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Season 1

  • S01E01 Hammer on the Slammer

    • January 1, 1987
    • PBS

    The tale of Donald Bordenkircher, who reestablished several West Virginia state prisons that were operating on the verge of disaster.

  • S01E02 Amazing Delores

    • January 1, 1988
    • PBS

    The biography of Delores Boyd, an unusual grandmother who writes outrageous songs and fronts a rock and roll band.

  • S01E03 Glitch in the System

    • January 1, 1989
    • PBS

    Elmer Fike, former owner and plant manager of a small chemical company in Nitro, West Virginia, and an outspoken opponent of government regulations lead him into battle with the Environmental Protection Agency.

  • S01E04 Point Man For God

    • January 1, 1989
    • PBS

    About Bernard Coffindaffer, a rich industrialist who mounts a crusade to cover the American landscape of America with crosses.

  • S01E05 Your Public Servant

    • January 1, 1989
    • PBS

    At age 61, West Virginia Treasurer of State A. James Manchin prides himself as among the last of the great constitution-thumping populists in America. This documentary illustrates that even though the forum may change, the person does not.

  • S01E06 Doctor No?

    • January 1, 1990
    • PBS

    A frightening portrait of Dr. William Pierce, the author of The Turner Diaries and one of the country's preeminent white supremacists.

  • S01E07 Dancing Outlaw

    • January 1, 1991
    • PBS

    Jesco White, a hard-living, tap-dancing Boone County resident whose repeated run-ins with the law have interfered with his dream of becoming as renowned a "mountain dancer" as his late father, D. Ray White.

  • S01E08 Heretics

    • January 1, 1991
    • PBS

    An exploration of the rift between two former nuns -- Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey -- and the predominantly male Catholic hierarchy centers on the abortion controversy. The fight also includes the ordination of women as priests and the rights of Catholics to dissent from official church teachings. These two women have written a book called "No Turning Back" and are the co-directiors of Covenant House in Charleston, West Virginia, a social services agency.

  • S01E09 Fleabag : the Frank Veltrie Story

    • January 1, 1992
    • PBS

    Although operating at a substantial loss, a man refuses to close an old hotel that houses the helpless and destitute.