The sitcom was co-produced by the British ITC Entertainment and American producer Sheldon Leonard, with English producer-director Ray Austin; it starred Shirley MacLaine as a photojournalist and John Gregson as her editor at World Illustrated magazine.

Immediately after the ABC broadcasts ended, the seventeen-episode series was aired in its entirety on ITV in the United Kingdom.

Filmed on location and at Pinewood Studios England Production # is the order of the Network DVD.

On a remote island in Scotland Shirley lets slip to a tax inspector about their illicit homemade whisky which causes the islanders to declare independence and Shirley leads the resistance against first the army, then the navy until the Prime Minister sends Dennis Croft to sort it out.

Stars Peter Dyneley and Sally Thomsett