Slattery's People (1964)
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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Episode 1 - Question: What is Truth?
Release Date: 1964-09-21Slattery 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.
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Episode 2 - Question: Why the Lonely, Why the Misbegotten?
Release Date: 1964-09-28 -
Episode 3 - Question: Remember the Dark Sins of Youth?
Release Date: 1964-10-05 -
Episode 4 - Question: Whatever Happened to Ezra?
Release Date: 1964-10-12 -
Episode 5 - Question: What are You Doing Out There, Waldo?
Release Date: 1964-10-19 -
Episode 6 - Question: What Became of the White Tortilla?
Release Date: 1964-10-26Ricardo Montalban played a Hispanic legislator-""the white tortilla""who tries to pass a bill without any co-sponsors.
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Episode 7 - Question: Where Vanished the Tragic Piper?
Release Date: 1964-11-02 -
Episode 8 - Question: Is Laura the Name of the Game?
Release Date: 1964-11-09 -
Episode 9 - Question: What's a Genius Worth This Week?
Release Date: 1964-11-16 -
Episode 10 - Question: What Is Honor, What Is Death?
Release Date: 1964-11-23 -
Episode 11 - Question: Do the Ignorant Sleep in Pure White Beds?
Release Date: 1964-11-30 -
Episode 12 - Question: Which One Has the Privilege?
Release Date: 1964-12-07 -
Episode 13 - Question: How Long Is the Shadow of a Man?
Release Date: 1965-01-01 -
Episode 14 - Question: What Is a Requiem for a Loser?
Release Date: 1965-01-08 -
Episode 15 - Question: What Did You Do All Day, Mr. Slattery?
Release Date: 1965-01-15 -
Episode 16 - Question: How Do You Fall in Love with a Town?
Release Date: 1965-01-22 -
Episode 17 - Question: Does Nero Still at Ringside Sit?
Release Date: 1965-02-05 -
Episode 18 - Question: How Do You Catch a Cool Bird of Paradise?
Release Date: 1965-02-12 -
Episode 19 - Question: When Do We Hang the Good Samaritan?
Release Date: 1965-02-19 -
Episode 20 - Question: Is Democracy Too Expensive?
Release Date: 1965-02-26 -
Episode 21 - Question: Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?
Release Date: 1965-03-05 -
Episode 22 - Question: Who You Taking to the Main Event, Eddie?
Release Date: 1965-03-12 -
Episode 23 - Question: What's New in Timbuctoo?
Release Date: 1965-03-19 -
Episode 24 - Question: Bill Bailey, Why Did You Come Home?
Release Date: 1965-04-02 -
Episode 25 - Question: What Time is the Next Bandwagon?
Release Date: 1965-04-09 -
Episode 26 - Question: What's a Swan Song for a Sparrow?
Release Date: 1965-04-16