Marcia and Philip were true finds and, in fact, much of Whitney's recurring casting was fierce. James Douglas (Grant/ATWT), Elaine Stritch (Mrs. DeGroot), Jason Zimbler as Jamie Swift (best kid actor in decades who saved the Logan plot from mediocrity), Christopher Holder (from Y&R but miscast as Peter Love on AW) who couldn't act but was so pretty to gaze upon, Jerry Zacks, Judith Barcroft (fierce), Amanda Blake, J Kenneth Campbell to name some! (I don't know if Whitney chose cringy Willie Aimes who was god awful as Robby or if ABC/P&G dug him up).

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Raven's trial was featured in the show's final months. The trial wrapped in October 1984, as Raven disappeared later that month...just around the time that the cancellation was announced.

I was so impressed with Marcia and Philip. I would have loved to have seen where their characters would have gone in 1985. I’m also curious how Mark McEwen would have fared. He claimed that he had been cast as the new police chief, replacing Derek Mallory. I can't help but wonder how his character would have fit into the Monticello canvas.

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THE EDGE OF NIGHT - FEBRUARY 17 1981 the Lost Episodes

Maybe a mystery writer, like Louise Penny could resurrect this show.

Attempts to make tv out of her novels have failed miserably. Poorly cast, poorly scripted.

Give her a soap. Not Three Pines but Monticello. Reboot the Carrs and Marceaus, and Nicole Travis.

Maybe Adam Drake - but apparently Donald May was not a nice man. Resurrect Logan Swift.

Um, the description for this video on Youtube is embarrassingly laden with errors, which even a nominal amount of research could have prevented.

6 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

Um, the description for this video on Youtube is embarrassingly laden with errors, which even a nominal amount of research could have prevented.

Looks like AL is using AI.

Lol

A newspaper article from late 1971 talks about goings on at EON at that time...

Zap. Another commercial and suddenly we're in Monticello. It's the "Edge of Night." This one features Jonah Lockwood, who's a long-haired nut in the middle of a killing binge in which he has so far polished off five people, He's the brother of Sen. Colin Whitney, but he's hiding his identity. Those who got themselves killed all got close to his secret.

His mother knows ,too, but he won't kill her. She's in on it. The poor senator doesn't know. He thinks Jonah died in a car accident. He keeps remembering how Jonah was mean as a kid, though. Always throwing rocks at dogs and skinning rabbits and stuff. Bad boy, = bad man.

Jonah went wrong in the Navy when he married a native girl from St. Eleanora, which we are led to believe is somewhere in the West Indies, He tried to get rid of her, but she was latched on pretty good, so he killed her in a boating accident. Friendly guy. His latest victim is Tango, a blonde, acid-head who was busted for smoking pot on the same night as her death. What a lousy evening she had. Jonah's no Boy Scout. He left a shoe off Tango's foot questioning himheavily, Also Tango's roomie, Laurie, whose mother Nancy, suspects Jonah. Could she be next? Laurie's also Jonah's girlfriend. The writers of this one are hung up on drugs. They keep having the characters say "acid" and then another character will say knowledgeably "oh, you mean LSD." Vic Lamont and Adam Drake, two lawyers, and the latter's lover-secretary Nicole Travis, are just starting to get onto the fact that Jonah's no Boy Scout. He left a shoe off Tango's foot when he did the dirty deed, and that just night foul him up, As the show ends, though, he's still a mile ahead of the hard-working cops, who hate his long hair and beard even if they don't suspect him.

Always good to find another article about Henry Slesar. Little did he know he was soon to be replaced.

ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1982

Soap writer plots murder ...writes 'The Edge of Night' By MICHAEL KUCHWARA

NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Slesar is happy. The quiet, unassuming former ad agency copywriter is plotting another murder — not a straightforward shoot-’em-up that leaves no doubt about the killer, but an old-fashioned whodunit with the wrong person accused of committing the crime.

For nearly 15 years, Slesar has created the murders and mayhem that have made the long-running ABC soap opera “The Edge of Night” unique among daytime dramas. It’s been a long time between really good murders on the show — not since demented housekeeper Molly Sherwood dispatched several people 18 months ago. But now, typing on a word processor in the den of his East Side apartment, Slesar has written what he thinks is his most baffling whodunit yet, a variation on the classic locked-room murder. “It’s the traditional stor, in _which someone is killed in a room which is locked,” Slesar said. “In this case, it’s going to be a locked television studio with only one entrance. It’s going to be more of a question of not how the murderer got in, but how he or she could have possibly gotten out.”

The 55-year-old Slesar has had practice in the fine art of dastardly demises. He’s the author of more than 450 short stories, many of which have appeared in Ellery Queen’s and Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery magazines, as well as over 100 scripts for such television series as “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “The Man from UNCLE,” and “The Name of the Game.” “A murder is human passion at its absolute peak. Your emotions have really gone haywire, out of control, when you have to resort to murder,” he said. “It’s an opportunity for strong drama.” Slesar plots his stories for “Edge” carefully. He now prepares what he calls a “step document,” a type of story projection, usually for three to six months, in which the steps or major events of the plot are outlined. “I number them, so you can refer to them,” as the plot unfolds, Slesar said, although the events may not occur as originally planned. “You can’t always predict. In fact, as you get to the end of a document, it becomes attenuated because after three months, you may discover there is a more interesting way to do something,” he said. “You are more specific at the beginning than you are at the end.