Great American Railroad Journeys
Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in 1879.
Great American Railroad Journeys
Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in 1879.
Great American Railroad Journeys
Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in 1879.
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All Series was repeated later in the year in a revised schedule (described as "Reversions") which combined and re-edited two episodes of the original broadcasts to create a series of 1-hour episodes; as all series consisted of fifteen 30-minute episodes, the "Brooklyn to Montauk" (SE01) episode was revised as an extended version that included additional content not seen in the original broadcast schedule. The Series 1 DVD contains only the original fifteen episodes.
Episode 1: Manhattan Island – Series 1 Reversions
Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America with a new travelling compani...
Episode 2: Brooklyn to Montauk – Series 1 Reversions
From Manhattan, Michael follows his Appleton's General Guide east to Long Island. Beginning in Brook...
Episode 3: New York City to Albany – Series 1 Reversions
Michael follows America's iconic River Hudson north through New York State. Beginning at New York Ci...
Episode 4: Schenectady to Niagara Falls – Series 1 Reversions
Michael Portillo braves the awesome power and drenching spray of Niagara Falls in the Maid of the Mi...
Episode 5: Philadelphia to Gettysburg – Series 1 Reversions
Michael Portillo embarks on a new railroad journey, informed by his 1879 Appleton's guidebook, from...
Episode 6: Wilmington to Fort McHenry – Series 1 Reversions
Armed with his Appleton's Guide, Michael Portillo reaches a milestone on his American journey: the b...
Episode 7: Washington to Mount Vernon – Series 1 Reversions
Michael Portillo arrives in the nation's capital, Washington DC, centre of political power in the wo...
Episode 8: Manassas to Jamestown – Series 1 Reversions
Steered by his 1879 Appleton's General Guide to the United States, Michael Portillo arrives in Manas...
Episode 9: St Louis to Jefferson City, Missouri – Series 2 Reversions
Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic once more to ride the railroads of North America with his fait...
Episode 10: Sedalia to St Joseph, Missouri – Series 2 Reversions
Following in the footsteps of European settlers, Michael Portillo rolls westwards across the United...
Episode 11: Lawrence to Lamar, Colorado – Series 2 Reversions
Michael Portillo continues his 1,500-mile journey through the American Wild West armed with his Appl...
Episode 12: La Junta to Colorado Springs – Series 2 Reversions
Michael Portillo reaches Colorado, where he follows in the footsteps of 19th-century East Coast dude...
Episode 13: Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Grand Canyon – Series 2 Reversions
Michael Portillo arrives in the state capital of New Mexico, once the capital of the Spanish Kingdom...
Episode 14: Minneapolis - St Paul – Series 2 Reversions
Michael Portillo embarks on a new American rail journey that begins and finishes on the Mississippi...
Episode 15: Minnesota - Wisconsin – Series 2 Reversions
Steered by his Appleton's guidebook, Michael Portillo continues his rail journey along the Upper Mis...
Episode 16: Milwaukee to Chicago – Series 2 Reversions
Michael Portillo is in Milwaukee, the cream city on the shore of Lake Michigan and home to an Americ...
Episode 17: Chicago to Champaign, Illinois – Series 2 Reversions
Michael Portillo continues his 1,000-mile journey from the northern state of Minnesota to the home o...
Episode 18: Illinois to Tennessee – Series 2 Reversions
Michael Portillo continues his 1,000-mile journey from Minnesota to Tennessee, beginning and ending...
Episode 19: Reno To The Napa Valley – Series 3 Reversions
Steered by his 19th-century Appleton's guidebook, Michael Portillo embarks on a one thousand-mile Am...
Episode 20: San Francisco – Series 3 Reversions
Armed with his trusty Appleton's Guide, Michael Portillo reaches San Francisco, where he boards one...
Episode 21: Berkeley to Santa Cruz – Series 3 Reversions
Following his Appleton's guide, Michael Portillo makes a trip to the jewel in the crown of America's...
Episode 22: Monterey to Los Angeles – Series 3 Reversions
Steered by his late 19th-century Appleton's guidebook, Michael Portillo continues through southern C...
Episode 23: Los Angeles to San Diego – Series 3 Reversions
Michael Portillo strikes oil in the suburbs of Los Angeles, contemplates his navel in the orange gro...
Episode 24: Boston to Concord – Series 3 Reversions
Armed with his 19th-century Appleton's guidebook to the United States and Canada, Michael Portillo e...
Episode 25: Plymouth to New London – Series 3 Reversions
Guided by his Appleton's and tracing the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers, Michael Portillo heads fo...
Episode 26: New Haven to Plattsburgh – Series 3 Reversions
Armed with his Appleton's guide, Michael Portillo continues his rail journey through Connecticut and...
Episode 27: Montreal to Ottawa – Series 3 Reversions
Following a special 1899 Canadian edition of his Appleton's guide, Michael Portillo leaves the Unite...
Episode 28: Thousand Islands to Toronto – Series 3 Reversions
Steered by his 1899 Appleton's guide, Michael Portillo's rail journey through eastern Canada continu...
Episode 1: Manhattan: Grand Central to Broadway
Michael begins his American odyssey in New York City. Starting at Grand Central Terminal, the 'gatew...
Episode 2: Manhattan: Lower East Side to World Trade Center
Michael continues his American journey in Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he narrowly avoids a sc...
Episode 3: Brooklyn to Montauk
From Manhattan, Michael follows his Appleton's Guide east, travelling on the Long Island Railroad. H...
Episode 4: New York City to Garrison
Michael follows America's mighty Hudson River north, riding on the United States' national rail carr...
Episode 5: Poughkeepsie to Albany
Michael Portillo continues his railroad journey through New York State following his Appleton's Guid...
Episode 6: Schenectady to Rochester
Michael heads west through New York State. He has a lightbulb moment in Schenectady, when he discove...
Episode 7: Buffalo to Niagara Falls
Michael braves the awesome power and drenching spray of Niagara Falls on the Maid of the Mist to sha...
Episode 8: Philadelphia to Atlantic City
Michael embarks on a new railroad journey from the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, south to th...
Episode 9: Lancaster to Gettysburg
Michael hitches a ride with the Amish in a horse-drawn buggy through rich countryside settled in the...
Episode 10: Wilmington to Havre de Grace
Michael reaches a milestone on his American journey: the boundary between the northern and southern...
Episode 11: Baltimore to Fort McHenry
In Baltimore, home of the first railroad in the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio, he discovers...
Episode 12: Washington DC
Michael arrives in the nation's capital, Washington DC. He admires its fine public buildings, includ...
Episode 13: Georgetown to Mount Vernon
On this leg, Michael soaks up some old-school jazz in Washington's U Street neighbourhood, where the...
Episode 14: Manassas to Richmond
Michael Portillo arrives in Manassas, scene of two crucial battles during the American Civil War - t...
Episode 15: Petersburg to Jamestown
In Petersburg, Virginia, the choir of the First Baptist Church is in fine voice as Michael discovers...
Episode 1: St Louis, Missouri
Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic once more to ride the railroads of North America with his fait...
Episode 2: St Louis to Jefferson City, Missouri
Michael continues his American rail journey west from St Louis to Jefferson City, Missouri, followin...
Episode 3: Sedalia to Kansas City, Missouri
Following in the footsteps of European settlers, Michael Portillo rolls westwards across the United...
Episode 4: Kansas City to St Joseph, Missouri
On the next leg of his American adventure, Michael Portillo hits cowboy central in the former meat-p...
Episode 5: Lawrence to Topeka, Kansas
Michael Portillo continues his 1,500-mile journey through the American Wild West, armed with his 19t...
Episode 6: Dodge City to Lamar, Colorado
Michael Portillo's first stop aboard the Southwest Chief is Dodge City, Kansas, a famous frontier to...
Episode 7: La Junta, Colorado, to Pueblo, New Mexico
Michael Portillo hits ranching territory in Las Animas County, Colorado, where he follows in the foo...
Episode 8: Canon City, Colorado, to Colorado Springs
Michael Portillo reaches the Rocky Mountains of Colorado at Canon City, from where he heads out into...
Episode 9: Santa Fe to Acoma, New Mexico
Michael Portillo arrives in Santa Fe, the state capital of New Mexico, and once the capital of a Spa...
Episode 10: Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Michael Portillo is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city situated on the Rio Grande River. Once the he...
Episode 11: The Twin Cities, St Paul
Michael Portillo begins a new journey from Minnesota's Twin Cities in the north of the US to Memphis...
Episode 12: The Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Michael Portillo continues his journey from the northern state of Minnesota to the Deep South. Mich...
Episode 13: Red Wing, Minnesota, to La Crosse, Wisconsin
Michael Portillo continues his journey from the northern state of Minnesota to the Deep South. Stee...
Episode 14: Tomah to Portage, Wisconsin
Michael Portillo continues his journey from the northern state of Minnesota to the Deep South. Mich...
Episode 15: Milwaukee to Racine, Wisconsin
Michael Portillo continues his journey from the northern state of Minnesota to the Deep South. Mich...
Episode 16: Chicago, The Windy City
Michael Portillo is blown away by the skyscrapers in Illinois's Windy City, where he discovers how m...
Episode 17: Chicago, US Rail Hub
Michael Portillo continues his 1,000-mile journey from the northern state of Minnesota to the home o...
Episode 18: Homewood to Champaign, Illinois
Steered by his Appleton's Guide, Michael Portillo continues his 1,000-mile rail journey south from C...
Episode 19: Mattoon, Illinois to Columbus, Kentucky
Armed with his 19th-century Appleton's Guide, Michael Portillo continues his 1,000-mile journey, beg...
Episode 20: Memphis, Tennessee
Armed with his Appleton's Guide, Michael Portillo travels the lower Mississippi aboard a paddle stea...
Episode 1: Boston
Armed with his 19th-century Appleton's guidebook to the United States and Canada, Michael Portillo e...
Episode 2: Boston to Concord, Massachusetts
Michael Portillo's 19th-century Appleton's guidebook leads him to the Parker House Hotel, where in h...
Episode 3: Plymouth to Nantucket
Led by his Appleton's guidebook and tracing the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers, Michael Portillo h...
Episode 4: Providence, Rhode Island, to New London, Connecticut
Led by his 19th-century Appleton's guidebook, Michael Portillo's railway journey continues through N...
Episode 5: New Haven, Connecticut, to Mount Washington, New Hampshire
Armed with his Appleton's guide, Michael Portillo's rail voyage goes river deep and mountain high as...
Episode 6: Burlington to Plattsburgh
Michael Portillo continues his American rail journey through New England as he heads for the Canadia...
Episode 7: Montreal, Quebec
Following a special 1899 Canadian edition of his Appleton's guide, Michael Portillo has left the Uni...
Episode 8: Montreal to Ottawa
Steered by his Appleton's guidebook Michael Portillo's train journey continues in Canada's Quebec pr...
Episode 9: Thousand Islands to Oshawa, Ontario
Using his 1899 Appleton's guide, Michael Portillo's rail odyssey through eastern Canada continues al...
Episode 10: Toronto
Michael Portillo's railway journey across eastern Canada concludes in the nation's largest metropoli...
Episode 11: Reno, Nevada, to Colfax, California
Led by his late 19th-century Appleton's guidebook, Michael Portillo sets off on a 1,000-mile America...
Episode 12: Sacramento to Napa Valley
Continuing his epic Californian rail journey, Michael Portillo begins this leg at the very spot that...
Episode 13: San Francisco to Sausalito, California
Armed with his trusty Appleton's Guide, Michael Portillo's rail journey through California takes him...
Episode 14: San Francisco
Michael Portillo resumes his exhilarating tour of San Francisco to find that diversity has been at t...
Episode 15: Berkeley to Yosemite
Michael Portillo's rail voyage continues through northern California, moving east in search of the s...
Episode 16: Santa Clara to Santa Cruz
Michael Portillo's thousand-mile rail journey through California continues south toward Santa Clara...
Episode 17: Monterey to Santa Barbara
Steered by his late-19th-century Appleton's guidebook, Michael Portillo continues his railroad trave...
Episode 18: Los Angeles
Armed with his Appleton's guide to the United States, Michael Portillo arrives in Los Angeles to del...
Episode 19: Los Angeles to Laguna Beach
Michael Portillo strikes oil in the suburbs of Los Angeles, contemplates his navel in the orange gro...
Episode 20: La Jolla to San Diego
Michael Portillo is nearing the end of his thousand-mile rail journey from Reno, Nevada, to San Dieg...
Episode 1: Ninilchik to Wasilla
Michael Portillo heads for the last frontier of the United States, armed with his 1899 Appleton’s Gu...
Episode 2: Talkeetna to Juneau
Armed with his 1899 Appleton’s Guidebook to Alaska, Michael Portillo rides the Alaska Railroad north...
Episode 3: Skagway to Vancouver
Michael Portillo embarks on a second spectacular rail journey through Alaska into Canada on the Whit...
Episode 4: Vancouver Island to Kamloops
Michael Portillo explores British Columbia, steered by his Appleton’s Guide to Canada, published in...
Episode 5: Kamloops to Calgary
Clutching his 1899 Appleton’s Guide, Michael Portillo boards one of the world’s most famous trains,...
Episode 6: Halifax to Prince Edward Island
Michael Portillo begins a new journey on the tracks of the Ocean line to explore Canada’s maritime p...
Episode 7: Springhill Junction to Quebec City
Clutching his 1899 copy of Appleton’s Guide to Canada, Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train f...
Episode 8: Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre to Winnipeg
Michael Portillo explores the province of Quebec with his 19th-century Appleton’s Guide to Canada. H...
Episode 9: Portage la Prairie to Saskatoon
Steered by his 1899 Appleton’s Guide, Michael Portillo strikes west across Manitoba into the provinc...
Episode 10: Edmonton to Jasper
Michael Portillo continues west through the Canadian Prairie on his thousand-mile rail journey from...
Episode 11: Vancouver
Episode 12: Vancouver Island to San Juan Island
Episode 13: Port Moody to Kamloops
Episode 14: Kamloops to Banff
Episode 15: Calgary
Episode 16: Winnipeg
Episode 17: Portage La Prairie to Watrous
Episode 18: Saskatoon
Episode 19: Edmonton
Episode 20: Hinton to Jasper
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