Les Nessman
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Search complete. 145 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Les Nessman".
Oct 8, 2026
Donna StareHOST
A member of a group of hog experts visiting from Russia informs the radio staff that he wishes to defect.
Donna StareHOST
Despite Les' staunch position on communism, the group works to help the Russian citizen to defect while in Cincinnati, only to be thwarted by bureaucracy at the last moment.
Allen StareHOST
Now, this is only the second episode directed by Hugh Wilson, this one and Baseball, and those are the only two that he will direct in the entire series.
Allen StareHOST
But that's not the real story here.
Allen StareHOST
Let's get into this episode.
Allen StareHOST
We're starting out in the studio, always one of my favorite places to be, because we've got posters.
Allen StareHOST
To the left of Les, if you look under the window there next to the studio door, you got a poster promoting the Emerson, Lake & Palmer album In Concert.
Allen StareHOST
This album features audio from an August 1977 show recorded at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Dalton McGeeHOST
That's, that's quite good.
Dalton McGeeHOST
I know Les Nessman.
Dalton McGeeHOST
That's the only name I know from that show.
Adam WindleGUEST
Yeah.
Donna StareHOST
When Jennifer finds out she must deal with Herb for 10 days, she tells Bailey she can't make it.
Donna StareHOST
Bailey gives Jennifer some advice that sounds like a good plan, but will it work? Les overhears Jennifer's and Bailey's plan, and he tells Herb.
Donna StareHOST
With this news, Herb decides he's gotta go for it now.
Allen StareHOST
Not sure why it took two story editors and an executive story consultant to write this one, but we do have three of them involved.
Allen StareHOST
This episode was the one shot just before Baby, If You've Ever Wondered.
Allen StareHOST
All right, let's get into the episode.
Allen StareHOST
We start out in the lobby where Art and Les are arriving at the same time for work.
Allen StareHOST
Bailey's over at the filing cabinets, and Jennifer is at her desk.
Donna StareHOST
Now let's get into the episode.
Allen StareHOST
We head to the bullpen, where we see Herb and Les, and, oh man.
Donna StareHOST
It's time.
Allen StareHOST
It's time.
speaker_10NARRATOR
Herb Darlick Fashion Alert.
Donna StareHOST
Pink dress shirt, red and white checked jacket with matching red and white checked pants, red tie with white polka dots, white belt, and white shoes.
Allen StareHOST
Herb is counting money, and Les is shaking his head at him.
Herb TarlekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's illegal, Herb.
Nathalie NiddamHOST
It was a funny show.
Nathalie NiddamHOST
And there was this really quirky newsman, his name was Les Nessman, and he, there was a show where he walked around the whole show saying, "You know, at the end of the day, everything leaks." And he was right.
Nathalie NiddamHOST
Everything does leak.
Bryce ApplebaumGUEST
Yeah.
Jen NarramorePANELIST
It sounds like public-
James AydelottPANELIST
It sounds like the WKRP tornado plan that Les Nessman had never read.
Jen NarramorePANELIST
[laughs]
James SpannHOST
[laughs] Wow.
speaker_1NARRATOR
That's 21000.
Mark MillerHOST
Miller and Moulton, millerandmoulton.com. That commercial breaks Agricultural Minute brought to you by Les Nesman and WKRP's Hog Futures.
Mark MillerHOST
For those of you wondering what we were talking about, if you're on YouTube or Twitch, you're aware if you're listening online, And any of our markets on the radio, that be Huntsville or Greenwich, Connecticut or anywhere else, you can catch the show.
Mark MillerHOST
You can always see us, twitch.tv slash Miller and Moulton, youtube.com slash Miller and Moulton.
Stefan MolyneuxHOST
I appreciate that, but don't, I mean, I'm not going to tell you what to feel or not to feel, obviously, but an alternate perspective is being deplatformed kept me alive.
Stefan MolyneuxHOST
Steph is the Les Nesman of philosophy.
Stefan MolyneuxHOST
So Richard Garriott, was that? No, was that the? Anyway, so there was an actor who played a kind of nebbish newsman, Les Nesman.
Stefan MolyneuxHOST
It was a very funny character, very funny character.
Stefan MolyneuxHOST
He constantly had band-aids because he wanted to have the impression he had this mysterious life of perhaps violence or street fighting outside the office.
Stefan MolyneuxHOST
Oh my God, they're turkeys.
Stefan MolyneuxHOST
They had a turkey promotion where they wanted to release turkeys from a helicopter, but the turkeys couldn't fly, so they just fell and thudded among the crowd.
Stefan MolyneuxHOST
Children running, screaming, and the actor playing Les Nesman just narrated it.
Tim WeisbergHOST
In 1978, an important show in my life, WKRP in Cincinnati premiered on CBS.
Tim WeisbergHOST
Believe it or not, the guy who played Les Nesman was only like 35 when
Tony PetrarcaCORRESPONDENT
that show
Tim WeisbergHOST
debuted.
Allison ArgoGUEST
Many moons ago, I played the younger sister of Gary Sandy on WKRP.
Allison ArgoGUEST
So I was a guest on WKRP for a week.
Allison ArgoGUEST
And it was a lovely
Allen StareHOST
experience.
10 MINS LATER
Allen StareHOST
We put L.A. Jamie Schmidt and Michael, the accountant of Rock Hernandez, on the case to find out what Lonnie was up to that week.
Allen StareHOST
Turns out Ms. Anderson had a busy November of 1979.
Allen StareHOST
She was taping a week of shows, guest hosting with Mike Douglas the first week of the month.
Allen StareHOST
Douglas used to tape delay by a day right there in Hollywood, so she could easily have been free by the Friday show taping.