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13 seasons · 127 episodes total · ~10 per season.
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Finding Your Roots
2012 13 seasons · 127 eps English
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★6.5TMDB · 20★8.7IMDB · 2,044
Documentary
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Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
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CRAFT
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Crossed the 100-episode mark — syndication territory.
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RUNTIME
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Roughly 127 hours end-to-end — 16 full workdays of television.
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ERA
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Aired from 2012 to 2026 — a 14-year run.
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WILD
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TMDB status: "Returning Series".
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AWARDS
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Show type: Documentary.
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CAST
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Airs on PBS.
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- Seasons
- 13
- Total episodes
- 127
- Avg episode length
- 60 min
- Premiered
- 2012-03-24
- Last aired
- 2026-04-14
- Languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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