Anyone else miss that show?
I flewwww into the wild and fire...
I danced and died a thouuuusand times...
Yes. Enough for me to go buy seasons 1 and 2. I believe that Billy Crystal played the first openly gay character on TV. That show was ahead of its time and I guess people weren't ready for it.
"No Way. No How. No McCain!"
Yes, "Soap" is cool - lots of fun stuff mostly.
hmmm Jodie Dallas is sometimes credited as the first openly Gay character on TV, but some sources place him at about fourth of fifth or farther down the list.
1. "Are You Being Served?" (1972-85) - Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries (John Inman)
2. "The Corner Bar" (1972-73) - Peter Panama (Vincent Schiavelli)
3. "Hot l Baltimore" (1975) - George Gordon (Lee Bergere, Henry Calvert)
4. "Barney Miller" (1975) - Marty Morrison and Darryl Driscoll (Jack DeLeon and
Ray Stewart)
5. "All That Glitters" (1977) - Linda Murkland (Linda Gray)
6. "Soap" (1977-81) Jodie Dallas (Billy Crystal)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_shows_with_LGBT_charac ters
Mellow Salutations!
Robert Mandan two decades before Soap and his starring part of Chester was Ann Flood's love interest, writer David Allen, on From These Roots, a brilliant soap opera which NBC axed after less than 4 years. He subsequently followed Ann Flood to Monticello and had a long run playing Mike Karr's courtroom antagonist Nathan Axelrod on The Edge of Night, then he originated the role of Sam Reynolds on Search for Tomorrow. So he had the experience to lend great insight in the Soap put on of soap opera.