"Apple's Way" was a mid-season replacement for "The New Perry Mason." The series did not gain the ratings CBS had hoped for, partly because it had to compete with NBC's long-running Top 20 hit "The Wonderful World of Disney" and ABC's popular crime drama "The F.B.I." The concept was "re-booted" in the second season to focus on plots that dealt more with such issues (such as freedom of speech, drug use, terminal illness) as opposed to the more rural-specific plots of the first season. The second season was produced by successful veteran producer-writer John Furia Jr, who hired Worley Thorne as story editor. The series was canceled during its second season and replaced with "Cher."
Two decades after this series left the air, lead actors Ronny Cox and Frances Lee McCain were reunited in the short-lived 1993 to 1994 television primetime soap "Second Chances."
Both TVLand and AmericanLife TV aired the series in reruns during the late 1990s and early 2000s.