Season 1 episodes1971-04-11

Season 1

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.

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Episodes

Season 1

Episode 1

The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana

29m

Episode 2

...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest Room

29m

Episode 3

...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West

29m

Episode 4

A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon

29m

Episode 5

Season 1

Season 1

The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana

...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest Room

...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West

A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon

There's More to Life Than a Hostess Twinkie

And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their Fists

The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives

It Won't Always Be This Way

...From Its Golden, Ice-cold Depths Come the Echos of Lost Battles, the Sound of Ancient Victories, the Noise of a Million Ball Games

I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab Himself

When There's No Place to Go But Up

Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic Mistake

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