Mary's family, the Campbells, are working-class, and as the series begins, her son Danny Dallas (Ted Wass), from her first marriage is a gangster-in-training. Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) and her husband, Chester (Robert Mandan), are hardly models of fidelity, as their various love affairs result in several family mishaps, including the murder of her sister Mary's (Cathryn Damon) stepson, Peter Campbell (Robert Urich). The Tates live in a wealthy neighbourhood. In the opening sequence of each episode the announcer says "This is the story of two sisters-Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell". Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format and included melodramatic plot elements such as alien abduction, demonic possession, murder, and kidnapping. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. "Soap" is an American sitcom that originally ran for 85 episodes on ABC from Septemuntil April 20, 1981.
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