The series stars Demond Wilson, Denise Nicholas, Helen Martin and Kim Fields.

Raymond Ellis is a compulsive gambler who abandoned his family (wife Olivia, son Jordan and daughter Angie) and headed to California.

Seven years later while in California, Ray finds out that his wife plans to remarry to Colonel Wallace Dickey, and that he has been declared legally dead.

In the book Funny You Should Ask: Oral Histories of Classic Sitcom Storytellers by Scott Lewellen, Lila Garrett created the show to address the social issue of the time of black males not being able to get jobs to provide for their families.

Nicholas said in a summer 1978 edition of Jet Magazine that she was surprised at the cancellation of the series despite decent ratings.