Dramatization of the lives of Alex Haley's ancestors, from the birth of Kunta Kinte in West Africa in 1750 and his capture by slavers, to the escape of Tom and George in 1870 to a new life in Tennessee. Based on the novel by Alex Haley.
Show Details:
Start date: Jan 1977
End date: Jan 1977
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): ABC (US)
Run time: 60 min - 120 min
Episodes: 8 eps
Genre(s): Drama, Historical
End date: Jan 1977
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): ABC (US)
Run time: 60 min - 120 min
Episodes: 8 eps
Genre(s): Drama, Historical
Credits:
- LeVar Burton as Young Kunta Kinte
- Olivia Cole as Matilda
- Louis Gossett Jr. as Fiddler
- Ben Vereen as Chicken George Moore
- Vic Morrow as Ames
- John Amos as Older Kunta Kinte
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Wrestler
- Edward Asner as Capt. Thomas Davies
- Lynda Day George as Mrs. Reynolds
- Robert Reed as Dr. William Reynolds
- Madge Sinclair as Bell Reynolds
- Chuck Connors as Tom Moore
- Sandy Duncan as Missy Anne Reynolds
- Leslie Uggams as Kizzy Reynolds Moore
- Carolyn Jones as Mrs. Moore
- Lloyd Bridges as Evan Brent
- Georg Stanford Brown as Tom Harvey
- Brad Davis as Ol' George Johnson
- Lynne Moody as Irene Harvey
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 23 Jan 77 | Part I |
| 2. | 1-2 | 24 Jan 77 | Part II |
| 3. | 1-3 | 25 Jan 77 | Part III |
| 4. | 1-4 | 26 Jan 77 | Part IV |
| 5. | 1-5 | 27 Jan 77 | Part V |
| 6. | 1-6 | 28 Jan 77 | Part VI |
| 7. | 1-7 | 29 Jan 77 | Part VII |
| 8. | 1-8 | 30 Jan 77 | Part VIII |