When advertiser backlash to its then-controversial content prompted ABC to scrub its lineup of the daytime-drama spoof after four seasons instead of the planned five, viewers were left with not one but a whole bunch of sudstastic cliffhangers.

Would a suicidal Chester really murder wife Annie and son Danny after catching them in bed together? Would Burt really be assassinated by his political enemies? And most distressing of all, would beleaguered heroine Jessica really be gunned down by a Communist firing squad?

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