S2.E6

Good Morning, Peoria - September 9, 1959

Episode aired Oct 12, 1993
TV-PG
1h

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Sam is a radio DJ and has to help bring Rock and Roll to Peoria.Sam is a radio DJ and has to help bring Rock and Roll to Peoria.Sam is a radio DJ and has to help bring Rock and Roll to Peoria.

Director
- Michael Zinberg
Writers
- Donald P. Bellisario
- Chris Ruppenthal
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8.1/10

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Director
- Michael Zinberg
Writers
- Donald P. Bellisario
- Chris Ruppenthal
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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7/10

50s radio romp, includes Chubby Checker

A fun radio romp in the late 50s involving a town effort to shut down the mythical Peoria rock & roll station.

Full of period music and vintage radio equipment. Includes a guest appearance by Twist originator Chubby Checker.

Pat Richardson (well known from Home Improvement) convincingly plays a young station manager who has inherited station WOF from her dad and wants to do the right thing on behalf of rock & roll and the youth of Peoria. She becomes caught in a tug-of-war with the town elders and advertisers who want nothing to do with the newfangled 'rock and roll' music and try to shut down the station.

Includes a short romantic interlude with Quantum Leap lead Scott Bakula.

Trivia: In real life, there is no WOF-AM.

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Trivia
Although Chubby Checker was 47 years old when this episode was made, he played himself as a 17-year-old boy.

Goofs
Sam Beckett gives Chubby Checker the idea for the Twist in 1959, but a few moments before, during a street scene, one of the girls is dancing the Twist to the Radio WOF record.

Quotes
Sam: There was a poem in high school I think that I never forgot... Until now. I think it ended with, "And everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." I guess I just think it's time for the best to exhibit a little passionate intensity.