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comrade1234yesterday at 10:33 AM6 repliesview on HN

I think I'm getting this show mixed up with another. I thought that Phil Hartman was in it but looking at the wiki page he's not listed... ah, Phil Hartman was in News Radio. WKRP was almost 20 years earlier. Everyone that watched it is probably dead or in a nursing home.


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bityardyesterday at 12:51 PM

The last episode of WKRP was 44 years ago. What age do you believe people die or go into a nursing home?

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quantummagicyesterday at 11:54 AM

Thanks for the chuckle. But a lot of us are hanging on for dear life, and still living independently.

toast0yesterday at 2:37 PM

There was also two seasons of 'the new wkrp' from ten years after the old one. I don't follow the show (either version), so I don't know if the new seasons are any good; or the old ones really, but there'a a following, obviously.

alsobrspyesterday at 11:49 AM

I watched it. I am not dead, in a nursing home, nor retired.

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jzbyesterday at 5:26 PM

Um. I grew up watching WKRP. I’m in my mid-50s.

kmbfjryesterday at 11:55 AM

One of the actors of the show recorded promos for the station, so guess not.

The fact that someone posted a link to the article that you probably didn’t read also refutes this premise.