In Concert " is a very special episode of the television series '' WKRP in Cincinnati '' . Airing as the 19th episode of the second season , it was first broadcast in the United States on February 11 , 1980 , and the concept for the episode was described as " admirably ambitious " by William Beamon , writing in the St. Petersburg '' Evening Independent '' before he had viewed the episode . The plot is set around the real-life The Who concert disaster in Cincinnati of December 3 , 1979 , set within the context of the show 's fictional universe , and was written , taped and aired within 11 weeks of that deadly disaster
The Who concert disaster
The Who concert disaster
In Concert (WKRP in Cincinnati)