"Backstairs at the White House" is an excellent mini-series which was shown on NBC in 1979. It chronicles the lives of Lillian Park Rogers and Maggie Rogers, who were White House maids during the administrations of William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. It gives a rare and inspiring look at the intimate details which occurred within the living quarters of the White House during this period of time. Everything from the gregarious William Howard Taft's drifting off to sleep during official White House dinners, FDR's compassionate friendship with a crippled White House maid, Mrs. FDR's intimate relationship with the staff to the extent that the White House servants felt free to call the First Lady "Eleanor", to the consumption of liquor in the White House during prohibition is portrayed. It boasts an all star cast including Olivia Cole (who gives the performance of a lifetime), Leslie Uggams, George Kennedy, Cloris Leachman, Harry Morgan, Victor Buono, Celeste Holm, Louis Gossett, Jr., Leslie Nielsen, Robert Vaughn, John Anderson, and many others. I am a member of a contingency of "Backstairs" fans who are just as devoted as the celebrated "Trekies." We desperately are hoping that the series will be released on video tape. Homemade videos of even a small portion of the mini-series are extremely rare since home VCR's were in their infancy in 1979. We know of no complete video copy of "Backstairs," but rather only rare and prized incomplete segments. A lead as the where the "Backstairs" fans could obtain a complete video of the entire mini-series would be a joy comparable to winning the grand prize in the lottery.