The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh 1979  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gilbert Moses
Cast: Julius Erving, Stockard Channing, Jonathan Winters, Margaret Avery, Jack Kehoe, Meadowlark Lemon, Flip Wilson, M. Emmet Walsh, Nicholas Pryor, Michael V. Gazzo
Astrology is used to turn a hapless Pittsburgh basketball team into championship material. Only those born under the sign of Pisces will be allowed on the team.
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Roots 1977  TV, 573 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses
Cast: LeVar Burton, John Amos, Cicely Tyson, Thalmus Rasulala, Maya Angelou, O.J. Simpson, Ben Vereen, Moses Gunn, Leslie Uggams, Lynda Day George, Beverly Todd, Edward Asner, Madge Sinclair, Louis Gossett Jr., Lorne Greene
Alex Haley's classic story of his family history involving Kunta Kinte's (LeVar Burton) abduction in 18th-century Africa and then being sold into slavery and sent to America is the focus of Chapter 0ne in this six-part made-for-TV epic. The mini-series received 37 Emmy nominations and won nine. Chapters continue through Kunta's (now played by John Amos) marriage to Bell (Madge Sinclair) and the birth of their daughter Kizzie. Then the saga follows with the birth of Kizzie's (Leslie Uggams) son Chicken George (Ben Vereen) who grows up to buy his freedom and pave the way for future generations to live in freedom following the Civil War.
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| 1. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
2. The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977)
3. Roots (1977)
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