Adolescence is hard enough without throwing in spies, government secrets and an evil group of evil evildoers who scheme to do evil things. Benjamin "Beans" Baxter Jr. had to contend with his family's move to Washington D.C. and his father's apparent death, all before breakfast. The kid's day would just get worse.

Beans and his family assumed that Benjamin Sr. was a postal carrier re-assigned to Washington but after his disappearance, Beans discovers that his dad was actually a courier charged with delivering top secret documents. As such, Ben Sr. was targeted by the Underground Government Liberation Intergroup--or U.G.L.I.--and kidnapped, though everyone thought he perished in a bomb explosion. Beans decided to carry on his father's work for The Network, a covert spy ring battling U.G.L.I., while investigating the whereabouts of his missing dad.

Beans had to keep his double life a secret from his mom, his little brother, his weird friend Woodshop and a girl named Cake, who was the delicious object of his teenage affections. The young covert agent routinely matched wits with U.G.L.I. and its leader, the sinister Mr. Sue, who were after Beans so they could use him to blackmail Ben Sr. Mr. Sue and his henchmen constantly interfered in Beans's family and school life; try applying for your first driver's license with half a dozen U.G.L.I. agents in hot pursuit. It ain't pretty.

The series was a critical success and earned an award for Jonathan Ward, who starred as Beans. It only ran for one season on the newborn Fox Network in 1987.