Being that this is Thanksgiving Day, we're taking a fond look back at a classic holiday episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.
Station manager Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump), tired of being kept out of the loop, decides to take on a more hands-on approach. The end result is the wackiest Thanksgiving promotion ever.
Many of the plots of the series were actually based on real people and/or events at a real-life Cincinnati radio station where series creator Hugh Wilson worked. Fun fact: co-stars Jump and Howard Hesseman actually had some radio experience before being hired for the show.
Here's "Turkeys Away". The opening & closing themes are slowed down to avoid the copyright police.
Strangely, not long after this episode aired, CBS put the show on hiatus for 2 months. Apparently, there were ratings issues early in the run.
Rating: B.
4 comments:
Oh dear sweet baby Cthulhu!
That episode is one of the funniest half hours in television history. It is impossible to keep a straight face when Carlson utters those immortal lines beginning with "As God as my witness...."
And that's why I picked it.
One of the best episodes of WKRP of all time. The falling action was hilarious, made even more so by the fact that you didn't actually see the impending chaos taking place, only the voice of Les Nessman doing the commentary. Mr. Carlson's line (also the last line spoken in the episode) "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" was icing on the cake. Good stuff.
Probably didn't have enough in the budget to actually depict even fake, rubber turkeys falling out from a high distance....
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