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Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 02:13 am |
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I didn't know if I should post this in the Engineering, Television, or Radio section of the forum, so Radio it is:
Please take note of the passing of 'Bucky', the
"radio engineer" on 'WKRP in Cincinnati'; he died of a heart attack earlier this month at age 66. Bucky (played by Bill Dial) appeared in only two of the show's episodes, and was also one of the writers on WKRP. The two episodes: "remote broadcast" & the famous "Thanksgiving Flying Turkey" episode.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 02:50 am |
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Turkeys hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement. Oh, the humanity.
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Micheal Dickens
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Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 01:53 pm |
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WGN showed both of those episodes within the past 2 or 3 weeks.
Last edited on Fri Jun 27th, 2008 07:23 pm by Micheal Dickens
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Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 06:41 pm |
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| I think he was in the softball episode as well, a 'KRP gem IMHO...
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Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 10:58 pm |
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| Dial appeared as an Bucky in "Baseball" and "Holdup"...don't ask me how I know. He wrote "Turkey's Away" and a few others on WKRP...he also wrote several "Simon and Simon" episodes. A talent for sure.
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Buddy Dornster
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Posted: Sat Jun 28th, 2008 06:37 pm |
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"Turkey's Away" was, in my book, in the top five funniest half-hours in the history of television...From Carlson launching his pencil to himself swearing his thoughts of turkey flight, non-stop belly laughs.
In actuality it wasn't unlike the KTTS promo at Smitty's wherein the sales individual inflated balloons with helium, then set them loose on the parking lot with grocery coupons floating away to North Carolina.
A parking lot full of dumbfounded listeners and crying children....
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Posted: Sat Jun 28th, 2008 08:45 pm |
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| Overall, WKRP never received it's due. We radio folk loved the show because of it's realism. We all worked with every character on that show at one time or another. They went into so many facets of radio, including the dreaded day of the arrival of the Arbitron! Which of us couldn't relate. If you weren't in radio, the show didn't mean as much, even though there were many funny episodes. My favorite had to be the Highway Patrol episode when Johnny and Venus got pickled on the air..Priceless!
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Desdinova the Super Villain of the Ozark
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Posted: Sun Jul 6th, 2008 04:05 am |
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Hoopman wrote: Overall, WKRP never received it's due. We radio folk loved the show because of it's realism. We all worked with every character on that show at one time or another. They went into so many facets of radio, including the dreaded day of the arrival of the Arbitron! Which of us couldn't relate. If you weren't in radio, the show didn't mean as much, even though there were many funny episodes. My favorite had to be the Highway Patrol episode when Johnny and Venus got pickled on the air..Priceless!
I've since found out that most of the cast and writers worked in radio. That is where the realism comes in. I've set in several meetings where things were planed and thought about Mr. Carlson's turkey drop.
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 02:48 am |
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| I found a cable TV channel that plays WKRP, Mary Tyler Moore and both the Bob Newhart shows at night in prime time. I think it is the American Life channel or something, it runs mostly religious programming during the day. I try to remember to tune in when there is not much on worth watching. It amazes me, what with all the channels available there are very very very few that appeal to me. I hate paying for cable TV and soooooo many of the channels run info commercial programs and shopping stuff.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14th, 2008 02:11 am |
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WGN has WKRP on Sundays at 6 (two episodes)
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