About this season
Slattery's People is a 1964-1965 American television series about local politics starring Richard Crenna as title character James Slattery, a state legislator, co-starring Ed Asner and Tol Avery, and featuring Carroll O'Connor and Warren Oates in a couple of episodes each. James E. Moser was executive producer. The program, telecast on CBS, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Slattery's People is mainly notable for having been one of the few American television series spotlighting the travails of local politicians, a topic that other programs of the period mainly avoided. Many television critics highly praised the series. Many politicians also approved of the program. U.S. Representative James C. Corman said in a Congressional Record statement on September 30, 1964, “I am pleased that they have taken the high road to show a legislator’s life, and have not pandered to sensationalism or unreality to stimulate an audience following.” Moser's script for the pilot was printed as an appendix in Teleplay; an introduction to television writing by Coles Trapnell. Television composer Nathan Scott wrote the theme music for Slattery's People.
Episodes (26)
1. Question: What is Truth?
Aired 21 September 1964 • 60 min
Slattery is named to head a committee investigating charges against his friend and fellow legislator Harry Sanborn, who is accused of willfully and illegally killing a piece of legislation he opposed.
2. Question: Why the Lonely, Why the Misbegotten?
Aired 28 September 1964 • 60 min
3. Question: Remember the Dark Sins of Youth?
Aired 5 October 1964 • 60 min
4. Question: Whatever Happened to Ezra?
Aired 12 October 1964 • 60 min
5. Question: What are You Doing Out There, Waldo?
Aired 19 October 1964 • 60 min
6. Question: What Became of the White Tortilla?
Aired 26 October 1964 • 60 min
Ricardo Montalban played a Hispanic legislator-""the white tortilla""who tries to pass a bill without any co-sponsors.
7. Question: Where Vanished the Tragic Piper?
Aired 2 November 1964 • 60 min
8. Question: Is Laura the Name of the Game?
Aired 9 November 1964 • 60 min
9. Question: What's a Genius Worth This Week?
Aired 16 November 1964 • 60 min
10. Question: What Is Honor, What Is Death?
Aired 23 November 1964 • 60 min
11. Question: Do the Ignorant Sleep in Pure White Beds?
Aired 30 November 1964 • 60 min
12. Question: Which One Has the Privilege?
Aired 7 December 1964 • 60 min
13. Question: How Long Is the Shadow of a Man?
Aired 1 January 1965 • 60 min
14. Question: What Is a Requiem for a Loser?
Aired 8 January 1965 • 60 min
15. Question: What Did You Do All Day, Mr. Slattery?
Aired 15 January 1965 • 60 min
16. Question: How Do You Fall in Love with a Town?
Aired 22 January 1965 • 60 min
17. Question: Does Nero Still at Ringside Sit?
Aired 5 February 1965 • 60 min
18. Question: How Do You Catch a Cool Bird of Paradise?
Aired 12 February 1965 • 60 min
19. Question: When Do We Hang the Good Samaritan?
Aired 19 February 1965 • 60 min
20. Question: Is Democracy Too Expensive?
Aired 26 February 1965 • 60 min
21. Question: Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?
Aired 5 March 1965 • 60 min
22. Question: Who You Taking to the Main Event, Eddie?
Aired 12 March 1965 • 60 min
23. Question: What's New in Timbuctoo?
Aired 19 March 1965 • 60 min
24. Question: Bill Bailey, Why Did You Come Home?
Aired 2 April 1965 • 60 min
25. Question: What Time is the Next Bandwagon?
Aired 9 April 1965 • 60 min
26. Question: What's a Swan Song for a Sparrow?
Aired 16 April 1965 • 60 min