On this day, many thoughts turn to home and family and parades and drumsticks. Some of us make a little room for the famous "Turkey's Away!" episode of the sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati. It's remembered as a Thanksgiving episode but it actually aired on October 30, 1978, several weeks before Thanksgiving as the seventh episode of the series.
Do you know how unusual it is for any show to have its most memorable episode that early in its run? Not only that but they had theirs before the show was on the air. Folks in the audience were recruited to attend a taping of a new program they'd never seen or probably even heard of.
That fact is not clear in this brief interview with the show's creator and runner, Hugh Wilson. In it, he talks about that famous episode…