American Chronicles is a documentary

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 television program

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 which was run by Fox Broadcasting Company

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 as part of its 1990 fall lineup

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American Chronicles was produced by David Lynch

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 and Mark Frost

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, perhaps best known as the producers of the contemporary program on ABC

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, Twin Peaks

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, and featured many of the same quirky camera angles, weird music, and a focus on violence and sexuality, that were demonstrated in his fiction work. The half-hour weekly program was narrated by Richard Dreyfuss

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This program had a relatively brief run, being cancelled just over three months after its premiere, after ranking dead last out of 98 shows with an average household rating of just 3.07.

Episodes

• Farewell to the Flesh
• Eye of the Beholder
• Manhattan After Dark
• Semper Fidelis
• Champions
• Here Today Gone Tomorrow/Truck Stop
• Once Upon a Time (about Hugh Hefner
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• High School Reunion/Miss Texas
• Auto-Obsession/Biker Convention
• Defenders of the Faith
• After a Fashion/An American Camelot
• Diamonds Are Forever/The Future That Never Was
• Class of '65 (aired in the U.S.)