Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
Top Cast
Leonard Nimoy as Mel Mermelstein
Dabney Coleman as William Cox
Blythe Danner as Jane Mermelstein
Paul Hampton as Richard Fusilier
Jason Presson as Bernie Mermelstein
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