آلکساندر موری پالمر هیلی معروف به آلکس هیلی (به انگلیسی: Alex Haley) متولد یازدهم آگست ۱۹۲۱ تا دهم فوریه ۱۹۹۲، نویسنده آمریکایی آفریقایی تبار و خالق کتاب ریشه ها است. بر اساس کتاب ریشه ها سریال تلویزیونی نیز ساخته شد. در این سریال، زندگی خانواده و نیاکان نویسنده و وضعیت نابسامان آمریکاییان آفریقایی‌ تبار و رنج‌ها و کاستی‌های زندگی ایشان در دوران برده‌داری و پس از آن را به تصویر می کشد. سریال تلویزیونی ریشه ها زندگی خانواده را تا زمان جنگ داخلی آمریکا نشان می دهد...

کونتا کینته جوان ساکن قبیله ای در گامبیا در 17 سالگی به دست بازرگانان برده ربوده می شود و به همراه عده‌ای دیگر در بدترین وضع با کشتی‌های تجاری به آمریکا منتقل و به فروش می‌رسد. او در آمریکا محتمل رنج های بسیاری می شود و ...

A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Biracial daughter named Queen. As Queen grows up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the troubled world around her. She tries pass...

Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's: a high-class but illegal nightclub. During their visit, however, the place is robbed and they are forced to hand over their wallets. Steve's wallet turns out to have contained a winning lottery ticket, and together they must recover their stolen property. Written by Murray Chapman

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match. Using hypnotism, they turn the scrawny underdog into a super-confident fighting machine. They bet heavily on him, he wins easily, and they return to Atlanta with their money. All is fine until the gangsters conned by these two figure out what happened show up in Atlanta with a grudge. Now Williams and Foster have to rig the fight again so the gangsters can get their money back or theyll be killed. Can they do it again...? Written by Afterburner

This miniseries follows each member of the Jewish Weiss family throughout Hitlers reign in Germany. One by one, the family members suffer the horrible fate of extermination under Anti-Semetic Nazi Law until only one son remains at the end of World War II. A subplot follows the story of Eric Dorf, a young German lawyer with a good heart who is changed into a mass murderer by membership in the S.S. Written by Anthony Hughes

The elegant St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco is the setting for a string of distinct plots, usually romantic, often involving famous guest stars for an episode or two. Victoria Cabot (Anne Baxter) runs the hotel for absent owner Laura Trent (Bette Davis), until Cabot dies halfway through the series, when manager Peter McDermott (James Brolin) takes over and makes Christine Francis (Connie Sellecca) the new manager. Written by Ed Stephan

Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on both of them to put them behind bars, but instead he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling, and so are the kids. As time goes by, they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone from the past orders them to do one last heist--or else. Written by Afterburner

Follows Sergeant "Pepper" Anderson, LAPD's top undercover cop. A member of the Criminal Conspiracy Unit, Pepper works the wild side of the street, where she poses as everything from a gangster's moll to a streetwalker to a prison inm

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) is a street-smart, maverick undercover cop with the N.Y.P.D., who won't hesitate for a second to toss the rule book out the window if it stands between him and taking some bad guy off the street. His unconventional methods often land him in hot water with his boss (Lieutenant Shiller (Dana Elcar), later Lieutenant Hal Brubaker (Edward Grover)), but as long as Baretta was getting the job done, there wasn't much they could do. Ex-cop Billy Truman (Tom Ewell) and Rooster (Michael D. Roberts) were Baretta's main men on the street, and Fred was his pet cockatoo. Written by Marty McKee