Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~90 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 8 episodes
- Status
- Miniseries
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
- africa
- slavery
- plantation
- family history
- miniseries
- historical drama
- captivity
- genealogy
The bill
- Louis Gossett Jr.
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka
- Chuck Connors
- Carolyn Jones
- Leslie Uggams
- O. J. Simpson
- Maya Angelou
- Moses Gunn
- Thalmus Rasulala
- Hari Rhodes
- William Watson
- Directed
- David Greene, John Erman, Gilbert Moses, Marvin J. Chomsky
- Created
- Alex Haley
- Written
- M. Charles Cohen, James Lee, Ernest Kinoy, Alex Haley, William Blinn
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 247 ratings
- Network & studio
- ABC, David L. Wolper Productions, Warner Bros. Television
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