Product Details

• Actors: Charles Kurault
• Directors: Assorted
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: ACORN MEDIA
• DVD Release Date: May 4, 2010
• Run Time: 378 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003465K5W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,959 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

"Must-see … endlessly watchable" --Los Angeles Times
"A national treasure" --CNN Radio
"TV they really, truly don’t make anymore" --NPR’s Fresh Air

The beloved Emmy®-winning series that began on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

FOR 20 YEARS BEGINNING IN 1967, CHARLES 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 three Peabody Awards and became a household name.

Curious, generous, and always warm, Kuralt found everyone fascinating: cowboys, traffic cops, short-order cooks, makers of corncob pipes, the 87-year-old college professor turned janitor who proclaimed, "No honest work is undignified." He reported on a man who fixed toys, a farmer who carved slingshots, a Russian who waited 43 years to thank the American soldiers who saved his life. No story was too small, no person too ordinary.

Time magazine dubbed Kuralt "the laureate of the common man." Perhaps the men and women he featured weren’t so common after all, but instead represented the country at its best.

Originally compiled for broadcast by the Travel Channel, each episode in this set contains 3-5 On the Road segments.

Due to the age of these programs and the improved resolution that DVD provides, you may notice occasional flaws in the image and audio on this DVD presentation that were beyond our ability to correct from the original materials.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A FANTASTIC SET 2 OF AMERICANA ROAD-TRIP with CHARLES KURALT, March 31, 2010

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Harold Wolf "Doc" (Wells, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On the Road With Charles Kuralt: Set 2 (DVD)

CHARLES KURALT is travelogue-perfect in this Set 2 OF "On the Road"; the Emmy-winning series which lasted over 20 years. Kuralt's CBS Evening News segments put the average, off-highway, common, American, "on the map" as well as defining the reporter's "lifetime achievement." Although this is a nostalgic look at life from 1967 to 1987; the episodes are as interesting and American for today as they were when originally filmed. Nothing on TV has matched it since. This is a MUST-OWN set (along with Set 1) for every public and school library.

This MEGA MEAL DEAL set includes Lonnie's Diner to Jerry's Deli; horseshoe tossers to a Russian dentist; an 80-horse titch to Harper's Ferry; with tobacco & toys for dessert.

You'll be awed, laugh, heart-warmed, and thoroughly entertained. The set has SUBTITLES. It's unrated, but super family friendly. 3 DVDs include 378 minutes [that's over 6 hours or equal to 4 feature-length movies], 18 episodes, 86 segments.

And for those who like EPISODE details:
1: Cloggers, Lady Pilot, Blackie, Spivey Family, Michigan: Wheels & Machines
2: British Graves, Lula Watson, Canoe Maker, Pumpkins, Ohio: The Golden Lamb
3: Moonshiners, Indiana: Poet James Whitecomb Riley, Friendship Between Man and Falcon
4: Totem Poles, Waynesburg Rain Day, Johnny Appleseed, Swings, Tennessee: A rough and Tumble Past
5: Ball of String, Fiddlers, Delaware: The Du Pont Family, Ferry Boats, Corn-Pipe Factory
6: Jump Rope, Chicago Fire, Hood Ornaments, Bottle House, New Jersey: G.W. Crossing the Delaware River
7: Toy-Fixing Man, Skipjack, Jerry's Deli, Billy Jones Railroad, S.Carolina: Spirit of a City
8: Alabama: Freedom through Knowledge, Steam Whistles, Mule Doctor, Norwegian Blind Skiers, Auctioneer
9: Homesteading, Horseshoe Throwing, Mail Boat, Barber Poles, Arkansas: The Louisiana Purchase
10: Oyster Shucker, Driftwood, Wild Mustangs, Trailers, Oklahoma: American Indian Alphabet
11: Poet, Chewing Tobacco, Arizona: The Trading Post, Christmas Toys, Professor Turned Janitor
12: National Road, Bald Eagles, Sandcastles, Rafts, Oregon: The Columbia River
13: Swanee River, 40-Horse Hitch, Old-Time Religion, Construction Crane, Washington: Narcissa Whitman
14: Wine Harvest, Linnie's Diner, Trading Day, Traffic Cop, Texas: cowboys' Romantic Myth
15: Coffee Club, Lighting, McKinley Pilot, Weeds, Hawaii: Early Days
16: Parolees, Bell lady, Rodeo Old-Timers, Bird Lady, Connecticut
17: Maryland: Chesapeake-Ohio Canal, Peppers, Spring, Sod Houses, Gold Leaf
18: Russian Dentist, Bean-shooter Man, West Virginia: Harpers Ferry.

Be sure to check the listing for "On the Road with Charles Kuralt Set 1" also highly recommended.
And now there is a SET 3, more of Kuralt, who spent 20 years perfecting what he did. This third set is simply more of the magic that this man created and aired for 2 decades (late 60s to early 80s). Good for all ages.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On the Road with Charles Kurait: Set 2, June 20, 2010

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J. Higginbotham - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On the Road With Charles Kuralt: Set 2 (DVD)

We bought this for my father. He enjoyed the first set, and he was very excited to get the second set. I'm sure he will want them all.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More views of Real America!, March 6, 2010

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fuzz - See all my reviews

This review is from: On the Road With Charles Kuralt: Set 2 (DVD)

This looks like another great collection, and how could it be otherwise with Kuralt at the helm. The presence of the Russian Dentist story alone is worth the price of the whole set, it is a standout piece of journalism and you won't regret owning it.
There is an old Twilight Zone episode where a movie star from the past walks up into the screen showing one of her films and stays there, prefering to live in that world. I kind of feel that way watching Charles Kuralt. However, the real lesson of `On The Road' is that these stories are around us all the time. We just need eyes and ears like Charles Kuralt to recognize them.
Please keep these sets coming!