![]() ![]() When Burt is replaced by an alien who has sex with Mary multiple times, while she believes it's him.He only finds out that his sister (and later his mother) are accused of murder by reading the newspaper. "Awkward Silence" Entrance: The Tate family, usually at dinner, always stops what they're talking about in mid-sentence when youngest son Billy (age 14) enters the room, in order to "protect" him from the adult situations they have to deal with. ![]() ![]() The cast consisted of a large ensemble, including Katherine Helmond, Robert Mandan, Cathryn Damon, Richard Mulligan, Ted Wass, Robert Urich, Billy Crystal, and Robert Guillaume as Benson, the cynical housekeeper to the Tates, who would eventually be spun off into his own show (in which he would eventually become lieutenant governor of his state.) Over the course of a few years, they face adultery, a murder trial, abduction by aliens, demonic possession, cultists and mental illness (several times). Set in the fictional Dunn's River, Connecticut, the series followed the misadventures of the wealthy Tate family, and the equally bizarre misadventures of their relatives, the far less wealthy Campbells. It was perhaps the first Sitcom to include a Story Arc of any significance, and as such is still a rarity even today. Created by Susan Harris (who wrote most of the episodes and later created The Golden Girls), Soap is a 1977≨1 ABC comedy series that both parodied and emulated the serial storytelling style of the Soap Opera. ![]()
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