At the start of Johnny's show at 06:07, he receives a telephone call from an unnamed female listener who, now alone in Cincinnati, considers him her only friend in town. With no one else in the office yet besides Johnny in the booth, she has left a gift for him outside the locked office doors: her baby daughter. The rest of the WKRP staff, as they arrive one by one, bond with the baby, who they consider their unofficial mascot. The voice of reason, Andy, knows that they have to call in child protection services. But Johnny has second thoughts about the authorities taking the baby, he who wants to keep the baby as long as it takes to find the biological mother, which he hopes to do with coded/veiled messages to her over the air to call him back. The questions then become if Johnny's plan will work before child protection services has no other option but to take the baby, and/or Andy will allow Johnny to use the airwaves for this purpose.
—Huggo