WKRP Episode: "Turkeys Away" (complete with Pink Floyd)

As Variety's Cynthia Littleton noted yesterday in her great piece on WKRP, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the show's most famous episode, the seventh episode of its first season (the eighth in production order) and the one that probably saved the show from early cancellation. Yes, "Turkeys Away." So this is the right time to unearth the original version, complete with "Dogs" by Pink Floyd as well as the two songs Johnny plays in the climactic scene: "Fun Time" by Joe Cocker and (as an in-joke) "It Came Out of the Sky" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

I'm not saying the show falls apart completely without the Pink Floyd scene, but it works so much better with it. Partly because the first act shows us all the things that make Mr. Carlson feel uncomfortable and unwanted at his own station, and one of those things needs to be the way-out music being played. Without that, his reasons for wanting to take over and do something without consulting anyone are not as clear. And partly because without that scene intact, the first act seems kind of slow and the episode becomes a long slog toward the great ending; the Pink Floyd scene is so strong that it helps the first act hold its own.

And as I'm sure most of you are aware, everyone agrees that this episode is based on something that really happened at a radio station, but nobody agrees on which station it was or what exactly they tried to give away. I think it's best described as a radio urban legend.

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