Well, we lost another great. OK…he didn’t get an Oscar, he didn’t have a big hit album. He didn’t even cure any diseases. He was Dr. Johnny Fever on the show about radio. Yes, it’s ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ was a CULT CLASSIC to us radio folk. To all other people the show was an absolute must. From the turkey drop at Thanksgiving to the Nerdy News guy, the hot secretary and all the rest. Back in the day when a guy could call him self Venus Flytrap and people would love it. There was always a crazy one on each station too…THAT was Dr. Johnny Fever. Many great memories to us old farts yes, I’m gonna say it, when there WERE great classics on TV. Ok, so us radio folk would pick apart some of the things in the show that weren’t realistic to us. Like putting the needle on an album in the MIDDLE of the album but yet the song would start at that point. But FINALLY some exposure to this weird world of dysfunctional Disc Jockeys and a dysfunctional staff, We STILL loved The Dr.
Howard Hesseman died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 81. His wife, Caroline Ducrocq, said he died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from colon surgery last summer.
He actually DID receive two Emmy nominations for playing Dr. Johnny Fever on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” which ran on CBS for four seasons from 1978 to 1982.
Rest in peace Dr. Fever and thanks SO much for all the wonderful memories on… ♪♪WKRP IN CINCINNATIIIIIIIIIIII♪♪