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Watching: Jean Shepherd's America
9.0•1971-04-11•2 Seasons
Season 1
Episode 6
Episodes
EP 1
The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana
EP 2
...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest Room
EP 3
...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West
EP 4
A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon
EP 5
There's More to Life Than a Hostess Twinkie
EP 6
And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their Fists
EP 7
The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives
EP 8
It Won't Always Be This Way
EP 9
...From Its Golden, Ice-cold Depths Come the Echos of Lost Battles, the Sound of Ancient Victories, the Noise of a Million Ball Games
EP 10
I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab Himself
EP 11
When There's No Place to Go But Up
EP 12
Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic Mistake
EP 13
Make School or Die
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.