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