The premise of the show was a Cold War romance, where, Phyl (Murphy Cross), a 19-year old track star, falls for Mikhy (Rick Lohman), 22 year old Russian decathlete.

Mikhy is unfamiliar with American culture and technology, which actress Murphy Cross has suggested made the show a type of precursor to Perfect Strangers.

The United States withdrew from the Olympics, and Cooper thought the network did not want a show with a Russian star, so CBS executive Robert A. Daly cancelled it.

[9] The show originally been intended to run as complementary to the upcoming Olympics, and to have debuted in January 1980.

[5] The show was recorded in front of a live audience at KTTV studios in Los Angeles.