Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

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

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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"?

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.

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.

The pilot was shot in the Capitol Building in Sacramento, and a full size replica of the California Assembly Chamber was the set for the first season. (a smaller set was used the second season). On the flight back from Sacramento the plane was delayed a few hours going around thunderstorms, and there was a real concern the plane might have gone down with the whole cast aboard. This drama had a strong following, and a letter writing campaign saved it from cancelation after season 1, but the ratings would not allow a season 3. For many years this show was made avalible overseas, I saw it regularly in Singapore during the early 70's. I guess USIS used it as a civics lesson.