Courthouse is an American drama television series that ran on CBS from September 13 to November 15, 1995.
[1] The Courthouse plot centered on a tough female judge,[2] and was partially inspired by NYPD Blue and the television coverage of the O. J. Simpson murder case.
[1][5] The show included Jenifer Lewis and Cree Summer as the first recurring African American lesbian characters on TV,[6] but the role was ordered to be toned down for broadcast.
[3][6] New York magazine described the show as follows:[10]"Ready to believe in Robin Givens as a tireless defender of public justice?
Courthouse's idea of gritty moral realism is to divide the world into the good and the bad: Bad judges go to the opera while their charges die in jail; good judges have interracial affairs with members of their own gender; and the best judge of all rolls in from Montana looking like he just shot a 501 commercial".Other cast members included Jacqueline Kim, Shelley Morrison, Roma Maffia, Christopher Michael, Larry Joshua, Kelly Rutherford, Cotter Smith, George Newbern, David L. Crowley and John Mese.