Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

jan-kitmarlowe If my memory serves--I was 12 at the time--the show opened with a voice over, maybe Crenna's, saying something to the effect that democracy was a terrible form of government: messy, wasteful, etc. BUT, all other forms of government were so much worse. As a callow, Beatle-crazed teen, this was the first time that I recall understanding irony.I remember that my father watched the show religiously every week. I'm still grateful that he did. I think "Slattery's People" helped to develop my political conscience.Why aren't these kinds of shows released to DVD?Why are there 14,000 episodes of "Friends"?

theturtlehouse I was a teenager in high school when Slattery's people aired. I remembered the show and that Richard Crenna was the star, but I did not remember that Ed Asner was on the show also. I remembered that I liked the show and that it was very well-written. I would not have watched it if it had not been. (not a typical air-head teen.) But I could not remember the subject of any of the episodes until I read the synopsis of the show in which a man fought city hall to build the kind of house he wanted instead of the one the zoning board wanted. It then clicked in the dusty recesses of my ancient (grandmother of eight) brain, and I actually did remember the episode. I wish that some cable station would show the great dramas of TV's history instead of constant repeats of inane comedies over and over again.

lmmatt I, too, remember this excellent program, when I, too, was in high school. It paved the way for other political drama on television, most notably the excellent but short-lived The Senator with Hal Holbrook in the lead the role and then fast forward to Aaron Sorkin and The West Wing. I also recall that, for some reason, I found myself talking with Mr. Moser on the phone, and surprised that I had reached him. What I don't recall is for what purpose I called him - except that I have, from time to time over the years, reached out and called somebody "famous" just to say hello. I was probably asking him for a job.Boy, I really don't understand this 10-line minimum. Anyhow - I once went to work for a pot-boiling radio station in the San Gabriel Valley, in hopes of getting on the air. It was run out of a house on a large field, and I was once asked to clear the path to the towers with a lawnmower. I was also asked to type and re- type letters. Neither task was particularly satisfying, of course, and I never once got anything close to any real radio experience. I remember the news guy doing a rip-and-read and then sitting on the back steps of the house, listening to a tape of himself and smoking a cigarette. That was one dead-end job.

ozman I saw it, too. I watched it regularly during its brief run (my senior year in high school). I, too, was a political junkie-to-be. I remember enjoying the show and being sorry when it was canceled. The show seemed to be modeled on the California Assembly and I lived in southern California.