Soap
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.
- 1977-1981
- 4 seasons
- ABC
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-14
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.
Season 4 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 0
Jessica's Wonderful Life
Wed, Oct 29, 1980 90 mins
In a recap of season three, Jessica pleads with her guardian angel to allow her to rejoin her family on Earth.
Episode 1
Episode #4.1
Wed, Nov 12, 1980 60 mins
Jessica comes out of her coma; Eunice wins Dutch from Corinne; Burt and Danny receive blackmail photos; Mary's baby seems normal; Jodie's custody battle for Wendy is decided.
Episode 2
Episode #4.2
Wed, Nov 19, 1980 30 mins
Corinne bids goodbye to her mother; Polly turns down Danny's marriage proposal; Burt refuses to knuckle under to Tibbs; Mary returns home with baby Scott; Jodie discovers that his daughter Wendy has been kidnapped.
Episode 3
Episode #4.3
Wed, Nov 26, 1980 30 mins
Jessica admires Burt's blackmail photos; Eunice and Dutch announce their engagement, as Jessica banishes Chester to the pool house.
Episode 4
Episode #4.4
Wed, Dec 3, 1980 30 mins
As Dutch and Eunice tie the knot, Chester meets Eunice's maid of honor, Annie; the X-rated photos of Burt appear in the newspaper and Burt and Mary face the public's outrage, as well as each other's; Annie moves into the poolhouse with Chester; on her private vacation to Malaguay, Jessica frees El Puerco, a Malaguayan revolutionary, who immediately takes her hostage.
Episode 5
Episode #4.5
Wed, Dec 10, 1980 30 mins
Jodie hires private detective Maggie to find his kidnapped daughter; Billy heads off to Malaguay to find his mother; Mary is depressed over the media's treatment of her husband, who plans to infiltrate one of Tibbs' massage parlors for evidence.
Episode 6
Episode #4.6
Wed, Dec 17, 1980 30 mins
Burt and Danny disguise themselves at the brothel; Danny recognizes Gwen as one of the girls in the blackmail photos; with Jessica still lost in Malaguay, the Tates have no access to her money.
Episode 7
Episode #4.7
Wed, Dec 31, 1980 30 mins
Jessica convinces El to conduct his revolution from her Connecticut home; Danny promises protection for Gwen; the Tates are still strapped for cash as Dutch gets fired from a car wash because he didn't know what 'agua' meant.
Episode 8
Episode #4.8
Wed, Jan 7, 1981 30 mins
Learning that Carol is now into rodeo clowns, Jodie and Maggie follow her trail to Albuquerque; Danny persuades Gwen to tone down her clientele while under his protective custody.
Episode 9
Episode #4.9
Wed, Jan 14, 1981 30 mins
Jessica's entourage arrives home safely; as Danny and Gwen acknowledge each other's feelings, Jodie and Maggie admit their attraction for each other; Burt's crisis of faith results in the death of his boyhood Bishop.
Episode 10
Episode #4.10
Wed, Jan 21, 1981 30 mins
After Jessica announces that she's now officially divorced from Chester, he announces his engagement to Annie; Jodie and Maggie confirm their relationship; a bullet meant for Gwen hits Danny instead.
Episode 11
Episode #4.11
Wed, Jan 28, 1981 30 mins
Burt vows to make Tibbs pay for his crimes; Jessica makes an unsuccessful attempt to seduce El; Danny's critical injury requires a kidney from a blood relative.
Episode 12
Episode #4.12
Mon, Mar 9, 1981 60 mins
Jodie and Maggie are taken captive by Minja warriors in Malibu; Burt becomes a hero after finally capturing Tibbs; and Mary reveals who is Danny's father.
Episode 13
Episode #4.13
Mon, Mar 16, 1981 60 mins
Chester becomes the vital kidney donor on Danny's behalf; Dutch and Eunice try to spice up their sex life by playacting; believing her sister has betrayed her, Jessica refuses to speak to a despondent Mary, who reveals how their mother arranged scatterbrained Jessica's marriage to embezzler Chester.
Episode 14
Episode #4.14
Mon, Mar 23, 1981 60 mins
Jodie and Maggie are rescued from their dungeon prison, after which she proposes marriage; Jodie visits a psychiatrist who puts him under hypnosis that turns him into an elderly Jewish man; Chester and Annie celebrate their marriage, but his jealousy over Jessica will not end; Mary reconciles with her forgiving sister, then walks out on her high-and-mighty husband, telling him she doesn't like him anymore.
Episode 15
Episode #4.15
Mon, Apr 13, 1981 60 mins
Nobody believes Mary when she insists her baby can fly; lamenting his washed-up relationship with wife Eunice, Dutch fondly recalls the days of 'screaming and scratching Corinne'; the Governor offers Burt a run for the Senate; and Danny finds his attractive new stepmother Annie as lonely--and irresistible--as he is.
Episode 16
Episode #4.16
Mon, Apr 20, 1981 60 mins
A despondent Chester wants to kill himself, until he finds his new bride in bed with his son; the syndicate baits a trap for the unsuspecting Burt; El Puerco's enemies kidnap Jessica and put her in front of a firing squad.
