Soap was an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981.

The show was a weekly half-hour long primetime comedy and its format was similar to that of a daytime soap opera. It aired for four seasons and 85 episodes, some episodes of which were one hour long. (The hour-long episodes were later split in two, yielding 93 half-hour episodes for syndication.) The show was created, written, and produced by Susan Harris. The final four episodes of the series aired as one-hours during the original run on ABC. Each returning season was preceded by a 90-minute retrospectives of the previous season. Two of these retrospectives were made available on VHS in 1994. [1_7?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1203033659&sr=1-7" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Best-Soap-Killed-Peter-Show/dp/630308219X/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1203033659&sr=1-7]

All episodes are currently available on region 1 DVD in 4 separate box sets.

The series has rerun on _Comedy Central and TV Land.

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

Soap, a parody of soap operas, is a show about two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell and their families. The two families have all sorts of problems such as: Sarcastic butlers, a war hero who's still living in 1940's wartime and Mary's 2nd husband who once thought he could make himself invisible and was abducted aliens, just to name a few. Written by katieb06907