NewsRadio: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of NewsRadio Season 3.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Jumper
Sep 23, 1997 · 30 min
Bill tries to get an exclusive on-air story when a suicidal man is perched outside Dave's window.
Plan Bee
Sep 30, 1997 · 30 min
Jimmy hires Andrea, an efficiency expert, when the station needs to cut funds. The staffers rally around an inept Matthew to try to preserve his job. Bill auditions for a televisio
The Public Domain
Oct 28, 1997 · 30 min
Dave tries to get Matthew rehired amidst chaos. Andrea hires a man to share Dave's Job, Jimmy brings a camera crew into the office to film a documentary, and Bill prepares for a ne
Super Karate Monkey Death Car
Nov 4, 1997 · 30 min
Andrea forces the staff to take lie detector tests. Lisa fears she will not pass the test due to her extensive criminal past. Jimmy has his book, which failed in the U.S., translat
French Diplomacy
Nov 11, 1997 · 30 min
Dave and Lisa break up. Bill gets himself into trouble when he advocates the beating of foreign diplomats. Matthew opens his own dentistry practice.
Pure Evil
Nov 18, 1997 · 30 min
Dave hatches a scheme of 'pure evil' to get his job as news director back, including approving Bill's obscenity-laced imaginary conversations with the president. Lisa tries to exce
Catherine Moves On
Nov 25, 1997 · 30 min
Each staffer offers up a very different version of events of the day Catherine announces she's leaving WNYX. Joe realizes that Catherine's always yearned for him.
Stupid Holiday Charity Talent Show
Dec 16, 1997 · 30 min
Dave unveils a previously hidden talent to compete in a charity talent show. If a WNYX staff member wins, Mr. James will re-hire Matthew.
The Secret of Management
Jan 1, 1998 · 30 min
Bill hires a gentleman's gentleman, Cadbury, to oversee his life. Mr. James teaches Lisa 'The Secret of Management'. Matthew feels left out when Bill doesn't congratulate him on be
Look Who's Talking
Jan 6, 1998 · 30 min
Bill announces plans to adopt a child. Beth and Joe attend a charity bachelor auction, with Beth impersonating a duchess and Joe playing her homosexual bachelor friend, to bid on M
Chock
Jan 13, 1998 · 30 min
Dave finds it hard to say no when his old college a cappella singing group 'Chock Full o' Notes' reunites for Dave's 32nd birthday, hoping to take the pop charts by storm. Meanwhil
Who's the Boss? (1)
Jan 20, 1998 · 30 min
After Bill pesters Lisa once again, Dave and Lisa hatch an evil plan to make Bill the boss to teach him a lesson. Bill's reign is eerily efficient. Joe goes on a sympathy strike to
Who's the Boss? (2)
Feb 3, 1998 · 30 min
Mr. James announces an election for station manager, which neither Dave nor Lisa want to win. Joe's dysfunctional brothers visit the station to plan a surprise party for their pare
Security Door
Feb 24, 1998 · 30 min
Dave struggles vainly to get the staffers to properly use the recently installed security door. Bill enlists Lisa to do the negotiating when he's offered a job in a blue jeans comm
Big Brother
Mar 3, 1998 · 30 min
Matthew is assigned a Big Brother, who makes eyes at Beth; Joe, Jimmy, and Bill try to uncover Lisa's love life.
Beep, Beep
Mar 18, 1998 · 30 min
Mr. James gives Matthew a small toy car. Mr. James urges Dave and Lisa to get back together when a secret study reveals they're more productive when they're a couple.
Balloon
Mar 25, 1998 · 30 min
Jimmy plans to go around the world in a hot air balloon, until Dave finds that he is full of "hot air". Meanwhile, Bill switches from cigarettes to chewing tobacco.
Copy Machine
Apr 8, 1998 · 30 min
The office mourns the loss of “Ted from Accounting” until Dave realizes that nobody knew him at all.
Monster Rancher
Apr 15, 1998 · 30 min
Matthew takes Lisa on a date. The office has trouble adapting to a new intern, Mr. James' nephew Walt.
4:20
Apr 29, 1998 · 30 min
Joe fights Matthew in a no-holds-barred match at Mr. James' men's club smoker. Bill is extremely worried that Walt will ask Lisa on a date. We learn Dave's technique for getting ri
Jackass Junior High
May 6, 1998 · 30 min
Lisa is treated like a male by office co-workers, who revert to their boorish selves when all other females are out sick.
Sinking Ship
May 12, 1998 · 30 min
The episode spoofs the movie Titanic, where Walt and Dave sketch Lisa nude and give her heart-shaped necklaces. Soon, though, the ship starts to sink...