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.
as Mel Mermelstein
as William Cox
as Jane Mermelstein
as Richard Fusilier
as Bernie Mermelstein
as Edie Mermelstein
as Kenny Mermelstein
as Elsie Smolena
as Rabbi Hier
as Lewis Brandon
as Dan Greenspan
as Young Mel
as Willy
as Postman Jack
as Schorr