Like the original program, this series is based on actual cases from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the F.B.I.

Mike Connors plays Ben Slater, a veteran G-man who heads an elite unit of agents.

The target is Joey D'Amico, national vice president of the Stevedores Association of America, a man with a bad habit of exterminating dissenters.

The series suffered from low ratings as a result of direct competition from CBS's Top 20 hits Archie Bunker's Place and One Day at a Time and was cancelled after only 18 episodes.

According to Michele Malach of Fort Lewis College, the series attempted a more positive portrayal of the FBI by using diverse characters and a "fallacious assumption that its audience still viewed special agents as 'us' rather than 'them'," in contrast to federal agents with "a rigid, dogmatic, inhumane bureaucracy" depicted in later media, like Point Break, Betrayed, and The X-Files.