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Alex Haley's Queen

19931h 0m / epDrama

First aired

February 14, 1993

7.0

TMDB Score

70% match · 23 votes

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S01 · E01

Episode 1

Miniseries · Feb 14, 1993 · 1h 35m

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Episode 1

Feb 14, 1993 · 1h 35m

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Episode 2

Feb 21, 1993 · 1h 31m

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Episode 3

Feb 28, 1993 · 1h 36m

The first episode develops the relationship between James Jackson III, a rich plantation owner's son and Easter, a slave. James marries a wealthy Southern lady, but he carries on with a lifelong affair with Easter, which will result in the birth of a girl, Queen. Queen's fair skin makes her soon notice that she is not as black as her fellow slaves. She is taken into the main plantation house to be the personal slave of James' daughter, where she spends her youth years trying to discern if Jackson is her real father. The Civil War seriously affects James' plantation putting an end to the old ways and the family matriarch tells Queen to find some other place to live.

About the Series

Drama

Synopsis

Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result in the birth of Queen. Queen's story revolves around her early years as a slave who yearns to know who her father is, and her condition as a fair skin mixed race woman who spends her life trying to figure out where exactly she fits in.

CreatorAlex Haley