Grass Roots

Directed by Jerry London

With Mel Harris, Corbin Bernsen, Katherine Helmond, Raymond Burr and Rod Taylor

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.