Silver Spring, MD — More pieces from the beloved Emmy®-winning series, On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Set 2, debuts on DVD from Acorn Media on May 4, 2010. 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 reflections of American life. This DVD 3-volume boxed set includes 18 episodes with a total of eighty-six classic On the Road pieces (www.AcornOnline.com, $39.99).

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.

Curious, generous, and always warm, Kuralt found everyone fascinating. The eighty-six pieces in Set 2 include segments on 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. Kuralt’s On the Road pieces celebrate his passion for the local, the quirky, and the unsung.

To listen to Kuralt’s longtime cameramen, Izzy Bleckman, discuss the series and Set 1 with NPR’s Scott Simon, please visit www.NPR.org.

Street: May 4, 2010
SRP: $39.99
DVD 3-Vol. Boxed Set: 18 episodes (86 pieces); approx. 378 min.; documentary/travel; SDH subtitles DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE About On the Road, Road Updates, and a biography of Charles Kuralt.

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