Soap - "1.25" - 3:00 pm Sunday, November 30 on WPIX Antenna TV

Katherine Helmond (Actor) .. Jessica Tate

Born: July 05, 1934
Died: February 23, 2019
Birthplace: Galveston, Texas, United States

Trivia: American actress Katherine Helmond spent nearly thirty years becoming an overnight success. Working fitfully in New York and regional theatre throughout the '50s and '60s, Helmond made ends meet by working as a drama teacher. Her first fleeting film appearances were in the Manhattan-based Believe in Me and The Hospital, both shot in 1971. She received a sizeable role in 1975's The Hindenburg, which utilized local repertory actors from throughout the midwest; she also worked with Hitchcock in 1976's Family Plot. In 1977, Katherine was cast as Jessica Tate, the scatterbrained, hedonistic matriarch on the TV sitcom Soap. She remained with the series until its cancellation in 1981; Soap left poor Jessica Tate facing a firing squad, and didn't reveal her fate until Helmond's guest appearance on the Soap spinoff Benson, wherein she played Jessica's ghost. In 1983, Katherine enrolled in the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop; she helmed the short subject Bankrupt and also several episodes of TV's Who's the Boss, in which she played Mona Robinson from 1984 through 1990. Keeping her hand in films, Katherine Helmond became a favorite of ex-Monty Python director Terry Gilliam, who cast the actress as a vain matron undergoing a really radical facelift in 1984's Brazil.

Diana Canova (Actor) .. Corinne Tate

Born: June 01, 1953
Birthplace: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Trivia: Began her TV career as the Statue of Liberty on Happy Days opposite Ron Howard. Both of her parents had music careers, as her mother, Judy, was a singer and TV star, and her father, Filberto, a radio personality. Inspired to follow in her parents' footsteps after seeing Angela Lansbury perform on stage. Best known to many as Corrine Tate on the controversial late-1970s satirical TV series Soap. Stage credits include They're Playing Our Song and Company. Active in a local theater in Connecticut, where she raises funds and is a summer-theater director. Teaches voice at Manhattanville College in the state of New York.

Sal Viscuso (Actor) .. Father Timothy Flotsky

Born: October 05, 1948
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States

Trivia: Attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with Olympia Dukakis. Provided one of the voices on the public-address system in the TV series M*A*S*H, and also appeared in three episodes as other characters. Made his film debut in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). The show Childrens Hospital has a character named after him, who is the unseen hospital announcer.

Eugene Roche (Actor) .. E. Ronald Mallu

Born: September 22, 1928
Died: July 28, 2004
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts

Trivia: In another era, American actor Eugene Roche might have been a perfect next-door neighbor on Ozzie and Harriet; balding, slightly paunchy, with an open, jovial Midwestern face. Following theatrical work, Roche made a name for himself in a project which gave him no on-screen billing: the friendly kitchen employee who sang the brief "Ajax for dishes" ditty in a series of detergent commercials. Roche's breakthrough film was Slaughterhouse Five (1971), in which he played the likeable POW Edgar Derby, whose fascination with war souvenirs results in his perfunctory execution at the hands of his German captors. Not all of Roche's film roles were this benign: in Foul Play (1978), he is a professional assassin who impersonates his murdered archbishop brother, the better to draw a bead on the Pope during an American visit. A reassuringly familiar presence on TV, Eugene Roche also had regular roles on several series, including The Corner Bar (1972), Good Time Harry (1980), Webster (1984), Take Five (1987) and Lenny (1990).

Soap: 1.25

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Sunday, November 30 on WPIX Antenna TV (11.2)

1.25

Season 1, Episode 25