Though the show received critical acclaim, CBS scheduled it in one of the worst possible timeslots on a weekly schedule: Saturdays at 10 p.m./9 Central. All three networks debuted new shows for the 1979-80 season in that slot; only ABC's Hart aber herzlich (1979) survived past its first season. Toward the end of its run, CBS moved it to Tuesdays at 10/9, but to no avail.
James Earl Jones met his future wife Cecilia Hart while working on this show. They married in 1982, three years after the show was cancelled.
Michael Warren and Jake Mitchell, who played police detectives Willie Miller and Charlie Bogart, appeared on Polizeirevier Hill Street (1981), as police officers Bobby Hill and Hingle.