Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year's lightning rod for controversy, real or contrived, about the upcoming prime time season. Robert Bennett, ABC affiliates vice chairman, calls it "a sophisticated adult farce." The network has been screening the show for its member stations, many of whom are extravagantly enthusiastic. It has also shown Soap to the press, and somehow a five-year plot projection, or "bible," has been leaked. Religious groups have quickly created a dispute about material that has not yet even survived the ABC censors. Says Everett C. Parker, TV watchdog for the United Church of Christ: "It's going...
Struggling Sisters. On the basis of the only two half-hour episodes that have been produced, it is difficult to see new cause for outrage in Soap-though certainly no harder than finding evidence of sophisticated adult farce. The plot revolves around two middle-aged sisters and their families in suburban Round Hill, Conn. Mary Campbell (Cathryn Damon) struggles to stay afloat in the middle class. Her husband (Richard Mulligan) is impotent; her younger son would like to be her daughter. "He's sick!" rages the husband. "So am I," says Mary. "He looks better in that dress than...
...comedy-and Soap has its funny moments-is about race, sex and religion. Until the ABC censors got wind of it, the show's writers had plotted Father Flotsky's seduction in church by Corinne, then an exorcism for their baby. The priapic tennis pro may still be killed-with his racket-stringing machine-after one of his love matches...
Still, there is no racial slur in the first two episodes of Soap that Archie Bunker has not uttered before. Though the sex jokes may be new to prime time, they are familiar to anyone who has watched Mary Hartman or followed what seems to be the terminal lust of the Globatron girls in All That Glitters. Seven years ago ABC rejected All in the Family, a fact that officials of network affiliates still discuss with steel in their voices. For Norman Lear, who produced all three shows, Soap is the sincerest form of flattery, a sweaty attempt to play...
Some affiliate stations are worried. Says Don Cunningham, program director of WOWK-TV in Huntington, W.Va.: "If you want to see Shampoo, that's your choice, but we are concerned about family viewing." In the Midwest, ABC is allowing reluctant managers to air Soap later than the network time of 8:30. (Elsewhere, it goes...