| Description |
9 videodiscs (17 hrs. 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD ; 4:3 full screen ; NTSC Dolby Digital. |
| Performer |
Charles Kuralt, host. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast on CBS television as 50 individual episodes. |
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"Originally compiled for broadcast by the Travel Channel, each episode in this set contains 3-5 On the Road segments." --Container. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Note |
Bonus features: Exclusive interview with Isadore Bleckman, Kuralt's longtime cameraman (55 min.) ; About On the Road ; Road Updates ; and a biography of Charles Kuralt. |
| Contents |
Set 1, disc 1. Episode 1. Blenheim Ginger Ale -- Golden Gate Bridge workers -- Bicycle man -- Episode 2. Super shoe salesman -- Down-home remedies -- 80-year-old cook -- Unique mailbox posts -- Episode 3. American citizen -- Blowing bubbles -- Junk-mail heat -- Simplify -- Episode 4. Domino theory -- Old advertisements -- Building wooden boats -- Roadside Shangri-la -- Episode 5. Kentucky croquet-playing field -- "Black Diamond" private railcar -- "Twidd", the circus bandleader -- Episode 6. Whistle-stop ride -- Toothpick artist -- National weather survey. |
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Set 1, disc 2. Episode 7. All-night library -- Life on the bayou -- Living in a small town -- Episode 8. Lady Mayor -- Bullfighter -- Wind symphony/carousels -- Shipbuilders of Maine -- Episode 9. Interstate 80 -- Farming and fishing in Kansas -- Greek sponge fisherman -- Bishop of Spokane -- Volkswagens -- Episode 10. Piney Woods Thoreau -- Coffee cups -- Wheat harvest -- Cadillac Ranch -- Nebraska: Bountiful desert -- Episode 11. Illinois: Abraham Lincoln's hometown -- Hummingbirds -- Maple sugar -- Woman driver -- Mayor of Duncan -- Episode 12. Dowser -- One-room schoolhouse -- Brick maker -- Cable cars -- Iowa. |
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Set 1, disc 3. Episode 13. Mushrooms -- Covered bridges -- Turkey trot -- Kite man -- Montana: Little Big Horn -- Episode 14. 104-year-old man -- Cymbals factory -- Sleighs -- California: The Mission Trail -- Episode 15. Chicken man -- Idaho: The river of no return -- Man who waves at traffic -- Episode 16. Pauli Murray -- Delta Queen -- Street vendor -- Colorado prospectors -- Episode 17. Stone skipping -- New Mexico: Atomic bomb -- Pothole festival -- Greenup H.S. cheerleaders -- Crop artist -- Episode 18. Bike messenger -- Lace making -- Cicadas -- Capitals of the world -- South Dakota: Cowboys of Deadwood. |
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Set 2, disc 1. Episode 1. Cloggers -- Lady pilot -- Blackie -- Spivey family -- Michigan: wheels and machines -- Episode 2. British graves -- Lula Watson -- Canoe maker -- Pumpkins -- Ohio: the golden lamb. -- Episode 3. Moonshiners -- Indiana: poet James Whitcomb Riley -- Friendship between man and falcon -- Episode 4. Totem poles -- Waynesburg rain day -- Johnny Appleseed -- Swings -- Tennessee: a rough and tumble past -- Episode 5. Ball of string -- Fiddlers -- Delaware: the Du Pont family -- Ferry boats -- Corn-pipe factory -- Episode 6. Jump rope -- Chicago fire -- Hood ornaments -- Bottle house -- New Jersey: G.W. crossing the Delaware River. |
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Set 2, disc 2. Episode 7. Toy-fixing man -- Skipjack -- Jerry's deli -- Billy Jones railroad -- South Carolina: spirit of a city -- Episode 8. Alabama: freedom through knowledge -- Steam whistles -- Mule doctor -- Norwegian blind skiers -- Auctioneer -- Episode 9. Homesteading -- Horseshoe throwing -- Mail boat -- Barber poles -- Arkansas: the Louisiana Purchase -- Episode 10. Oyster shucker -- Driftwood -- Wild mustangs -- Trailers -- Oklahoma: American Indian alphabet -- Episode 11. Poet -- Chewing tobacco -- Arizona: the trading post -- Christmas toys -- Professor turned janitor -- Episode 12. National road -- Bald eagles -- Sandcastles -- Rafts -- Oregon: the Columbia River. |
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Set 2, disc 3. Episode 13. Swanee River -- 40-horse hitch -- Old-time religion -- Construction crane -- Washington: Narcissa Whitman -- Episode 14. Wine harvest -- Lonnie's Diner -- Trading day -- Traffic cop -- Texas: cowboys' romantic myth -- Episode 15. Coffee club -- Lightning -- McKinley pilot -- Weeds -- Hawaii: early days -- Episode 16. Parolees -- Bell lady -- Rodeo old-timers -- Bird lady -- Connecticut -- Episode 17. Maryland: Chesapeake-Ohio canal -- Peppers -- Spring -- Sod houses -- Gold leaf -- Episode 18. Russian dentist -- Bean-shooter man -- West Virginia: Harpers Ferry. |
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Set 3, disc 1. Episode 1. Hex-sign painter ; Missouri ; High-school plane ; Christmas tree ; Alaskan glacier priest. episode 2. Horse trader ; Singing mailman ; Butterflies ; Sorghum making ; Minnesota. episode 3. North Woods guide ; Tombstones ; Steam calliope ; Huck Finn ; Utah. episode 4. Dakota farmer ; Goose lady ; Oldest park ranger ; Pennsylvania -- Episode 5. Bell ringers -- Unicycle school -- National anthem -- Mountains. |
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Set 3, disc 2. Episode 6. Cowbells -- The ice meister -- Gas stations -- Secretariat -- Episode 7. Udall -- The school teacher -- Prospector -- Balloons -- Episode 8. July 4th -- Pioneer grave -- Pipe organs -- Kuralt's roots -- Episode 9. Photo family -- Skill Olympics -- Fire hydrants -- Free doctors -- Episode 10. Wisdomkeepers -- The land -- Dessie Odom. |
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Set 3, disc 3. Episode 11. Old men and the sea -- Plank road -- Ellis Island -- Episode 12. Love train -- Worm grunting -- Elephants -- Heroes of '41 -- Episode 13. History of Norway -- Hot-dog man -- Donkey-cart man -- The eyelid alarm -- Running water -- Episode 14. Loving County, TX -- Sewer art -- Last lighthouse. |
| Summary |
Charles Kuralt found everyone interesting. Beginning in 1967, he and his small CBS television crew crisscrossed the nation in a motor home, avoiding the interstates, to meet the ordinary people on America's back roads. First aired on The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite, the resulting vignettes became a beloved touchstone of American culture for more than 20 years. |
| Language |
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
| Subject |
United States -- Description and travel.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
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United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
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Television series.
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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| Added Author |
Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
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Acorn Media (Firm)
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CBS Television Network.
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Travel Channel (Firm)
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| Added Title |
On the road with Charles Kuralt (Television program)
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| ISBN |
6314407273 |
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9781598285994 (set) |
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1598285998 (set) |
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9781598287523 (set 1) |
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1598287524 (set 1) |
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9781598287530 (set 2) |
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1598287532 (set 2) |
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9781598287547 (set 3) |
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1598287540 (set 3) |
| Standard No. |
054961859993 |
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00054961859993 gtin-14 |
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054961859993 |
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054961875290 |
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054961875399 |
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054961875498 |
| Music No. |
AMP-8599 Acorn Media |
