The Hallmark Channel is airing Roots this week and just wanted to let you know that John Amos starred in Part 3 and 4 of the 1977-miniseries. It aired in January 1977, so this is what Amos worked on after leaving Good Times in early 1976.

Hallmark airs each part this week at 8 Central and repeated again at 10. Part 1 was on last night.

Roots also stars other television veterans cast members:

Robert Reed (The Brady Bunch)
Lorne Greene (Bonanza)
Ernest Thomas (What's Happening!!)
Roxie Roker (The Jeffersons)
Helen Martin (227, Wanda on Good Times)
LaVar Burton (Reading Rainbow)
Moses Gunn (Good Times)
Thalmus Rasulala (What's Happening!!)
Edward Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
Ralph Waite (The Waltons)
Tanya Boyd (Days of Our Lives)
Sandy Duncan (The Hogan Family)
Carolyn Jones (The Addams Family)
Chuck Connors (The Rifleman)
MacDonald Carey (Days of Our Lives)
Scatman Crothers (Chico & the Man)
Georg Stanford Brown (The Rookies)
Todd Bridges (Diff'rent Strokes)
Gary Collins
Burl Ives
Leslie Uggams
Louis Gossett Jr.
Maya Angelou


... to name a few

LeVar Burton was also on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"...