Slattery's People
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.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Question: What is Truth?
21-09-19641hSlattery 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 leg...
- Ep 2
2.Question: Why the Lonely, Why the Misbegotten?
28-09-19641h - Ep 3
3.Question: Remember the Dark Sins of Youth?
05-10-19641h - Ep 4
4.Question: Whatever Happened to Ezra?
12-10-19641h - Ep 5
5.Question: What are You Doing Out There, Waldo?
19-10-19641h - Ep 6
6.Question: What Became of the White Tortilla?
26-10-19641hRicardo Montalban played a Hispanic legislator-""the white tortilla""who tries to pass a bill without any co-sponsors.
- Ep 7
7.Question: Where Vanished the Tragic Piper?
02-11-19641h - Ep 8
8.Question: Is Laura the Name of the Game?
09-11-19641h - Ep 9
9.Question: What's a Genius Worth This Week?
16-11-19641h - Ep 10
10.Question: What Is Honor, What Is Death?
23-11-19641h - Ep 11
11.Question: Do the Ignorant Sleep in Pure White Beds?
30-11-19641h - Ep 12
12.Question: Which One Has the Privilege?
07-12-19641h - Ep 13
13.Question: How Long Is the Shadow of a Man?
01-01-19651h - Ep 14
14.Question: What Is a Requiem for a Loser?
08-01-19651h - Ep 15
15.Question: What Did You Do All Day, Mr. Slattery?
15-01-19651h - Ep 16
16.Question: How Do You Fall in Love with a Town?
22-01-19651h - Ep 17
17.Question: Does Nero Still at Ringside Sit?
05-02-19651h - Ep 18
18.Question: How Do You Catch a Cool Bird of Paradise?
12-02-19651h - Ep 19
19.Question: When Do We Hang the Good Samaritan?
19-02-19651h - Ep 20
20.Question: Is Democracy Too Expensive?
26-02-19651h - Ep 21
21.Question: Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?
05-03-19651h - Ep 22
22.Question: Who You Taking to the Main Event, Eddie?
12-03-19651h - Ep 23
23.Question: What's New in Timbuctoo?
19-03-19651h - Ep 24
24.Question: Bill Bailey, Why Did You Come Home?
02-04-19651h - Ep 25
25.Question: What Time is the Next Bandwagon?
09-04-19651h - Ep 26
26.Question: What's a Swan Song for a Sparrow?
16-04-19651h
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