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.
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