A road accident ended the life of the parents, and the father's younger brother, known as Uncle Zack, took charge of the stunt show.

He said that now that the patriarch and his wife were dead, it was incumbent upon the two adult children, Tess and Dan, to continue their parents' dangerous and proud work.

Pole Position ran for 13 episodes on CBS in 1984 as part of its Saturday morning children's programming line-up, continuing in reruns through September 1986.

The show also aired in reruns for a few months as a Showtime "Family-Time Presentation" in 1986,[6] followed by a run on The Family Channel (now Freeform) from the late 1980s through the early 1990s.

Brightspark Productions released a 4-disc box set containing all 13 complete episodes of the series on DVD in the UK on April 21, 2008.