Overview
In these humorous and affectionate television poems, humorist Jean Shepherd celebrates America in all its richness and diversity -- from cars to candy, baseball to beer, motels to money. Each week a different aspect of our national psyche is explored as Shepherd travels to the Okefenokee Swamp, Death Valley, Milwaukee, the Old South, and other far-flung locations -- using the PCP-90 portable camera.
Details
Status
Ended
Network
PBS
Type
Reality
Original Language
EN
Creators
Jean Shepherd
Production Countries
US
Spoken Languages
English
Top Cast
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Seasons
EP 1The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in IndianaEP 2...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest RoomEP 3...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American WestEP 4A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute SaloonEP 5There's More to Life Than a Hostess TwinkieEP 6And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their FistsEP 7The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our LivesEP 8It Won't Always Be This WayEP 9...From Its Golden, Ice-cold Depths Come the Echos of Lost Battles, the Sound of Ancient Victories, the Noise of a Million Ball GamesEP 10I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab HimselfEP 11When There's No Place to Go But UpEP 12Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic MistakeEP 13Make School or Die