Coming May 22 to a historic road near you: ROUTE 66: THE COMPLETE SERIES

See the USA in your Chevrolet? In 1960, like Jack Kerouac, two young guys (Martin Milner, George Maharis) took to the historic highway to travel across America. One of them was an Ivy Leaguer, the other someone who grew up in Hell's Kitchen. In 1963, Glenn Corbett replaced Maharis, who left the series, but until March 1964 the show gave Americans a chance to see their vast country and appreciate an anthology-like series that offered intelligent drama. Like "The Fugitive," Tod and Buz (later, Tod and Linc) traveled the country in their Corvette convertible and encountered different people with different problems at every stop. They also worked odd jobs along the way to pay for their expenses, and so the series not only depicted an America that no longer exists—an America before superhighways and freeways, when the longest highway was a two-laner that stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles via Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona—but an American way of life that still goes on. 

Fans of the show or brand new vicarious travelers can get the complete series on DVD May 22 from Shout! Factory. That's 6000 minutes of good old American adventure.

Pre-order "Route 66: The Complete Series" for $90.99 (30 percent off list)