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Jean Shepherd's America; One Man’s Version Of Heaven Is A Super Howard Johnsons With 28 Flavors And No Lines For the Rest Rooms. Mine Is A Fast-Moving Stream.
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- Series
- Jean Shepherd's America
- Program
- One Man’s Version Of Heaven Is A Super Howard Johnsons With 28 Flavors And No Lines For the Rest Rooms. Mine Is A Fast-Moving Stream.
- Program Number
101
- Series Description
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.
See April and May 1971 Program Guides for cover stories. Series release date: 4/11/1971
- Program Description
Originally broadcast in 1971. One man’s version of heaven, say Jean Shepherd, is a super Howard Johnsons with 28 flavors and no lines for the rest rooms. But Shepherd himself would gladly skip all 28 for a fishing rod and a fast-moving stream in Maine. The “dream” was to fish from the banks of the Kennebec River and that’s what he finally gets to do. Shepherd mainly loses his bait, but comes up with some good stories, anyway
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Topics
- Humor
- Creators
- Barzyk, Fred (Series Producer)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Jean Shepherd's America; One Man’s Version Of Heaven Is A Super Howard Johnsons With 28 Flavors And No Lines For the Rest Rooms. Mine Is A Fast-Moving Stream.,” GBH Archives, accessed May 23, 2022, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_AF5DA710AFD849F0AFA1D6F5882FD384.
- MLA: “Jean Shepherd's America; One Man’s Version Of Heaven Is A Super Howard Johnsons With 28 Flavors And No Lines For the Rest Rooms. Mine Is A Fast-Moving Stream..” GBH Archives. Web. May 23, 2022. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_AF5DA710AFD849F0AFA1D6F5882FD384>.
- APA: Jean Shepherd's America; One Man’s Version Of Heaven Is A Super Howard Johnsons With 28 Flavors And No Lines For the Rest Rooms. Mine Is A Fast-Moving Stream.. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_AF5DA710AFD849F0AFA1D6F5882FD384