ROOTS

ROOTS ep.8 Final Number in parentheses indicates how many episodes in which the actor/character appears. Main cast John Amos – Older Kunta Kinte (3) Maya Angelou – Nyo Boto (1) Ed Asner – Capt. Davies (2) Lloyd Bridges – Evan Brent (2) Georg Stanford Brown – Tom Harvey (2) LeVar Burton – Young Kunta Kinte (2) Macdonald Carey – Squire James (1) Olivia Cole – Matilda (3) Chuck Connors – Tom Moore (2) Scatman Crothers – Mingo (1) Ji-Tu Cumbuka – Wrestler (2) Brad Davis – Ol' George Johnson (2) Sandy Duncan – Missy Anne Reynolds (2) Lynda Day George – Mrs. Reynolds (3) Louis Gossett Jr. – Fiddler (3) Lorne Greene – John Reynolds (2) Moses Gunn – Kintango (1) George Hamilton – Stephen Bennett (1) Hilly Hicks – Lewis (2) Burl Ives – Sen. Arthur Justin (1) Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs – Noah (1) Carolyn Jones – Mrs. Moore (2) Doug McClure – Jemmy Brent (1) Ian McShane – Sir Eric Russell (1) Lynne Moody – Irene Harvey (2) Vic Morrow – Ames (2) Thalmus Rasulala – Omoro (1) Robert Reed – Dr. William Reynolds (4) Harry Rhodes – Brima Cesay (1) Richard Roundtree – Sam Bennett (1) John Schuck – Ordell (1) Paul Shenar – John Carrington (1) O.J. Simpson – Kadi Touray (1) Madge Sinclair – Bell Reynolds (3) Cicely Tyson – Binta (1) Leslie Uggams – Kizzy Reynolds (2) Ben Vereen – Chicken George Moore (3) Ralph Waite – Third mate Slater (2) William Watson – Gardner (1) Ren Woods – Fanta (2) Also appearing Lane Binkley – Martha Johnson (2) Tanya Boyd – Genelva (2) Todd Bridges – Bud (1) Grand L. Bush – Captured runaway slave (1) Gary Collins – Grill (1) Charles Cyphers – Drake (1) Thayer David – Harlan (2) Richard Farnsworth – Trumbull (1) Tracey Gold – Young Missy Reynolds (1) Brion James – Slaver (1) Macon McCalman – Poston (1) Richard McKenzie – Sam Harvey (2) John Quade – Sheriff Biggs (1) Roxie Roker – Malizy (1) Lillian Randolph – Sister Sara (1) Raymond St. Jacques – Drummer (1) Austin Stoker – Virgil (2) Ernest Lee Thomas – Kailuba (1) Beverly Todd – Older Fanta (1) Zack Fisher as Abraham Lincoln Roots is an American television miniseries 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 https://rumble.com/v3ojqra-roots-1977-miniseries-episode-1-banned-black-history.html

In 1861, "Chicken George" returns home hoping to free his enslaved family.

ROOTS ep.6 Number in parentheses indicates how many episodes in which the actor/character appears. Main cast John Amos – Older Kunta Kinte (3) Maya Angelou – Nyo Boto (1) Ed Asner – Capt. Davies (2) Lloyd Bridges – Evan Brent (2) Georg Stanford Brown – Tom Harvey (2) LeVar Burton – Young Kunta Kinte (2) Macdonald Carey – Squire James (1) Olivia Cole – Matilda (3) Chuck Connors – Tom Moore (2) Scatman Crothers – Mingo (1) Ji-Tu Cumbuka – Wrestler (2) Brad Davis – Ol' George Johnson (2) Sandy Duncan – Missy Anne Reynolds (2) Lynda Day George – Mrs. Reynolds (3) Louis Gossett Jr. – Fiddler (3) Lorne Greene – John Reynolds (2) Moses Gunn – Kintango (1) George Hamilton – Stephen Bennett (1) Hilly Hicks – Lewis (2) Burl Ives – Sen. Arthur Justin (1) Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs – Noah (1) Carolyn Jones – Mrs. Moore (2) Doug McClure – Jemmy Brent (1) Ian McShane – Sir Eric Russell (1) Lynne Moody – Irene Harvey (2) Vic Morrow – Ames (2) Thalmus Rasulala – Omoro (1) Robert Reed – Dr. William Reynolds (4) Harry Rhodes – Brima Cesay (1) Richard Roundtree – Sam Bennett (1) John Schuck – Ordell (1) Paul Shenar – John Carrington (1) O.J. Simpson – Kadi Touray (1) Madge Sinclair – Bell Reynolds (3) Cicely Tyson – Binta (1) Leslie Uggams – Kizzy Reynolds (2) Ben Vereen – Chicken George Moore (3) Ralph Waite – Third mate Slater (2) William Watson – Gardner (1) Ren Woods – Fanta (2) Also appearing Lane Binkley – Martha Johnson (2) Tanya Boyd – Genelva (2) Todd Bridges – Bud (1) Grand L. Bush – Captured runaway slave (1) Gary Collins – Grill (1) Charles Cyphers – Drake (1) Thayer David – Harlan (2) Richard Farnsworth – Trumbull (1) Tracey Gold – Young Missy Reynolds (1) Brion James – Slaver (1) Macon McCalman – Poston (1) Richard McKenzie – Sam Harvey (2) John Quade – Sheriff Biggs (1) Roxie Roker – Malizy (1) Lillian Randolph – Sister Sara (1) Raymond St. Jacques – Drummer (1) Austin Stoker – Virgil (2) Ernest Lee Thomas – Kailuba (1) Beverly Todd – Older Fanta (1) Zack Fisher as Abraham Lincoln Roots is an American television miniseries 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 https://rumble.com/v3ojqra-roots-1977-miniseries-episode-1-banned-black-history.html

ROOTS ep.5 Number in parentheses indicates how many episodes in which the actor/character appears. Main cast John Amos – Older Kunta Kinte (3) Maya Angelou – Nyo Boto (1) Ed Asner – Capt. Davies (2) Lloyd Bridges – Evan Brent (2) Georg Stanford Brown – Tom Harvey (2) LeVar Burton – Young Kunta Kinte (2) Macdonald Carey – Squire James (1) Olivia Cole – Matilda (3) Chuck Connors – Tom Moore (2) Scatman Crothers – Mingo (1) Ji-Tu Cumbuka – Wrestler (2) Brad Davis – Ol' George Johnson (2) Sandy Duncan – Missy Anne Reynolds (2) Lynda Day George – Mrs. Reynolds (3) Louis Gossett Jr. – Fiddler (3) Lorne Greene – John Reynolds (2) Moses Gunn – Kintango (1) George Hamilton – Stephen Bennett (1) Hilly Hicks – Lewis (2) Burl Ives – Sen. Arthur Justin (1) Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs – Noah (1) Carolyn Jones – Mrs. Moore (2) Doug McClure – Jemmy Brent (1) Ian McShane – Sir Eric Russell (1) Lynne Moody – Irene Harvey (2) Vic Morrow – Ames (2) Thalmus Rasulala – Omoro (1) Robert Reed – Dr. William Reynolds (4) Harry Rhodes – Brima Cesay (1) Richard Roundtree – Sam Bennett (1) John Schuck – Ordell (1) Paul Shenar – John Carrington (1) O.J. Simpson – Kadi Touray (1) Madge Sinclair – Bell Reynolds (3) Cicely Tyson – Binta (1) Leslie Uggams – Kizzy Reynolds (2) Ben Vereen – Chicken George Moore (3) Ralph Waite – Third mate Slater (2) William Watson – Gardner (1) Ren Woods – Fanta (2) Also appearing Lane Binkley – Martha Johnson (2) Tanya Boyd – Genelva (2) Todd Bridges – Bud (1) Grand L. Bush – Captured runaway slave (1) Gary Collins – Grill (1) Charles Cyphers – Drake (1) Thayer David – Harlan (2) Richard Farnsworth – Trumbull (1) Tracey Gold – Young Missy Reynolds (1) Brion James – Slaver (1) Macon McCalman – Poston (1) Richard McKenzie – Sam Harvey (2) John Quade – Sheriff Biggs (1) Roxie Roker – Malizy (1) Lillian Randolph – Sister Sara (1) Raymond St. Jacques – Drummer (1) Austin Stoker – Virgil (2) Ernest Lee Thomas – Kailuba (1) Beverly Todd – Older Fanta (1) Zack Fisher as Abraham Lincoln Roots is an American television miniseries 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 https://rumble.com/v3ojqra-roots-1977-miniseries-episode-1-banned-black-history.html

ROOTS ep. 4 Genre Historical drama Based on Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley Written by Alex Haley Screenplay by Alex Haley James Lee Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky John Erman David Greene Gilbert Moses Starring John Amos Ben Vereen LeVar Burton Louis Gossett Jr. Leslie Uggams Georg Stanford Brown Theme music composer Gerald Fried Quincy Jones (episode 1)

ROOTS ep. 3 Genre Historical drama Based on Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley Written by Alex Haley Screenplay by Alex Haley James Lee Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky John Erman David Greene Gilbert Moses Starring John Amos Ben Vereen LeVar Burton Louis Gossett Jr. Leslie Uggams Georg Stanford Brown Theme music composer Gerald Fried Quincy Jones (episode 1)

ROOTS ep. 2 Roots is an American television miniseries 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. Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which holds the record as the third-highest-rated episode for any type of television series, and the second-most-watched overall series finale in U.S. television history. Plot Colonial times In the Gambia, West Africa, in 1750, Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte, a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta. He is raised in a Muslim family.When Kunta reaches the age of 15, he and other boys undergo a semi-secretive tribal rite of passage, under the kintango, which includes wrestling, circumcision, philosophy, war-craft and hunting skills. Meanwhile, Captain Thomas Davies meets Villars, the owner of a cargo ship, Lord Ligonier, and is given command of the vessel in order to trade goods between England, Africa and America. Only at the last minute is he informed that part of his cargo will consist of African slaves. During the early voyage, Mr. Slater, one of the ship's officers, pontificates to Davies about slavery. After learning that Slater is an expert in the field, having undertaken many similar voyages previously, Davies eventually grants him total authority and control over all procedures for ensuring their safe and secure passage to America. When the ship docks in Africa, Slater introduces Davies to the trader and negotiator, Gardner, who is tasked with the capture or purchase of 170 Africans. Back in Juffure, Kunta is instructed to catch a bird unharmed. The bird escapes from the safety of the training area, and during the chase, Kunta crosses paths with Gardner's small party of European slave hunters and their captives. Shortly after his ceremonial return, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother Lamin, Kunta is captured by Gardner and four black collaborators. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard the slave ship for a three-month journey to Colonial America. The ship eventually left Africa with 140 Africans. During the voyage, Kunta bonds with a Mandinka wrestler who was part of his manhood training, as well as a Mandinka girl named Fanta whom he met shortly before his kidnapping. An insurrection among the human cargo fails to take over the ship, but results in the death of Mr. Slater, several crew members and several Africans, including the wrestler. The ship eventually arrives in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1767, with 98 Africans still living. The captured Africans are sold at auction as slaves. John Reynolds, a plantation owner from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near Fredericksburg, buys Kunta and gives him the Christian name Toby. Reynolds assigns an older slave, Fiddler, to teach Kunta English and train him in the ways of servitude. Although Kunta gradually warms up to Fiddler, he wants to preserve his Mandinka (and Islamic) heritage, and he defiantly refuses to eat pork or accept his Christian name. Kunta makes several unsuccessful attempts to escape, first breaking his leg chain with a broken tool blade he finds half buried in a field. After this attempt the overseer, Ames, gathers the slaves in the barn, and directs another slave, James, to whip Kunta until he acknowledges his new name "Toby". Fiddler comforts the bloody-backed Kunta and uses his Mandinka name for the first time, assuring him "there will be another day". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(1977_miniseries)

BANNED ON YOUTUBE: Roots is an American television miniseries 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. Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which holds the record as the third-highest-rated episode for any type of television series, and the second-most-watched overall series finale in U.S. television history. Plot Colonial times In the Gambia, West Africa, in 1750, Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte, a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta. He is raised in a Muslim family.When Kunta reaches the age of 15, he and other boys undergo a semi-secretive tribal rite of passage, under the kintango, which includes wrestling, circumcision, philosophy, war-craft and hunting skills. Meanwhile, Captain Thomas Davies meets Villars, the owner of a cargo ship, Lord Ligonier, and is given command of the vessel in order to trade goods between England, Africa and America. Only at the last minute is he informed that part of his cargo will consist of African slaves. During the early voyage, Mr. Slater, one of the ship's officers, pontificates to Davies about slavery. After learning that Slater is an expert in the field, having undertaken many similar voyages previously, Davies eventually grants him total authority and control over all procedures for ensuring their safe and secure passage to America. When the ship docks in Africa, Slater introduces Davies to the trader and negotiator, Gardner, who is tasked with the capture or purchase of 170 Africans. Back in Juffure, Kunta is instructed to catch a bird unharmed. The bird escapes from the safety of the training area, and during the chase, Kunta crosses paths with Gardner's small party of European slave hunters and their captives. Shortly after his ceremonial return, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother Lamin, Kunta is captured by Gardner and four black collaborators. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard the slave ship for a three-month journey to Colonial America. The ship eventually left Africa with 140 Africans. During the voyage, Kunta bonds with a Mandinka wrestler who was part of his manhood training, as well as a Mandinka girl named Fanta whom he met shortly before his kidnapping. An insurrection among the human cargo fails to take over the ship, but results in the death of Mr. Slater, several crew members and several Africans, including the wrestler. The ship eventually arrives in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1767, with 98 Africans still living. The captured Africans are sold at auction as slaves. John Reynolds, a plantation owner from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near Fredericksburg, buys Kunta and gives him the Christian name Toby. Reynolds assigns an older slave, Fiddler, to teach Kunta English and train him in the ways of servitude. Although Kunta gradually warms up to Fiddler, he wants to preserve his Mandinka (and Islamic) heritage, and he defiantly refuses to eat pork or accept his Christian name. Kunta makes several unsuccessful attempts to escape, first breaking his leg chain with a broken tool blade he finds half buried in a field. After this attempt the overseer, Ames, gathers the slaves in the barn, and directs another slave, James, to whip Kunta until he acknowledges his new name "Toby". Fiddler comforts the bloody-backed Kunta and uses his Mandinka name for the first time, assuring him "there will be another day". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(1977_miniseries)