Written by brothers Dennis and Steven Hackin, it premiered on the ABC network on Monday February 1, 1988.

The plot concerns a rag-tag group of U.S. Army reservists who are deployed to Honduras to build a runway.

After an intervention by the U.S. Embassy, the crew are then sent to a dangerous nearby village to repair a bridge.

Actor Charles Haid called this film Stephen Collins' best performance ever in an interview with The Washington Post.

He enjoyed working on the film, saying: "We shot it for 20 days in a jungle in the rain, under the sun, with bugs ...