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.
The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana
...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest Room
...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West
A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon
There's More to Life Than a Hostess Twinkie
And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their Fists
The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives
It Won't Always Be This Way
...From Its Golden, Ice-cold Depths Come the Echos of Lost Battles, the Sound of Ancient Victories, the Noise of a Million Ball Games
I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab Himself
When There's No Place to Go But Up
Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic Mistake
Make School or Die
The Andy Griffith Show
Long Way Home
A League of Their Own Road Trip: Dingle To Dover
Bouffe en cavale
World's Most Scenic River Journeys
Anywhere but here
Transatlantic Sessions
Zoom New Zealand
Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales
Bluegrass Underground
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
Pole to Pole
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Robbie Coltrane: B-Road Britain
David Holt's State of Music
The Detour
One Day Off
Gary & Mike
Zwei im Wilden Westen
Van Aventure