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The show was created as a night- time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half- hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format and included melodramatic plot elements such as alien abduction, demonic possession, murder, and kidnapping.
In 2. 00. 7 it was listed as one of Time magazine's . Each returning season was preceded by a 9. Two of these retrospectives were made available on VHS in 1. DVD collections. Eight of these (including the final four) aired as one- hour episodes during the original run on ABC. These hour- long episodes were later split in two, yielding 9. Like most sitcoms of the era, Soap was videotaped, but this coincidentally helped further its emulation of the daytime soap opera format, as most such productions were also videotaped. All episodes are currently available on region 1 DVD in four separate box sets.
There is a box set of season 1 on region 2 DVD. In the past, the series has rerun on local syndicated channels as well as on cable on Comedy Central and TV Land. It ran on over- the- air television on Antenna TV, until December 3. As of Spring 2. 01. IFC. As of April 7, 2. Logo as part of its Day Camp. The show starred Katherine Helmond and Cathryn Damon as sisters/matriarchs of their own families.
The cast also included three former soap opera actors. Robert Mandan (Chester Tate) had previously appeared on Search for Tomorrow as a leading man for Mary Stuart, and Donnelly Rhodes (Dutch Leitner) had played the first husband of Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless.
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On later occasions, it becomes clear Jess has always known on some level about Chester's affairs but never allowed herself to process the information. The wealthy Tate family employs a sarcastic butler/cook named Benson (Robert Guillaume). Benson clearly despises Chester, but has a soft spot for their son, Billy (Jimmy Baio). He also gets along with the Tates' daughter, Corinne (Diana Canova) as well as their mother, Jessica; but doesn't speak to the other daughter, Eunice (Jennifer Salt), although that later changed. Benson became a popular character and in 1. Tates' employ to work for Jessica's cousin, Governor Gene Gatling, on the spin- off series, Benson, wherein his last name, Du. Bois, was revealed.
The Tates had to hire a new butler/cook named Saunders (Roscoe Lee Browne), whose attitude is similar to that of Benson, but has a more formal personality. Mary's family, the Campbells, are working- class, and as the series begins, her son Danny Dallas (Ted Wass), a product of her first marriage to Johnny Dallas, is a junior gangster- in- training. Danny is told to kill his stepfather, Burt Campbell (Richard Mulligan), Mary's current husband, who, Danny is told, murdered his father Johnny, who was also a mobster. It is later revealed that Danny's father was killed by Burt in self- defense. Danny refuses to kill Burt and goes on the run from the Mob in a variety of disguises. This eventually ends when Elaine Lefkowitz (played by Dinah Manoff in one of her earliest roles), the spoiled daughter of the Mob Boss (played by Sorrell Booke), falls in love with Danny and stops her father, who then tells Danny he will have to marry Elaine or he will kill him. In the fourth season, it is revealed that Chester is Danny's true father, the product of a secret affair between him and Mary before his marriage to Jessica.
Mary's other son, Jodie (Billy Crystal, in an early role), is gay, having a secret affair with a famous professional quarterback, and contemplating a sex- change operation. The first season ends with Jessica convicted of the murder of Peter Campbell. The announcer concludes the season by announcing that Jessica is innocent, and that one of five characters – Burt, Chester, Jodie, Benson, or Corinne – killed Peter Campbell. Chester later confesses to Peter's murder and is sent to prison. He is soon released after a successful temporary insanity defense.
Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky (Sal Viscuso), who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch; Mary's stepson Chuck (Jay Johnson), a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick- witted dummy named Bob; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed- dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin Americanrevolutionary known as ? You won't be, after this week's episode of.. Soap.? Will Benson discover Chester's affair? Will Benson care? She is married to wealthy Chester Tate but separates from and later divorces him in the latter seasons of the series. Sweet- natured, extremely na.
Her flirtatious nature and hourglass figure make her a frequent target of male attention, but she is honest and loyal to her marriage. She is in denial of her husband's blatant infidelities throughout Season 1, although everyone repeatedly tells her about him and must listen to her increasingly absurd excuses. In Season 2 when she is accused of murder, she has no concept of the seriousness of her trial, flirting and making jokes with the judge. Later seasons show Jessica as still very sweet, but also a bit stronger and a lot less na.
Helmond is one of the two actors to appear in every episode of the series. Chester Tate (Robert Mandan)—A wealthy stock broker and Jessica's constantly philandering husband. According to Benson (and nearly everyone else) he will . It was also later revealed that he had an affair with his wife's sister, Mary, and was the father of Danny Dallas.
Chester and Jessica separate in Season 3 and divorce in Season 4. Although Chester later falls in love with Eunice's friend Annie, and marries her, he still loves Jessica enough to duel for her honor. Billy Tate (Jimmy Baio)—The youngest child and only son of Jessica and Chester (according to Benson, . He gets caught up in a cult, the Sunnies, (from which Benson has to rescue him), and later has an affair with his high school teacher, Leslie Walker.
After he breaks off the affair, she makes multiple failed (and laughable) attempts to kill him and/or his family. He later becomes a general in El Puerco's revolutionary army after rescuing him and Jessica from being lost in the ocean, learning Spanish and becoming very devoted to the revolutionaries' anti- Communist cause, though his family members do not take this seriously. Corinne Tate Flotsky (Diana Canova)—Jessica and Chester's daughter, who acknowledges she slept with most of the male population of Dunn's River. It is later revealed that she is adopted and is really the daughter of Jessica and Mary's long- lost brother Randolph Gatling and family maid Ingrid Svenson.
After a disastrous affair with Peter Campbell, Corinne marries ex- priest Tim Flotsky and gives birth to a baby named Timmy who turns out to be demon- possessed (due to Tim's outraged mother, Flo, cursing the marriage). She later has an affair with Dutch Leitner and then leaves Dunn's River for California to raise Timmy, after Dutch leaves her to get back together with Eunice. Father Timothy Flotsky (Sal Viscuso)—A former Catholic priest who leaves the priesthood to marry Corinne Tate, then later leaves her. Father of Timmy, who was demon- possessed, due to his mother's cursing of their marriage.
Eunice Tate- Leitner (Jennifer Salt)—Jessica and Chester's daughter. A spoiled social climber, Eunice dates a married congressman in Season 1 and then falls in love with convicted murderer Dutch Leitner and ultimately marries him. He falls in love with, and eventually marries, Chester's daughter Eunice. Though coarse in his manners, Dutch is grateful for the Tate's acceptance and is genuinely devoted to the family, even while struggling to choose between Eunice and Corinne. The Major (Arthur Peterson, Jr.)—The father of Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell.
The Major suffers from dementia and believes he is in the midst of fighting World War II. The Major is always in uniform and often irritates Benson and Saunders with his obliviously racist remarks. Mary Campbell (n. Down- to- earth, sensual and much brighter than her sister, she provides a comic foil to her sister's spaced- out antics. At the start of the series she is married to her second husband, building contractor Burt Campbell.
Her first husband, Johnny Dallas, was a mobster who (unknown to Mary) was killed by Burt in self- defense. Eventually, she has a baby with .
In contrast to Chester, Burt is a loving family man who has a strong marriage with Mary. Burt is a high- strung building contractor who later becomes sheriff and is under consideration for a run as lieutenant governor.
In Season 1, Burt suffers from mental illness due to his guilt over accidentally killing Mary's first husband, and the murder of his son Peter.