Free-wheeling San Francisco cop Harry Hooperman inherits a run-down apartment building--and the building owner's mean, hateful, just-plain-annoying dog Bijoux. Not having the time to maintain the building and tend to his police work, Hooperman hires feisty aspiring writer Susan Smith as his superintendent/maintenance person. He and Smith soon begin a relationship, and the series chronicles the ups and downs of the relationship, along with Hooperman's efforts as a policeman.