Bachelor Bill Davis, a highly-paid engineering consultant, lives in a posh Manhattan apartment with his proper English manservant, Mr. Giles French. Davis' carefree existence is turned upside down when his brother and sister-in-law die suddenly in a tragic plane accident, leaving their three children orphaned. Davis becomes an instant father figure to six-year-old twins, Buffy and Jody, and their big sister, Cissy.

Sledge Hammer is a comedy hero who made Rambo look like Pee Wee Herman. He is a trigger-happy lawman whose hatred of criminal scum was matched only by his love of excessive force and a .44 Magnum.

Each well-crafted episode focuses on a personal story of courage and perseverance of not just the main cast, but of the westward-bound emigrants as they made the perilous journey from the banks of the Missouri to California's Pacific shores.

Writer Ellery Queen assists his father, Inspector Richard Queen, in cases that baffle New York City detectives. Too many suspects (aired 23 March 1975): Famous fashion designer Monica Grey is murdered, and the police are baffled. Amateur criminologist Ellery Queen, whose father Richard is the police inspector in charge of the case, decides to solve it himself. The adventure of Auld lang syne (11 September 1975): At a New Year's Eve party, wealthy...