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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Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Question: What is Truth? | 1964-09-21 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | Question: Why the Lonely, Why the Misbegotten? | 1964-09-28 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | Question: Remember the Dark Sins of Youth? | 1964-10-05 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Question: Whatever Happened to Ezra? | 1964-10-12 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Question: What Are You Doing Out There, Waldo? | 1964-10-19 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Question: What Became of the White Tortilla? | 1964-10-26 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | Question: Where Vanished the Tragic Piper? | 1964-11-02 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | Question: Is Laura the Name of the Game? | 1964-11-09 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | Question: What's a Genius Worth This Week? | 1964-11-16 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | Question: What is Honor, What is Death? | 1964-11-23 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | Question: Do the Ignorant Sleep in Pure White Beds? | 1964-11-30 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | Question: Which One Has the Privilege? | 1964-12-07 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 13 | Question: How Long is the Shadow of a Man? | 1964-12-14 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 14 | Question: What is a Requiem for a Loser? | 1964-12-21 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 15 | Question: What Did You Do All Day, Mr. Slattery? | 1965-01-15 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 16 | Question: How Do You Fall in Love with a Town? | 1965-01-22 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 17 | Question: Does Nero Still at Ringside Sit? | 1965-02-05 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 18 | Question: How Do You Catch a Cool Bird of Paradise? | 1965-02-12 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 19 | Question: When Do We Hang the Good Samaritan? | 1965-02-19 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 20 | Question: Is Democracy Too Expensive? | 1965-02-26 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 21 | Question: Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee? | 1965-03-05 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 22 | Question: Who You Taking to the Main Event, Eddie? | 1965-03-12 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 23 | Question: What's New in Timbuctoo? | 1965-03-19 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 24 | Question: Bill Bailey, Why Did You Come Home? | 1965-04-02 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 25 | Question: What Time is the Next Bandwagon? | 1965-04-09 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 26 | Question: What's a Swan Song for a Sparrow? | 1965-04-16 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | A Sitting Duck Named Slattery | 1965-09-17 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | He Who Has Ears, Let Him Bug Somebody Else | 1965-09-24 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | How Impregnable is a Magic Tower? | 1965-10-01 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Unborn | 1965-10-08 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Rally 'Round Your Own Flag, Mister | 1965-10-15 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | What Can You Do with a Wounded Tiger? | 1965-10-22 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | The Hero | 1965-11-05 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Of Damon, Pythias and Sleeping Dogs | 1965-11-12 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | The Last Commuter | 1965-11-19 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Color Him Red | 1965-11-26 | 60 min |
Production | Irving Elman | Producer |