Complex sentence: Because racist violence remained a real concern in the Deep South of the 1960s, the film was actually made in Sparta, Illinois while most seasons of the television series were filmed in Covington, Georgia, outside Atlanta (and near the real I-20).
Split into simpler sentences: Because racist violence remained a real concern in the Deep South of the 1960s, the film was actually made in Sparta, Illinois. Most seasons of the television series were filmed in Covington, Georgia, outside Atlanta (and near the real I-20).