The five-hour miniseries was based on a comic strip written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen first published in 1990 in Details magazine. The series stars James Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall, Bebe Neuwirth, David Warner, and Angie Dickinson. In the United States in the near future of 2007, a right-wing political group called the Fathers dominate large sections of American politics and the media.