Episode
WKRP in Cincinnati: I'll Take Romance
Overview
Herb fixes Les up with a date through his latest client, the I'll Take Romance Dating Service. Les hits it off with his date immediately, not knowing that the dating service is a front for prostitution.
Details
- Series
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1982-02-17
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
I'll Take Romance is Episode 15 in Season 4 of WKRP in Cincinnati. It aired on 1982-02-17. The runtime is 25 min.
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When a fire destroys the kitchen at the Vine Street Mission, Johnny recruits Jennifer to help raise the $40,000 dollars to rebuild it. Jennifer throws a party for her rich friends and asks them to contribute, and everything is going fine until the contributors meet the people involved.
Episode 16: Circumstantial Evidence
Venus's latest date gives him an expensive diamond earring as a gift and then runs out on him; it turns out that she's a thief who has used the stolen earring to frame Venus as her accomplice.
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Episode 17: Fire
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Episode 12: Pills
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Episode 18: Dear Liar
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Episode 11: You Can't Go Out of Town Again
Mr. Carlson goes with Carmen to a college reunion where he learns the disillusioning truth about how he and Carmen first met; Bailey is frustrated in her attempts to get a computer for billing; Venus can't get a moment alone in the booth with his latest date.
Episode 19: The Creation of Venus
When Venus lets it slip that he was a schoolteacher before he came to WKRP, Andy has to tell Mama Carlson the truth about how he hired Gordon Sims as a DJ and how they came up with the persona of Venus Flytrap.
Episode 10: Love, Exciting and New
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Episode 20: The Impossible Dream
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Episode 9: The Consultant
Mama Carlson hires a professional radio consultant to evaluate WKRP. The man she's hired, Norris Breeze, is an old friend of Andy's who also runs a radio programming service. Andy soon realizes that Breeze intends to give the station a bad report unless it subscribes to the service.
Episode 21: To Err is Human
After Herb screws up an important advertising account, Mr. Carlson finally intends to fire him, but Jennifer takes pity on Herb and tries to help him keep his job.