Roots: The Next Generations

Roots: The Next Generations (1979)

Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.

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  • First Air Date: 1979-02-18
  • Last Air Date: 1979-02-25
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 7
  • Episode Runtime: 96 min.
  • Network: ABC
  • Creator: Alex Haley

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Seasons

  • Season 0

    1 Episodes

  • Season 1

    7 Episodes

Trailer

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Cast

  • Georg Stanford Brown

    Tom Harvey

  • Olivia de Havilland

    Mrs. Warner

  • Henry Fonda

    Col. Frederick Warner

  • Paul Koslo

    Earl Crowther

  • Avon Long

    Chicken George Moore

  • Lynne Moody

    Irene Harvey

  • Greg Morris

    Beeman Jones

  • Marc Singer

    Andy Warner

  • Richard Thomas

    Jim Warner