two legendary actors from the original series, john amos and of course leslie uggams.ou so much for joining me. >> happy to be here. >> thank you for having us. >> june 7, i can't wait to gather my nieces who are 16 and 10 to watch. they have not seen the original but they are watching the reboot. what are your thoughts, miss uggams, when you hear someone like snoop dogg express concern about the focus on the past and how the media portrays our story? >> well, remember, ours is 40 years ago. it was a lot different then. it showed history that we had not seen because it's not in the history books. and so when our show came on, america stopped because white and black america had not really seen this kind of portrayal of what we went through. and so people were riveted to their television. it only had three stations at the time. there was no cable. so, you know, you didn't have a whole lot of choices. you can't dvr, anything like that. and so it was a great, great lesson for people, because they didn't know. and it was history that they were not aware of. so i think back