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).

Edited March 11Mar 11 by VelekaCarruthers

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.

Variety review of the 3rd episode.

THE EDGE OF THE NIGHT With John Larkin, Teal Ames, Ian Martin, Don Hastings, Mark Rydell, Maxine Stewart, Betty Garde, John Raby, Leona Powers, Bob Dixon, Ruth York, Charles Taylor, John Gibson Producer: Werner Michel Directors: Freddie Bartholomew, John Wallace Writer: Irving Vendig 30 Mins., Mon.-thru-Fri., 4:30 p.m.

PROCTER & GAMBLE CBS-TV, from New York (Benton & Bowles) Those old-fashioned quarter-hour soap operas sold a lot of detergents for Procter & Gamble. The new half-hour soaper should sell more —only because P&G have twice as much selling time. The plugs come fore, aft and three times in-between. P&G is running “The Edge of the Night” concurrently with “As The World Turns,” another 30- minute stanza aired earlier in the afternoon on the same net. “Night” is cut from the same cake of soap as its mate. . On the stanza caught last Wednesday (4), “Night” just seemed to be getting its feet on the ground. The plot line was still being unspooled but the characters had already begun to take shape (a neat trick since scripter Irving Vendig had only two previous halfhours in which to do it).

Briefly, the story line is shaping around young lad being brought up by his mother and sister., falling in love with a bad crowd. Sub-plots include the sister’s romance with a police lieutenant and the sister’s friend’s romance with a police-sergeant.. Vendig is developing the story slowly and methodically. The stanza builds carefully to a “tune in tomorrow” close familiar to all soapers. Wednesday’s clincher, for example, had a young hood telling the young hero that he would have to pay off his debt by buying him ‘a pack of cigarettes. It was said with such a meaningful leer that everyone could guess that those cigarettes won’t come with a brand name imprinted.

Cast lineup for the series is impressive but only John Larkin, Teal Ames, Don Hastings, Mark Rydell and Maxine Stewart were up for the Wednesday shot. They did their jobs in true soaper fashion. Direction, split between Freddie Bartholomew and John Wallace, kept the actors in a minor key. Sets were economical but served the purpose.

I think this had already been up in parts but I'm not sure if the whole thing was.

THE EDGE OF NIGHT - SEPTEMBER 24 1975 CBS DAYTIME W/original commercials

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32 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I think this had already been up in parts but I'm not sure if the whole thing was.

THE EDGE OF NIGHT - SEPTEMBER 24 1975 CBS DAYTIME W/original commercials

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Thank you for the heads up! The Edge of Night was so gripping in the 1970s. Reliving vintage episodes like tis is such a joy!

TV/Radio & Cable Week, Sunday, June 24, 1984

New frontier for Miss Kitty

Some may say “enough already,” but not Amanda Blake “I want it all.” Miss Blake of "Gunsmoke” fame said during a recent interview from her home in Austin, Texas. The actress ventured into a new frontier this past week when she left behind petticoats and cowboys and made her debut in the world of daytime television as psychiatrist Dr. Juliana Stanhower in the ABC soap opera, “Edge of Night.”

At the time of the interview the actress had yet to see the script but sounded excited to be part of the cast, even for a short time. “It’s going to be great fun ” Familiarity with an on-going program can often be helpful to an actor/actress first coming onto a set. According to Miss Blake she does catch the soap when she can. “I’ve seen the show. It's been on forever. Now that I’m in Austin I'm going to be able to watch it more. In Phoenix (Arizona) where I used to live it was on at 9 a m and I was long gone.” The former Buffalo native said the role was practically handed to her “I was at a party in Brownsville, Texas, and the executive producer (Erwin Nicholson), who was also there and is good friend of mine, asked me if I had ever thought about doing a soap,” Miss Blake recalled. “I said, ‘No.’ And he asked me if I’d like to do one to which I said ‘Sure, why not’’ It happened that simply.”

Fitting the actress into the story line took some time. “I’m only going to do four episodes. They had to wait for me to get to New York and to make my guest-role sound logical in the story line.” The writers got to work and created a problem for Dr Beth Correll (Sanoy Faison). In the script “psychiatrist” Blake will counsel Dr Correll on her inability to deal with her romantic feelings for Dr Miles Cavanaugh (Joel Crothers). Miss Blake’s appearances are spread out through Friday, June 29.

Miss Blake, other than an appearances on ABC’s hit shows “Hart to Hart” and “The Love Boat," has really kept a low profile in the acting world, although she says she never left acting. Following her 20-year stint on “Gunsmoke” as Miss Kitty Russell, the actress became very involved with numerous groups and organizations. “My wildlife groups for protection and preservation are very, very important to me. I spend a great deal of time in Africa. I’m very concerned about the environment and conservation.” explained Miss Blake “When I’m concerned about something I really try to do something about it.” The actress is also on the Board of the Humane Society of the United States, and she has been an active volunteer for the American Cancer Society. Since successfully having a malignant tumor removed from her mouth Miss Blake has traveled thousands of miles for this organization and has held the position of National Chairman of Crusade for two years. This past April she was presented the American Cancer Society’s Courage Award from President Reagan In April, Miss Blake also became a new bride when she married Mark Spaeth, a real estate developer and an Austin City councilman. Of her step back in front of the cameras Miss Blake says her husband encourages it. “Mark's very excited and super supportive He wants me to go for it all.

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Miss Blake also became a new bride when she married Mark Spaeth, a real estate developer and an Austin City councilman. Of her step back in front of the cameras Miss Blake says her husband encourages it. “Mark's very excited and super supportive He wants me to go for it all.

Reading this just breaks my heart.

Here's an interview with Amanda about her guest stint.

When Amanda Blake Joined The Cast Of Edge Of Night (1984) | Formerly Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke