WKRP in Cincinatti Trivia

GeeBee

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What cast members went on to star as lead in their own tv series after WKRP was cancelled?

Name the shows as well.
In a right thinking world it would have been "speed kills Del" Murdock, the best caricature of a tv and stereo shop owner ever. Alas it was not to be.
 

drc75

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The Bicycle man was not a spin off series, it was a 2 part episode of Different Strokes, titled The Bicycle Man.

Howard Hessman in Head of the Class is correct!, but there are 2 more cast members that starred as leads in their own show.
Gordon Jump (and others) in The New WKRP in Cincinnati
Tim Reid in Sister, Sister
 
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Gordon Jump (and others) in The New WKRP in Cincinnati
Tim Reid in Sister, Sister
Tim Reid didn't star as the lead in Sister Sister, the Mowry sisters were the leads.

The New WKRP doesn't really qualify, since it was an ensemble cast with no one as a lead.
 

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What cast members went on to star as lead in their own tv series after WKRP was cancelled?

Name the shows as well.
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Loni Anderson in "Easy Street"

Howard Hessman in "Head of the Class"
Tim Reid in "Frank's Place"

They were all the leading actors in the shows

 

SoftHands813

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Didn’t he hurt himself for real before the first episode and then continued the bandage from then on as a running gag!
Yes, he was hit by a falling studio light. No amount of makeup could cover it up -they had to use a bandage. Richard Sanders was the one who took that ball, ran with it, and made it a running gag.
 

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Tim Reid playing the criminal that was arrested for robbery of a jewelry store that was a dead ringer for Venus Fly Trap, does that count?
I had forgotten about that. That episode is actually a clue as to the identity of two of the other actors, though.
 
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