Soap: Episode 67

Soap: Episode 67
ABC
March 13, 1980
Dramedy
DVD
B-

The main reason to watch this Harris & Silver episode is for Day One of the custody trial, with Crystal particularly good, although I think Balding deserves kudos for how she plays Carol as innocent-seeming but dishonest underneath.  (It's a much subtler performance than other villainesses on the show.)  Meanwhile Burt wins the election but his predecessor holes up in the sheriff's office.  Jessica is in the hospital with mysterious symptoms.  Dutch thinks he should leave, especially with "Sandy" doing the cooking now, but Corinne loves him and convinces him to stay.

Granville Van Dusen makes his first of five appearances as Dr. Hill, while Rae Allen and Michael Durrell make their first of four, as respectively Judge Betty Small and Carol's lawyer F. Peter Haversham.  The Major, Billy, and of course Eunice are absent.