🎄 It’s another Scrooge Sunday, which means we’re about to be haunted by a series of spirits as we ride the airwaves back to 1980 for a version of “A Christmas Carol” set in the studios of “WKRP in Cincinnati.”
🎙️ Gerry Davila, Scott Leopold, and Michael May join us on a trip through time that definitely wasn’t fueled by special brownies, so stop asking.
📺 You can find “Bah, Humbug” on the Internet Archive.
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(00:00) – Intro
(03:03) – Guest and Episode Histories
(07:55) – Carlson’s Grandfather’s Ghost
(26:03) – Christmas Past
(38:30) – Retro Commercial Break
(39:58) – Christmas Present
(46:42) – Christmas Future and The End of It
(59:17) – Final Thoughts
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
This episode won an Emmy for video editing, beating out an Alice in Wonderland themed episode of “The Muppet Show” starring Brooke Shields.
A teenage Jan Smithers (Bailey) on a 1966 cover of “Newsweek.”
Richard Sanders (Les Nessman) in “Day of the Tentacle.”
There’s now a real, actual WKRP-FM radio station in Cincinnati.
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📼 Commercials:
Kmart Christmas Commercial (1980)
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“WKRP in Cincinnati” and “Bah, Humbug” © 1980 Company Four.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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