Slattery's People (1964)

Slattery's People

Slattery's People is a 1964-1965 American television series about local politics starring Richard Crenna as title character James Slattery, a state legislator, co-starring Ed Asner and Tol Avery, and featuring Carroll O'Connor and Warren Oates in a couple of episodes each. James E. Moser was executive producer. The program, telecast on CBS, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Slattery's People is mainly notable for having been one of the few American television series spotlighting the travails of local politicians, a topic that other programs of the period mainly avoided. Many television critics highly praised the series. Many politicians also approved of the program. U.S. Representative James C. Corman said in a Congressional Record statement on September 30, 1964, “I am pleased that they have taken the high road to show a legislator’s life, and have not pandered to sensationalism or unreality to stimulate an audience following.” Moser's script for the pilot was printed as an appendix in Teleplay; an introduction to television writing by Coles Trapnell. Television composer Nathan Scott wrote the theme music for Slattery's People.

Slattery's People

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Question: what is truth?

  • 1x2

    Question: why the lonely, why the misbegotten?

  • 1x3

    Question: remember the dark sins of youth?

  • 1x4

    Question: whatever happened to ezra?

  • 1x5

    Question: what are you doing out there, waldo?

  • 1x6

    Question: what became of the white tortilla?

  • 1x7

    Question: where vanished the tragic piper?

  • 1x8

    Question: is laura the name of the game?

  • 1x9

    Question: what's a genius worth this week?

  • 1x10

    Question: what is honor, what is death?

  • 1x11

    Question: do the ignorant sleep in pure white beds?

  • 1x12

    Question: which one has the privilege?

  • 1x13

    Question: how long is the shadow of a man?

  • 1x14

    Question: what is a requiem for a loser?

  • 1x15

    Question: what did you do all day, mr. slattery?

  • 1x16

    Question: how do you fall in love with a town?

  • 1x17

    Question: does nero still at ringside sit?

  • 1x18

    Question: how do you catch a cool bird of paradise?

  • 1x19

    Question: when do we hang the good samaritan?

  • 1x20

    Question: is democracy too expensive?

  • 1x21

    Question: did he who made the lamb make thee?

  • 1x22

    Question: who you taking to the main event, eddie?

  • 1x23

    Question: what's new in timbuctoo?

  • 1x24

    Question: bill bailey, why did you come home?

  • 1x25

    Question: what time is the next bandwagon?

  • 1x26

    Question: what's a swan song for a sparrow?

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    A sitting duck named slattery

  • 2x2

    He who has ears, let him bug somebody else

  • 2x3

    How impregnable is a magic tower?

  • 2x4

    The unborn

  • 2x5

    Rally 'round your own flag, mister

  • 2x6

    What can you do with a wounded tiger?

  • 2x7

    The hero

  • 2x8

    Of damon, pythias and sleeping dogs

  • 2x9

    The last commuter

  • 2x10

    Color him red

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