![]() LET THE DOGS OUT? Wilson and I disagreed on whether the syndicated version on MeTV includes a reference to Pink Floyd's "Dogs," which was not restored in the Shout! Factory WKRP complete series boxed set. Law, Taxi, Quantum Leap, JAG, The Blacklist, Rizzoli & Isles, The Practice, Gilmore Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, Burn Notice, Monk, Caroline In The City, The Good Wife and Young Sheldon. ![]() Just 34, he had moved up the ranks from a Mary Tyler Moore writer to direct the Bob Newhart Show in 1978. He's still directing NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Fight at age 74.īetween then and now, he's directed Family Ties, L.A. WKRP viewers never saw one turkey, or even the helicopter pulling the WKRP banner (which helicopters can't do, I'm told, due to their rear rotor).Ĭredit Courtesy Cincy Shirts Cincy Shirts' T-shirt commemorating the 1978 'WKRP' "Turkeys Away" episode.ĭIRECTED BY: The episode was directed by Michael Zinberg, who is one of television's most respected directors today. POWER OF IMAGINATION: We agreed that the most powerful pictures from "Turkeys Away" were in our minds. 30, Hugh Wilson remembers it as a Dallas helicopter drop. But a s I wrote for the 40 th anniversary on Oct. Others say a station in Atlanta (where creator Hugh Wilson lived) either dropped them from a helicopter or a truck. Some say a Dallas station dropped turkeys from a truck in the 1960s. TURKEY DROP HISTORY: We debate the inspiration for the episode. If you're a WKRP fan, here's a sample of our "Turkeys Away" talk: (I did a podcast with Wilson at Cincy Shirts last winter about Cincinnati's rich history of live TV shows.) Plus we talked about tons of other TV stuff - like what makes a sitcom great my encounters with Gregory Peck and Wil Wheaton (from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Big Bang Theory) our favorite TV shows why all Hallmark movies seem to have the same plot and whether a live local entertainment show could make a comeback here. He later starred in the "New WKRP" revival in 1991-93. Credit Courtesy CBS Michael Des Barres (center) was leader of the hoodlum rock band Scum of the Earth in the fourth episode of the first season.
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