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Anyone remember watching 'Soap'? (Tates & Campbells)

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The series was cancelled after a rather bizarre cliffhanger. Jessica Tate had been kidnapped by revolutionaries (in Central America, I think) and faced the firing squad in the final broadcast episode. The episode ended with the revolutionary leader saying 'Fire!' and the camera freezing on Jessica. It appeared as though she had, indeed, been shot.

Without a resolution pending in a season opener which never happened, Jessica's fate was left to our imaginations. It was more-or-less assumed that she had died.

Fortunately, Jessica's butler, Benson, had his own spin-off show and Jessica appeared to him as a ghostly image and claimed that she wasn't dead, that she was still alive in Central America but that was never carried through and that was the last we heard from Jessica or her ultimate fate.

Did you ever come up with a resolution of your own? How do you think Jessica got out of that one?
 
I was only talking about this show the other day. Oh how I wish they'd re-run it again here in the UK. It was such a totally 'random' comedy - it was great to watch those vids above, ah, the memories!!!
 
I loved Bert on that show, he was soooo funny. He thought he was invisible, then he was the peace of chalif (chief of police). And what about one of the first gay characters on TV?
 
I remember watching it for half of the first season, then our local ABC affiliate got so many complaint calls, mostly from the Christian churches in the area, about showing a gay character that they pulled it. I never saw it again.

What I did see was funny.

The censoring of this show, along with that "Moral Majority" Christian movement, are two of the many reasons I left the church. I was in my teens and rapidly forming a very negative opinion of organized religion.
 
Social Worker: "Are you a practicing homosexual?"

Jodie: "I don't have to practice! I'm very good at it!"
 
Oh, how I loved that show.
 
I was on the young side when it ran and didn't see much of it. Although I didn't totally understand it at the time, I was intrigued by this "gay" character, Jodie. Something struck a chord with me. I've always had a special place in my heart for Billy Crystal for his playing this character so sympathetically.
 
Kirbster66 said:
I've always had a special place in my heart for Billy Crystal for his playing this character so sympathetically.
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Sadly, the only reason they got away with a regular gay character on the show was because it was a spoof, a parody if soap operas. The characters were farcical and impossibly unreal and unbelievable. Jodie was seen as a nonsensical character just like the others.

Still, he paved the way for future gay characters and I think Susan Harris (who also created the Golden Girls) had a plan when she created Jodie, and Billy Crystal played him to perfection. It was quite an achievement that the gay character was the most sane character on the show (except, perhaps, for Benson).
 
It's strange this topic came up.

Monday I was looking through a box of old VHS tapes and found all the episodes of Soap. TV Land had run them in a marathon.

I don't remember recording it, but there they are.
 
It was Ted Wass I couldn't keep my eyes off of. He looked great even in the disco style clothes of the time.
 
I remember Soap fondly...

I loved when Burt was abducted by the aliens!
 
I loved Soap! When it first aired, I was just barely in my teens. In spite of the controversy, I was allowed to watch it anyway. I was crazy about the incredible Bert. Robert Urich and Ted Wass were both hot. And the gay Jodie was portrayed in a mostly positive light. It would've been great to have had a movie to conclude the series. I wonder why it wasn't made? I got the dvds of the series a few years ago. It's as funny now as it was back then.
 
A truly great show, very groundbreaking and daring. I loved it. I have some episodes on VHS tapes, and I'm sure the DVDs are available. The cast was so talented and the writing was fantastic. It's gotta be on Hulu.com too.
 
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