Rich Man, Poor Man really launched the genre and set the stage for Roots, North and South, Shogun, The Thorn Birds, Lace and countless others It was based on a 1970 novel by Irwin Shaw (Its sequel, Beggarman, Thief , was released in 1977 and Book II of the TV series actually isn't based on this book at all, although Shaw helped write the screenplay for it)Books Search the world's most comprehensive index of fulltext booksI first watched Rich Man Poor Man in the 1970s when the original mini series was shown on UK TV and loved it from the very start When I realised that both Book 1 Rich Man Poor Man Book 1 1976 DVD and Book 2 Rich Man, Poor Man Book 2 Complete DVD 1976 were on DVD, I couldn't resist, I had to buy them both
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