Roots: The Next Generations

Roots: The Next Generations
Created by	Alex Haley
Based on	Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
Screenplay by	Ernest Kinoy
Directed by	John Erman (eps. 1, 3, 4, 7) Charles S. Dubin (ep. 2) Georg Stanford Brown (ep. 5) Lloyd Richards (ep. 6)
Starring	James Earl Jones Dorian Harewood Irene Cara Stan Shaw Georg Stanford Brown Debbi Morgan
Theme music composer	Gerald Fried
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English/Mandinka
No. of episodes	7
Production
Executive producer	David L. Wolper
Producer	Stan Margulies
Running time	840 minutes
Production company	David L. Wolper Productions
Budget	US$16.6 million
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	February 18 (1979-02-18) – February 24, 1979 (1979-02-24)
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Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries based on the last seven chapters of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. First aired on ABC in February 1979, it is a sequel to the 1977 Roots miniseries, tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee, from 1882 to 1967.

Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times larger than that of the original.^[1] The screenplay was written by Ernest Kinoy.^[2]