Soap: Episode 30

Soap: Episode 30
ABC
October 12, 1978
Dramedy
DVD
C+

This is another episode Harris wrote with Crittenden, but I don't know if it's his fault that the current storylines are less appealing to me than the ones from the first season.  My least favorite is the Taming of the Shrew thread with Danny and Elaine.  Meanwhile, Burt's secretary Sally (Caroline McWilliams, who would be a different character on Benson) starts coming on to Burt and Danny.  Jodie proposes to Carol, who's hesitant because she knows that Jodie doesn't want to have sex with her again, although he says he'll try.  (And she makes a Schwarzenegger reference.)  Tim's mother dies.  Eunice confesses her feelings for Dutch to Jessica.  And Dr. Kanter (Ron Rifkin in his first of three Soap appearances) tells Jessica that Chester has a brain lesion that caused him to act violently and he'll need to operated on.

Policeman #2 Jeffrey Kramer had been on M*A*S*H and would be again.  Fred Iwasaki returns as the Japanese Chef and gets a line this time.