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Roots: The Next Generations

on BBC One London

New series.
A continuation of the extraordinary saga of one man's search for his roots.
A series of seven episodes.
Henning, Tennessee, 1882: twelve years have passed since Chicken George brought his family to the tiny hamlet of Henning. Leadership of the family and its attendant problems has passed to Chicken George's son Tom Harvey.
The two Roots together are the 'War and Peace' of television ...
(The Washington Post)

A David Wolper production (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Writer:
Alex Haley
Written for television by:
Ernest Kinoy
Produced by:
Stan Margulies
Directed by:
John Erman
Tom Harvey:
Georg Stanford Brown
Mrs Warner:
Olivia de Havilland
Col Warner:
Henry Fonda
Earl Crowther:
Paul Koslo
Chicken George:
Avon Long
Irene Harvey:
Lynne Moody
Beeman Jones:
Greg Morris
Andy Warner:
Marc Singer
Jim Warner:
Richard Thomas
Carrie:
Fay Hauser
Elizabeth:
Debbi Morgan
Lucy:
Kathleen Doyle
Conductor:
Lou Frizzel
Sally Harvey:
Ja'net Dubois
Hapgood:
Don Keeper
Cynthia:
Cynthia Sye
Minnie:
Royce Wallace

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