The miniseries was filmed in England and Hong Kong and stars [Lindsay Wagner] as Paula O'Neill, the designated heir to her grandmother's department-store empire. Standing in the way of her success is her vindictive cousin (played by Christopher Cazenove). Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the head of security for the stores and the person who tries to protect Paula from her cousin.

Since her hit TV series The Bionic Woman in the 1970s, for which she was awarded an Emmy (Best Actress in a Dramatic Series, 1977), Wagner has racked up nearly 30 television movies.

When Universal Studios finally talked Wagner into doing The Bionic Woman she decided to create a new kind of character, one that used violence only in self-defence and never for the sake of violence.