Who remembers watching the mini-series "Roots"

[LynneSin]

I was flipping through the Tele channels and found one of those odd channels up in the 100s was having a marathon airing of the Mini-Series "Roots". I remember watching it when it first came out in 1977 but it was interesting to watch it again yesterday (really only sat through episodes #2 & #3 before I had to head out for the day).

What a great mini-series, probably one of the best ones out there ever!

[RebelOne]

1. The book was great also.

It's been many years since I've read it.

[AllegroRondo]

2. Yup

that and "Shogun", which was a favorite of my mom.

[LynneSin]

3. I preferred Richard Chamberlain in "The Thorn Birds"

I think every girl once had a catholic priest fantasy after reading that book and/or watching the mini-series

[supernova]

4. The book is hotter than the movie

IMO.

I had a seirous priest jones for quite a while after I read that book. heh hehehehehe. ;-)

[LynneSin]

6. I love the book too

I was crushed when Chamberlain outed himself as a gay man - and he only did that a few years ago

[supernova]

5. I remember watching it

I remember watching thinking how very like a Greek tragedy it all was. And as great as the cast was. There was nobody in that production burning up the screen like LeVar Burton.

[LynneSin]

8. I watched the seen yesterday where they were whipping him....

..and the white guy kept saying "What is your name?" and Burton kept replying "Kunte Kinte" which of course made them whip him even more. It wasn't until his spirit was totally voided out from severe pain that he finally gave his 'white-man's name' of Toby.

That was some powerful acting done by LeVar Burton and what makes it sad was that it was pretty much typical of slavery back then.

We were some might awful folks

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Reading opens up a world of whimsy and wonder

[asthmaticeog]

13. I've got an idea.

How about a phaser? A low-stun setting at just the right moment might do the trick.

[eyepaddle]

9. I remember watching it, but

I was so young I don't remember much else about it. I do remember not being bored by it, so for me at the time that is very high praise.

[skygazer]

10. I saw some of the episodes in '77

I'm the youngest of 6 so my opinion was not really valid as to what we watched on tv. I think I saw maybe 2 of the episodes on nights when I had the house to myself. :eyes: Since it interested me, I read the book and was really blown away by it.

I watched the whole thing on video a few months ago - what a great story! It's always interesting to learn about where you come from but for people whose ancestors were forcibly yanked from their homes and put into bondage to be able to trace some of it is a miracle and a touching one. As kind of an armchair historian, I look at stuff like that and think about the people who blithely dismissed the feelings of the enslaved people with remarks like, "Oh, they don't have feelings like we do. They don't care about their families the way we do." :grr:

After the Civil War, there were former slaves who spent the rest of their lives trying to track down loved ones who'd been sold away. Some had some luck - most didn't. And now people say the same things about the Iraqis or whoever they're villifying this week - that they don't feel "like we do."

Don't people ever learn?

[StarryNite]

11. "Behold the only thing greater than yourself!"

Omoro, while holding his infant son, Kunta Kinte up to the night sky.

I loved that part.

[madinmaryland]

12. I watched the whole original series. We actually had a blizzard

that kept us out of school for the entire time the series was on (at least a week). A very powerful series.

[Arugula Latte]

14. I remember watching it when I was a kid. It was very powerful.

We just don't have many "television events" anymore ... the channels are too diversified for that.

[LynneSin]

15. I'm thinking of buying the DVD

that and also the Thorn Birds - both classics in the world of mini-series

[NMDemDist2]

16. sorry I drank my way through the 70s and don't have any memory of that show

I did read the book at one point though....

I think......

:dunce:

[mitchum]

17. It's a real trip hearing Ben Cartwright throw around "the n word", isn't it?

I think that "Roots" and "Rich Man, Poor Man" were the two best miniseries

[Roon]

18. All I remember is I got to see boobies!! eom

[MedleyMisty]

19. Since I wasn't alive in 1977

It must have been re-run in the mid-80s. I remember watching it when I was five or six.

[lost-in-nj]

20. We watched it

the whole family
together....
had to sit on the floor because we ran out of couch!!!


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