ROOTS

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 24: ROOTS - Sunday, Jan. 23-Sunday. Jan. 30, 1977, The 12-hour Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Novel for Television "Roots", which aired for eight consecutive nights, remains one of TV's landmark programs. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel, "Roots" followed 100 tumultuous years and several generations of the author's African ancestors, from the arrival of Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton, right), the West African youth kidnapped into slavery and shipped to America, through emancipation after the Civil War., Pictured: American-born slave Fiddler (Louis Gossett Jr.) met Kunta Kinte (Jan. 24)., (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)