Silver Spring, MD — The beloved Emmy®-winning series, On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Set 1, makes its long-awaited debut on DVD from Acorn Media on October 27, 2009. Award-winning journalist Charles Kuralt has been a household name for decades with his On the Road segments, first airing on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and, then as the first host of the CBS News Sunday Morning. 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. The resulting vignettes became a beloved touchstone of American culture for more than 20 years and remain deeply meaningful, touching, and truthful. This DVD 3-volume boxed set includes 18 episodes with a total of seventy-seven On the Road pieces (www.AcornOnline.com, $39.99).
Warm, avuncular, and unquenchably curious, Charles Kuralt found everyone interesting. For 20 years beginning in 1967, Kuralt wandered America’s byways in search of the unusual and the overlooked. He and his small crew logged more than a million miles and wore out six motor homes. For his homespun vignettes of everyday life, Kuralt won an Emmy® and two Peabody Awards.
He traveled through all 50 states, talking with horse traders, worm hunters, singing mailmen, and sharecroppers who put nine children through college. He reported on an elderly man who fixed bicycles for local children, and a woman who talked to Canadian geese. No topic was too small, no person too insignificant.
Collected into episodes by the Travel Channel in the 1990s, Kuralt’s On the Road pieces celebrate his passion for the local, the quirky, and the unsung.
The pieces featured in Set 1 include: Golden Gate Bridge Workers, Super Shoe Salesman, 80-Year-Old Cook, Roadside Shangri-la, The Circus Bandleader, Whistle-Stop Ride, Toothpick Artist, All-Night Library, Life on the Bayou, Bullfighter, Shipbuilders of Maine, Interstate 80, Greek Sponge-Fisherman, Bishop of Spokane, Cadillac Ranch, Abraham Lincoln’s Hometown, One-Room Schoolhouse, Covered Bridges, Turkey Trot, Kite Man, 104-Year-Old Man, Chicken Man, Man Who Waves at Traffic, Pothole Festival, Greenup H.S. Cheerleaders, Crop Artist, Bike Messenger, South Dakota: Cowboys of Deadwood, among many others.
