Tom Harvey(George Stanford-Brown)forbade his daughter's marriage to a light-skinned negro because he is "too white" and town patriarch Colonel Warner(Henry Fonda)disowned his own son Jim(Richard Thomas)when he dared to marry a black schoolteacher. Relations between the races were strained,but the old prejudices and racial hatred of the past survived. The story begins in 1882,by which time Tom Harvey,the great-grandson of Kunta Kinte had established a marginal existence as a blacksmith in Henning,Tennessee. The story picks up where the first one left off,where it resumed from last time. And again it was the talk of the town during the night of the Emmy Awards,winning more Emmys than any other show imaginable in the history of television. Two years after Alex Haley's "Roots" made television history,this sequel to one of the most highly watched programs of all time continued the saga,again attracting large audiences in which no one,not even ABC was expecting such a brilliant success. First Telecast of the Mini-Series: February 18,1979 Last Telecast of the Mini-Series: July 12,1981 NOTE: During the February 1979 broadcast,it ran each night for seven days,and was repeated as a weekly series from May of 1981 to July,1981. Shown as a mini-series for ABC-TV that ran from 1979-1981. Wolper,and adapted for television by William Blinn. Based on the novel "Roots" written by Alex Haley. ROOTS:THE NEXT GENERATIONS-Produced by Wolper Productions for the ABC Television Network.
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