Jean Shepherd's America (1971)

Jean Shepherd's America

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.

Jean Shepherd's America

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    The phantom of the open hearth lives -- somewhere in indiana

  • 1x2

    ...one man's version of heaven is a super howard johnson's with 28 flavors and no lines for the rest room

  • 1x3

    ...the end of an era -- riding the 'city of los angeles' on its last journey across the american west

  • 1x4

    A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the malamute saloon

  • 1x5

    There's more to life than a hostess twinkie

  • 1x6

    And the bad guys are back on the shore, shaking their fists

  • 1x7

    The perpetual swish of windshield wipers is the soundtrack of our lives

  • 1x8

    It won't always be this way

  • 1x9

    ...from its golden, ice-cold depths come the echos of lost battles, the sound of ancient victories, the noise of a million ball games

  • 1x10

    I might even snag one for old ahab himself

  • 1x11

    When there's no place to go but up

  • 1x12

    Like all great inner-tube specialists, he finally made the classic mistake

  • 1x13

    Make school or die

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Mosquitoes and moon pies

  • 2x2

    Filthy rich at last

  • 2x3

    Bourbon and major wilkes' rocking chair

  • 2x4

    The great american tourist trap

  • 2x5

    Cha-cha lessons on c deck at 9am

  • 2x6

    Down in death valley

  • 2x7

    The devil on the bayou

  • 2x8

    I love cars, so there, ralph nader!

  • 2x9

    Chicago, chicago, that toddlin' town

  • 2x10

    Here today, guam tomorrow

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