SHOW: THE GREAT DEPRESSION
TIME: DEBUTING OCT. 25, 9 P.M. (MOST STATIONS), PBS
THE BOTTOM LINE: A common-man chronicle of the '30s is quirky and superb.
What is most impressive about The Great Depression, the new seven-hour documentary series from Eyes on the Prize creator Henry Hampton, is the predictable things it doesn't do. No obligatory, year-by-year chronicle of the economic disaster, replete with awful statistics; the few that are thrown in (the unemployment rate reached 25% in 1933) are awful enough. No windy political-science seminar on the strategies of Roosevelt's New Deal; the emphasis is not on Washington but on...
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