Season 1
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
Episode 13:
Make School or Die
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Jean Shepherd's America
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.
First Air Date: 1971-04-11
Genre:
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 23
Status: Ended
Production: GBH
