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The Turkey Drop, WKRP in Cincinnati (Original Post) BigmanPigman Nov 2022 OP
AND based on a real event! rsdsharp Nov 2022 #1
Really? That makes it even better somehow. BigmanPigman Nov 2022 #2
Yes. The show's creator, Hugh Wilson worked as a salesman rsdsharp Nov 2022 #4
Great story! red dog 1 Nov 2022 #6
There used to be an original version of this on the internet but it went away PSPS Nov 2022 #3
My DVR recorded it on MeTV on Nov. 20th. BigmanPigman Nov 2022 #5
"OH, THE HUMANITY..." Montauk6 Nov 2022 #7
I saw that episode with my Dad... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2022 #8
I cherish those moments with my dad. BigmanPigman Nov 2022 #9

rsdsharp

(10,064 posts)
4. Yes. The show's creator, Hugh Wilson worked as a salesman
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 07:41 PM
Nov 2022

for a time at WQXI Atlanta. ( Dr. Johnny Fever is based on QXI jock Skinny Bobby Harper.) The GM at the station when Wilson worked there later told him about a Thanksgiving promotion a station in Texas did while he was working there. They dropped the turkeys from the back of a flatbed truck, but the result was pretty much the same.

Wilson’s response when he heard the story? “You just won me an Emmy!”

red dog 1

(29,125 posts)
6. Great story!
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 10:01 PM
Nov 2022

I wonder how much thought went into that Thanksgiving promotion? (I feel sorry for the poor turkeys)

PSPS

(14,107 posts)
3. There used to be an original version of this on the internet but it went away
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 07:32 PM
Nov 2022

This is OK but, since MTM never purchased the rights to the music outright, all that's available of this series now is a version with different music dubbed in with voice actors saying the lines spoken over the dubbed music. Still a classic funny bit, though.

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,025 posts)
8. I saw that episode with my Dad...
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 06:33 AM
Nov 2022

... when it was first aired, and we both laughed so hard!

I was still in elementary school back then, and I can't recall another time when both of us were laughing so hysterically together.

The part when Les returned to the station, describing how the turkeys seemed to be organized in their attacks, was very funny too! (Not shown in the above clip.)

Edit: I looked it up, and it first aired on October 30, 1978. So I was in 4th grade, and probably eager for trick-or-treat the next night too.

BigmanPigman

(52,160 posts)
9. I cherish those moments with my dad.
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 08:42 PM
Nov 2022

We loved the Sat PM lineup and Barney Miller, Taxi as well as the earlier MASH episodes. He laughed out loud to all of them. I miss him.

WKRP was popular when I was in High School and I remember the deaths at the Who Concert in Cincinnati very well.

I personally liked the WKRP episode when they played Pink Floyd's Animals album, "Is that dogs barking?".

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