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Roots is a television miniseries in the USA based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family; the series first aired, on ABC-TV, in 1977. Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It won also a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which still holds a record as the third-highest-rated US television program. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million. The series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte. A sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, first aired in 1979, and a second sequel, Roots: The Gift, a Christmas TV movie, starring Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. first aired in 1988.
Movie rating: 8.4 / 10 (19475)
Season: #1
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky - John Erman
Writer credits: William Blinn - M. Charles Cohen
Cast: Todd Bridges - Olivia Cole - LeVar Burton - Ben Vereen - Louis Gossett Jr.
AKA: Alex Haley's Roots, Roots, Juuret
