This program aired as part of a two-hour story of two back-to-back shows featuring Ben Vereen as Lawrence Taggert, Sr., father to LT (Eugene Byrd) and Shamaya (Kathryne Dora Brown) who comes back into their lives homeless and dying of prostate cancer. Following this program's broadcast, "Promised Land" went on hiatus to make way for "Turks, the new multi-generational cop saga from CBS. "Promised Land" returned to its regular time slot on CBS in late March 1999.