Playing the self-assured receptionist on the CBS sitcom, the late actress dialed in a counterpoint to the ditzy blonde

Loni Anderson delivered her funniest and most iconic Jennifer Marlowe moment on WKRP in Cincinnati during the legendary "Turkeys Away” episode.

Loni Anderson, the actress, who has died two days short of her 80th birthday, combined eye-popping glamour with superb comic timing as the radio station receptionist Jennifer Marlowe in the popular sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982);