WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Series (1978) Opening Sequence
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Pairing an impeccable ensemble cast with hilarious wit and popular tunes, WKRP In Cincinnati celebrated four amazing seasons, making it the quintessential situation comedy for any music lover! Join everyone's favorite radio DJs - the rockin' Dr. Johnny Fever (Howard Hesseman) and the soulful Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid) - as they weave through the inner-office antics of the crazy WKRP staff including the station's steady program director Andy (Gary Sandy), indecisive manager Carlson (Gordon Jump), smarmy advertising executive Herb (Frank Bonner), quirky news man Les Nessman (Richard Sanders), shy ingénue Bailey (Jan Smithers) and, of course, the station's lovely receptionist, Jennifer (Loni Anderson). So sit back and enjoy the sound of uproarious laughter as you watch all 90 episodes of this iconic series!
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This theme song makes me happy and want to cry at the same time. Man, I wish I could go back to the days when I used to sit around the TV with my family watching WKRP.
i agree I'm 53 this song couldn't be more nostalgic and makes me feel so good and sad ..i miss those days
Amen I have those same emotions. This song brings back so many childhood memories because this is one of the shows my family always watched together and just bring some great memories
Times were so much better in those days! I was in high school and a 4 year degree meant something. This was the real America!
Awww, me too!
@@execatty that’s what you call melancholy, I feel that way too.
Growing up poor in the early to mid 2010's my mom would have me watch DVD's of this show whenever we couldn't afford the cable TV bill, and I loved every second of this show ❤
There really hasn’t been any good sitcoms in years. The 70s 80s and 90s were filled with funny sitcoms
❤
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Rest in peace Johnny Fever
Hard to believe that a show this good only lasted 4 years
I know, right? It seems a lot a really good shows didn't last very long.
I could have watched it for 10 years
It was good for two of those years
Always loved this opening song. Brings me back to when I use to watch it. Loved Johnny Fever!
Anyone else old enough to remember car radios like the one in the beginning, and that the wrong dial is being turned to change stations?
Howard Hesseman was a great actor you will be missed R.I.P. Gone But Never Forgotten
That Man was good people and fun to watch
I forget he also starred in Head of the Class as well
@@keldorthebluemackand _Clue_
I used to watch this show when I was a little boy and always loved the theme song.
Me too!
Same here! My grandpa and I made a deal. He would watch all of my cartoons with me and I would watch all of his shows. This was one of them. Absolutely love this song!
Well pointed taken.... check mate.😎☕🌤️
Exactly
Same. This is still what I think of, when I get an idea of a '70s American city in my head.
Rest well Howard Hesseman (Dr. Johnny Fever), you'll be sorely missed.
Mr. Hesseman passed away yesterday at the age of 81.
The theme song alone brings back memories for me. Every time this theme song plays, it was time for me to go to bed since I had to (I was only a kid), but I could still hear it. Always could hear my mom and dad laughing. Miss those days, and I miss my mom... God rest her soul.
Good memories for sure! Mine was on Friday nights as a 6 or 7-ish year old...when the theme song for Dallas came on, I could watch that (showed Texas Stadium since I'm Cowboys fan) and then I had to to go bed.
RIP Howard Hesseman, who was a real-life DJ in San Francisco before appearing on "WKRP." "Booger!"
Had to give it a listen. Frank Bonner, 'Herb', you will be missed.
Rest in peace :(
He is missed. As far as I'm concerned, WKRP is among the top sitcoms.
Yes He Will!!!
Rest In Peace Frank Bonner...
We’ll miss Frank & Gordon.
They sure as hell don't make shows like these anymore...so sad.
Gotta give up PC for that.
Absolutely not and it's a sad thing. These were the good old days and Lord knows we truly miss them.
They sure don't.
Yeah now we have stupid reality shows that don't make any since.
BOOGER!!😂
I love the episode where Andy explains how he ended up at WKRP. He says, really quickly, "I got tired of packing, and unpacking, town-to-town, up and down the dial." The theme song is a quick summary of Andy's background as well as an ode to DJs in general.
When me and my friend were driving to Pittsburgh we drove through Cincinnati and we were singing this song when we got to downtown. 😀😀😀
I live in PIttsbugh! What were you driving here for?
@silky johnson Your revolution is over. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me? The bums will always lose!
I live in Pittsburgh!
I do that and play the theme song everytime I go through there kind of a ritual.
That's awesome, sounds like something my friends and I would do!
Whenever I drive through Cincinnati, I try to find WKRP on the dial....
That wonderful bird flying there just before the theme kicks in, never knew how famous it would become one day and seen all over the world, immortalized forever in TV history...
Probably the BEST sitcom opening theme song ever! Brilliantly terminating with radio call letter type theme. Great actors great writers all came together to make high television art !!
I still say that the nude senator who claimed he was not intoxicated was based off of Ted Kennedy lol
Going from an AM sound to FM before the end of the first line sung. You don’t see that kind nuance in over the air network tv anymore.
"The Senator, though insisting that he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"..... epic! Always wondered if that was a real radio comment with a real Senator.
Three’s company is better!
Rockford Files was good too
One really subtle thing the do with the opening theme that I love- when the song starts, it sounds like it's coming through a car radio tuned to an AM radio station. A few bars in, the EQ changes to a much "flatter" setting and it sounds like normal music
almostfm one of the MANY reasons to love this theme!
WKRP is an AM radio station in the tv series. Fact.
Nice
@@mikeries8549 Yes, and WKRC in Cincinnati is a REAL AM radio station in Cincinnati which currently has the branding of "55KRC". The radio station has been in operation since 1924.
@@mikeries8549 No kidding? Wow...
Been in Rock Radio nigh on 50 years now -- you have NO IDEA how close to the TRUTH this show is!!!!
I WAS BORN IN 79 AND REMEMBER THIS SHOW/THEME SONG.MY PARENTS ALWAYS WATCHED THIS SHOW.THEY ALSO WATCHED TAXI LATE AT NIGHT.LOL.THE GOOD OLD DAYS.....
1978 here, much the same story. Taxi, Barney Miller, Hill Street Blues.....
Benzino Coleone same here! born in '79 and remember my parents and my grandpa watching this, Taxi, and Barnie Miller! Dallas too!
Benzino Coleone g
July of '79 for me lol
born in 1980
I went to Cincinnati for the first time a few months ago and saw some of these sites like the fountain… This song kept running through my head. Such good memories of watching WKRP and such a great song! I loved Cincinnati and arranged for another trip- I just got back 2 days ago. Happy to say I am going back in a couple months.😁
hi jill.....whats there to do there?
I went to Riverfront Stadium in 1979, I might of been in one of the cars driving down the highway with my dad
Come back anytime, Jill!
The theme song to WKRP is relaxing and makes me feel good. Brings me back to the good old times in 1978 when things were better compared to now today 2022. TV shows aren’t even like WKRP in Cincinnati anymore just not good :(
a fine message ineloquently delivered
Yes. Every single TV show currently airing on ABC, CBS and NBC is social justice propaganda
That music intro is something special. Still Amazing.
This song warms my heart
R.I.P. to Howard Hesseman
Congrats to the 2022 AFC Champion Cincinnati Bengals!!👍🏿 R.I.P Howard Hessman aka Johnny Fever.🕊
Chiefs fan says hello 😆 🤣
@@pabloclark6556and browns. Myles still keeping you up joe?
The senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.
Yeah, did the damn senator ever finally explain that?
Punchline: shame it wasn't the Mayor... which was Jerry Springer at the time. No joke.
baylinkdashyt actually it wasn’t .. Geralds one year was already up before this show came. So no he wasn’t the mayor at this time
It was the gay Sen Lindsey Graham from South Carolina
SpacemanDoug 😃🤣😂😂😂
@@taylorherring8253 You sound like an anti-gay liberal.
Just read that Howard Hessen died 😪 He'll always be Johnny Fever to me 😊
Rest In Peace Howard Hesseman aka Dr. Johnny Fever
Thank you for the laughs and sharing your God given talents, you will be missed tremendously 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Amen to that! I had to run out and buy this set when I heard the news. Oh, and one more thing babies-BOOGER!! 😂
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
lol. one of the funniest moments in sitcom history.
Sitcom writers go entire careers hoping to write a line that good!
"Oh, the humanity!!!"
WKRP...now, with more news...and ahhhh...Les Nessman.
I have that tee shirt
RIP Frank Bonner... and thanks for the memories!
Very few shows these days bring the whole family around the tube for a few laughs like they did in the 70's and 80's. It's not just the years but some something deeper missing these days, something you still find in these old shows.
The micro computer and the internet changed everything. The internet became a new media, so, television took a back seat, unfortunately.
Agreed 100%! Moden comedy shows are so lame and predictable.
IMO this is one of the best TV themes of all-time!
A great show. To bad they don't make shows like this anymore
I mean seriously. Half of the new TV shows and half of the new movies that release today are hardcore woke lectures
Had to check this out after the news about Howard Hessman. Show was a big part of my childhood.
This theme song is right up there with the one from Cheers. They both give me a warm feeling I cant describe. Takes me back to a special place and time as a kid, sitting in the basement hoping they dont catch me awake watching tv
Definitely one of the best TV themes of the 80's. My sister and I used to watch reruns every day after school.
Rest in peace Howard Hesseman
The best T.V. show EVER!!! I was a little kid watching this back in the early 80's, singing the theme song and seeing all the areas from my hometown of Cincinnati, Oh featured in the show 2!!!! I wish they would show all the reruns of this because this was my favorite show!!! Makes me so proud to be a Cincinnatian!!!!
+mightykamina2009 Wow I didn't know Loni Anderson was so sexy back then
+Jim Naylor That's the PNC Bank building
today its the PNC Bank building but back in the late 70's when this was taped in was the Central Trust Bank if you look close enough at the 50 second mark you can make the name out on the building
I was about to mention MeTV but got beat.
It's on at 9:30 pm. Check it out if you can! I get tired of seeing double doses of Full House both on Hallmark AND Nickelodeon so it's nice to know WKRP is on.
Loool...yep, I'm from dayton used to love this when I was little!😁🖒💯
These were the good old days...when TV shows had catchy theme songs that got you pumped up to watch the show!!
God I miss the 80s, such a simpler time.
couldn't have said it better !....thank you.
What I miss about the 80s most is I miss the me I was in the 80s...young...
That's the truth. They were the good old days. A much simpler life. No mobile phones, no touchscreens, no coding nonsense, better television, better music, I could go on forever praising the 80's.
You fools are talking about the modern convenience '80s. If someone born in 1890 had talked in the 1980s about how much simpler their childhood had been, they would have a vastly better point.
53...was such a better time..and yes we were young...we were happy..we didnt hate each other...we just wanted to have fun and do things...we didnt stare a a screen all day...and did i mention...we were young...feelin sad
Congratulations Cincinnati Bengals. Rest in Heaven Johnny Fever. Much Love from Houston, TX.
R.I.P. Howard Hesseman doctor johnny fever great great actor great great show WKRP and his many other works and head of the class. . 1/30/2022 .
I'm almost 70 years old and I have lived in Cincinnati all my life. To this day, whenever I come home from the south and get see view of the skykine from the Kentucky side, the WKRP theme song plays in my head. But my, oh my! How the skylinje has changed!!!!! For the better, I might add.
Cincinnati is my hometown and it amazes me how much Downtown has grown with the amount of buildings compared to what was shown on that intro.
RIP Howard Hessman. Dr. Fever was the best!
RIP Johnny Fever. Thank you for the laughs and memories
I loved the show when it first came out, and still have fond memories of it
RIP Johnny Fever ❤ Thank you for the laughs 😇
Rest peacefully Howard Hessman. Dr. Johnny Fever.
Oh, man... this takes me back! So cool...
For Howard Hessman, aka Dr. Johnny Fever. R.I.P.
Even though this show is from the late 70s/early 80s, it evokes memories of my growing up years in the mid 80s to early 90s for me when I would catch the series on reruns on a lazy Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
RIP Johnny Fever and Top 5 TV theme songs of all time
The opening of this show reminds me So Much (and makes me So nostalgic) of the Good Old (and Simple) days of Portland, Oregon during the 1970s and 80s! Back when Portland, Oregon was also a small, quiet and conservative community. How I long for those days!
This, Magnum P.I. and Cheers are three of the best TV show theme songs
Greatest American Hero had an awesome theme song too
@@mjszudejko4212 I used to love it! Did you ever see the episode of Seinfeld where George sang a parody of it and used it on his answering machine? Believe it or not, I'm not hooome! Lol 😆
@@michaelkrolewski7406Seinfeld is a classic show. Yes that scene is hilarious.
Ahhh yess. This brings back good ol childhood memories.
Rest In Peace Howard Hesseman…aka Dr. Johnny Fever
This is back when theme songs weren’t bullshit! I loved this show, as they played real music on the show! Damn, I wish I could bring my childhood back!
The theme song got me hooked on the show
They don't make shows like this anymore one of my favorites growing up
Best sitcom of all time. Period.
70s and 80s sitcoms were the best
No they weren't.
I love this show, I wish they still made shows like this
You and me both, one of the best shows I grew up with!
Seasons 1 and 2, finding seasons 3 and 4 is a bit of a challenge, I know if I buy them online I'll end up finding them two weeks later a the store for like ten dollars less.
I liked the whole show, especially the Turkey's Away episode
Yeah, I agree, I mean I get why they added the character but he did kind of sink the show
Mighty Kamina, I do.. one of my favorite dvd set that I own
Rest in peace Dr. Johnny Fever
I miss the 80s. Waaaaah!
Gus W let's just take a step back to the 70s 80s 90s early 2000s
Gus W
I understand you but for me after 2001 it went down for me .the 80s an 90s best hands down for me.
Gus W
We didn't need the internet we had great tv great friends. We knew how to go out an have fun these new kids don't know how to survive without the internet
Gus W
Amen well put
Very true!
Thank you Shout! Factory for making the WKRP in Cincinnati episodes available to the viewing public again! This is one of the greatest comedy shows of all time. So sad it lasted only 4 years. So sad it did not stay in re-run syndication on TV because the owners of the music rights asked too much for compensation to play the songs on TV. But you brought it back and made it available on DVD. Thank you so much for saving this show for history and for us to enjoy!
1978 - a very good year and I was still in my 20's.
Nostalgia has warped your mind. 70s sucked
R.I.P. Frank Bonner: The television actor best known for his role as
Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnati has died at the age of 79.....SAD NEWS
FOR SURE!
Listened to this today after I heard the news
Wow, I just happened to be listening to this. Happy memories of a great show.
I grew up listening to theme songs from TV shows like this one because it echoes in my head for some reason I'm not making this one up for sure lol
@@chesterlane3032 Me too! I love the older themes too..they were so well written and they fit there shows like a glove!
Miss you, Mr. Hessman. Go easy.
Dude SCORED on the Bird flying, zooming out upon the city Shot..!
Good work.
This brings me back to when I was 4 and I still remember the song.
Hearing this song meant it was bedtime.. I remember hearing mom & dad laughing out in the old livingroom.
That song somehow touched my soul
Riverfront Stadium....Stomping grounds of the Big Red Machine!
And the best years of the Bengals.
Seen many reds games there. Went a lot with my grandparents. God rest their souls. The good ole days. Barry Larkin was my fave. Great memories
@@traciwhittaker5588 Eric Davis,Jose Rijo,Chris Sabo,The Nasty Boys,Charlie Hustle etc etc...
@@scotianslim7631 the 1990 Reds were the 1st baseball team I got to watch as a kid I remember going to games that year what a fun team that was. Norm Charlton Rob Dibble Randy Myers what a shutdown pen they were.
Bengals beating the Chargers in the freezer bowl.
Don't know why but this song popped into my head the other day. Haven't thought about it in many years but has a special memory of a woman I met out West when things were clicking for us - until she suddenly announced that she had to move back to Cincinnati to take over her just departed grandfathers real estate business. That was back in 2004 and I still think of her to this day! So just had to hear this song again with the original WKRP intro and man did that take ever me back! Maybe I'll try to find her and give her a call? Rest in peace Howard and Frank!
Song is soooo cozy🥺. Brings back so many downstairs family room memories 😁 ahhh late 70’s early 80’s thee best time to be raised in my humble opinion. Those were the days 😌🥰
I come here from time to time. What an amazing theme song lol
Awesome show..Cincy reminds me so much of my hometown of KCMO..almost exactly the same size...the downtown along the river...
Reminds me of St. Louis a bit, too. Similar size cities (well, at least St. Louis used to be before it lost 2/3 its population within the city limits). Now St. Louisans say St. Louis is alive and well and living in Kansas City! :) St. Louis is still a proud old city--it just has so many problems and a government which is clueless and has had its hands tied since separating from St. Louis County dating back to 1876. Then St. Louis didn't need St. Louis County. But since St. Louis' heyday was around 1900, and it has been struggling since, it really can't live without St. Louis County, its land, its people, and its money.
As a little boy, I watched this and always wanted to visit Cincinnati.
Wow goosebumps it’s been quite awhile since I’ve heard this. Almost brings tears too wishing I could go back to that time.
We'll miss you Johnny Fever...we promise we'll always think of you once in awhile 🎧🎵🎶🎙😎🙂
Man this used to come on at bedtime I loved this song!!
Haven't seen this show since the 80's and still remembered all the lyrics!
Omigosh.... I used to love this song and watched this show. I was 8 in 1978. I’m now 50. There were so many theme songs that I loved. Some of my favorites were Good Times, One day at a time, Differnt Strokes, Bosom Buddies, The Greatest American Hero, Family Ties, Gimme a break(Slower version latter seasons) The Jefferson’s, Dukes of Hazzard, Alice, Golden Girl’s to name a few (gazillion)😬😂 Times were so much simpler back then. We didn’t have social media and reality tv. Some people are clout chasers and aren’t embarrassed to be viewed in a negative light. They feel any publicity helps increase their social media followers. Some of the people who’re making millions from being author’s, motivational speakers, therapists etc... aren’t leading by example. They’re selling fairy tales yet living a lie themselves. I need a time machine.🤷🏾♀️
I had immigrated to Canada from the UK in the summer of 1982 I use to watch this late afternoon on reruns this song just Tears my Heart out remembering those IDays returned to live in Uk in 95 when my marriage ended in Divorce those days seem like another life like a fantasy I lived
I loved Dr. Johnny Fever the most!
He got a fever for Jennifer's beaver
@@briandavidson1946 LOL!!!
@@Meaneviljoe Hey...gotta call it. Fever was the man.
@@briandavidson1946 I bet you I smoked more weed than Johnny!
@@Meaneviljoe I'm smoking some Willie Nelson meets Snoop Dogg type weed
Chillin in the 4th dimension. All is good in the land of weed. A friend with weed is a friend indeed....then i find the camp cum I wanna lay ya.
Watching reruns as a kid during the summer days were one of my fondest memories
No they weren't.
Soooooo Looooooved this sitcom as a kid!
One of the greats on television
70s sit coms Happy Days .MASH . All in the Family , MORK AND MINDY LAVERNE AND SHERLEY ,, The Jefferson's , SAN FORD AND SON ,, Good Times , WKRP IN Cincinnati, , THREES COMPANY ,, BARNEY MILLER, DIFFERNT STROKES , , WELL COME BACK COTTER , THE LOVE BOAT ,, THE SUPER 70s Baby ,
Happy pleasant theme. Love the music.
God bless and see you on the other side, Johnny Fever.
MeTV just began rerunning this great show Monday, April 2 at 9:30 pm. Love the original theme song and it's a fun show. Loni Anderson is awesome!
Loni was attractive, but for me its Jan Smithers.
Great memories of Cincinnati, thanks for posting this video!
Happy 40th anniversary, WKRP in Cincinnati.
I remember that show, when l was a little toddler, where I was supposed to be playing with my toys......ooopppps. But in any case, thanks for the upload 1978 TV series intro, in the , well unfortunately, future year of 2018, in the 21st century. Thanks again for playing.😎☕📺🥞🍳🥓🍁🌤️🇺🇸Oh, yyeeaaahhh, and the today's Reds and Bengals, one of the most laughingstock teams in the NFL 🏈
0:48 man alive was that line going over and over in my head when I went from St Louis to Hamilton, Montana, staying in 3 hotels along the way, unpacking that night, and packing up the next day to get to the next hotel.
When TV themes became top 40 hits
i used to drive through Cincinnati occasionally in '81, '82 when i was on military furlough to see my parents near Columbus, seeing that traffic and buildings brings back memories, crossing that bridge from Covington was something else - this was a great show...
I remember when this show was big back in the day. For some reason, I never watched it but always knew the theme song. Kinda like a lot of shows back then.
This intro is like comfort food for me. I wasn't around for when it aired but I was around for the re-runs.
Loved this theme song👍🎉😄💕 I use to sing it every time I watched the show, I was 20 years old then wow lol😁👍