The American situation comedy television series Soap originally aired 85 episodes over four 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 DVD sets, corroborated by television databases and fan websites.
The show ran for 85 episodes in its original ABC broadcasts, but its syndication package included 93 episodes (several one-hour ABC episodes, mostly from the condensed Season 4, were split into half-hour syndication episodes). The 93-episode version of the episode list is shown 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.
There were also four Soap retrospective specials, which were clip shows designed to catch viewers up with the previous seasons' storylines. 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.)