TV.com

WKRP in Cincinnati Season 1 Episode 3

Les On a Ledge

Favorite

Watched It I've Watched This 1

Next
Episode Previous
Episode

9.0

User Rating

35 votes

Your Rating: 10
Your Rating: 9.5
Your Rating: 9
Your Rating: 8.5
Your Rating: 8
Your Rating: 7.5
Your Rating: 7
Your Rating: 6.5
Your Rating: 6
Your Rating: 5.5
Your Rating: 5
Your Rating: 4.5
Your Rating: 4
Your Rating: 3.5
Your Rating: 3
Your Rating: 2.5
Your Rating: 2
Your Rating: 1.5
Your Rating: 1

Rate Now

EPISODE REVIEWS
By TV.com Users

Write A Review

Episode Summary

EDIT

AIRED: 10/2/78

Les' reputation, and ability to conduct locker room interviews, is on the line when a baseball player accuses him of being gay. So he takes to walking the ledge of the Flimm Building.

Fan Episode Reviews (1)

Les plans to dive of the WKRP buildings when his feelings get hurt by a rumor that he is gay after a botched interview.

8.0

By marvelfan89, Aug 03, 2009

Started watching episodes again on WGN America although I've watched this show way back when.

This is a hilarious Les episode. It shows how really sensitive is about criticism, on the flip side it shows his lack of a backbone toward combating a situation.

Les who covered the sports stories for the situation has a bad interview with one one of the people he's interviewing. Soon a rumor is started that the athletes think Les is gay.

Les instead of trying to face this head on decides to take a rather cowardly way by deciding his going to kill himself by diving of the WKRP building. and ability to conduct locker room interviews, is on the line when a baseball player accuses him of being gay So he takes to walking the ledge of the Flimm Building.

Only WKRP can take a plot like this and make it funny. Richard Sanders was great as Les, a rather smug nerd, who at times arrogant and superficial and in this episode sensitive to criticism.

It's kind of ironic of course because Les is supposed to be this hard nosed reporter so you'd expect him to not take this gay stuff sitting down. However, that's kind of way Les is. The episode does have a happy ending. The actors were great here. Gordon Jump as Mr. Carlson, Frank Bonner as Herb Tarlek and Loni Anderson as Jennifer.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
1 0

Flag
Share Hide

See All Fan Reviews

Cast & Crew: STARS

EDIT

Howard Hesseman	Johnny "Fever" Caravella
Gordon Jump	Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson
Loni Anderson	Jennifer Marlowe
Richard Sanders	Les Nessman
Gary Sandy	Andy Travis
Frank Bonner	Herb Tarlek

See All Cast & Crew

Watch Online

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

FILTER BY TYPE

TRIVIA (1)
ADD TRIVIA
- The cops/firefighters are called to the 9th floor of the Flimm building, but the WKRP door shows suite 1412.
  EDIT SHARE
QUOTES (3)
ADD QUOTES
- Les: I've always considered myself a fairly macho kind of guy.
  EDIT SHARE
- Herb: Uh, Les, this is Herb speaking. Now, I just want you to know that...if you jump, I'll jump too.
  Les: Thanks, Herb.
  EDIT SHARE
- Les: In the top story of the day, General Wallace Nasami, head of the emerging nation of Nibia, denied his new government was a dictatorship and promised free elections as soon as each citizen of the small country learned to play a musical instrument.
  EDIT SHARE
NOTES (2)
ADD NOTES
- Music Changes: The song Johnny plays at the beginning, "They Called It Rock" by Nick Lowe, has been replaced. The generic music for Les' introductory fanfare has been replaced with different generic music.
  EDIT SHARE
- Tim Reid and Jan Smithers do not appear in this episode.
  EDIT SHARE
ALLUSIONS (0)
ADD ALLUSIONS
- ADD ALLUSIONS from this episode.