The series was created by William Bickley and Michael Warren, who also served as executive producers with Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett.

The show was about two best friends and single mothers, one white and one black, who decide to split the mortgage on a new home in suburban Oak Park, Illinois and live there with their respective families.

The women, widowed Dolores Dixon (Telma Hopkins) and Cathy Hale (Cindy Williams), whose husband ran off with another woman, were also co-workers, as they were employed as social workers for the Chicago Department of Social Services.

Dolores had two sons, Marcus (Merlin Santana) and Darren (Deon Richmond).

Cathy had two daughters, Nikki (Nicki Vannice) and Julie (Ashleigh Blair Sterling).