[2][3] Dick Phillips is an awkward but earnest and hardworking newspaper reporter who has fallen head-over-heels for Jane Benson, a single California schoolteacher.

It was rushed into production after CBS, deciding to produce a show about young adults to tap into the market for such shows that ABC had had so much mid-1970s success with in Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, made a last-minute decision to buy six episodes for broadcast in the spring of 1977.

Susan Harris, who created the show, wrote its episodes very quickly and filming similarly was rushed, wrapping up in January 1977.

[6] Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas produced the show, and Jay Sandrich was among the episode directors.

It then moved to its regular time slot, Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m., on March 23, remaining there until its sixth and final episode was broadcast on April 27, 1977.