Roots: The Next Generations
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| Created by | Alex Haley |
| Directed by |
John Erman (eps. 1, 3, 4, 7) Charles S. Dubin (ep. 2) Georg Stanford Brown (ep. 5) Lloyd Richards (ep. 6) |
| Starring |
James Earl Jones Dorian Harewood Irene Cara Stan Shaw Georg Stanford Brown Debbi Morgan |
| Theme music composer | Gerald Fried |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English/Mandinka |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Stan Margulies |
| Running time | 840 minutes |
| Budget | US$16.6 million |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | February 18 – February 24, 1979 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Roots (miniseries) |
| Followed by | Roots: The Gift |
Roots: The Next Generations is an American 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. (Henning is about 48 miles north of Memphis, which is on the Mississippi River and in the southwest corner of the state, and which was then the largest city in it.) 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.
For the first part of the story, see Roots
The story resumes in 1882, 12 years after the arrival of "Chicken George" Moore (Avon Long) and his family in Henning, in West Tennessee. George, elderly and showing his age, moves in with Tom Harvey (Georg Stanford Brown), one of his sons, along with Tom’s wife, Irene (Lynne Moody), and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Cynthia. Tom, a great-grandson of Kunta Kinte, has become a leader of the black community in Henning. Although he has established a working relationship with the town's white leader, Col. Frederick Warner (Henry Fonda), a former officer in the Confederate Army, race relations are strained, due in part to the new Jim Crow laws and similar influences.
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