[1] The show dramatised problems faced by everyday women such as menopause, sexual dysfunction and the feminine beauty ideal, followed by a discussion of that episode's topic with a panel of experts.

[2] The screenplays, mostly written by George Lefferts, were based on hundreds of hours of interviews with real women, social workers and mental health professionals.

[7] According to Lefferts, over half of the many letters received from viewers were from women asking for the episodes to be replayed in evening timeslots so that their husbands could watch after coming home from work.

Some episodes are known to have survived in television archives such as the Paley Center for Media ("The Cold Woman", "Change of Life" "Mother and Daughter"),[14][15][16] the Library of Congress ("The Lonely Woman")[17] and the UCLA Film and Television Archive ("A Child in Danger" and "The Menace of Age"),[18][19] where episodes are available to view on-site for research purposes only.

A collection of eight screenplays from Season 1 of the series, alongside commentary on the relevant social issues, was published in paperback by Avon Books in 1962.