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[[image - black and white photograph of actors LeVar Burton and Edward Asner, scene from 'Roots']]
[[caption]] LeVar Burton (l.) plays an African boy facing the nightmare of slavery that will last for generations when he is delivered to America in 1767 on a ship commanded by Edward Asner in the first two segments of the ABC Television Network's non-fiction "ABC Novel for Television" presentation of Alex Haley's saga of an American family airing over eight consecutive nights beginning Sunday, January 23 and Monday, January 24. [[/caption]]

[[image - black and white photograph of man and woman seated in wagon. Actors Ben Vereen and Olivia Cole in scene from 'Roots'.]]
[[caption]] Even though he has been set free, Chicken George (Ben Vereen) must once again take sorrowful leave of his wife (Olivia Cole)—who is still a slave—in the seventh segment of "Roots" Saturday, January 29. The 12-hour non-fiction 'ABC Novel for Television" airs over eight consecutive nights beginning Sunday, January 23. [[/caption]]

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