# WKRP to be released on DVD **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731 "2006-12-11T20:30:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pachabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@pachabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pachabel)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/1 "2006-12-11T20:30:44Z")
TV Shows on DVD has announced the the first season of WKRP will be released on DVD in April 2007. Apparently there will be music substitutions (the music rights held up the release). Too bad it won’t be released before Christmas. Here’s the link: [http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6708](http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6708) ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/2 "2006-12-11T21:14:06Z")
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” I just watched that episode online on T-day. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/3 "2006-12-12T02:22:03Z")
_WKRP_ without the original music is only half as good as it could be. But half of _WKRP_ is twice as good as most sitcoms. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/4 "2006-12-12T02:34:19Z")
Without the original music, I won’t buy it, I think. I loved Tour of Duty, but it wasn’t the same without the original music. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/5 "2006-12-12T02:57:52Z")
Mmmm… Bailey… ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/6 "2006-12-12T03:26:57Z")
_ **BOOGER!!!** _ Howard Hesseman’s Dr. Johnny Fever rocks! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Asgardking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Asgardking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asgardking)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/7 "2006-12-12T04:12:19Z")
Favorite episodes: Thanksgiving - “Oh, the humanity” Drunk test - “Thanks for the lid, Art” Radio consultant - “There’s a chair over there, there’s a chair over there, there’s a chair over there. No, that’s a clock” Scum of the Earth - “One of them asked me what time it was when I said I didn’t know, another one said, Well, that’s it for him then.” ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/8 "2006-12-12T04:32:43Z")
[QUOTE=Asgardking] Scum of the Earth - “One of them asked me what time it was when I said I didn’t know, another one said, Well, that’s it for him then.” [/QUOTE] I’ve never seen an episode of WKRP but for some reason, that last quote made me laugh out loud. I will now be checking out this series. (sorry for the threadjack but does this mean that The Wonder Years may get this kind of treatment?) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/9 "2006-12-12T06:01:31Z")
It’s not the same with substitute tunes. Luckily, I have every episode on DVD…with original music. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/10 "2006-12-12T06:57:58Z")
I will only buy it if it’s genuine plastic. I will accept no imitations. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/11 "2006-12-12T14:12:02Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] It’s not the same with substitute tunes. Luckily, I have every episode on DVD…with original music. 😃 [/QUOTE] See I don’t get this attitude. If you didn’t have pirated versions on DVD and they didn’t tell you that they were changing the music, how would you know? It’s fanwanking, pure and simple. The downside for the rest of us is that it’s destructive fanwanking since it is at least partly this attitude that’s kept them from releasing the show before now. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/12 "2006-12-12T14:33:57Z")
I’m crossing my fingers and hoping they got music rights from Pink Floyd. One of my favorite scenes is the one where Johnny Fever is playing Pink Floyd’s “Animals”, and a befuddled Art is trying to figure out where the barking is coming from. Art (looking at album jacket): “Pigs on the Wing.” I wonder what that one sounds like. Johnny: Hey man, I don’t do requests. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/13 "2006-12-12T14:38:29Z")
with or without the original music, i’m definitely buying. i worked in radio in those days and never ever missed an episode. oh, the memories, the memories… ‘as god is my witness i thought turkeys could fly…’ still the funniest ep in the series. ‘chy chy rod-drew-gweze…’ i was the news director. les nessman was my hero. herb’s sportjackets… ‘somewhere there’s a volkswagon in search of it’s seatcovers.’ (or something close to that. it’s been years since i saw it.) les nessman’s silver sow award… i always wanted one for my desk and even looked for one. his office tape lines… i didn’t have an office, either. 😃 andy’s hair… i called him lamba chi boy (when i was in college in the 70s at ball state, the lamba chi guys had the best hair on campus) cart machines… (we hated them, too) ah, payola… (those were the days, my friends!) 😃 johnny fever. i had such a crush on him, god knows why… his bit with the alcohol consumption/reaction machine with the state trooper is the second funniest thing i ever saw on the show. the more he drinks the faster he gets. and how could i forget one of the best eps ever as venus explains the atom. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/14 "2006-12-12T15:40:02Z")
Hersch! I can live without most of the original music, so long as they secured the rights to the Red Wigglers jingle…“Red Wigglers, the Cadillac of worms!” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/15 "2006-12-12T16:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=Zakalwe] If you didn’t have pirated versions on DVD and they didn’t tell you that they were changing the music, how would you know? [/QUOTE] Because sometimes the specific music is integral to the scene. See **Shoeless** ’s Pink Floyd example. And if they can’t get the rights to “Tiny Dancer,” I can tell you that one of the most touching episodes in the whole series will be ruined. (Is it the _songs_ they can’t get the rights to, or just the specific recordings? If the latter, there would conceivably be the possibility of substituting soundalike versions.) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/16 "2006-12-12T17:07:15Z")
[QUOTE=Scubaqueen] cart machines… (we hated them, too) [/QUOTE] Me too! Here’s a “Quasi-Quote” from my News Director days at WBTR-FM: “A minute is only a minute. Unless you’re waiting for a cart to re-cue. Then it’s an **hour**!” 😃 Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/17 "2006-12-12T17:14:37Z")
The **theme** says it all, doesn’t it, **ScubaQueen**? “Town to town and up and down the dial …” I once quit a station in Carrrollton and went to the competition, and the Program Director at BTR had the nerve to tell me “You’ll never work in this town again!” I laughed in his face. "Dude, this is **Carrollton, Georgia** , not fuckin’ **Hollywood!"** :rolleyes: But you’re right: “Those were the days, my friends…” Do you still dream about your “radio days”? I do. Sorry for the hijack, but I don’t get a chance to talk “radio” much anymore… 😉 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/18 "2006-12-12T17:25:36Z")
I might have to get this just to see the scene where Les Nessman dyed his skin black and wore an Afro wig to do a modern-day “Black Like Me”: a “journey down the highways and by-ways of the _American Negro_!” ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/19 "2006-12-12T17:41:56Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Hersch! I can live without most of the original music, so long as they secured the rights to the Red Wigglers jingle…“Red Wigglers, the Cadillac of worms!” [/QUOTE] Don’t forget the jingle that they produced for the funeral home. Peppy and upbeat. "…some day you’re going to buy it… That’s the only line that I can remember from the jingle. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/20 "2006-12-12T17:58:21Z")
“You can’t deny it!” The music is an issue precisely because they riffed on it so much. Example: “Another One Bites the Dust” finishes. Johnny says “That’s one of the biggest hits by Queen. Not one of my own favorites, of course.” It makes no sense out of context. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731.md?page=2)