In a cottage in the village of Ouplavice, representatives of three generations of the Potůčkov family, grandfather, father and son, among the locals called Potoci, live together.
They experience a variety of situations and everyday problems in their lives, including rural communal politics and collectivized agriculture The series was inspired by an earlier speech by President Antonín Zápotocký, who died in 1957.
The topic was later picked up by television screenwriters led by Jaroslav Dietl, Jan Jílek and dramaturg Jana Dudková, who used the life of a farmer from South Bohemia who was an acquaintance of Jílke's to create the theme.
[1] Dietl remained the main author of the series, scripts for some episodes were also written by Jiří Hubač, Ilja Prachař and Josef Barchánek.
[6] A photocomic based on the series also appeared in Zemědělské noviny, and the Czechoslovak Radio aired the program Speeches of Father Potůček to the Nation.
[7] After the end of the series, the creators intended to shoot new TV stories at one-year intervals, but in 1964, only one episode entitled "Three guys after a year" was realized.