ABC NOVEL FOR TELEVISION: ROOTS, EPISODE 3 (TV)

Summary

The third episode of this special series tracing the history of one black family through generations of enslavement in America. Nine years have passed; it is September 1776. During a plantation celebration, Kunta Kinte escapes again, to another plantation to find Fanta, an old friend from Africa. He finds her, but she rejects his pleas to run away with him. He is discovered and his foot is cut off. Dr. Reynolds has become the new master, and his cook Bell takes a liking to Kunta Kinte. Commercials deleted.

Details

• NETWORK: ABC
• DATE: January 25, 1977 Tuesday 10:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 1:49:53
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T77:0142
• GENRE: Docudrama
• SUBJECT HEADING: Blacks - History; Docudrama; Slavery; African-American Collection - Drama
• SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1977
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• David L. Wolper … Executive Producer
• Stan Margulies … Producer
• Donald A. Ramsey … Associate Producer
• Malcolm Alper … Associate Producer
• Marvin J. Chomsky … Director
• James Lee … Writer
• Alex Haley … Based on the novel by
• William Blinn … Adapted by
• Gerald Fried … Music by
• John Amos … Cast, Kunta Kinte (Toby)
• Lynda Day George … Cast, Mrs. Reynolds
• Louis Gossett … Cast, Fiddler
• Lorne Greene … Cast, John Reynolds
• Vic Morrow … Cast, Ames
• Robert Reed … Cast, Dr. William Reynolds
• Madge Sinclair … Cast, Bell
• Gary Collins … Cast, Grill
• Beverly Todd … Cast, Adult Fanta
• Lee Jones-de Broux … Cast, Railroad Detective
• Tanya L. Boyd … Cast, Genelva
• Lee Kessler … Cast, Miss Constable
• Thayer David … Cast, Harlan
• Hank Rolike … Cast, John
• Allen Williams … Cast, Robert Calvert