ET on weekdays,[3] and starred Susan Peters, who had previously garnered critical acclaim as a film actress before suffering an accidental gunshot wound that left her paraplegic.

[4][1] Susan Martin is an attorney who moved back to her hometown of Martinsville, Ohio to practice law after she was paralyzed following an auto accident.

[5] Actress Susan Peters had garnered attention in films such as Random Harvest before a 1945 hunting accident left her permanently paralyzed from the waist down.

Peters agreed, later elaborating in an interview: "I'll play a woman lawyer who was injured in an automobile accident.

[1][12] Some viewers at the time were critical of the series, alleging that NBC had exploited Peters's real-life tragedy.