Grass Roots

Overview

This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.

Directed by Jerry London

Top cast

Mel Harris

Kate Rule

Corbin Bernsen

Will Lee

Katherine Helmond

Emma Carr

Raymond Burr

Judge Boggs

Rod Taylor

Gen. Willoughby

John Glover

Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross

Claude Akins

Sheriff Cox

Reginald VelJohnson

Det. Mickey Henderson

James Wilder

Jerry Lomax

Herb Edelman

Manny Pearl

Henry Jones

Sen. Ben Carr

Cristi Conaway

Charlene Joiner

Joanna Cassidy

Ann Heath

Tim O'Connor

Billy Lee

Julian Holloway

Elton Hunter

Christopher Murray

Jack Buchanan

C

Carlyle King

Suzy

Tom Nowicki

Tommy Newman

M

Michael H. Moss

Det. Sgt. Charlie Pittman

L

Larry Black

Gov. Mack Dean

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