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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.
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Leonard Nimoy
Mel Mermelstein
D
Dabney Coleman
William Cox
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Blythe Danner
Jane Mermelstein
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Paul Hampton
Richard Fusilier
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Jason Presson
Bernie Mermelstein
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Juliet Sorci
Edie Mermelstein
B
Benji Gregory
Kenny Mermelstein
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Hanna Landy
Elsie Smolena
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David Margulies
Rabbi Hier
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William Bassett
Lewis Brandon
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Steve Franken
Dan Greenspan
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Carl Steven
Young Mel
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Vidal Peterson
Willy
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Vince Howard
Postman Jack
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Leslie Morris
Schorr
