WKRP in Cincinnati/In Concert

In Concert
Season 2, Episode 19
Airdate	February 11, 1980
Written by	Steven Kampmann
Directed by	Linda Day
Produced by	Rod Daniel
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WKRP in Cincinnati — Season Two

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In Concert is the nineteenth episode of the second season of WKRP in Cincinnati, and the forty-first episode overall.

Starring: Gary Sandy (Andy Travis)

and Gordon Jump (Arthur Carlson)

Co-Starring: Loni Anderson (Jennifer Marlowe), Richard Sanders (Les Nessman), Tim Reid (Venus Flytrap), Frank Bonner (Herbert Tarlek), Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters)

and Howard Hesseman (Dr. Johnny Fever)

Plot Overview

WKRP is promoting a concert by British rock band The Who at the Riverfront Coliseum in town and several of the station's employees plan on attending the event. The employees are later horrified to discover that several fans waiting to get into the show had died as a result of being stampeded during a rush for festival seating by the crowd waiting outside the Coliseum, and they subsequently mourn the disaster as they discuss what happened the following day.

Notes

• Text at the end of the episode stated:

On December 3, 1979

Eleven People Died

Outside Riverfront

Coliseum.

On December 27, 1979

The City of Cincinnati

Passed an Ordinance

Prohibiting "Festival

Seating" or General

Addmission.

Trivia

The Show

• This episode was made in the wake of, and references, the real-life concert by The Who which had taken place at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati on December 3, 1979 as part of that band's 1979 world tour. Prior to the start of that concert, 11 concertgoers were killed due to compressive asphyxiation and 23 more were seriously injured when some members of the crowd of about 8,000 fans waiting outside the Coliseum rushed the gates on the plaza level of the venue's west side to try to access festival seating inside, resulting in fans at the front getting crushed against the still-closed gates or trampled by the surge of fans from the back due to there being too few gate doors opened by the facility. As a result of the incident, Cincinnati city council voted on December 27, 1979 to ban festival seating in the city, a ban which remained until being lifted in 2004

Memorable Moments

• The aftermath of The Who concert disaster, as dealt with by the WKRP employees