Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The American situation comedy television series Soap originally aired 85 episodes over 4 seasons from September 13, 1977 to April 20, 1981. The series was a parody of soap operas and featured a large ensemble cast.Information on this page was primarily sourced from the liner notes for Soap included with the DVD sets for the four seasons of the show, with corroboration of information being achieved via consulting certain television databases and fan websites.The show ran 85 episodes in its original broadcasts on ABC, but ran 93 episodes in syndication. The reason for this is that several one-hour episodes were split into two thirty-minute episodes to meet the time constraints of syndication packages. The 93-episode version of the episode list is shown in the table below, with an indication of what the episode number would have been in the show's original run displayed in the Original Broadcast Episode No. column.Season 4 ran over a shortened time frame, and thus many of the one-hour episodes occurred during this season, as there was less time to get in a full season of material.In addition to the episodes shown in the table below, there were four Soap "retrospective" specials, which were clip shows designed to catch people up on the storylines as they had progressed thus far on the show. The first of these was broadcast on December 20, 1977, after the first 13 shows had aired. The other three were shown at the beginning of each new season (on August 31, 1978, just before Season 2; on August 30, 1979, just before Season 3; and on October 29, 1980, just before the shortened Season 4.). }
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- List_of_Soap_episodes abstract "The American situation comedy television series Soap originally aired 85 episodes over 4 seasons from September 13, 1977 to April 20, 1981. The series was a parody of soap operas and featured a large ensemble cast.Information on this page was primarily sourced from the liner notes for Soap included with the DVD sets for the four seasons of the show, with corroboration of information being achieved via consulting certain television databases and fan websites.The show ran 85 episodes in its original broadcasts on ABC, but ran 93 episodes in syndication. The reason for this is that several one-hour episodes were split into two thirty-minute episodes to meet the time constraints of syndication packages. The 93-episode version of the episode list is shown in the table below, with an indication of what the episode number would have been in the show's original run displayed in the Original Broadcast Episode No. column.Season 4 ran over a shortened time frame, and thus many of the one-hour episodes occurred during this season, as there was less time to get in a full season of material.In addition to the episodes shown in the table below, there were four Soap "retrospective" specials, which were clip shows designed to catch people up on the storylines as they had progressed thus far on the show. The first of these was broadcast on December 20, 1977, after the first 13 shows had aired. The other three were shown at the beginning of each new season (on August 31, 1978, just before Season 2; on August 30, 1979, just before Season 3; and on October 29, 1980, just before the shortened Season 4.)".