during her leave of absence. It's no secret that Maeve won the highly coveted role of Maude Lassiter in the promising but sadly lost production of Beacon Hill. The potentially wonderful show, which has now been cancelled, did give Maeve an unforgettable experience. Her feelings about Hill are warm and positive.

"The project itself was absolutely unique," Maeve reflected. "Especially for nighttime television. I've been wracking my brain to see if anything ever done of a similar nature on commercial television, but I don't think it has. When I first heard about it and read a script by Sidney Carrol, I I thought this was the most exciting thing that I had ever read for television. I new I would have loved to have been a part of it. But I never dreamed that I would be a part of it. There was such a love of the material by everyone on the show. That made the whole thing very special. I felt that it was an important show - a different show. I have absolutely no regrets - it had one of the most spectacular companies to work with. It was almost like when you were a little girl and you went to the attic to put fancy clothes on - it came as close to the fantasy of when you were little as anything. I could get all dressed up and play a wonderful part."

Maeve is not alone in wondering what the causes were for Beacon Hill's problems and eventual cancellation. For the moment, however, she expressed nothing but positive feelings about the whole experience. She was even more positive (if possible) about her return to Edge. Wanting to find out just a bit about what lies ahead for Nicole - and her Adam - Maeve told some interesting things.

"Of course they have to really re-open the Adam/Nicole relationship. They have gotten enough mileage out of all the various situations that could arise. Actually the whole thing is just fraught with possibilities! I suppose the powers-that-be will play it by ear for a while - but I'm sure with Adam's new involvements there will also be some new involvements for Nicole as well. I think it might go from a triangle to a quadrangle!"

There is going to be, without doubt, an enthusiastic response for Maeve's return to daytime television. Yet one wonders, just what is was that really made her leave in the first place. Candidly, Maeve talked about her reason.

"I left because it was five and a half years that I had been on the show. You play one character for so long a time that you find that here isn't much more you can do with it. It just was enough." But now, the time and distance that she was able to have during her absence have given her all the freshness and spontaneity the role requires. With a tremendous amount of gratitude, Maeve talked about the way in which she came back to Edge.

"The show left my part open. When I left they said that they wouldn't recast the role. You cannot imagine what a sense of loyalty I had from that. They didn't kill the lady off. It was just such a nice feeling that someone might want you. Finally they asked if I would be interested in returning. I felt that Beacon Hill wasn't giving me enough work - and I'm really a working lady - and the challenge was just there again. I'm just absolutely excited about it - about the change to a new network - about everything. I'm delighted!"

There is such an energy - almost a quiet energy - that seems to fill a room that Maeve McGuire is in. And her warmth and candidness give the impression that something special is happening. Something very special indeed has gone in in Maeve's life during her absence. First of all, she moved to California before she was called to audition for Beacon Hill.

"I think California is marvelous because it gave me an opportunity to do a lot of things that I never got the chance to do in New York. I got on a horse, I water-skied, I studied ballet, and did some Shakespeare. And of course I spent time discovering Calfornia. I became involved in a lot of activities that I hope to keep as a part of my way of life here. When I was on the soap before it seemed to be absorbing all of my time. Sometimes it's hard to draw a line between work and life. I really do love my work, though, as well as including play."

But now she is a New Yorker again and has taken a course on antiques and is going to wonderful brunches and dinner parties.

"I'm having a good time. I've entertained my eleven year old nephew from Cleveland and it was terrific. It was enlightening! I saw Jaws with him which I thoroughly enjoyed and we listened to lots of Beatles records and went to the theatre." Was there a difference between her life in California and New York that would make her want to be one place or the other?

"I could see what a lot of people see in California. Services are better in general - it's so nice to have someone smile at you. Just today I wasn't out for twenty minutes before I was in two hassles with shopkeepers! But you know something, I'm pretty happy no matter what I am. I think I'm an Eastern lady - I had a good time in California but I think that's are really more exciting in New York.

"There are times where things have a rhythm - a beat. It's like following a bouncing ball. The last year of my life has been so good. Now I feel that it's the same thing with the show."

Maeve is back. She is happy and so is just about everyone else. Maybe that calendar says it's Winter - the feelings say Spring and a wonderful new beginning.

Ronni Warren Ashcroft

A wonderful and sad moment in daytime history.....the second episode of THE EDGE OF NIGHT 1956 and the death of SARAH LANE ( TEAL AMES ) in THE EDGE OF NIGHT!!

Enjoy the episodes!!!!

Thank you, Goldensoaps. I will forever be grateful.

Thank you, Goldensoaps. I will forever be grateful.

Thanks!! But we have to thank to TEAL AMES the one who has these 2 episodes and to the person who upload the episodes in youtube!!! Without their generosity, we couldn't enjoy these wonderul moments of EON!!!! So THANK YOU, TEAL AMES!!!!!!!!!!! We,the fans, love you!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owiaryajjNI

Does anyone know if there are any tape trading/for sale websites that sell EON episodes?

tnx

Edited May 20, 201114 yr by Paul Raven

This is a real treat. Thanks. Sometimes it seems like everyone was on Edge!

Who was Joan Harvey again?

Joan played Judy Marceau,Bill's daughter. She really should have come back later,maybe with kids to give continuity to the story,

From the May 1958 TV Radio Mirror.

John Larkin looks like a cartoon come to life! Those granite features and sharp contours of his face.

He died young (only 52) in 1965 .After leaving EON he had some primetime success before his death.The TV Radio Mirror seemed to report a lot on daytime and treat it seriously.

Edited May 22, 201114 yr by Paul Raven

Sorry about the pages being bent on the edges.

TV Radio Mirror did quite a bit on soaps in the 50's. It tapered off in the 60's, sadly, as soap material from that time is rare. They started up again in the 70's.

Larkin is the true square-jawed type. He probably wouldn't have been cast on daytime in later years but he probably helped Edge stand out from everything else.

That's very nice. At first I thought that was Michael Corbett, not Charles Grant!

Edited May 22, 201114 yr by CarlD2

Edited May 22, 201114 yr by Paul Raven

they mean he doesn't scream or feel they really know me. Men as well as women watch the show, stop me to talk about it. Kids yell at me in the street, "Hi, Mike!" It's great. It boosts the morale."

The mail reflects this cross-section of interest from all types of viewers. A woman on the West Coast wrote a letter with sch a sound, analytical approach to the show itself - and to John as an actor - that he has been corresponding with her ever since, always interested in her reactions. "It's wonderful mail, most of it. Literate. Sincere. Nice letters from nice people."

The official John Larkin Fan Club, begun by fifteen-year-old high-school student, Carol Yarvel, is growing mightily. IT amuses and flatters John, to whom this kind of teen-age adulation is somewhat new. "All nice, cute girls," he said. "They come to the studio to see the show and me, want to have little celebrations for special occasions, like on my birthday in April. I have always felt a birthday was rather a private day, to be celebrated at home with my wife, and it embarrasses me to have a big fuss made over it. But I guess it's different when you have such devoted fans. " He sighed, grinned, and seemed ready to give in without too much of a fight.

The Edge of Night has some fascinating side-plots, all women into the central story of Mike Karr, expert in crime detection and criminal law, and his romantic marriage to Sara. Viewers get quite unhappy, however, whenever the main theme of Mike's and Sara's lives together is overlooked for too long by any side issues. Sara' s eagerness to help Mike, the way they are trying to build a good marriage, to grope their way through the misunderstandings that beset a young couple - this seems to be what their fans want, along with the absorbing story of Karr's stubborn battling for justice and for decent government.

From the beginning of the program, on April 2, 1956, John and Teal Ames have made an exciting T V team. Teal, as Sara, credits John with helping her enormously during the first few months as she was tackling her first big TV dramatic role. "He encouraged me constantly," she says. "He would signal to me, sometimes only by the merest change of expression, that I was doing fine. It kept up my morale," John says. "Teal has always been good to work with, serious about everything, a solid performer. The same goes for Don Hastings, who plays Jack Lane, Sara's brother, and has been in the cast from the beginning. And Peggy Allenby, who plays Mrs. Lane, is wonderful. It's a fine cast, right down the line."

The Larkins - meaning John and his pretty wife Audrey - occupy a 120-year-old house in Greenwich Village, where Edgar Allan Poe was rumored to have lived at one time. The old fireplaces were once used for cooking, and John has used the one in the kitchen for broiling steaks or chops and baking potatoes. "Not much now," he said. "I have a great chef in my house, and her name is Audrey. Since she has taken over, I don't try to compete. She turns out the most wonderful specialties - things with fancy names, but good, hearty eating. The only recipes she refuses to try are Chinese. We both like Chinese food, and she says it's the only way now to make me take her out to dinner."

Larkin is a man who likes his home, who likes a quiet spot where he can do what he wants when he wants, where he can lounge and read, play the radio or some of his great jazz recordings, and the classics, too. Where he can tune in television early or late, whenever he has time. Where he can stretch out in the big chaise lounge in the upstairs bedroom and study his script for a while, with Audrey to cue him.

Into his busy week, he crowds not only frequent workouts at a gym, but regular singing lessons - a fact he has kept quiet about until now. Back in school, he had thought seriously of becoming a professional singer, until he went into radio and announcing and from there into acting. Now he has picked up the voice lessons, perhaps with the idea that some day he may do a musical play. Back in his early acting career, he had considerable stage experience, although not in singing roles. Audrey is a singer and actress, says her husband's knowledge of music has helped her, thinks he is an excellent critic.

John likes golf, and Audrey would like to play it with him, but he refuses to teach her, insists she have lessons form a pro. "It's like trying to teach a wife how to drive the car - she always learns faster, with no arguments, from someone else."

John's great interest, of course, is in his work. He finds the characters in the show enormously exciting. "I like a plot with drive and dynamism. The more dynamic the script, the more I enjoy playing it.

"We not only have this great cast, but we have a first-class crew, I think the best live TV crew in the East. All of them are men of integrity about their work. They fight to get the best possible shots and to put the best possible show on the air.

"There is a good relationship between all of us involved with the show. I like the kind of part I play. Mike Karr is the kind of man who works as hard to prevent crime as to apprehend criminals. He has strong ideas about juvenile delinquency, about rehabilitation of the young offender. He is a man I can believe in."

Apparently the viewers can, too. More than ever they have been stopping him, wherever he goes, to tell him so.