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Loving Friends and Perfect Couples

Loving Friends and Perfect Couples poster
Genre
soap opera
Country
Canada
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian soap opera from 1983 that parodies the genre. It features nudity, strong language, and simulated sex in a deliberately over-the-top manner.

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What happens

Loving Friends and Perfect Couples is a Canadian television soap opera, which aired in 1983. Originally aired on the pay TV network First Choice, the series was later rerun on Global in 1985. The show was billed as an "adult" prime time soap opera, including unedited nudity, profanity and simulated sex, and was ultimately a parody of soap operas similar to Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In the United States, the series aired on subscription television service ONTV. The show's cast included Keir Dullea, Ross Petty, Lisa Howard, Mimi Kuzyk, Alex Amini, Lori Hallier and Cali Timmins. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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