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Jean Shepherd's America
Year: 1971
Seasons: 2
Type: TV Series
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
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.
Episodes
EP 1
EP 1
The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana
EP 2
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
EP 3
...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West
EP 4
EP 4
A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon
EP 5
EP 5
There's More to Life Than a Hostess Twinkie
EP 6
EP 6
And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their Fists
EP 7
EP 7
The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives
EP 8
EP 8
It Won't Always Be This Way
EP 9
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
EP 10
I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab Himself
EP 11
EP 11
When There's No Place to Go But Up
EP 12
EP 12
Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic Mistake
EP 13
EP 13
Make School or Die
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