Jean Shepherd's America — Season 1, Episode 7: The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives
Documentary, Comedy • 29 min • 2 seasons, 23 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
Shep gets behind the wheel and moves out on the turnpike of life, as he muses on the mystique of the open road.
About Jean Shepherd's America
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.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana
- E2...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest Room
- E3...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West
- E4A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon
- E5There's More to Life Than a Hostess Twinkie
- E6And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their Fists
- E8It Won't Always Be This Way
- E9...From Its Golden, Ice-cold Depths Come the Echos of Lost Battles, the Sound of Ancient Victories, the Noise of a Million Ball Games
- E10I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab Himself
- E11When There's No Place to Go But Up
- E12Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic Mistake
- E13Make School or Die