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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Episode: 1 The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana
Episode: 2 ...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest Room
Episode: 3 ...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West
Episode: 4 A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon
Episode: 5 There's More to Life Than a Hostess Twinkie
Episode: 6 And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their Fists
Episode: 7 The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives
Episode: 8 It Won't Always Be This Way
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 Games
Episode: 10 I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab Himself
Episode: 11 When There's No Place to Go But Up
Episode: 12 Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic Mistake
Episode: 13 Make School or Die