
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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Air Date: 1971-04-11
Shep recalls the sights, sounds, and experiences of working in a steel mill at age 17, as the operations of a contemp...
Air Date: 1971-04-18
Shep loses his bait but comes up with some tall tales on a fishing trip in Maine's backwaters on the banks of the Ken...
Air Date: 1971-04-25
While rumbling across Wyoming aboard a Union Pacific railroad car, Shep recalls a previous trip during his World War ...
Air Date: 1971-05-02
Recalling the origins of his interest in Alaska in the second grade, Shep journeys through the Alaskan frontier explo...
Air Date: 1971-05-09
While he cracks lobster claws, Shep cracks jokes and stories about his crazy love affair with all manner of delicacie...
Air Date: 1971-05-16
Recalling a comic-strip from his boyhood in which the hero escapes on a houseboat from the pursuing villains, Shep ta...
Air Date: 1971-05-23
Shep gets behind the wheel and moves out on the turnpike of life, as he muses on the mystique of the open road.
Air Date: 1971-05-30
Shep contrasts man's "nesting" instinct with his desire for mobility in a vision of tomorrow's styles of living.
Air Date: 1971-06-06
Beer, considered by some to be the universal language, is the focus as Shep travels to the archetypal neighborhood ta...
Air Date: 1971-06-13
Shep talks with one of Florida's natural wonders: Sea Weed Ernie, a hermit who lives in an old wrecked boat in the mi...
Air Date: 1971-06-20
Tall stories -- airborne. Shep takes off at the controls of his four-seater and visits a convention that features hom...
Air Date: 1971-06-27
What happens when you let a guy like Jean Shepherd loose in a place like Hawaii? He has a luau, watches the surfers a...
Air Date: 1971-07-04
Stranded during a blizzard in Wyoming, Shep and the crew romp in the snow outside the "Little America" motel while he...