Middletown

📊 Series Specifications

Network PBS
Episode Runtime ~65 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN

Middletown (1982)

⭐ 5.0 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 6 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Six-part documentary on the city of Muncie, Indiana - nicknamed "Middletown" after a study in the 1920s deemed it representative of middle America. The series finds that amid the great ...

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Campaign

The 1979 mayoral race in Muncie between a glad-handing Democrat named Jim Carey and a reserved Republican named Alan Wilson.

E2 The Big Game

The showdown basketball game between the Muncie Central Bearcats and the Anderson High Indians.

E3 Community of Praise

A family of fundamentalist Christians.

E4 Family Business

A family struggles to keep a faltering pizza franchise alive.

E5 Second Time Around

A couple, both divorced, face the uncertainties of their imminent marriage.

E6 Seventeen

A group of high-school seniors prepare to graduate into adulthood. (not aired)