The soap-operish antics of two families: the Campbells and the Tates.
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In a recap of season three, Jessica pleads with her guardian angel to allow her to rejoin her family on Earth.
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Burt tries to end his relationship with Sally; Eunice and Dutch have visitors at the farmhouse; Detective Donohue reports Chester's death, unaware that he's now a stranded hobo, still suffering from ...
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Sally reveals her lies to a relieved Mary, and the porno film that proves how she was being blackmailed; Chester again shows amusement at the thought of his wife having an affair; Billy falls for a ...
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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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Maude (1972) veteran and future Golden Girl Rue McClanahan was up for the role of Mary Campbell on Soap. See more »Crazy Credits
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 »Contribute to This Page
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"Soap" is one of the funniest of America's exports to the U.K. It may have been considered risque back in the late seventies but all the hullaballu about the show's contents seems silly twenty-odd years on.
The programme has been shown in it's entirity a few times in the U.K. most recently on our Paramount comedy channel. It had the most outrageous storylines and the characters were played brilliantly by all concerned - especially Katherine Helmond, Richard Mulligan and Cathryn Damon - who really were the essence of the show! Chuck & Bob, Benson and The Major were always good for a laugh whenever they were on screen.
Susan Harris wrote the entire series which has made me a great admirer of her work ever since. Of course she scored big again in the eighties with the equally brilliant Golden Girls. Some might not be aware that Susan actually appeared in two episodes of Soap as a hooker, believe it or not! My favourite storylines included the murder of Peter and the subsequent trial of Jessica, the abduction of Burt by aliens, Corinne's possessed baby and Burt trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records when he thought he was dying!
The "unique" comedy series still holds up well by todays standards and is truly worthy of the label "cult classic".