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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Werewillie Oleson" data-source="post: 445228" data-attributes="member: 8">You should know better than I do, but I've watched several of the original promos on youtube and the word mini-series is never used (despite the fact that the uploader has titled the video as "mini-series promo").When "mini-series" did became a thing - possibly influenced by the soaps, both television events but in different formats - it's possible that the 1970s series were rerun and advertised as "mini-series". And then it would still take some time before the format was introduced in other parts of the world.The way I see it, ROOTS was originally considered a movie.</blockquote>

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