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* Roz Russell (Marsha Warfield), a [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan-snarking]] tough-as-nails bailiff whose strength is the fodder for many jokes.
The show is usually considered a satire and subversion of the [[Law Procedural]] genre, featuring bizarre, wacky crimes, such as groups of rival ventriloquists and their dummies assaulting each other (although the show was also praised for its refusal to deal with violent and "glamorous" crime and called "The most realistic law show on the air" by ''[[Time Magazine]]'', no less). Logic and realism were frequently abandoned for the sake of a joke: cartoon animal [[Looney Tunes|Wile E. Coyote]] once appeared in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh1pZqmxvmM brief gag] as a defendant.
The show featured regular guest appearances by John Astin, of ''[[The Addams Family]]'' fame, as Buddy Ryan, Judge Stone's certifiably insane birth father. Harry Stone's idol Mel Tormé made frequent guest spots, as did Brent Spiner (later famous for his role as Data on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'') as Bob Wheeler, patriarch of a family of Yugoslavians who pretended to be a hick family from West Virginia and, at one point, even ran a concession stand in the courthouse.
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