LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton’s breakthrough as young Kunta Kinte on Roots made miniseries history — event television that forced a nation to watch and talk together. Later Star Trek: TNG and Reading Rainbow sealed educator-icon status. TV Flash honors the performance that still defines cultural reckoning TV.

Networks & studios

ABC — via catalog credits
Syndication — via catalog credits
PBS — via catalog credits
Paramount Domestic Television — production

On the dial

Shows in our catalog

ABC · 1977

Roots

Event television that forced a nation to watch — and talk — together.

Syndication · 1987–1994

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Picard's bald authority and a new Enterprise proved Trek could boldly go without Kirk.

PBS · 1983–2006

Reading Rainbow

But you don't have to take my word for it — books as after-school adventure.

On the web

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