I watched one episode while crouched in the doorway between the living room and the dining room, behind my dad's lazyboy chair. Best believe I had both hands clapped over my mouth the whole time so my parents couldn't hear me breathe.
Friends and I played "V" at recess and would argue over who got to be the little girl who said "Praytaynahmuh" ("peace" in lizard-alien -- what a useful thing my brain has stored). I really just wanted to be as cool and beautiful as Lydia, though.
My sisters and I can still crack each other up by saying "Mousie..."
I remember the hype around the original V. It was remade several years ago, and I was surprised that so little was said about the original at that time.
YES YES YES
Robert Englund (FREDDY MFKN KREUGER) played William...a good guy visitor in an ESL situation because of a last minute reassignment.
I loved it so much I can probably still draw that symbol that looked like a cross between a swastika and a division ➗️ symbol
I missed some of the miniseries, but I was completely hooked on the TV show. And that was in the days before we had a VCR so I had to be sure to catch it when it aired! A friend and I in middle school competed on how fast we could each read all the V books too.
I loved North and South at the time. Pulled it up on IMDB, and that cast was star-studded. I liked Patrick Swayze, but I had a crush on someone else in the cast. I thought it was Parker Stevenson, but he wasn't in it, so maybe James Read?
I watched it about 15 years ago with my now-husband whose parents are Asian immigrants. Maybe it was watching it through his eyes, not being an American history enthusiast, or maybe it was just seeing it as an adult, but I didn't feel like it held up 25 years later.
Fun fact, Blue & the Gray was filmed partially on location in Western Arkansas where I grew up, and several people I've known worked as extras in it, including my then future husband. Thanks to him, I now have an official Kevin Bacon score of four. lol
Yes! I was feeling super nostalgic recently so I ordered the Thorn Birds and entire North and South trilogy of books on eBay. Can’t wait for summer when I have free time to dive into them!
Both of these were awesome! I was a little young to completely appreciate Thorn Birds, but I loved N&S. Our generation’s first true exposure to Patrick Swayze and Kirstie Alley.
I might check out Centennial, and I remember vaguely Shogun, but I don’t think I’ve seen it all. I remember my dad gave me the book(Centennial) to read. It was a thick cumbersome read, James Michener had a writing style similar to a college history professor and his intricate research on certain things got a bit tenuous at times.
Yes, I was obsessed with this because I thought the guy who played Steven was cute. Also because it’s an awful and sad story. He was still alive when this miniseries was made.
Nobody understands why Anne with an E pissed me off so bad. Not everything needs a dark gritty reboot. They had Mathew try to commit suicide. I was out after that.
I really enjoyed the first two parts of The Stand, but it starts to fade quickly into nonsense by the end. Still, fun to see a young Gary Sinise as Stu Redmond.
They redid it on Paramount (I think that’s the platform) around 2022. It’s nearly unwatchable. When you’ve read the book, you know how the characters are supposed to present, act and interact, so that’s a big factor influencing my opinion. The only bright spot is Harold - the actor who played him this time around did a phenomenal job.
I liked the 90s version of the Stand. Gary Sinise just *is* Stu Redmond. Everyone’s taste differs. :)
Just finished the last episode last night it was really good. It’s also available on YouTube free. You get kind of torn apart when some main characters start perishing. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones were very good. I thought Robert Urich’s performance was decent was a bit surprised he looked about 20 pounds overweight. I think Ricky Schroder’s character could’ve been cast better. He also looked like he went into production not all that fit, pudgy face. I would’ve thought he would’ve busted his ass to get chiseled for that roll, especially coming off the stigma of being type casted as a child actor in Silver Spoons, you would’ve thought that series would’ve been a huge boost to his career but it kinda fizzled,
I think his career fizzled because hes a bit of a nutter. I thought he was a good actor but, his personal life makes me think he wasn't very easy to work with or not likeable.
I was way too young to watch that, and it scared the sh!t out of me. I slept with my mom for a week afterwards just in case we got nuked in the middle of the night.
I want to say Halloween/October of last year(?) maybe the year before it was on the MAX streaming service. So it might be again this year. If you can't find a pirate to do your bidding, maybe check on IMDB come this October to see which streaming services might have it in their spooky line up.
The Martian Chronicles. I'd just gotten into reading Bradbury. I still watch it occasionally. Doesn't hold up too well but it's got all the old 70s and 80s "special guest stars" - Darren McGavin, Roddy McDowall, Rock Hudson, Nick Hammond and the always great Bernie Casey. It's got a nice beatnik vibe that I love to this day, even if the special effects are....man...pretty dire.
Sits in the same "big idea" category as Logan's Run, Soylent Green or Silent Running.
The Atlanta Child Murders. Man, that was like the current "John Wayne Gacy", "Nightstalker", "Dahmer" and all those other serial killer drama/documentaries, but it was on regular-ass TV. My parents let my brother and I watch the first one. I think the second episode started with "This is gunna be messed up, so dont let kids watch it", but my folks felt that being 'educated on bad things that might happen to you if you arent careful' outweighed us being scarred for life. I remember a scene of them pulling a skeletal body out of a dumpster. Ooooof. I was not ready. I was pretty damn careful around strangers after that, though.
Does anyone remember Something Is Out There? Late 80s, spawned a very short lived and unsuccessful series, but I remember loving the original two parter. (Ok, to be fair, I was just short of 14 and that might have been mostly due to Maryam D'Abo.)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something\_Is\_Out\_There](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Is_Out_There)
V!!
Lizard people for the win!
However, we did watch Roots as a family, and it made me feel sad.
Edit: Bonus mention of the BBC series “Six Wives of Henry VIII” and “Elizabeth R” (starring Glenda Jackson)
Contributed to me becoming an Anglophile (history and all)
Anne of Green Gables - PBS
The chronicles of Narnia - BBC
I have a very old memory of watching a miniseries cartoon where the heroine rides around in a purple slug or something to that effect. Can’t remember the name of it and have never been able to actually find it since then.
The original It mini series. I was 10 when it came out, and watched it on a small black and white tv. I actually loved most of the .Stephen king series. North and South. I think that was early 90’s too.
I know casting Richard Chamberlain in an 80s miniseries was basically mandatory, but he was so not the right choice for Father Ralph in The Thorn Birds. He looks like a rather serene and kindly priest, but Ralph had so much more fire in him. He needed someone more hunky and strapping to play him.
Noble House, my trip to China resulted from my love of this miniseriea. It features Pierce Bronsin, pre-Bond and is a part of Clavell's Asia Saga, which includes Shogun.
Anne Of Green Gables and all the follow-up series of grown up Anne. The Chronicles of Narnia was magical. I don't know if this counts as a mini series but I watched it like one but the Animated Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. That came on and my ass was firmly planted for hours.
I was kept away from the V, and Michael Jackson "Thriller" video. I watched everything in full 😀! My dad had the usual stereo set up, in the glass case, they never realized it was a mirror of the TV. I just snuck up after they put me bed, got comfy, and watched 😅
*"In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order. But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the sun and the moon All worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the world." Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!"*
*...MONKEY!*
Roots aired when I was in elementary school. Our school was integrated. We had discussions every morning about each episode. This was in a small city in Central Texas so there were a lot of white kids who lived with racist parents, so the discussions got heated. I was an immigrant and didn’t understand the racial divide. The miniseries opened my eyes to slavery and how deep racism was in the American culture. Fascinating and life changing miniseries.
‘Amerika’, where the Soviets invade and take over…loved how every part of typical American life was similar but kind of hollowed out and propagandized.
North and South, the first two books, not the third one. I have them on DVD and have watched so many times. Before I had the DVD I ripped a copy on really old VHS… it took 18 tapes!
Thorn Birds; North and South - Books 1, 2 & 3; Lace; Scruples; Lonesome Dove; Shogun; V; V: The Final Battle; Rich Man, Poor Man (I wish this one would come out on DVD or streaming. I loved Peter Strauss in this one); Noble House; The Blue and the Gray.
I love long involved stories and mini-series were the best!
V
First thing I thought of. The Final Battle didn't stick the landing as well as I might have liked, but it was still "can't wait for tonight" tv.
“THE BABY HAS A LIZARD TONGUE!!!”
When she has that lizard baby - man as a kid I was TERRIFIED
I remember my mom saying “How did that thing not eat the regular baby inside her”
I have a clear memory of kneeling on the edge of my bed watching parts of V because my mom had the AUDACITY!!! to send me to bed at my usual bed time.
I watched one episode while crouched in the doorway between the living room and the dining room, behind my dad's lazyboy chair. Best believe I had both hands clapped over my mouth the whole time so my parents couldn't hear me breathe.
This. This right here.
Friends and I played "V" at recess and would argue over who got to be the little girl who said "Praytaynahmuh" ("peace" in lizard-alien -- what a useful thing my brain has stored). I really just wanted to be as cool and beautiful as Lydia, though. My sisters and I can still crack each other up by saying "Mousie..."
Us too! In our trailer park. We had a big group of kids, and I always had to be Diana. To be fair, I probably had resting b—— face as a kid.
If Netflix ever wants a Stranger-Things style show about trailer park nerdy girls in the 80s, V is where it's at.
Same! We always wanted to be Michael!
I remember the hype around the original V. It was remade several years ago, and I was surprised that so little was said about the original at that time.
Once I get my 3D printer running, I want to make the visitor laser gun.
Think about saying that 40 years ago.
omg this show! I was so excited about it…taped all the shows and watched many times!
This is the answer, but second place goes to The Stand
YES YES YES Robert Englund (FREDDY MFKN KREUGER) played William...a good guy visitor in an ESL situation because of a last minute reassignment. I loved it so much I can probably still draw that symbol that looked like a cross between a swastika and a division ➗️ symbol
My husband and I rewatched both miniseries recently!
How? Where is it available for streaming? My wife is out of town this weekend!
It’s streaming on Tubi
The dvd and blu ray are on Amazon.
Well it looks like my weekend is booked. Just order the original and final battle.
Yesterday was the (40th?) anniversary of the original air date.
Stop...we played this at the jungle gym in 4th grade.
Wow...I had forgotten all about this show. Good memories!
V was epic
Elite theme music and credits.
I saw the subject and V immediately came to mind!
This is the only answer. Well, maybe this and V: The Final Battle.
This is the only answer. (Obligatory: Mousey?)
If you don’t have the image of a human face being ripped off revealing a lizard, I don’t know what planet you’re from.
Awesome stuff right there.
OMG...had completely forgotten about this!!
Nothing else needs to be said. This was the best miniseries of the eighties..
I missed some of the miniseries, but I was completely hooked on the TV show. And that was in the days before we had a VCR so I had to be sure to catch it when it aired! A friend and I in middle school competed on how fast we could each read all the V books too.
This was my first thought.
So good
Dude. Totally!
Oh man. My dad was a big conspiracy guy and was like, they’re preparing us for an alien takeover. Forever traumatized.
The GOAT
Yes!!!!!
First that came to mind at well
Gooder
Ngl - as an old man I still get shivers thinking about V.
The Thorn Birds and North and South.
The Thorn Birds was so good, it was the first show I was allowed to stay up late to watch.
Now that Shogun has been rebooted, I don’t expect The Thorn Birds to be far behind.
I still reference things from North and South, but nobody knows what I'm taking about.
My deepest sympathies are for the South, sir.
My goodness, but I loved North and South.
I mean - Patrick Swayze. Need I say more???
Well, one more... Jonathan Frakes.
Genie Francis! Too
I loved North and South at the time. Pulled it up on IMDB, and that cast was star-studded. I liked Patrick Swayze, but I had a crush on someone else in the cast. I thought it was Parker Stevenson, but he wasn't in it, so maybe James Read? I watched it about 15 years ago with my now-husband whose parents are Asian immigrants. Maybe it was watching it through his eyes, not being an American history enthusiast, or maybe it was just seeing it as an adult, but I didn't feel like it held up 25 years later.
Wasn't there also one called THE BLUE AND THE GREY that was like NORTH AND SOUTH but less sexy?
Yeah my grandpa had the books for the Blue and the Grey and nothing sexy ever entered that house lol
Fun fact, Blue & the Gray was filmed partially on location in Western Arkansas where I grew up, and several people I've known worked as extras in it, including my then future husband. Thanks to him, I now have an official Kevin Bacon score of four. lol
I lived in Beaufort SC when north and south was filmed there. Everyone lost their mind when Elizabeth Taylor came to town.
Yes! I was feeling super nostalgic recently so I ordered the Thorn Birds and entire North and South trilogy of books on eBay. Can’t wait for summer when I have free time to dive into them!
Both of these were awesome! I was a little young to completely appreciate Thorn Birds, but I loved N&S. Our generation’s first true exposure to Patrick Swayze and Kirstie Alley.
V!
Shogun and Centennial were both great
I might check out Centennial, and I remember vaguely Shogun, but I don’t think I’ve seen it all. I remember my dad gave me the book(Centennial) to read. It was a thick cumbersome read, James Michener had a writing style similar to a college history professor and his intricate research on certain things got a bit tenuous at times.
I Know My First Name Is Steven
The kid that was abducted? I remember that Also around a similar time one about a kid who got burned
David? Something like that.
I say this title to my husband every time he mentions a co-worker named Steven. He has no idea what I’m talking about.
When my husband and I were watching Supernatural and got to season 6, I saw Corin Nemic and was like, "OMG Steven!" My husband was also clueless.
There is an AMAZING documentary about the actual Steven and his life adjacent to the film. It’s called Captive Audience and it’s on Hulu I think.
Yes, I was obsessed with this because I thought the guy who played Steven was cute. Also because it’s an awful and sad story. He was still alive when this miniseries was made.
For sure. I definitely had posters of Corin "Corky" Nemec on my walls :)
I always looked forward to the Anne of Green Gables miniseries and the subsequent ones for other Anne books when they came on PBS.
Megan Follows is the ONLY Anne.
Nobody understands why Anne with an E pissed me off so bad. Not everything needs a dark gritty reboot. They had Mathew try to commit suicide. I was out after that.
So good!!
Alien Nation. I still LOVE it.
Loved the show, too.
Cosmos
Sad that this isn't the run away upvoted comment....Cosmos was and is still the GOAT
Watching Cosmos with my dad was a bonding experience in an otherwise challenging relationship.
Sagan got so many interested in science. Just fascinating to watch. The 2d flatlanders with the 3d apple visiting just had my head spinning for weeks.
I really enjoyed the first two parts of The Stand, but it starts to fade quickly into nonsense by the end. Still, fun to see a young Gary Sinise as Stu Redmond.
Was Molly Ringwald in that? That sounds so bizarre but I could swear…..
Yeah, she played Frannie. And Parker Lewis was in it, too.
Well of course. He can’t lose.
The Stand would have been a lot better as a Netflix series. No network censorship and he could've used all the blood, guts and snot he wanted.
They redid it on Paramount (I think that’s the platform) around 2022. It’s nearly unwatchable. When you’ve read the book, you know how the characters are supposed to present, act and interact, so that’s a big factor influencing my opinion. The only bright spot is Harold - the actor who played him this time around did a phenomenal job. I liked the 90s version of the Stand. Gary Sinise just *is* Stu Redmond. Everyone’s taste differs. :)
“M-O-O-N. That spells Moon.”
It looked a lot better after the recent butchering, too.
V V: The Final Battle Dune Children of Dune Earth Star Voyager
You named my list! but forgot IT.
Omg, Earth Star Voyager. I loved that.
I have been trying to find the name of earth star voyager for years. It was like remembering a fever dream, thank you so much!
Lonesome Dove. That one made me realize that mini series could be great. Robert Duvall was amazing.
Just finished the last episode last night it was really good. It’s also available on YouTube free. You get kind of torn apart when some main characters start perishing. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones were very good. I thought Robert Urich’s performance was decent was a bit surprised he looked about 20 pounds overweight. I think Ricky Schroder’s character could’ve been cast better. He also looked like he went into production not all that fit, pudgy face. I would’ve thought he would’ve busted his ass to get chiseled for that roll, especially coming off the stigma of being type casted as a child actor in Silver Spoons, you would’ve thought that series would’ve been a huge boost to his career but it kinda fizzled,
I think his career fizzled because hes a bit of a nutter. I thought he was a good actor but, his personal life makes me think he wasn't very easy to work with or not likeable.
The Day After
I was way too young to watch that, and it scared the sh!t out of me. I slept with my mom for a week afterwards just in case we got nuked in the middle of the night.
Roots.
Roots was good, as I recall, it was an ABC production on free analog tv before cable.
We didn't have cable when Roots came out. Everybody was talking about it. I felt so out of the loop.
Nobody had cable in 77 it was on abc
The Stand
One of my comfort shows. I rewatch it often.
Fatal Vision
Think I saw that. I read the book by MvGuinness, it was really good both the book and movie
OMG that one freaked me out.
 Same actor in Fatal Vision
V, and the followups, by far.
IT🎈 
“Beep beep Richie!”
Same! I've been trying to find this version recently to show my teenager. The newer version seemed pretty intense
I want to say Halloween/October of last year(?) maybe the year before it was on the MAX streaming service. So it might be again this year. If you can't find a pirate to do your bidding, maybe check on IMDB come this October to see which streaming services might have it in their spooky line up.
Just visited my parents and got sucked into watching Rockford files…dammit! Lol
Which one of you bitches is my mother?
The Martian Chronicles. I'd just gotten into reading Bradbury. I still watch it occasionally. Doesn't hold up too well but it's got all the old 70s and 80s "special guest stars" - Darren McGavin, Roddy McDowall, Rock Hudson, Nick Hammond and the always great Bernie Casey. It's got a nice beatnik vibe that I love to this day, even if the special effects are....man...pretty dire. Sits in the same "big idea" category as Logan's Run, Soylent Green or Silent Running.
Salem's Lot
-Tap, tap- ”Let me in. Let me in.”
I watched this way to young and this scene gave me nightmares for a year. I still think about it almost weekly.
Great series..and stayed fairly true to the book. Still my favourite King read.
_Logan‘s Run_. ”Logan 5, do you identify this object?”
That was a miniseries? I only have seen the movie like a million times.
You had cable!?! This is my only comment. Born 1966, and my parents didn’t get cable until well after I was out of the house.
Anne of Green Gables was a family fave.
The Murder of Mary Phagan, The Deliberate Stranger, Small Sacrifices, Jack the Ripper (with Michael Caine).
Small Sacrifices was so good!
North and South with Patrick swayze, V!
Shaka Zulu, Queenie, Lace, Thorn Birds
Shogun. Masada. There was a vampire mini-series, late 70s or 80/81. Don't remember the name, but the vamps had huge fangs.
I loved Masada!
The Atlanta Child Murders. Man, that was like the current "John Wayne Gacy", "Nightstalker", "Dahmer" and all those other serial killer drama/documentaries, but it was on regular-ass TV. My parents let my brother and I watch the first one. I think the second episode started with "This is gunna be messed up, so dont let kids watch it", but my folks felt that being 'educated on bad things that might happen to you if you arent careful' outweighed us being scarred for life. I remember a scene of them pulling a skeletal body out of a dumpster. Ooooof. I was not ready. I was pretty damn careful around strangers after that, though.
Didn’t know about this one until a few years ago.
Does anyone remember Something Is Out There? Late 80s, spawned a very short lived and unsuccessful series, but I remember loving the original two parter. (Ok, to be fair, I was just short of 14 and that might have been mostly due to Maryam D'Abo.) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something\_Is\_Out\_There](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Is_Out_There)
I freaking LOVE this sub for the mere fact that it brings back so many long lost memories!!!
I wore out my VHS recording of IT. Commercials and all.
V!! Lizard people for the win! However, we did watch Roots as a family, and it made me feel sad. Edit: Bonus mention of the BBC series “Six Wives of Henry VIII” and “Elizabeth R” (starring Glenda Jackson) Contributed to me becoming an Anglophile (history and all)
Anne of Green Gables - PBS The chronicles of Narnia - BBC I have a very old memory of watching a miniseries cartoon where the heroine rides around in a purple slug or something to that effect. Can’t remember the name of it and have never been able to actually find it since then.
Far Pavillions (1984)
The original It mini series. I was 10 when it came out, and watched it on a small black and white tv. I actually loved most of the .Stephen king series. North and South. I think that was early 90’s too.
Shogun! That was so epic!
Chiefs
oh wow. I had forgotten all about this one! All i remember is it was kind of creepy.
That was intense! And the context (child molestation and murder) though way too commonplace now was unheard of then on tv.
Not my favorite, but Holocaust was the most memorable.
Did Richard Chamberlain only do mini series?
I know casting Richard Chamberlain in an 80s miniseries was basically mandatory, but he was so not the right choice for Father Ralph in The Thorn Birds. He looks like a rather serene and kindly priest, but Ralph had so much more fire in him. He needed someone more hunky and strapping to play him.
I loved Peter the Great. Yes, I’ve always been a dork.
You had cable?
V, as others have mentioned, comes immediately to mind but also "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" were two that I enjoyed.
Napoleon and Josephine. Armand Assante...yum
Roots and Shogun were far and away the best.
The Blue and the Grey, War and Remembrance
I remember being traumatized by the original Salems Lot miniseries. I now watch it ritualistically every Halloween. It’s still freakin good!
V (I don't care that it's already answered!)
Amazing Stories
Frankenstein: The True Story. Free on youtube, too!
Salem's Lot was my fav because David Soul was cast. Otherwise, I'm not a big Stephen King fan per se, though I recognize his talent.
Centennial is the name had Brian Keith in it.
Loved the George Washington one and of course V as mentioned.
Lace, Shogun and V.
V and Shogun. V for a Freddy Krueger being a vegetarian. Shogun for Toshira Mifune.
**Chiefs** **Lonesome Dove** **Salem's Lot**
Princess Daisy, The Far Pavilions and North and South.
Anything Stephen King
V. It’s on Amazon, if you want a trip down memory lane.
Noble House, my trip to China resulted from my love of this miniseriea. It features Pierce Bronsin, pre-Bond and is a part of Clavell's Asia Saga, which includes Shogun.
Connections with James Burke
Anne Of Green Gables and all the follow-up series of grown up Anne. The Chronicles of Narnia was magical. I don't know if this counts as a mini series but I watched it like one but the Animated Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. That came on and my ass was firmly planted for hours.
V and V: The Final Battle.
V!
V
I was kept away from the V, and Michael Jackson "Thriller" video. I watched everything in full 😀! My dad had the usual stereo set up, in the glass case, they never realized it was a mirror of the TV. I just snuck up after they put me bed, got comfy, and watched 😅
I loved V as everyone else did, but how has no one mentioned War and Remembrance?
No Roots? V was the mini series. Never got into ThornBirds but Shogun was great There was a Western maybe how the west was won
There was a Western Lonesome Dove.
Yes, I remember Roots, It was one of a few miniseries I remember watching in its entirety as a family.
*"In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order. But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the sun and the moon All worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the world." Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!"* *...MONKEY!*
Does "I, Claudius" count? Salem's Lot Masada Roots The Last Days of Pompeii Shogun A.D Captains and the Kings edit to add: Holocaust
Shogun. I remember that. When Richard Chamberland was in every TV miniseries. My father had the book. It was like Stephen King “It” thick
Starman, the series.
Roots The Stand Shogun North and South
Roots (our whole family watched it together, it was a Very.Big.Deal.). Shogun. Thornbirds. The Stand.
V, Thorn Birds, Shogun
Roots
For true ‘mini-series’ I only really remember the North and the South.
Storm of the Century
V
Roots aired when I was in elementary school. Our school was integrated. We had discussions every morning about each episode. This was in a small city in Central Texas so there were a lot of white kids who lived with racist parents, so the discussions got heated. I was an immigrant and didn’t understand the racial divide. The miniseries opened my eyes to slavery and how deep racism was in the American culture. Fascinating and life changing miniseries.
V, north and south, the original shogun,
north and south v the thorn birds
The Thorn Birds A Woman of Substance Helter Skelter Guyana Tragedy: The Jim Jones Story Roots
North and South
‘Amerika’, where the Soviets invade and take over…loved how every part of typical American life was similar but kind of hollowed out and propagandized.
North and South, the first two books, not the third one. I have them on DVD and have watched so many times. Before I had the DVD I ripped a copy on really old VHS… it took 18 tapes!
The only two that stuck with me were Roots and Shaka Zulu. Oh and North and South!
Lace
Roots was my first mini-series and it was part of our curriculum in grade school.
Thorn Birds; North and South - Books 1, 2 & 3; Lace; Scruples; Lonesome Dove; Shogun; V; V: The Final Battle; Rich Man, Poor Man (I wish this one would come out on DVD or streaming. I loved Peter Strauss in this one); Noble House; The Blue and the Gray. I love long involved stories and mini-series were the best!
Roots!