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SOAP aired on ABC from September 13, 1977 to April 20, 1981, totaling four seasons and 85 episodes. A parody of daytime soap operas, the show was a weekly half-hour comedy with on-going story lines presented in a serialized format. Over the course of the show's four-year-run, plotlines included alien abduction, demonic possession, extramarital affairs, murder, kidnapping, unknown diseases, amnesia, cults, organized crime, a communist revolution, and teacher-student relationships. In 2007, it was named one of the "100 Best TV Shows of All Time" by TIME magazine.
The series was created, written, and executive produced by Susan Harris, and also co-produced by Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas. Each returning season was preceded by a 90-minute retrospective of the previous season. SOAP aired 85 episodes over four seasons. Eight of these (including the final four episodes) aired as one-hour installments during the show's original run on ABC. These hour-long episodes were later sliced in two, giving the series 93 episodes to air in syndication. Like most sitcoms of the time, SOAP was filmed before a live studio audience and shot on videotape, further enhancing its "look" as a daytime soap opera.
SOAP is one of the best and funniest TV shows in history. I've heard different people on here (although I forget which ones) say before how SOAP was "the best soap opera" and how it was, in many ways, "better than the daytime and night-time soaps". I've got the complete series of SOAP on DVD, and my wife and I are planning to work our way through the series.
Let's get this conversation rolling.
The series was created, written, and executive produced by Susan Harris, and also co-produced by Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas. Each returning season was preceded by a 90-minute retrospective of the previous season. SOAP aired 85 episodes over four seasons. Eight of these (including the final four episodes) aired as one-hour installments during the show's original run on ABC. These hour-long episodes were later sliced in two, giving the series 93 episodes to air in syndication. Like most sitcoms of the time, SOAP was filmed before a live studio audience and shot on videotape, further enhancing its "look" as a daytime soap opera.
SOAP is one of the best and funniest TV shows in history. I've heard different people on here (although I forget which ones) say before how SOAP was "the best soap opera" and how it was, in many ways, "better than the daytime and night-time soaps". I've got the complete series of SOAP on DVD, and my wife and I are planning to work our way through the series.
Let's get this conversation rolling.