With an ensemble cast that included Katherine Helmond, Cathryn Damon, Robert Mandan, Richard Mulligan, Robert Guillaume, and Billy Crystal, Soap focused on “the story of two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell,” and their dysfunctional family.
Soap featured suggestive subject matter, controversial characters, and crude jokes. According to TV Line, 18 ABC affiliates refused to air the show amid opposition from several religious groups.
ABC president Fred Silverman called the complaints “erroneous, exaggerated and, in a few cases, ridiculous,.” and insisted the network was not “intent on debauching the morals of the American people,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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‘Soap’ ended before its time
Scene from 'Soap.'Photo by ABC Photo Archives on Getty Images
On April 20, 1981, Soap came to an abrupt end with an unplanned final episode that left multiple cliffhangers dangling. The fourth season ended with a murder-suicide tease, a hypnotized character's confusion, and Jessica Tate facing execution by a firing squad.
Fans never got complete closure, but on Guillaume’s Benson spinoff, in a 1983 episode titled “God I Need This Job," Helmond's character appeared in a dream and revealed she was not dead but in a coma.
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