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  2. Roots (1977 miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of enslavement in the United States. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights.

  3. Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Wikipedia

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    Roots was a television miniseries airing over eight consecutive nights in January 1977. ABC network television executives chose to "dump" the series into a string of airings rather than space out the broadcasts because they were uncertain how the public would respond to the controversial, racially charged themes of the show.

  4. Madge Sinclair - Wikipedia

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    Following Roots, she starred in the 1978 film Convoy as the Widow Woman, and she played Leona Hamilton in Cornbread, Earl and Me. Also in 1978, she co-starred in the short-lived sitcom Grandpa Goes to Washington. Sinclair went on to a stint in the 1980s as nurse Ernestine Shoop on the series Trapper John, M.D. opposite Pernell Roberts.

  5. Roots (2016 miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an 18th-century Mandinka man who is enslaved and shipped from the Gambia to the Colony of Virginia and his descendants.

  6. Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar-winning actor from ‘An Officer and a ...

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    He won an Emmy for playing the old slave Fiddler in the seminal ABC miniseries “Roots” (1977), acting in three of the program’s eight episodes. ... in the original cast of “A Raisin in the ...

  7. 'Roots' at 45: John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr. on how ... - AOL

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    "Roots" stars John Amos and Louis Gossett Jr. reunite to discuss the seminal slavery series' legacy as it turns 45.

  8. Category:Roots (TV miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Aricles relating to the television miniseries Roots and its spin-offs. It is based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of slavery in the United States. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights.

  9. Lynne Moody - Wikipedia

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    Emmalyn Paulette Moody [citation needed] (born February 17, 1945), [note 1] known professionally as Lynne Moody, is an American film and television actress.Beginning her career in the early 1970s, Moody is best known her roles as Tracy Curtis–Taylor in the ABC television sitcom That's My Mama (1974–1975), Irene Harvey in Roots (1977), Roots: The Next Generations (1979), [6] and Patricia ...

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