Jonelle Allen Bill Duke Star-Shemah Bobatoon Jermain Hodge Johnson Beeson Carroll Janice St. John Michael J. Fox Brian Godfrey Wilson Kenneth White Iris Korn (1981)
March 20, 1980 (1980-03-20) – June 9, 1981 (1981-06-09)
Palmerstown, U.S.A.[2] (shortened to Palmerstown in March 1981)[3] is a television drama series that aired on CBS from March 20, 1980 to June 9, 1981.[4] It was created by Norman Lear and Alex Haley,[1][3] whose childhood was the basis for the series.[5] It tells the story of two nine-year-old boys in the rural Southern community of Palmerstown who become best friends during the Great Depression, despite one being black and the other being white.[6]
