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DVD. Run time: 150 mins. Language: English. This biographical TV miniseries tracks members of the famed Motown group The Temptations faithfully following their rise to fame and the subsequent downhill race in a chronological coverage spanning 40 years. In 1958 when Detroit high-schoolers harmonize on street corners to meet girls Otis Williams (Charles Malik Whitfield) finds his mom Haze (Tina Lifford) supports his singing but not his stepfather Edgar (Harold Surratt). When Williams brings together his group The Siberians -- with Franklin (D.B. Woodside) and Al Bryant (Chaz Lamar Shepherd) -- producer Johnnie Mae Matthews (Vanessa Bell Calloway) records the group as Otis Williams and the Distants. They perform with The Primes including Kendricks (Terron Brooks) and Paul Williams (Christian Payton) and The Primettes (later The Supremes). When group members merge as The Elgins Berry Gordy (Obba Babatunde) begins grooming the group. The name is changed to The Temptations and a 1963 New Yea