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.
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
Juliet Sorci
as Edie Mermelstein
Benji Gregory
as Kenny Mermelstein
Hanna Landy
as Elsie Smolena
David Margulies
as Rabbi Hier
William Bassett
as Lewis Brandon
Steve Franken
as Dan Greenspan
Carl Steven
as Young Mel
