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Poster Roots: The Next Generations

Roots: The Next Generations Season 1 Episode 6: Part 6 1979

Watch Tv Show Series Roots: The Next Generations : Seven years have passed since Alex's mother's death and the Haley family has moved to Elizabeth City, North Carolina where Simon is teaching agriculture at the local state teacher's college after remarrying. Alex has decided to drop out of college and return home, immediately finding a job with the WPA for $1 a day. Simon, realizing that Alex was apparently too young when he was sent off to college, recommends that Alex enlist in the military. Alex decides to join the Coast Guard in Norfolk, Virginia, but sadly discovers that his only opportunity there is working in the ship's galley. Alex eventually meets a young lady at a weekly church social and after war is declared, marries her before he is sent off to the south pacific. While at sea, he learns that he is the father of a baby girl and otherwise finds popularity and solace when writing. When the war is over, he returns home and re-enlists despite his father's disapproval, taking an assignment at a Coast Guard station in New York City. However he finds that racism is alive and well in his day to day life and his struggle to become a professional writer eventually alienates his wife..

Genre: Drama
Air Date: 1979-02-23
Season Number: 1
Episodes Number: 6
Stars: Georg Stanford Brown (Tom Harvey) , Olivia de Havilland (Mrs. Warner) , Henry Fonda (Col. Frederick Warner) , Paul Koslo (Earl Crowther) , Avon Long (Chicken George Moore) , Lynne Moody (Irene Harvey) , Greg Morris (Beeman Jones) , Marc Singer (Andy Warner) , Richard Thomas (Jim Warner) , Fay Hauser (Carrie Barden) , Brian Stokes Mitchell (John Dolan) , Debbi Morgan (Elizabeth Harvey) , Kathleen Doyle (Lucy Damson) , Ja'net DuBois (Sally Harvey) , Slim Gaillard (Sam Wesley) , Harry Morgan (Bob Campbell) , Roger E. Mosley (Lee Garnet) , Stan Shaw (Will Palmer) , Irene Cara (Bertha Palmer Haley) , James Daly (R.S.M. Boyce) , Ossie Davis (Dad Jones) , Ruby Dee (Queen Victoria Haley) , Dorian Harewood (Simon Haley) , Kene Holliday (Detroit) , George Voskovec (Mr. Goldstein) , Hal Williams (Aleck Haley) , Bever-Leigh Banfield (Cynthia Palmer) , E. Lamont Johnson (Frank Warner, age 20) , Bernie Casey (Bubba Haywood) , Pam Grier (Francey) , Rosey Grier (Big Slew Johnson) , Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Capt. Bowker) , Percy Rodriguez (Boyd Moffatt) , John Rubinstein (Lt. Hamilton Ten Eyck) , Diana Douglas (Mrs. Andy Warner) , Jason Wingreen (Judge Quartermain) , Maidie Norman (Sister Scrap Scott) , Bruce French (Calloway) , Robert Culp (Lyle Pettijohn) , Dina Merrill (Mrs. Hickinger) , Brock Peters (Ab Decker) , Beah Richards (Cynthia Palmer) , Paul Winfield (Dr. Horace Huguley) , Lynn Hamilton (Cousin Georgia Anderson) , Kristoff St. John (Alex Haley, age 12) , Logan Ramsey (D.L. Lewis) , Dennis Fimple (Sheriff Duffy) , Debbie Allen (Nan Branch Haley) , Damon Evans (Alex Haley, ages 17-25) , Andy Griffith (Cmdr. Robert Munroe) , Diahann Carroll (Zeona Haley) , Rafer Johnson (Nelson) , Carmen McRae (Lila) , John Hancock (Scotty) , Della Reese (Mrs. Lydia Branch) , Telma Hopkins (Daisy) , Milt Kogan (Mel Klein) , Barbara Barrie (Dodie Brattle) , Marlon Brando (George Lincoln Rockwell) , James Broderick (Dr. Lewis) , Lee Chamberlin (Odile Richards) , Michael Constantine (Dr. Vansina) , Norman Fell (Bernie Raymond) , Al Freeman Jr. (Malcolm X) , James Earl Jones (Alex Haley) , Claudia McNeil (Sister Will Ada) , Linda Hopkins (Singer) , Bobby Short (Pianist) , Jane Rose (Mrs. Bullfinch) , Howard Rollins (George Haley) , Johnny Sekka (Ebou Manga) , Kim Fields (Lydia Haley)

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