Miracle's Boys is a six part miniseries

Miniseries

A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...

 based on the novel of the same name

Miracle's Boys (novel)

Miracle’s Boys is a young adult novel by Jacqueline Woodson featuring three young bi-racial brothers growing up without parents in New York. It won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001.-Plot:...

 by Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American author who writes books targeted at children and adolescents. She is best known for 'Miracle's Boys' which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor titles 'After Tupac & D Foster', 'Feathers' and 'Show Way'...

, shown on The N in February 2005. The series was directed by Neema Barnette

Neema Barnette

Neema Barnette is an American film director, and the first African American woman sitcom director. Barnette was the first African American woman to get a three picture deal with Sony....

, LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. , professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, director, producer and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley...

, Ernest R. Dickerson

Ernest Dickerson

Ernest Roscoe Dickerson A.S.C. is an American film and television director and cinematographer. He directed generally urban films sometimes with supernatural stories like Juice, Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight, Bones and Never Die Alone...

, Bill Duke

Bill Duke

William Henry "Bill" Duke, Jr. is an American actor and film director with over 30 years of experience. Known for his physically imposing frame, Duke's work frequently dwells within the action/crime and drama genres but also includes comedy.-Early life:Duke was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the...

, and Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....

 and was filmed on-site in Harlem, New York

Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...

. It also includes a theme song by rapper Nas

Nas

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.

Synopsis

The series follows the lives of two teenaged boys- The Baileys, and their older brother who has to take responsibility who are left orphaned when their mother dies from diabetes complications following the death of their father when the boys were younger. Their father fell into a frozen lake in Central Park trying to save a woman's dog. The eldest Bailey brother, Ty'Ree (Pooch Hall

Pooch Hall

Marion H. "Pooch" Hall, Jr. is an American television and film actor from Taunton, Massachusetts. He is perhaps best known for his role as professional football player Derwin Davis on the BET comedy-drama series The Game....

), who is twenty years old, is a mail room manager at a publishing company who got into M.I.T but declined the acceptance to raise his younger brothers; Charlie, (Sean Nelson

Sean Nelson (actor)

- Biography :Nelson was born in the Co-Op City section of Bronx, New York, of Jamaican/St. Thomian descent. He began his acting career at age 10 when he landed a role in an off-Broadway play Hey Little Walter. Sean Nelson turned 13 shortly before beginning principal photography on his debut film,...

) the middle boy, age sixteen, has just gotten out of a juvenile detention facility and is mad at the universe. Once an avid pet lover and baseball fanatic, life at the Rahway Boys Home has changed him; and Lafayette (Julito McCullum

Julito McCullum

Julito McCullum is an American actor of Afro-Colombian descent best known for his role as Namond Brice on the HBO series The Wire. Currently lives in Staten Island....

), the youngest Bailey brother at age fourteen, loves and breathes baseball, but his game has been out-of-sync since his mother's passing. He goes onto to play in a championship game in which he faces an allstar team from Greenwich Village and gets the game winning hit against the best pitcher in state. Also he has many hardships of a 14-year-old boy, including the fact that his childhood crush likes Charlie. The series follows the boys through the hardships of growing up on their own.

Episodes

Episode #	Episode title	Original airdate
1-1	"New Charlie"	February 18, 2005
1-2	"In The Game of Life"	February 18, 2005
1-3	"Who's to Blame?"	February 19, 2005
1-4	"Miracle's Song"	February 19, 2005
1-5	"Free Day"	February 20, 2005
1-6	"Bond of Brothers"	February 20, 2005

DVD release

The series was released on Region 1 DVD in the United States on November 8, 2005.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Result	Category	Recipient
2006	Black Reel Awards Black Reel Awards The Black Reel Awards began in 2000 and were designed to annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of black people in feature, independent and television films...	Nominated	Best Supporting Actress - Television	Jordan Puryear
			Best Supporting Actor - Television	Sean Nelson
			Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted - Television	Kevin Arkadie, Stephen Langford, and Dawn Urbont
			Best Film - Television	-
			Best Director - Television	Neema Barnette, LeVar Burton, Ernest R. Dickerson, Bill Duke, and Spike Lee
	Writers Guild of America Award Writers Guild of America Award The Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in film, television, and radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949...	Won	Children's Script - Episodic & Specials	Kevin Arkadie (For episode "New Charlie")