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That scene with Martha was brilliant and terribly funny. I was cracking up, too. I loved her singing with Mike, too.

I've seen a couple sources online that say he was there from July 1982 to June 1983. I tend to doubt that since he left Edge in May 1983.

Not really. Unlike GL with that God-awful island, I don't recall Edge actually taking us to Eden. And I don't think it had anything to do with disliking royalty stories. The story just wasn't interesting or compelling. It started off with potential, but then fell apart and was boring as can be. The actors who played Pietro and Viva, who kidnapped Jody, were very good but both got killed off. A major part of the problem was the very weak actor (Mark Andrews) that they cast as Chad Sutherland, who was critical to the story. He was painful to watch, drug the story down, and had no chemistry with Lori Loughlin's Jody. It just got worse as time went on with Edge using stock footage of a renaissance faire as the story played out to its conclusion. I lost interest and nearly gave up on Edge but watched the story play out to its absurd (Jody getting shot with a crossbow) yet boring conclusion. Thankfully, Chad was shipped back to Eden and Andrews was dropped from the cast.

Thanks for sharing these! Seeing these brought back a lot of memories. I haven't heard "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" in many years so it was a treat to hear it again. Plus, the clips brought back memories of my late aunt Mary. She was an amazing lady who worked with Rupert Ravens' (Danny) father at the Rutgers Medical Center back in the early 80s. Truly, thank you so much.

Willie was there for about 13 weeks. Robbie managed the Video Disco and created problems for Jody and Preacher. I grew up in East Brunswick, NJ, which is where EON executive producer Erwin Nicholson lived. I recall my elementary school had an auction in 1985. I found out about it after the fact and was so disappointed: an autographed copy of the final script was one of the auction items. Nicholson taped scenes in East Brunswick in 1978…April's car accident was filmed there.

That episode aired in mid-August 1983. The following week saw characters beginning to move into the Isis building and the introduction of Willie Aames as Robbie Hamlin, perhaps even the opening of Edge's new title sequence and revised theme song. According to the Edge homepage, we don't even see Louis Van Dine (the limping man with the mask) until late September. There's lots of action in the coming months -- people going insane, murders, a suicide, torture, mind control. We meet Louis' sister Alicia and his henchman Donald Hext. It all culminates in November when Monticello's he men storm the Isis building.

It was great to see the episode where Nicole died after all these years. I remember Soap Opera Digest reporting that Lisa Sloan was leaving but the story didn't spoil how she was being written off. So I was genuinely surprised when Nicole died. That music when Miles cradles her body disturbed me then and still does today. Very chilling. Sheldon said the Standing Elk story was supposed to run for six months was aborted after just two or three months.

Awesome episode. Can't wait to find out the identity of the mystery woman. Nice work!!

I'm pretty sure I read that Lisa Sloan was going to return in 1985. Plus, Ernie Townsend as Cliff Nelson. Additionally, I recall reading that Mark McEwen was cast as the new police chief. McEwen later became a weatherman at CBS news. There was discussion about this on Danfling's board some years back. One person said: The story of Nicole's return was not aborted due to cancellation. Lisa Sloan left to try her luck in Hollywood and quickly realized she had made a mistake. She asked to return to Edge of Night. Sheldon devised a plot that would have been similar to the Julie Jamison/Laura Hillyer plot line. Sloan would have returned as a Nicole lookalike, and Miles was to have become obsessed with her, just as Orin Hillyer had been with Julie Jamison. The twist was that the lookalike would have been a villainess who would have exploited her resemblance to Nicole. Sheldon sowed the seeds to the story on air. Miles and Chris Egan went away from Monticello on some type of police business, and Miles spotted a woman who looked like Nicole in a restaurant. This may have been when Miles and Chris went to bed together for the first time. According to Sheldon, ABC and P&G vetoed the story. Not sure how accurate this was. In an interview, Sheldon said that there were no stories that he wasn't allowed to do. And here's Sheldon's description of the Isis storyline: Our "1984" story. I wanted to do a conspiracy "big brother" story that was more up to date and utilized new technology. The story dealt with an attempt to manipulate an election by eavesdropping on households and subliminal perception techniques broadcast through a cable TV system. It started with the death of a long-running character Nicole Cavanaugh (the actress wanted to leave the show to try her luck in Hollywood), and ended nine months later with a commando raid by almost all of the male stars of the show, as they were dropped from a helicopter on to the roof of the high-rise office building from which the culprits were broadcasting. The final two weeks of the story were televised in "real time" with each episode beginning with a clock counting down the minutes to the election much the way the TV series 24 is now produced two decades later.

Some of those official start dates are way off!

The Isis building was part of the subliminal perception storyline I referenced earlier. A number of Edge's characters rented offices in the building, including Cliff, Didi, and Miles. Some of the tenants, like Didi, started going insane. I think Van Dine owned the building. When Cliff caught on to what was happening, he was locked up and tortured in the building. I don't watch today's soaps regularly but I found Sheldon's Edge very similar to today's soaps. I remember not being aware that Henry Slesar had been fired. When Sheldon's work started airing in May 1983, within minutes I noticed a very drastic shift in Edge. The writing was different and scenes were short, not unlike Carlivati's General Hospital. Sheldon sped up Edge's pace. Three weeks after he arrived, Nicole was dead. Three months later, Miles was sexing it up with new cop Chris Egan. Suddenly we had lots of short story arcs involving characters we hardly knew. I still enjoyed Edge until the end, but it was a very different show under Sheldon.

I think you mean Jeremy Grimes. According to the Dark Shadows Almanac, he appeared on four episodes. Tom Happer played the role. A few years later, he would play Bill Saxton on For Richer, For Poorer. Here's his pin-up while he was on Dark Shadows. Quite furry for a teenage character! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528328600009063368/

My PBS affiliate stopped airing DS just as the parallel time plot was heating up. (Canceling the show caused quite an uproar since the station had just raised a boat load of money to finance airing the last year of DS.) As a result, I never got to see the final year. I've read synopses and shocked to read that Edith Collins died in the 1840 storyline. A bit odd since she was alive at the story of the 1897 plot. Did they ever reveal the identity of her son who sired Judith, Carl, Quentin, and Edward?

I think it was Lee Sheldon's best story during his time on Edge. It involved so many characters and was riveting at times. There were certain things I didn't like about the arc -- like Miles having sex with Chris Egan a few months after Nicole's murder. If I recall correctly, Sheldon was planning to bring back Lisa Sloan as a Nicole doppelgänger in 1985.

According to the Edge website, Louis Van Dine had ordered Stan Hathaway to kill Nicole so that her co-anchor Peter Nevins could be provided with fake stories that could damage WMON's reputation, forcing Geraldine Saxon to sell the station to a media corporation. Van Dine wanted to use WMON so that he could broadcast subliminal messages to control the people of Monticello.

According to information online, Edge aired on USA from August 5, 1985 to January 19, 1989. The USA run started with episodes that aired in June 1981. I forgot how quickly Edge removed Lisa Sloan from the opening credits.

I personally love the character and I think the actress is wonderful as Nancy Bennet. I find the character and her ability to speak her mind -- even with Matt Powers -- to be very refreshing.

Is this it? https://youtu.be/RzqO8Ap3ODA

I've wondered that myself. I'm not sure if it was a matter of Marland distancing himself from Loving or the show distancing itself from him after he left as head writer in 1985. Interestingly, I don't think Dan Wakefield ever got a creator credit even though he was involved in creating the series before Marland came on board.

Terry, Joey Baio has appeared as Eric in a few episodes. He was on both of today's episodes.

My husband and I have stayed right around the corner from there -- in a condo above Fanizzi's (what amazing views). We love the Cape in the fall. We were there last year for Halloween and are likely heading up on October 7. We usually do a two-week trip in June, but this year are headed to Colorado instead. My husband Eric loves the Marine Specialities store and that's where I found these old soap magazines. I was reading a Daytime TV from 1980 and it reported that Michael Zaslow might be joining the cast of Texas. I had never heard that before.

As I was looking for old tax records the other day, I came across some soap magazines that I had purchased at a shop in Provincetown a few years ago. They date back to 1973 and the early 80s. I'll go through them and scan stuff related to the good folks at Hope Memorial. I was leafing through the 1973 mag last night and saw photos of David O'Brien and Carolee Campbell, Palmer Deane, and Gerald Gordon, among others. We head back to P-Town in October, so hopefully they'll have some more of these rare finds!

Steve and Carolee must become a front burner couple and immensely popular in the coming months. We're now seeing episodes from March 1969 and less than a year later, NBC was considering the Steve/Carolee spinoff.

I thought the same thing…that there was a baby involved. I thought that John and the niece (was it Bonnie?) were going to find something when they went to Polly's apartment. Perhaps the story was aborted when Terry Kiser departed (his departure seemed a bit abrupt).

Corbett was on LOL? I had no idea. I'll ask my hubby to check with him to see if he remembers his character. They're in contact from time to time on Facebook.