Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977. Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which holds the record as the third-highest-rated episode for any type of television series, and the second-most-watched overall series finale in U.S. television history

Stars: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family Release Date: 1965-09-08 A space colony family struggles to survive when a spy/accidental stowaway throws their ship hopelessly off course.

In the original story, Buck Rogers was a U.S. Air Force pilot who awoke from a 500-year sleep to discover that America had been overrun by Mongol invaders and was almost in ruins. Aided by his space companion Wilma Deering and his mentor, the brilliant scientist Dr. Huer, Buck Rogers defeated the invaders and freed America. A Martian and former space pirate, Black Barney, reformed and became Buck and Wilma’s stalwart sidekick. Subsequent foes included pirates from outer space, the Tiger Men of Mars, and the recurring villains Killer Kane and Ardala Valmar.