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Roots (1977)

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Roots

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Featured in

    • The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special 1977)

      Nominee clips.
    • Roots: One Year Later (TV Movie 1978)

      clips are shown
    • Teleantillas 1er. Aniversario (TV Special 1980)

      scenes shown
    • The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame (1984)

      A clip is included
    • "Television" The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (TV Episode 1985)

      Clips are shown, producer David Wolper discusses it.

Followed by

    • Roots: The Next Generations (TV Mini Series 1979)

    • Roots: The Gift (TV Movie 1988)

Referenced in

    • "Saturday Night Live" Fran Tarkenton/Leo Sayer, Donnie Harper and the Voices of Tomorrow (TV Episode 1977)

      Mentioned on Weekend Update
    • "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Buddy Hackett/Cindy Williams/Sander Vanocur (TV Episode 1977)

      Discussed in the monologue and by all three guests
    • "Saturday Night Live" Live from Mardi Gras (TV Episode 1977)

      Roots II book held up by Garret Morris during end credits
    • "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Burt Reynolds/Diana Ross/Jack Douglas/Jay Leno (TV Episode 1977)

      Discussed by Aunt Blabby
    • "All in the Family" Archie the Liberal (TV Episode 1977)

      Roots is mentioned

Spoofed in

    • "The Sonny and Cher Show" Episode #2.20 (TV Episode 1977)

      spoofed as Rootless
    • "Saturday Night Live" Steve Martin/The Kinks (TV Episode 1977)

      Spoofed in 'Roots II'
    • "The Little and Large Tellyshow" Episode #1.2 (TV Episode 1977)

      Eddie impersonates characters from the series.
    • "The Goodies" Alternative Roots (TV Episode 1977)

      Each of the Goodies trace their family tree.
    • "Tiswas" Episode #6.18 (TV Episode 1980)

      Lenny Henry spoofs Roots as "Lenny Kinte".

Version of

    • Roots (TV Mini Series 2016)

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