The Gardners' finances, however, dictate that his wife Ginny also take a job, although even with her working full-time there never seems to be enough money to make ends meet.

Don and Ginny have two children; teenaged Kelly is their uninhibited and outgoing daughter and 12-year-old Mark is their shy son.

The Gardners struggle to be a normal, middle-class family, but Olive and the children always manage to make life complicated.

Episode directors were Burt Brinckerhoff, Hal Cooper, Nick Havinga, and Gary Shimokawa.

It drew very low ratings, and CBS cancelled it after the broadcast of its fourth and final episode on April 29, 1978.