), leave) and is done with the intention of not returning. This contrasts with unauthorized absence (UA) or absence without leave (AWOL ), which are temporary forms of absence. Desertion versus absence without leave In the United States Army, United States Air Force, British Armed Forces, Australian Defence Force, New Zealand Defence Force, Singapore Armed Forces and Canadian Forces, Canadian Armed Forces, military personnel will become AWOL if absent from their post without a valid Pass (military), pass, Shore leave, liberty or Leave (U.S. military), leave. The United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, and United States Coast Guard generally refer to this as unauthorized absence. Personnel are dropped from their Military organization, unit rolls after thirty days and then listed as ''deserters''; however, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Daniel
Rollin Augustus "Rod" Daniel III (August 4, 1942 – April 16, 2016) was an American television and film director, active from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. His films include the 1985 Michael J. Fox comedy film ''Teen Wolf'', which was a considerable box office success. Daniel, the son of a noted surgeon, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps. After returning to his native Tennessee from the Vietnam War, he chose to enter the advertising business, where he directed several commercials before moving to Los Angeles. There, his friendship with television producer Hugh Wilson enabled him to start a career in the television industry as a director and producer for Wilson's sitcom ''WKRP in Cincinnati''. Daniel continued to work on shows like '' Magnum, P.I.'' and ''Newhart'', until he eventually grew restless with television following the failure of a sitcom he had worked on and chose to make the leap into feature films. Daniel continued to direct throughout the 1980s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edie McClurg
Edie McClurg (born July 23, 1945) is an American retired actress and comedian. She has played supporting roles in the films ''Carrie'' (1976), ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986), and ''Elvira: Mistress of the Dark'' (1988), and bit parts in ''Cheech and Chong's Next Movie'' (1980), '' Mr. Mom'' (1983) '' Back to School'' (1986), '' Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' (1987), ''A River Runs Through It'' (1992), ''Natural Born Killers'' (1994), ''Flubber'' (1997), and '' Air Bud: Spikes Back'' (2003). On television, McClurg had a recurring role on WKRP in Cincinnati as Herb Tarlek's wife, Lucille. She regularly performed on ''The David Letterman Show'', before playing Bonnie Brindle in ''Small Wonder'' (1985–1987) and Mrs. Patty Poole on '' The Hogan Family'' (1986–1991). As a one-off character, she appeared in ''Alice'', ''Mr. Belvedere'', ''Roseanne'', ''Full House'', ''Seinfeld'', ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''Hannah Montana'', '' Crashb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Charles Mackenzie
Philip Charles MacKenzie is an American actor and television director. He is best known for his role as Donald Maltby on ''Brothers'', and as Ted Nichols on '' Open House'', which he worked on with his current wife, Alison La Placa. Career MacKenzie was born in Brooklyn, New York. He made his on-screen debut in Sidney Lumet's crime drama ''Dog Day Afternoon'' (1975). He then began doing numerous television guest roles and co-starring roles in afterschool specials and made-for-TV movies. MacKenzie guest starred on such series as ''Three's Company'', ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'', '' Lou Grant'' (which co-starred his future ''Brothers'' castmate, Robert Walden), ''The Love Boat'', ''The Jeffersons'', ''Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life'' and ''WKRP in Cincinnati''. In 1980, he appeared as Dr. LaFleur in ''The Heartbreak Winner'', an ''ABC Afterschool Special'' episode. That same year, MacKenzie was cast in the pilot of a series proposed for NBC's 1980 fall schedule, ''The Six O'C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Hunter
Blake Hunter (born January 17, 1934) is an American television producer and writer. He is best known as the co-creator of the sitcom ''Who's the Boss?'', which aired on ABC from 1984 until 1992 and which co-starred Tony Danza and Judith Light, in 1984 with business partner Martin "Marty" Cohan. Hunter also worked as creative consultant on ''The Upper Hand'', the British version of ''Who's the Boss?'' which debuted in 1990 and aired for seven seasons on the ITV network in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan .... References External links * American television writers American male television writers American television producers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1936 births American television show creators {{US-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Mackenzie
Will Mackenzie (born July 24, 1938) is an American television director and actor. Life Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Mackenzie began his professional career as an actor, making his Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in 1965 in the original production of the musical ''Half a Sixpence''. During the original run of ''Hello, Dolly! (musical), Hello, Dolly!'', he stepped into the role of Cornelius Hackl created by Charles Nelson Reilly, and he also appeared in the plays ''Sheep on the Runway'' by Art Buchwald and ''Scratch'' by Archibald MacLeish and a revival of ''Much Ado About Nothing''. Off-Broadway he was featured in ''As You Like It'' and directed a revival of ''I Do! I Do!'' with David Garrison and Karen Ziemba. On television, Mackenzie made guest appearances in ''Route 66 (TV series), Route 66'', ''ABC Stage 67'', ''That Girl'', ''The Mod Squad'', ''Rhoda'', ''Maude (TV series), Maude'', ''Baretta'', and ''All in the Family'', and he had a recurring role in ''The Bob Newha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
