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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404989580
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404989587
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Running Time: 523 minutes
Sales Rank: 7039
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 13, 1977
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/11/2005 Run time: 523 minutes
Amazon.com:
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 (Cathryn Damon) suspects that her newborn child is an extraterrestrial, and devastates Jessica with a long-held secret about her past involving Chester (Robert Mandan); and the now-liberated Jessica gets involved with El Puerco (Gregory Sierra, from TV's Barney Miller), a revolutionary from the (fictional) Latin American country of Malaguay.
These and other plots--including an affair between Danny (Ted Wass) and Chester's new wife Annie (Nancy Dolman), and the climactic kidnapping of Jessica--ensured that Soap's final season was never boring for even a minute, and the one-liners are endlessly quotable as series creator Susan Harris (here backed, for the first time, by a stable of cowriters) dares to combine comedy with heavier elements of betrayal, alcoholism, life-threatening situations, and heartwarming reconciliation. These shifts of tone still qualify Soap as one of the most accomplished sitcoms in TV history (you'd be hard pressed to find a better cast capable of handling such a dynamic range of comi-tragic extremes), and with Sierra and a then-unknown Joe Mantegna providing the best laughs from an impressive guest-star lineup, the series mixed up its volatile ingredients with considerable aplomb and no small degree of genuine humanity. While some characters suffered due to the season's ambitious plotting, it's still clear that Soap could have thrived into a fifth season and beyond. Alas, it wasn't to be. Amidst threats of sponsor withdrawal and the inevitable fallout of ratings in decline, ABC pulled the plug on Soap, depriving loyal viewers to a resolution to this season's cliffhangers, which left several key characters on the brink of disaster. It's therefore regrettable that this DVD set lacks any bonus material that would provide a retrospective summation of what was, for its time, one of TV's boldest comedy experiments. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Came to an end far too early.
I used to run home to watch this classic series. As a Brit, I would say that this was one of the best things to have ever come out of America.
Rating:  - what?? that was an ending???? rent it--don't buy it
after enjoying three season's episodes and each night looking forward to rejoining those dysfunctional families, the campbells and the tates, i was stunned to be left scratching my head at the end of the 3rd disc of the fourth and final season!!!
i feel betrayed by sony, that at the very least, they might have added a little something, ANYTHING!!!to have explained the incomplete, raw, horrid, lazy and just mean suspension at the end of the series. although i enjoyed the previous countless ... Read More
Rating: - Soap-The Complete Fourth Season
Everything was great about this product: the cover, picture, and sound! A must recommend!! Definitely a 5 star review!
Rating: - I can't stop laughing
Funny......splitting my pants. Absolutely outrageous. It is just as funny the second time around. They seem alot like my family.......Just kidding....LOL!!! Great ending to an amazing series.
Rating: - Worth it
I love this DVD. I first started watching soap on my On Demand on cable because my bf loved it when he was younger. So i watched and i enjoyed it, but then they took it off so i had to get the 4th season on DVD and it was well worth it. Very funny and some unexpected things happened. This is def a Soap (opera).
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