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ScottR · 04-14-2007, 12:27 PM

Henry, when the series originally aired, four episodes were two hours in length and four episodes were one hour. The one hour episodes had footage (part of the storyline) that played during the cast credits at the beginning of the episode. There is one episode that had footage of George Hamilton and another of the slaves working in the fields (beautiful photography in this scene.) I didn't see the other one hour episode openings. The footage was quite lengthy..around 5 mins. per episode. Also, the closing credits were taken out as well. I don't know if anything else is missing..you know how it can happen though when episodes are shuffled around in syndication. The opening credits were the same, except for the title Roots. Originally the title was displayed as the cover of the book with "An ABC Novel For Television" appearing on screen.

04-14-2007, 12:27 PM	#6 of 9
ScottR Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Local Time: 04:45 AM Local Date: 12-02-2008 Posts: 2,811	Re: Roots: The Next Generations...Coming to dvd this fall! Henry, when the series originally aired, four episodes were two hours in length and four episodes were one hour. The one hour episodes had footage (part of the storyline) that played during the cast credits at the beginning of the episode. There is one episode that had footage of George Hamilton and another of the slaves working in the fields (beautiful photography in this scene.) I didn't see the other one hour episode openings. The footage was quite lengthy..around 5 mins. per episode. Also, the closing credits were taken out as well. I don't know if anything else is missing..you know how it can happen though when episodes are shuffled around in syndication. The opening credits were the same, except for the title Roots. Originally the title was displayed as the cover of the book with "An ABC Novel For Television" appearing on screen.