It's funny, it has drama, and you fall in love with the characters.
Goodbye Benson!
Robert Guilliame (still) appears in the photo on the front of the package. This season his character,Benson DuBois would be spun off on the hit series BENSON. Benson worked for Jessica Tate's(Katherine Helmond) widowed cousin Gov. James Gatling. The rest of the SOAP cast is still intact. Billy Crystal,as the homosexual Jodie Dallas,hadn't yet become a major film star.
Awesome Show!
When I was a pre-teen, I had to sneak this show into my watching line-up, but it was WELL worth it! I enjoyed all the little cracks and whips! Benson was the BEST! Though he exits here in the third season for his own show (he should have stayed.) Now, as an adult many years later, I find even MORE great humor in it. All the digs on real soaps with alien kidnapping, possessed babies and near death hospitalizations... How much more could you ask for?
It doesn't seem possible, but the second season of Soap is even better than the first. Only the greatest primetime sitcoms achieve triple-threat genius: Casting, writing, and direction reached their zenith as the 1978-79 season began with a resolution to season 1's cliffhanger murder. Chester (Robert Mandan) loses his memory and wander out west while his ditzy wife Jessica (Katherine Helmond) enjoys a fling with the detective (new cast member John Byner) she'd hired to find Chester. Across town, the working-class Campbells have their own melodramas to contend with: Despite being gay, stepson Jodie (Billy Crystal) is an expectant father and moves in with pregnant Carol (Rebecca Balding), and later a lesbian roommate; Mary (Cathryn Damon) suspects Burt (Richard Mulligan) of having an... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Billy Crystal DVD Release Date: Released the 20 July 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Even as it struggled with lower ratings and ongoing backlash from conservative watchdogs, Soap entered its fourth and final season with big laughs and plenty of surprises. The series was beginning to lose its edge with interwoven plots even more preposterous than usual, but its primary strengths (a great ensemble cast, risk-taking writing, and a delicate combination of humor and pathos) are still abundantly evident as Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) emerges from a coma in episode 1. In the 20 episodes that follow, Burt (Robert Mulligan) will survive a blackmailing scandal and, as the new local sheriff, begin a political career; Jodie (Billy Crystal) fights for child custody, enters into psychotherapy, and begins to channel a 90-year-old Jewish man from a previous life; Mary... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Billy Crystal DVD Release Date: Released the 11 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Even before it premiered on September 13, 1977 (Tuesdays at 9:30 pm on ABC), Soap was mired in controversy (including 32,000 letters of protest) and primed to make television history. Conceived as a primetime satire of daytime melodramas, this groundbreaking series toppled many of the TV taboos that remained after All in the Family and M*A*S*H, openly addressing a variety of risky topics (homosexuality, infidelity, impotence, familial murder) with a deft combination of irreverent wit, wacky slapstick, supreme stupidity, and--key to its success--engaging drama from characters you could really care about, regardless of their rampant quirks and foibles.
As a friendly announcer informs us, "this is the story of two sisters" in suburban Connecticut--wealthy dimwit... More Info about this DVD Director(s): J.D. Lobue DVD Release Date: Released the 16 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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One of the zaniest and bawdiest shows to hit network primetime in the 1980s, Night Court starred Harry Anderson as the Mel Tormé-loving, magic-playing, too-young judge Harry Stone presiding over the night beat of New York. Joining him were lecherous assistant district attorney Dan (John Larroquette), bald Bunyanesque bailiff Bull (Richard Moll), uptight court clerk Lana (Karen Austin), earnest public defender Elizabeth (Paula Kelly), and grizzled bailiff Selma (Selma Hacker).
In between cases involving ladies of the evening, a derelict who thinks he's Santa, and sparring spouses, the court staff spends most of their spare time trying to figure out the judge's age and background, making jokes about Bull's imposing appearance, or, in Dan's case, propositioning any woman... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Larroquette - Charles Robinson - Christine Ballard - Alan Bergmann - Lee Bernhardi DVD Release Date: Released the 08 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I recently showed my wife taxi for the first time. She says she enjoys the series. She likes the variety of personalities and how each episode takes one of those personalities.
Great Show!! All three seasons are fun!! Looking forward to season four. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Judd Hirsch DVD Release Date: Released the 01 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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