Best of Soap: Who Killed Peter on AllMovie

This collection of highlights from the satiric sitcom Soap follows the strange life and far stranger death of tennis pro and Lothario Peter Campbell (Robert Urich). Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond), who was having an affair with Peter, is arrested after he's murdered, and she and her brother-in-law, Burt Campbell (Richard Mulligan), who was also Peter's stepfather, try to figure out who really was to blame. Perhaps Corrine (Diana Canova), Jessica's daughter and rival for Peter's affections? Chester (Robert Mandan), Jessica's cuckolded husband? Danny (Ted Wass), Burt's son who's become an executioner for the mob? Jodie (Billy Crystal), Danny's cross-dressing brother who is nursing a broken heart? Chuck (Jay Johnson), the deranged ventriloquist? Or maybe it was the butler, Benson (Robert Guillaume)? Before long, the investigation into Peter's death takes a back seat to the comic complexities of the tangled emotional affairs of the Tate and Campbell families.