The series stars Craig T. Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke, and others in this football comedy that has Hayden Fox (Nelson) as the head football coach at fictional Minnesota State University. Hayden was a recovering Neanderthal in his personal life and a hard luck coach in his chosen profession. Van Dyke played Luther Van Damme, his bumbling assistant coach and Shelley Fabares co-starred as Christine Armstrong, Hayden's galpal who eventually became his wife.

My Mother the Car may very well be known as the most notorious short-lived sitcom of all time and it's solely due to it's premise, a talking car. The pilot episode introduces us to the world of Dave Crabtree. Dave is your ordinary family man, married to wife Barbara and they have two children, Randy and Cindy. However, it's when he purchases a 1928 Porter, that he discovers that another family member is living with him, his deceased mother. It seems Dave Crabtree's mother has been reincarnated as the car.