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About the Series:
  • Pairing an impeccable ensemble cast with hilarious wit and popular tunes, WKRP in Cincinnati celebrated four amazing seasons, making it the quintessential situation comedy for any music lover!
  • Join everyone's favorite radio DJs—the rockin' Dr. Johnny Fever (Howard Hesseman) and the soulful Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid)—as they weave through the inner-office antics of the crazy WKRP staff including the station's steady program director Andy (Gary Sandy), indecisive manager Carlson (Gordon Jump), smarmy advertising executive Herb (Frank Bonner), quirky news man Les Nessman (Richard Sanders), shy ingénue Bailey (Jan Smithers) and, of course, the station's lovely receptionist, Jennifer (Loni Anderson).
  • Sit back and enjoy the sound of uproarious laughter as you watch all 90 episodes of this iconic series.
  • Bonus Content Disc 13:
    • WKRP in Cincinnati: A Paley Center Reunion
    • "Do My Eyes Say Yes?" Featurette
    • "A 'Fish Story' Story" Featurette
    • A Conversation with Gary Sandy

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  • About this deal:
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Amazon has WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Series (DVD) on sale for $19.99. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.

Thanks to Community Member XMan48 for sharing this deal.

EZ to Buy via Walmart also has WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Series (DVD) on sale for $19.99. Shipping is free.

About the Series:
  • Pairing an impeccable ensemble cast with hilarious wit and popular tunes, WKRP in Cincinnati celebrated four amazing seasons, making it the quintessential situation comedy for any music lover!
  • Join everyone's favorite radio DJs—the rockin' Dr. Johnny Fever (Howard Hesseman) and the soulful Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid)—as they weave through the inner-office antics of the crazy WKRP staff including the station's steady program director Andy (Gary Sandy), indecisive manager Carlson (Gordon Jump), smarmy advertising executive Herb (Frank Bonner), quirky news man Les Nessman (Richard Sanders), shy ingénue Bailey (Jan Smithers) and, of course, the station's lovely receptionist, Jennifer (Loni Anderson).
  • Sit back and enjoy the sound of uproarious laughter as you watch all 90 episodes of this iconic series.
  • Bonus Content Disc 13:
    • WKRP in Cincinnati: A Paley Center Reunion
    • "Do My Eyes Say Yes?" Featurette
    • "A 'Fish Story' Story" Featurette
    • A Conversation with Gary Sandy

Editor's Notes

Written by megakimcheelove | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $59.98 lower (75% savings) than the list price of $79.97.
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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XMan48
The original individual season sets released by Fox were horrendous with most of the original music replaced with generic music. However, SHOUT FACTORY obtained the rights to approximately 80% of the original songs and these are included on the SHOUT FACTORY release. I am so thankful to SHOUT FACTORY for going the extra mile to restore as much of the original music as they could. This is a wonderful set and probably the best that we will ever get in physical media.
kevgret
"As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly"
XMan48
Found this on Reddit in regards to the music included as well as the music missing on the SHOUT DVD Set:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WKRPinCi...?rdt=51009

Open the GOOGLE Docs link to see WKRP - Complete spreadsheet of every song played on the show. As well as an indicator on the side concerning a song's presence on Shout's DVD set.

Hope this is helpful...

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joeytino
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Quote from Baguda :
The sad part is the only way you know about replaced music is by searching around for comments from other people. Back before Blurays, it was fairly easy to find DVD reviews with detailed info. Once Blurays took over (which is good), many of the sites with DVD reviews disappeared or deleted them making it hard to find useful reviews of most DVDs. Blurays are a bit easier but some Blurays have no useful reviews anywhere. They just have placeholders which show up in searches but say nothing. Products should be clearly labeled on the cover as having the original music replaced or whatever is wrong, but I can't think of any examples when they are. There's no such thing as truth in advertising. It's always buyer beware.

In some TV shows I could live with replaced music if it's just playing in the background and has no meaning to the episode, but if it's the theme song or the actors are singing or dancing to specific music or it has relevance, changing it is unacceptable. Yet this seems to be extremely common in video releases. In the case of The Odd Couple series where Felix sings many songs, I read that they simply deleted large portions of the episodes, so I could never buy that series like that. It's always caveat emptor.

I'll never understand why getting music rights is so difficult but they don't seem to have any problems with the rights with the crew. Perhaps they should consider putting perpetual music rights in the contract?
Keep in mind that VHS was JUST starting to show up in people's homes and no one had a clue how home entertainment would mature in 10 years, let alone streaming decades later. Back then artists would take any rights deal as there was little more than movies and TV options back then and had no clue what was in store and the studios simply paid for whatever deal was cheapest not thinking people would be clamoring for these old shows 50 years later. As these other options and formats appeared, the studios had to go back to the rights holders to negotiate new deals and they reached for the sky. The Muppet Show has been a headache for Disney for the same reason and many songs have been deleted because Mickey refused to fork over the dough to keep the rights. I suspect modern programming ensures they license any music for the foreseeable future regardless of the format.

One thing I am curious about: Since some of shows were released on VHS back in the day, and I believe they still contained the original music, could the tapes be made again? Are those agreements perpetual and only died out when the formats did? That would be an interesting proposal. Not cheap or practical, but here is a DVD box set of WKRP and a 5 tape set of episodes with their original music as we can still sell them legally.
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Holding out for the VHS version, DVD just isn't retro enough for me!
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Quote from kevgret :
"As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly"
splat! --- LOL
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If there is any set to buy it's this one. I purchased when it was $25 it's well worth it. This sitcom was before my time but is very funny.
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Does this include a free turkey ?
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I bought this in Nov. 2014 for $58 from Costco and that was a killer deal because it was $30 more at Amazon at the time.

I have never even opened it. Still has the shrink wrap on it. Same as the Monty Python and Kids in the Hall sets.
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Quote from kevgret :
"As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly"
I've never seen this show but I read somewhere that incident was based on a real event.
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Quote from tomwil :
Musicians have become so greedy in their demands for monetary compensation. You would be paying triple that DVD price if the original music was retained.
Not this at all, even vaguely. Prior to about the 1990s, or perhaps a better marker would be, prior to the widespread availability of VCR, and changes in syndication, and related, it was the norm for movies and shows NOT to have the music perpetually licensed. That was cheaper for the media producers/distributors (not the artists). As rebroadcasting, and sale, rental, and distribution of media became "a thing", contracts and licensing had to catch up to a changing market. Licensed material, expected to be played once, or for a limited run, might then be distributed and re-run forever. Licensing agreements and expectations were changed to meet the developing market. A number of shows and movies during the transition period were, unfortunately, relegated to the dustbin of history, as the effort and cost of re-licensing wasn't worth it. Another famous series (ended 1989), "Moonlighting", starring Bruce Willis, is a commonly used example of this.
There's a lot of "Kool Aid" which companies put out, to shift narratives. Artists, like farmers, often reap the LEAST amount of money in the chain of selling and distributing their products. Usually, the only people I see complaining about artists making too much money on the artist's work is the music labels and distributors.
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Just a few bucks more on eBay from various sellers assuming it's the same manufacturer. I was going to spring but no need for an impulse buy.
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...and, of course, the station's lovely receptionist, Jennifer (Loni Anderson). 😍😍😍😘🤤
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Quote from HapShaughnessy :
Not.

https://shoutfactory.com/blogs/pr...sic-update [shoutfactory.com]
Yeah - this is likely the most complete version we'll ever get.
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Quote from Baguda :
The sad part is the only way you know about replaced music is by searching around for comments from other people. Back before Blurays, it was fairly easy to find DVD reviews with detailed info. Once Blurays took over (which is good), many of the sites with DVD reviews disappeared or deleted them making it hard to find useful reviews of most DVDs. Blurays are a bit easier but some Blurays have no useful reviews anywhere. They just have placeholders which show up in searches but say nothing. Products should be clearly labeled on the cover as having the original music replaced or whatever is wrong, but I can't think of any examples when they are. There's no such thing as truth in advertising. It's always buyer beware.

In some TV shows I could live with replaced music if it's just playing in the background and has no meaning to the episode, but if it's the theme song or the actors are singing or dancing to specific music or it has relevance, changing it is unacceptable. Yet this seems to be extremely common in video releases. In the case of The Odd Couple series where Felix sings many songs, I read that they simply deleted large portions of the episodes, so I could never buy that series like that. It's always caveat emptor.

I'll never understand why getting music rights is so difficult but they don't seem to have any problems with the rights with the crew. Perhaps they should consider putting perpetual music rights in the contract?
There was a show I liked years ago called Keen Eddie, about a NY cop ending up in London, and the premiere, at least, featured a bunch of UK rock and punk. Sex Pistols and whatnot. One scene in particular was edited to the beat of "One Step Beyond" by Madness. It's gone, along with all the rest, replaced with generic crap on the DVD release, and it's too minor a show for it to be worthwhile to fix.
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I worked in radio for about a decade in the 80s-90s because of this show. There are so many similarities of actual life at a radio station. I was like Johnny working Venus' overnight shift.

But if they actually replaced Pink Floyd's "Dogs" with some generic schlock, I don't want this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1...nFleischer

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Quote from skinner :
Regarding the removal of the original music....wow!

So, if I watch WKRP as a rerun on TV....can I expect that the music will be replaced with generic stuff?....or is it just a DVD thing?
The show has actually not been shown on TV that much in the past 20 years (and as far as I know, it hasn't been seen at all in the past 3 or 4 years, even the annual showing of Turkeys Away that MeTV used to do has been missing the past year or two), likely due to these reasons. The reruns are hit or miss on whether or not the music will be there. I don't think they've been seen anywhere with all/most of the music intact since about the 80s, but there are different versions of reruns floating out there with different variations of missing music. The worst music replacement, though, comes from the season 1 DVD set released by Fox back in 2007 (thankfully not the same copies used in the complete series set). They went out of their way to replace things that survived even butchered reruns from when International Family Entertainment (the corporate name for Pat Robertson's company, when he was more than just The 700 Club... yes, he actually owned the copyright to it and the entire MTM library after acquiring it via a fire sale) owned the series. And supposedly, they did such a sloppy job of removing the original music in those prints that it was believed that original masters no longer even existed, but when Shout! Factory released this DVD set, they apparently did find them or at least reasonably good copies of the original masters.

Now that Disney owns the copyright to the series, I expect it to go into even deeper hiding in syndication. I don't think Disney would have destroyed it the way it was destroyed, but the music is a great excuse to permanently banish it to the vault.
Last edited by sdskees September 12, 2024 at 08:36 PM.

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