Series · Comedy, Documentary
Jean Shepherd's America (1971)
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.
- Creator
- Jean Shepherd
- Writers
- Jean Shepherd
- Network
- PBS
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- April 11, 1971
- Status
- Ended
Cast
Jean ShepherdSelf - Host
Episodes
0/13 watched- Episode 1: The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana29 min · Apr 11, 1971
- Episode 2: ...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest Room29 min · Apr 18, 1971
- Episode 3: ...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West29 min · Apr 25, 1971
- Episode 4: A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon29 min · May 2, 1971
- Episode 5: There's More to Life Than a Hostess Twinkie29 min · May 9, 1971
- Episode 6: And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their Fists29 min · May 16, 1971
- Episode 7: The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives29 min · May 23, 1971
- Episode 8: It Won't Always Be This Way29 min · May 30, 1971
- 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 Games29 min · Jun 6, 1971
- Episode 10: I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab Himself29 min · Jun 13, 1971
- Episode 11: When There's No Place to Go But Up29 min · Jun 20, 1971
- Episode 12: Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic Mistake29 min · Jun 27, 1971
- Episode 13: Make School or Die29 min · Jul 4, 1971
