Episode
WKRP in Cincinnati: Venus and the Man
Overview
The station's cleaning woman asks Venus to convince her big, tough teenage son not to drop out of school.
Details
- Series
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1981-01-31
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Venus and the Man is Episode 12 in Season 3 of WKRP in Cincinnati. It aired on 1981-01-31. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 11: Frog Story
Herb has accidentally spray-painted his daughter's pet frog Greenpeace pink, and brings the frog to the station trying to find a way to save its life. Meanwhile, Les convinces Johnny that he is suffering from the dreaded ""schistosomiasis.""
Episode 13: Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 1
Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: Daydreams
When Mr. Carlson rehearses a dull speech in front of the WKRP staff, all the staffers drift off into daydreams about what they would most like to be: Herb as a Latin-American dictator, Jennifer as a '30s movie star, Les as a reporter covering the Blitz in 1940, Bailey as the President of the United States, Andy as a radio Mafioso, Venus as a standup comedian, and Johnny as a rock star.
Episode 14: Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide: Part 2
Johnny signs a contract to host a music TV program unaware that the songs will be disco.
Episode 9: The Painting
At Mr. Carlson's church auction, Herb buys a painting that Bailey loves. He tries to get Mr. Carlson or Bailey to buy it from him...until he learns that it might be valuable.
Episode 15: Ask Jennifer
When Herb's choice as host of a new call-in advice show proves unable to go on the air, Jennifer takes over and becomes an instant success.
Episode 8: Baby, It's Cold Inside
On a day when the furnace has broken down, Mama Carlson pays a surprise visit to the station and catches Johnny drinking in the broadcast booth.
Episode 16: I Am Woman
When it is announced that the Flimm Building is to be torn down, Bailey starts a campaign to have the building declared a Cincinnati landmark. Everyone pitches in to help, until Mr. Carlson gets his mother's permission to build a new and better building.
Episode 7: Bah, Humbug
Once again, Mr. Carlson plans to give the staffers almost no Christmas bonuses. But in a dream brought on by eating one of Johnny Fever's brownies, the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future visit him to show him the error of his ways.
Episode 17: Secrets of Dayton Heights
The Secret Service refuses to grant Les credentials for a Presidential press conference, suspecting him of having radical affiliations. It turns out that the man who raised Les wasn't his father, and that his real father was a card-carrying Communist.
Episode 6: A Mile in My Shoes
When Herb is called for jury duty, Andy takes over as sales manager and soon discovers just how tough it is trying to sell advertising time or collect from deadbeat clients. Meanwhile, Venus becomes acting program director and has to deal with Les's plan to disguise himself as a black man so that he can do a series of reports based on the book Black Like Me.
Episode 18: Out to Lunch
Herb's three-martini business lunches with an ad agency representative are causing him to mess up even more than usual, and it begins to seem that his use of alcohol as a sales tool is turning into a drinking problem.