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Roots: The Next Generations

1 Seasons-7 Episodes
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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.

Directed by

Writers Alex Haley

Stars Georg Stanford Brown Olivia de Havilland Henry Fonda

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Cast

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Georg Stanford Brown

Tom Harvey
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Olivia de Havilland

Mrs. Warner
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Henry Fonda

Col. Frederick Warner
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Paul Koslo

Earl Crowther
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Avon Long

Chicken George Moore
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Lynne Moody

Irene Harvey
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Greg Morris

Beeman Jones
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Marc Singer

Andy Warner
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Richard Thomas

Jim Warner
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Fay Hauser

Carrie Barden
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Brian Stokes Mitchell

John Dolan
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Debbi Morgan

Elizabeth Harvey

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