The soap-operish antics of two families: the Campbells and the Tates.
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Parody of television soap-operas--the show's humor relies on exaggerating soap-operas' characteristic plot implausibility and melodrama to ridiculous extremes, then adds a fair bit of the truly bizarre, including some remarkable characters. Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
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The Final Season of the Unforgettable, Award-Winning Series! See more »Certificate:
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Jimmy Baio co-starred in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) just before landing the role of Billy Tate on Soap. See more »Quotes
Danny: Women can't be gay. Because if men were gay and women were gay they'd cancel each other out.See more »
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Original network broadcasts opened with an on-screen content warning. This was one of the first TV programs to include such a warning, though such disclaimers are now commonplace. See more »Alternate Versions
A 12-disc Region 1 DVD set is available. All 90 episodes are featured, but some scenes are not present. For example, when Jessica dies and goes to Heaven, she tells Mary she went there, and a still of her sitting on steps in Heaven is present in the next episode recap, but we never see the scene. See more »
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13 September 1977 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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ABC Television Center - 4151 Prospect Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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This is the greatest sitcom ever made, a tremendous parody of the trashy soap operas that were all the rage when it was in production. There was topicality -homosexuality, racism, revolution, crime, and other things- and there was plenty of comedy, physical and otherwise. In particular, I think that the thing which hooked me on this program was the psychotic young ventriloquist and his dummy, which seemed at times to be more alive than some of the people! At least it was real to him! I particularly remember the scene where there is a discussion concerning a murder and the Black dummy, Bob, looks over at Benson and remarks, "I think the Black guy did it." Benson then coolly crosses the room, yanks the dummy out of Chuck's hands and throws it out a window, which sends Chuck into furious hysterics!
This is one of the very few shows from the 1970s that I can honestly say I miss. Good job, all!