ice cream and SOAP

Every night during the ten o'clock news, there was a 90-second commercial break between weather and sports that was just long enough to run to the kitchen, load up a gargantuan bowl of ice cream, and make it back to Mom and Dad's bedroom. The 10:30 slot was prime time for sitcom viewing, procrastination, and general homework avoidance. "Cheers" ruled for years, and "MASH" and generations of "Star Trek" variously drifted through the late night schedule. But before them all, there was "SOAP."