Jean Shepherd's America — Season 1, 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
Documentary, Comedy • 29 min • 2 seasons, 23 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
Beer, considered by some to be the universal language, is the focus as Shep travels to the archetypal neighborhood tavern in Milwaukee and presents a poetic pastiche of beer commercials -- "the folk music of our time."
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
- E7The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives
- E8It Won't Always Be This Way
- 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