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Series Name:   Roots
Format:TV Series
IMDB:IMDB Page
Years:1977
Country:  USA
Language:English
Genre:Drama, History
Rating:7.9  Rate
Collection:  Seen It     Wishlist 
Community: 20 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist
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Selected CastLeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte (young)
 John Amos as Kunta Kinte (older)
 Olivia Cole as Mathilda
 Louis Gossett Jr. as Fiddler
 Ben Vereen as Chicken George Moore
 Vic Morrow as Ames
 Edward Asner as Capt. Davies
 Lynda Day George as Mrs. Reynolds
 Robert Reed as Dr. William Reynolds
 Chuck Connors as Tom Moore
 Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Wrestler
 Sandy Duncan as Missy Anne Reynolds
 Leslie Uggams as Kizzy Reynolds
 Carolyn Jones as Mrs. Moore
 Lloyd Bridges as Evan Brent
 Ralph Waite as Slater
 Cicely Tyson as Binta
 Tracey Gold as Young Missy
 Lorne Greene as John Reynolds
 Scatman Crothers as Mingo
 George Hamilton as Stephen Bennett
 Richard Roundtree as Sam Bennett
 O. J. Simpson as Kadi Touray
 Gary Collins as Grill
 Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Noah
 John Schuck as Ordell
 Doug McClure as Jemmy Brent
 Todd Bridges as Bud
 Yvonne De Carlo as Slave owner's wife
 Henry Fonda as Colonel Frederick Warner


Notes

Eight-part miniseries adapting Alex Haley's novel. Later reissued in an edited 6-episode version.

First broadcast over a week in January 1977, Roots was a massive success and the first major US network success for the "blockbuster mini-series" genre, which led to many similar productions adapting novels for TV over the next decade. The finale episode of Roots as of 2015 is still the third highest-rated scripted program in the history of American network TV.

Followed in 1979 by a sequel miniseries titled Roots: The Next Generations and in 1988 by the TV movie Roots: The Gift. A 1993 miniseries, adapting Haley's unfinished novel Queen, is considered a follow-up to the Roots trilogy.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

Blu-ray

Roots - Warner Home Video - Sweden (2016)
DVD Box Set

Roots - Warner Home Video - UK (2002)


Images



Number: 844248  THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: 23skidoo
Description: title screen


Comments and Reviews
 
albert
13th Sep 2017
 Alex Haley on Wikipedia. It is rather unfortunate that the Kunte Kinte in Africa text has been discredited, "Roots is a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship", and Haley was successfully sued by Harold Courlander who's own novel The African was plagiarised for ideas, fiction becoming 'fact' in the process.
A better film, in my opinion, on the horrors of slavery is Goodbye Uncle Tom, which is far more direct and graphic and was researched using genuine documents and reports from the time. The film was released in 1971 and does not sit well with people who would rather you didn't see that the slaves were bought/bartered from slave markets in Africa run by African tribe leaders.
 

 
zabadak
30th Jan 2017
 It must be amazing to have a cultural milestone in your CV but to have two is extraordinary! :happy:
 

 
Quad5point1
28th Jan 2017
 So did LeVar Burton jump from Roots: Next Generation to Star Wars: Next Generation. I picked up the 25th Anniversary box set today in a charity shop, it's all very dated now
 

 
henry29
24th Sep 2015
 @23skidoo. No It Is just the Kunta Kinte Story. I have Next Generation miniseries and Queenie to will make a screen print for You. H.
 

 
23skidoo
24th Sep 2015
 @henry29: Does it include the Next Generation miniseries? If so can you make a screen capture of the title screen?
 

 
henry29
23rd Sep 2015
 Bought the Three Flip Disc 20th Anniversary complete Collection for £4 In charity today Bargain. H.
 

 
zabadak
22nd Sep 2015
 the show itself is still a classic

Oh yes, undeniably! :thumbsup:
 

 
23skidoo
22nd Sep 2015
 @zabadak. Maybe but the show itself is still a classic. I'm holding off on adding the sequel series until I can track down a title screen but if anyone has one and can jump in, please do!
 

 
zabadak
22nd Sep 2015
 Wasn't some of his research later discredited as not being thorough enough? :erk:
 

 
23skidoo
19th Sep 2015
 Now that's what you call an all-star cast! Reading the cast list is like going through a who's-who of 1970s TV. One bit of minor trivia that caught my attention is this is I believe the only production in which both Carolyn Jones (Morticia Addams) and Yvonne De Carlo (Lily Munster) both appeared though I doubt they shared any scenes given the nature of the production!
 


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