Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP in Cincinnati has signed off :-(

To me personally, it my favourite Sitcom of all time. I grew up with all those characters. As a pre-teen/teen, my friends and watched every episode and talked about it at school the next day. You loved all the characters but Johnny was always my favourite followed by Bailey & Jennifer. 

I was a MaryAnn and Bailey guy.

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Love Les commentating in the parking lot as the turkeys were falling from helicopter......." Oh the humanity of it all!"

Greatest show ever!!!

The infamous "turkey drop" episode in WKRP was actually followed by something similar in Cleveland in the early 80's (I happened to be visiting there at the time).  It as either inspired by the turkey show or in spite of the turkey show.

To celebrate the spring opening of the Cleveland Ind*ans (can I type that anymore?) season a local radio station had a contest where they dropped baseballs from a helicopter and if you caught one you won a ticket to the opener

It went about as well as you'd expect with several people injured and the loss of a car windshield and assorted property damage.

What I particularly remember was the editorial on the TV News raging that "this is what makes Cleveland a laughing stock".

Hi All,

You known I never really watched this particular show. I grew up watching Welcome Back Kotter, SWAT, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...However I remember Johnny Fever vividly. And when I saw news of this yesterday it struck me...Is it just me getting too sentimental in my older age now (52) or do you all feel this profound kind of sadness when people we grew up watching/cheering for even those we may not have necessarily watched we knew of them, pass? Remember how much simpler and less complicated everything was back in the 70's-80's? I don't have kids (thankfully with today's world) but I feel so bad for today's younger generation. All they've known is drama, chaos, stress, craziness....At least us older folk remember when everything was simpler and made much more sense...