Product Details

• Actors: Gordon Jump, Gordon Jump, Howard Hesseman, Loni Anderson, Richard Sanders
• Directors: Gordon Jump, Howard Hesseman, Dan Guntzelman, Dolores Ferraro, George Gaynes
• Writers: Hugh Wilson
• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 3
• Studio: Mtm Video
• VHS Release Date: September 4, 1998
• Run Time: 200 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 076701135X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,681 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In the early ‘80s viewers were first introduced to the comic crowd of bizarre broadcasters in the radio station of WKRP. Like listeners of the fictional WKRP, the audience started out small, but for four years WKRP in Cincinatti entertained a growing aud

Customer Reviews

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306 of 308 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars WKRP deserves better treatment, July 7, 2001

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Norman Landsburg (Chapel Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WKRP in Cincinnati (Box Set) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

WKRP in Cincinnati on home video? A great idea, as this was a consistently well-written show, and one of the more intelligent ones from its era, but New Video has done the show an injustice by:

A. Releasing only eight episodes

B. Using masters with the original rock music used during the network run replaced by stock music

C. At times, resorting to substandard and/or edited copies.

Now that 20th Century Fox Home Video owns the rights to this and the rest of the MTM Productions library, it is time to beg them for a DVD release of all 90 episodes unedited and with the original music restored!

186 of 191 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WKRP call letter change to WKRAP, November 25, 2003

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ken clark (Mississippi Gulf Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WKRP in Cincinnati (Box Set) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was jazzed to learn of the release of WKRP to DVD.

I was bummed to learn of the replacement of original music with generic crap... along with the overdub replacement of all actor lines which were said over original music. This show was a sit-com that centered around the music of a rock radio station. The removal of the music is like taking MASH out of the Korean War setting... or moving Andy and Barney from the courthouse to the outhouse.

The sad part is they will sell a lot of these to innocent WKRP lovers who will not know of the deception until it is too late... as for me, count me out until the original is released!

129 of 131 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Reason WKRP Is Still Not Available On DVD, March 24, 2005

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DMT - See all my reviews

This review is from: WKRP in Cincinnati (Box Set) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The reason is simple. Money. Copyright laws have changed in recent years and this requires that each and every song that is used in a particular episode, even if the song only played for a few seconds, must be licensed. This takes time and, more importantly money. It is quite possible that, in order to get complete episodes on DVD with the same music could make a DVD set prohibitively expensive for most people and thus it will be priced out of the market. They could replace some of this music with cheaper, generic tunes, but when that has been done in syndicated airings of WKRP longtime fans have revolted.

There is some encouraging news, however. Amazon is now collecting e-mail addresses of people who want to see WKRP released on DVD. Just enter "WKRP" in a DVD search and give them your e-mail address. Amazon says they will notify the studio of just how many people are waiting. Sign up today, and tell as many people as you can to do the same.