Backstairs at the White House (1979) NBC - Opening Credits

[@ZachChanning]

I have this on DVD and each time I look at it I feel like I am watching it and enjoying it for the first time...marvelous production with a marvelous cast.

[@TheClassica87]

One of the best mini-series that ever aired on TV. I watched it when it first aired - I was 10 years old and learned so much!

[@Juliaflo]

I second that. I saw this when it aired on television and it has stuck with me since then. Outstanding cast.

[@schuyler10]

One of the best mini-series, EVER!!

[@SueSnellLives]

I HAVE to see this -- one of the best casts ever!

[@pbrees1]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[@GOERICTLEECH]

it is a great series that i remember watching grwoing up over 30years ago i wish they would replay this mini series

[@argerinejordan4703]

OMG! I remember this miniseries! Loved every minute of it. Outstanding cast!

[@edwardgreenspan4685]

Superlative best describes this. Why isn't this shown more often? Memorable, so well-done. Superb casting.

[@perpetual61]

I have always Loved Historical Movies and " Backstairs At The White House " was right up my alley.

[@mshockey73]

I'm reading the book right now. Loving it. I'll have to see the mini series after I'm finished with the book....

[@Soulthinker2007]

I loved that mini series and the book as well. I hope it comes on DVD soon.

[@Jal8919536]

Leslie Uggams and Olivia Cole played the mother-daughter roles the other way around in the "Roots" miniseries. :)

[@nassauguy48]

A score of Oscar winners and nominees in this series!

[@AppallingRetroTrash]

@Soulthinker2007 Good news for you...it's been out on DVD for a year or two. :-)

[@AppallingRetroTrash]

Oh my goodness, you're right. I totally forgot about that. Uggams played Kizzy and Cole played the woman who married her son "Chicken George"...hehe. Whatever happened to Ben Vereen anyway?

[@AppallingRetroTrash]

@ODearMichaelO - Because it's the story of a mother and daughter who served as maids in the White House over a period of 50 years.

[@laminage]

Larry Gates would later play Harlan Billy aka HB Lewis on The Soap Opera Guiding Light for which he Won a Daytime Emmy for Best Supporting Actor. Lee Grant won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Shampoo and is The Mother of Dinah Manoff (Marty) in Grease and Lee would also win an Emmy For Directing a Movie about A Family who became Homeless.

[@rrticulate1]

I think this was probably Leslie Nielsen's final dramatic performance before he turned to all comedy (i.e. Airplane, Naked Gun). Younger generations have no memory of him playing it totally straight in film roles.

[@epaddon]

No, he continued to do some dramatic guest shots on TV and in cable movies prior to Naked Gun in 1988. His last dramatic role was in "Nuts" (1987) when he tries to kill Barbra Streisand after she refuses him a second session of sex.

[@Soulthinker2007]

I hope this mini series is shown when The Butler is released next week.

[@AppallingRetroTrash]

Hey...don't waste your energy being pissed off. Just go out and buy the DVD.

[@terencejones9044]

please upload this miniseries!

[@atlantic-kk9ee]

It WAS up at one point, but alas, along came the copyright freaks.

[@AppallingRetroTrash]

My pleasure.

[@TheMikester307]

I read the original book "Backstairs At The White House" in High School and loved it! The later book, and the miniseries wern't as good and that's saying something because the miniseries and book were excellent!!!!

[@miguelrenteria7672]

Do you have the Paul Williams show 1979 nbc?

[@foggakande102]

@rn2332 They got it at netflix.

[@rn2332]

why are there so many Presidents should'nt be the question, it should be why the entire films not posted, that pisses me off.....