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The plot of "Turkeys Away" is based on a true story. WKRP in Cincinnati creator Hugh Wilson — who adapted Carlson's character from Jerry Blum, a general manager of radio station WQXI in Atlanta from 1960 to 1989 — recounted that the episode was inspired by a similar live turkey giveaway promotion by Blum, who tossed turkeys out of a pick-up truck at a Dallas shopping center parking lot.
The Thanksgiving "WKRP in Cincinnati" turkey drop episode is classic holiday TV. Want to relive Les Nessman's radio broadcast? How to watch, "Turkeys Away."
Wired ranks "Turkeys Away" as its top holiday episode. "'WKRP in Cincinnati' might not be as well-remembered today as some of its late 1970s/early '80s sitcom counterparts, but it should be," the ...
WKRP in Cincinnati's turkey drop episode is one of Thanksgiving's greatest gifts of television. Here's how to watch the classic, 'Turkeys Away'.
A network employee , who has eyes for Johnny, convinces him to take on hosting duties for a TV show with a large salary; when Johnny realizes it is a disco show, he realizes he cannot back out of the deal without a protracted legal fight, so he creates a new persona, the disco-loving Rip Tide. Initially hoping to keep Johnny Fever and Rip Tide ...
WKRP in Cincinnati debuted in 1978 in CBS's Monday 8 p.m. timeslot, competing against ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter and NBC's top-20 show Little House on the Prairie. The show initially earned poor ratings, and WKRP was put on hiatus after only eight episodes, even though they included some of the most famous of the series, including "Turkeys Away."
USA TODAY released a ranking of the 10 best Thanksgiving TV episodes of all-time, and a show familiar to the Queen City made the list. ... episode 7: "Turkeys Away" (1978). "Friends" season 5 ...
Les is prominently featured in WKRP's most famous episode, "Turkeys Away" (season 1, episode 7), in which he reports on what turns into a disastrous station promotion, evoking Herbert Morrison's emotional description of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. This scene [4] is widely acknowledged to be one of the funniest moments in television history.