Mary and Rhoda altogether. By 1999, it was confirmed that Moore and Harper would reunite instead in the two-hour made-for-TV movie "Mary and Rhoda" which began filming on October 18, 1999. "Mary and Rhoda" was released on DVD in Region 1 on April 20, 2004 by Studio Works Entertainment. Mary and Rhoda Mary and Rhoda is a 2000 American made-for-television comedy-drama film starring Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper reprising their roles as Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern from the 1970–1977 sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". Although the film is a spin-off of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", James L. Brooks and
Roots (1977 miniseries) Roots (1977 miniseries) Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel "". 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 still holds a 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. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million. The series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte. A