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Roots is a television miniseries in the USA based on Alex Haley's novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which first aired in 1977. Roots received 36 Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It won also 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 US television program ever. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million.