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Your Favourite Tv Show ever

"WKRP in Cincinnati", the original version as it aired during its first run, not the '90s re-release. The Turkey Drop episode was priceless, starting off with Johnny Fever playing a tune from "Animals", then Les doing a report of the turkey drop that was a mashup of the WLS radio coverage of the Hindenburg disaster and the lyrics from "Sheep" off the "Animals" album...and finally Art Carlson saying "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!"

The funny thing is that turkeys actually can fly!
 
Speed Daemon said:
"WKRP in Cincinnati", the original version as it aired during its first run, not the '90s re-release. The Turkey Drop episode was priceless, starting off with Johnny Fever playing a tune from "Animals", then Les doing a report of the turkey drop that was a mashup of the WLS radio coverage of the Hindenburg disaster and the lyrics from "Sheep" off the "Animals" album...and finally Art Carlson saying "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!"

The funny thing is that turkeys actually can fly!
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Growing up in the area I always had a soft spot for that show. Loved the fact that the opening shot of the city was something I could see looking out my window
 
NightAngel79 said:
Growing up in the area I always had a soft spot for that show. Loved the fact that the opening shot of the city was something I could see looking out my window
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My experience was different. WKRP wasn't exactly based on, but came out right after a book called "FM" hit the shelves. I can still remember buying the FM book at the Lubbock, TX airport gift shop. (The last book I bought there was the classic "Airport", another life-changing read for me.) To me, the act of transmitting stuff through "the ether" was like shaking hands with God, and I had to try it.

Between "WKRP" and "The Dark Side of the Moon" I changed my mind and decided that an Air Force career wasn't that important after all, and threw myself into live concert engineering and production, and finally radio and TV broadcasting.

I was probably one of the few teenagers who actually aspired to one day be a character like Dr. Johnny Fever, someone with a fascinating past, if only he could remember any of it. :D

I remember the show's outstanding editorializing of the Who Concert Tragedy. When I went with a college buddy to see Peter Gabriel's "So" tour at the War Memorial stadium in Rochester NY, I was shocked to see that it was open admission. I taped a rerun of that episode to tell the story anew to my friends, many of whom didn't grow up in the US and knew nothing of the tragedy.

There's a lot more to WKRP than most are aware of.
 
+1 for M*A*S*H. I watched every episode of that show as a kid and still love it. It's one of the only shows I can watch reruns of.
 
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