Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1
Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1
Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1
1979
Drama, War
TV Season
Season 1 - The dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots. (imdb)
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Directed by:
John Erman
37 total credits
Credits include: Blackboard Jungle, Roots, Stella, Scarlett and An Early Frost
23 total credits
Credits include: M*A*S*H, Cinderella, Kojak, Hawaii Five-O and Roots: The Next Generations
Writers:
Sydney A. Glass 3 total credits
Credits include: Blue Collar, Roots: The Next Generations, Part IV (1918-1921) and Detour to Terror
9 total credits
Credits include: Malcolm X, Roots, Roots, Roots: The Next Generations and Malcolm X
Starring:
Olivia de Havilland
59 total credits
Credits include: Gone with the Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Heiress, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Captain Blood
122 total credits
James Earl Jones was born in 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA. At an early age he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred in many films over a 40-year period, beginning with the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Probably best known for his role as Darth Vader (for the voice only) (imdb)
63 total credits
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won a Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, SAG and SAG Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of Arts, among others awards...(wikipedia)
23 total credits
Credits include: In the Heat of the Night, Drugstore Cowboy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Miracle Worker and Beloved
38 total credits
Credits include: Full Metal Jacket, Gothika, Sudden Death, 12 Angry Men and The Falcon and the Snowman
20 total credits
Credits include: Trancers, Family Matters, Trancers II, Rain and Trancers III
119 total credits
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood...(Wikipedia)
14 total credits
Credits include: Fame, City Heat, D.C. Cab, Happily Ever After and Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
26 total credits
Credits include: The Omega Man, Vanishing Point, Joe Kidd, Robot Jox and Mr. Majestyk
60 total credits
Credits include: It, The Americans, Taking Woodstock, The Unforgivable and All Quiet on the Western Front
46 total credits
Credits include: The Beastmaster, V, Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time, V and V: The Final Battle
Ratings & Reviews
Part I (1882-1883) (1979)
- S1E1
It's now April 1882, 12 years later. Chicken George returns to live with Tom Harvey and his wife Irene. Tom travels to Memphis to attend a Republican convention but soon learns that his first class ticket for the train has little meaning to the conductor who refuses to let him on and tells him to ride in the baggage car. Colonel Frederick Warner is also traveling to Memphis and intercedes on Tom's behalf. At the home of Beeman Jones, Tom is pressed to support the Democratic party in return for a
Part II (1896-1897) (1979)
- S1E2
It's 1896 and Elizabeth Harvey returns home. Her father still bears a grudge over their dispute all those years ago. Cynthia Harvey makes the acquaintance of Will Palmer and he asks permission to call on her. Will plans on making something with his life and is too proud to ask her father for permission until he's something better than a railroad worker. He gets work in Bob Campbell's lumber yard and with the new job, approaches Tom who isn't going to make the same mistake he made with Lizzie. Th
Part III (1914-1918) (1979)
- S1E3
Will and Cynthia Palmer's daughter Bertha is off to Lane College, the first in the family to do so. There she meets Simon Haley, a fellow student who is working his way through school. She asks him out to the school picnic, more as a joke than anything else, but they soon become close. At the end of the year, she describes him to her parents as a particular dear friend, which worries her father. When Simon gets home he learns that his father needs him to help out of the farm and that there's no
Part IV (1918-1921) (1979)
- S1E4
With 8 soldiers hanged for staging a mutiny in the 24th Infantry, Bertha is worried about Simon. Criticizing the army during wartime isn't necessarily a safe practice however. Will Palmer finds that the local draft board isn't applying the rules fairly to blacks. The army is commanded by white officers only and black men get little respect. One of Simon's fellow black soldier, Heywood, is badly beaten by a State Trooper and some in the platoon want to take revenge, but its Heywood who talks sens
Part V (1932-1933) (1979)
- S1E5
It's 1932 and these are hard times during the Depression. A young Alex Haley is living with his parents Bertha and Simon and his grandparents. Simon is frustrated working at the lumberyard but with a Master's degree in agriculture, dreams of breaking free and teaching. Will has little interest in modernizing the operation but good news for Simon comes with a job offer as a college professor at Alabama A & M. He's embarrassed at the things that the school's president, Dr. Horace Huguley, has to d
Part VI (1939-1950) (1979)
- S1E6
17 year-old Alex returns to home to Elizabeth City from college. He's also there to tell his father that he's not on leave to conduct a research paper but has in fact quit school. Simon has re-married since Bertha died and Alex has some difficulty with that, all the more so when he realizes that his step-mother is pregnant. Simon has high hopes for his son and firmly believes in education as they to improve your lot in life. Deciding to compromise, Simon decides he should join the army but Alex
Part VII (1960-1967) (1979)
- S1E7
In October 1960, Alex attends his great-aunt Liz's funeral but he and his father Simon still don't get along. Alex is now making a decent living as a writer, mainly for magazines, but his father is still disappointed in him. He interviews Malcolm X for an article he's writing for "Reader's Digest" on the Nation of Islam which leads to an article in Playboy about the black leader. "Playboy" then arranges an interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party.
Cast & Info
Directed by:
John Erman 37 total credits
Credits include: Blackboard Jungle, Roots, Stella, Scarlett and An Early Frost
23 total credits
Credits include: M*A*S*H, Cinderella, Kojak, Hawaii Five-O and Roots: The Next Generations
Writers:
Sydney A. Glass 3 total credits
Credits include: Blue Collar, Roots: The Next Generations, Part IV (1918-1921) and Detour to Terror
9 total credits
Credits include: Malcolm X, Roots, Roots, Roots: The Next Generations and Malcolm X
Starring:
Olivia de Havilland 59 total credits
Credits include: Gone with the Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Heiress, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Captain Blood
122 total credits
James Earl Jones was born in 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA. At an early age he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred in many films over a 40-year period, beginning with the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Probably best known for his role as Darth Vader (for the voice only) (imdb)
63 total credits
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won a Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, SAG and SAG Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of Arts, among others awards...(wikipedia)
23 total credits
Credits include: In the Heat of the Night, Drugstore Cowboy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Miracle Worker and Beloved
38 total credits
Credits include: Full Metal Jacket, Gothika, Sudden Death, 12 Angry Men and The Falcon and the Snowman
20 total credits
Credits include: Trancers, Family Matters, Trancers II, Rain and Trancers III
119 total credits
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood...(Wikipedia)
14 total credits
Credits include: Fame, City Heat, D.C. Cab, Happily Ever After and Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
26 total credits
Credits include: The Omega Man, Vanishing Point, Joe Kidd, Robot Jox and Mr. Majestyk
60 total credits
Credits include: It, The Americans, Taking Woodstock, The Unforgivable and All Quiet on the Western Front
46 total credits
Credits include: The Beastmaster, V, Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time, V and V: The Final Battle
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