Edge of Night (EON) (No spoilers please)

[vetsoapfan]

 

I remember that commercial! TK was such a likable actress.

[victoria foxton]

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[DRW50]

I've kind of given up hope on these old uploads having any actual scenes and not just credits, but this one has a view of Monticello that I never remember seeing in any other credits. Do you remember this @vetsoapfan ? It's at about 41 minutes.

 

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[Soaplovers]

From rewatching the Thanksgiving 1983 episode, I was surprised at how ahead it was in terms of subject matter, especially the discussion between Didi and Marty about Thanksgiving.  I know fans of the show didn't like Sheldon's version of Edge of Night.. but the show in 1983 was so ahead of its time in regards to story (This was after the mind control/George Orwell esque story had concluded and before the Native American land deed mystery started).

 

 

 

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[robbwolff]

 

The Edge website has video clips of the closing credits featuring that view of the skyline.

 

http://www.edgehomepage.com/video.html

[DRW50]

Thanks. I keep forgetting the site is still up. 

[robbwolff]

 

It was offline for a bit. Looks like he's been adding new material on occasion.

[danfling]

Was Randolph the brother of Gordon Whitney?

[Paul Raven]

Child actress Beverly Lunsford appeared on Edge in 1956. she was 10 at the time. She later took over the role of Amy on Secret Storm.

[Paul Raven]

Writer Carl Bixby took a 6 week vacation in 1959. Charles S Munroe was writer for that time.

 I guess Irving Vendig would write long term story and broad outlines and Bixby etc day to day episodes?

[DRW50]

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[Paul Raven]

 

EDGE OF NIGHT writer Henry Slesar to Sharon Gabet/ Raven

 

 

Edited January 22, 2019 by Paul Raven

[DRW50]

Kim Hunter appears in this snippet of a Tom Snyder/Tomorrow episode about radio theater. 

 

@Vee I thought you might like this as well.

 

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[j swift]

This truly is my favorite minute in soap history and since it hasn't evoked much response in the Best Soap Scenes thread, I thought that I would re-post here.

 

It starts at around the 17-minute mark - After another fight with Logan, Raven has decided to leave Jamey with April while she returns to England to be with her mother. 

 

I rewatch this scene for many reasons:

(a)The underscore that evolves into the theme gives me chills

(b)The layers of Raven trying to be callus so April will keep Jamey away from Logan

(c) the sick undertone that Raven is leaving to go seduce her mother's husband in England, who is also Draper's father

(d)the idea that the whole story is told in one episode but it sets up issues for the custody hearing that won't happen for another year 

(e)that she messes up the line a bit but they keep this long take which makes it seem more like theater

(f) the fact that a writer finally capitulated that the name Raven is odd and needed to be explained

(g)Raven leaving the show isn't even the cliffhanger of the episode

 

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Edited January 29, 2019 by j swift

[edgeofnik]

@j swift You're so right. I've always loved that scene. And what an exit: "so free with beautiful black wings," then out the door. Outstanding camera work keeping focus on SG during the whole speech until she grabs purse on her way out. 

 

In many ways, SG's Raven was written like a man - strong, sexual, scotch drinker, aggressive, determined, etc.  You'd think 40 years later, soaps would be filled with women like that.