Soap : Season 1 - DVD (Used)Author: Billy Crystal Format: Box set Release Date: 16 09 2003 Details: Amazon. ca Even before it premiered on September 13, 1977 (Tuesdays at 9: 30 pm on ABC), Soap was mired in controversy (including 32,000 letters of protest) and primed to make television history. Conceived as a primetime satire of daytime melodramas, this groundbreaking series toppled many of the TV taboos that remained after All in the Family and M*A*S*H, openly addressing a