The opening of this show terrified me when I was a kid. I used to hide behind my Dad's recliner in the living room and cover my ears when this came on.
I used to love these soap opera openings as a kid for so many. The few I actually watched were Dark Shadows and the Doctors in the 70s. Most of the time I'd watch the openings and closings watching game shows or reruns in between.
This really takes me back to the good ol' days. My grandmother used to watch all soap operas on channel 2(CBS). By age 2,I was hooked! Back then, if you would asked me what happened on the soaps, I would tell you and what was going to happen tomorrow!
That closing riverside shot of Cincinnati is pretty neat. I imagine Edge watchers were thrilled when it premiered in color in 1967 and the old outdated Cincinnati shot was gone.
Cincinnati is where Procter & Gamble has there headquarters. Since Procter & Gamble products sponsored so many soap operas throughout the years, it doesn't surprise me that they'd used Downtown Cincinnati for a backdrop to one of these shows.
That is a great shot of the Cincinnati skyline from across the river as it turns from day to night. The skyline silhouetted against the sunset from river level in the closing credits is an excellent shot, also.
Mr. Kramer also handled the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite"; after he departed the network in January 1972, the newscast was V/O'd through May by Norm Stevens, then from May 1972 to the end of February 1979 by Bob Hite. Hal Simms who replaced Mr. Kramer on "Edge" also worked on the Saturday "CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd."
I was way too young to remember a soap opera known as the edge of night because somewhere in the 70s, my mother used to always watch the soap opera back on Philadelphia WKBS channel 48 over 45 years ago .
i was born in 1962, from 1964 - 1970 until my mom went back to work full time in 1970, she would watch one life to live, general hospital, edge of night___sometimes as the world turns and days of our lives, she would change the channel back and forth___she would do chores in the am so she could watch the soaps in the afternoon while she did laundry, iron, i remember on commercials she would go put the clothes away or put another load in the washer___my mom use to iron the sheets, the days before perma press cotton
The variant of the WCBS test pattern seen at the end, was emitted from a monoscope. The greyscale gradations were achieved by finely spaced concentric lines. That layout dates to about 1955-56, although the way the calls and COL were positioned dates to 1950 and the type font for the calls to about 1948. Would appear the greyscale on the special "bullseye" pattern, in its original state before the numerous processings, would have been 36%, 50% and 64%, with the grey outside the height circle being 57%.
The credits were filmed from Covington, KY, looking into Cincinnati, OH before Riverfront Stadium opened. You could see the Central Trust tower from the stadium.
Since it was 1970, I was looking for Riverfront Stadium. Cincinnati's skyline is pretty nice to look at, especially in this elevated view from across the Ohio. "Edge" gave the city some nice publicity in the opening and closing credits; I didn't like later on when they switched to LA's skyline
As I was still in grade school at the time, all I remember about EDGE (and, in fact, soaps in general) was the theme sequence. Didn't know until years later that it was Cincinnati's skyline that was used.
@Christopher Hagee Probably because the contract with the Bluebonnet Bowl expired after 1975. And yes Edge producer Proctor& Gamble home base was Cincinnati, OH.
"The Edge of Night" was riding sky high right throughout 1970 in the daytime ratings landing in 2nd place behind sister soap "As The World Turns". For the first sixteen years it aired, the show was a hit for the Tiffany network Sadly two years later it's golden run would end due to Procter & Gamble insisting all of the daytime dramas they sponsored aired in one continuous block on CBS. The subsequent change in timeslot had a disasterous impact on the show. The end result would see the series tumble towards the bottom of the daytime viewing charts and CBS would wipe it's hands of the show completely by late 1975. Despite ABC giving the series a second lease on life, the damage (ratings wise) had already been done.
@Christopher Hagee Search and ATWT were doing very well at their time slots 12:30EST and 1:30pm EST respectfully. CBS did not want to risk moving those shows to a new time. They had to move GL and Edge to a new time. Edge was doing well at 3:30pm EST.
@Christopher Hagee - That's an interesting lineup which certainly could have saved "Edge" from the fate that it was dealt with. However NBC were making significant inroads during this period and had built a 90 min powerblock with three soaps which broke through the CBS stronghold during this time. "Days Of Our Lives" aired at 2pm followed "The Doctors" at 2:30pm and "Another World" at 3pm. Whilst "As The World Turns" would have held it's own against "The Doctors", "Search For Tomorrow" would probably have been thumped by "Days Of Our Lives" and "Guiding Light" would have been trounced by "Another World"
Growing up in Cincinnati, here is some useless 'Edge of Night' Trivia about the downtown scene showing the two prominent buildings in the foreground. The red lettering in this video at the top of the building that is next to the Carew Tower read, "CENTRAL TRUST BANK". Today the signage reads, "PNC".... Useless Trivia..... My Great-aunt Agnes lived in the Carew Tower downtown when I was very young and The Edge of Night came on right after my 3 o'clock children's show ended. The opening intro/music with the Carew Tower shown on TV scared me to death because the Carew Tower scared me when my parents would take me down there to visit "Aunt Agnes".
@@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748 You better believe it! When I would be taken downtown to the Carew Tower to visit "Aunt Agnes"--- even her name was ominous, I was afraid to go to the bathroom because the toilets all had black toilet seats unlike the white ones we had at home and that also scared me to death. I used a metal coffee can because I was too afraid to go in the bathroom.... LOL! Today as an adult, I never tire of watching that ominous opening scene/music showing those downtown buildings.
@@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748 Yes! As a young child, I was told that Aunt Agnes lived in the (then) "Netherland HIlton" Hotel which was part of the multipurpose commercial structure known as the "Carew Tower". I remember one time on a visit looking out her living room window down at the busy city street below which I assume was W. 5th St.. When I was VERY LITTLE, I thought that Aunt Agnes was the person who turned on the outside top tower lights of the Carew Tower at night with a switch she had out in the hallway--- through a child's eyes.... Those nighttime outside tower lights on the Carew Tower always mesmerized me as a little child when viewing them from far away in Delhi. In 1975, I actually stayed at the hotel for three nights when I was a member of the Cincinnati Reds Rooters Club and attending a special Reds Rooters Weekend sponsored by Stroh's Beer. That was when the Reds won their first of back-to-back World Series Championships (1975 and 1976). Sorry so lengthy!
I remember coming home from school and my mother would be watching this. WOW, does it seem so primitive now!! Damn, I may sound like an old man, but the '70's was indeed the last great decade in America. It was like being a kid in the 1950's. It was about simple fun with friends and visiting with family and neighbors. We are slipping so fast into a banal, cold, and dangerous world. It's as if society is in a trance.
I can still hear he sound of the music and the dramatic acting in the background as well as the advertising of detergents and other products. While my mom stayed tuned in, I played with my Hot Wheels and green army men on the floor without a worry in the world except having to take a nap. That music brings it all back.
Yasss Debra I believe it’s long overdue. You they have Rebooted Game Shows like Card Sharks, Supermarket Sweep, Press Your Lock, etc. Why not reboot classic Soaps?
I rather they show reruns of the show. Seems like a lot of episodes may still be around from the CBS years not all since they used to wipe the shows, but I wish there was a new soap channel that would show it.
Debra, that would make a SUPER cool movie, plus I could imagine The Edge of Night and The Secret Storm as scary as hell 👿suspense 😳 thrillers, both set in a time period of the late-1960s and early-1970s, and both shot in Cincinnati, and you know what?🧐 I'd flock the theater TO SEEEEE........ THEM BOTH!!..........L😆L.
Also Prell ... wow!! I finally found it recently.. my brother and I stayed at our grandmothers sometimes when we were young boys..I remember at the kitchen sink my grandmother would shampoo our hair with prell .. Edge of night was one of the fleet of soaps our grandmother watched in the afternoon while we were out playing baseball and getting dirty .. and if we were dirty and sweaty enough .... we had to shower or take a bath then endure a shampooing by her before dinner .. she was a neat freak..
Instead of "Gates" Ya know....This could work again! If you were glued to NCIS, CSI, et al...Just make some tweaks to fit the time. This is grim but there's PLENTY of material to discuss. Much to discuss.
CBS ought to open up their vault take out every soap opera ever shown, let the viewers decide which ones to watch and which to cancel, would be better than they broadcast now
Proctor and Gamble sponsored a few soap operas. As The World 🌎 Turns was another. The only ones I really watched were Dark Shadows and The Doctors. I was into all the medical shows in the 70s though. I remember laughing at the FDS commercials from daytime TV when I learned exactly what it was for back then. PU...😆 🤣 😂
Ii read that due to the late afternoon airing - what do you expect from a program called "The Edge of Night"? - it had strong demographics among men coming home from work and small children coming home from school (although some of the latter said they were scared by the theme). IMO opinion P&G should have used some more men and children oriented items in their line for commercials (e.g. use Crest toothpaste instead of Thrill dishwashing liquid - I doubt anyone makes it anymore - and Sure antiperspirant instead of Prell shampoo - my late Mom used to use the tube form of that shampoo which someone else makes.)
This title is appropriate for the times we're in, with darkness ( unrighteousess) on the verge of overthrowing the light ( righteousness of God) . Satan is called the accuser of the brethren ( Rev.12:10) in the last days ( times of the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ going on in the world) before darkness ( the power and authority of Satan through his heads and people/followers) takes over completely, in an overwhelming attempt to overthrow the government of God Mat.24:-5,11,24; 1Tim.4:1,2; 2Tim.4:3,4; 2Pet.2:1-3; Acts 20:29,30 are happening now!!! Rev.13:8. Dan.11:32
The opening of this show terrified me when I was a kid. I used to hide behind my Dad's recliner in the living room and cover my ears when this came on.
Philly Cinephile, I even suppose it traumatized you @ that time.
Me too.
What childhood memories
YES! The same thing for me when my Mom would be watching it!!!!!!!
me too!!!!!!! those were scary graphics!
The theme music is great and Harry Kramer's voiceover is simply the best. It manages to be stern yet soothing at the same time.
I used to love these soap opera openings as a kid for so many. The few I actually watched were Dark Shadows and the Doctors in the 70s. Most of the time I'd watch the openings and closings watching game shows or reruns in between.
Reminds me of simpler times.
This was back when tv was fun and real. There was no cable at that time.
Amen. I grew up in 60s and remember tv rabbit ears. 📺 we had 3 maybe 4 channels at best.
Who can forget "The Edge Of Night"? I could not, between my radio and this soap, it made my stay in the hospital in Atlanta alot easier on me
Same with me when I was in the hospital here in Ohio at 14!
This really takes me back to the good ol' days. My grandmother used to watch all soap operas on channel 2(CBS). By age 2,I was hooked! Back then, if you would asked me what happened on the soaps, I would tell you and what was going to happen tomorrow!
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Love this classic from the past. The piano style is beautiful. I wasn't born yet when this came out.
That closing riverside shot of Cincinnati is pretty neat. I imagine Edge watchers were thrilled when it premiered in color in 1967 and the old outdated Cincinnati shot was gone.
Cincinnati was where Procter and Gamble(the show's producer and main sponsor) had its headquarters.
Cincinnati is where Procter & Gamble has there headquarters. Since Procter & Gamble products sponsored so many soap operas throughout the years, it doesn't surprise me that they'd used Downtown Cincinnati for a backdrop to one of these shows.
That is a great shot of the Cincinnati skyline from across the river as it turns from day to night. The skyline silhouetted against the sunset from river level in the closing credits is an excellent shot, also.
Harry Cramer RIP made the Edge of Night intro famous!!!!! Hal Simms RIP continued the tradition by a subtle but excellent slight change!!!!
Mr. Kramer also handled the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite"; after he departed the network in January 1972, the newscast was V/O'd through May by Norm Stevens, then from May 1972 to the end of February 1979 by Bob Hite. Hal Simms who replaced Mr. Kramer on "Edge" also worked on the Saturday "CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd."
@@wmbrown6 Thank you for reminding me of this.
@@wmbrown6 Harry and Hal were great announcers. RIP!
“NIGHT” stood out whenever I saw the logo as a child.
I was way too young to remember a soap opera known as the edge of night because somewhere in the 70s, my mother used to always watch the soap opera back on Philadelphia WKBS channel 48 over 45 years ago .
Perfect theme song for this terrific drama.
Used to watch with my grandmother. The opening sequence used to scare me when I was small
me too, i thought it sounded like a horror movie opening
By the end of the decade, most of us see the Cincinnati skyline as the opening of WKRP.
Yes! The Edge of Night opening I remember from when my mama used to watch it when I was little! Woohoo!
Spooky sounding ain't it ?
Taken from a top of the Death Hi8, Ky. Overlooking the Cincinnati's Skyline! Stunning!
Marc Abramson, that is so COOL, as I recognize the Cincinnati skyline.🏙
I loved hearing this end theme when I was a kid. It meant that the "Buckskin Bill Show" was coming up next.
i was born in 1962, from 1964 - 1970 until my mom went back to work full time in 1970, she would watch one life to live, general hospital, edge of night___sometimes as the world turns and days of our lives, she would change the channel back and forth___she would do chores in the am so she could watch the soaps in the afternoon while she did laundry, iron, i remember on commercials she would go put the clothes away or put another load in the washer___my mom use to iron the sheets, the days before perma press cotton
they glory days when you could live on a one person income!
The variant of the WCBS test pattern seen at the end, was emitted from a monoscope. The greyscale gradations were achieved by finely spaced concentric lines. That layout dates to about 1955-56, although the way the calls and COL were positioned dates to 1950 and the type font for the calls to about 1948. Would appear the greyscale on the special "bullseye" pattern, in its original state before the numerous processings, would have been 36%, 50% and 64%, with the grey outside the height circle being 57%.
The credits were filmed from Covington, KY, looking into Cincinnati, OH before Riverfront Stadium opened. You could see the Central Trust tower from the stadium.
Since it was 1970, I was looking for Riverfront Stadium. Cincinnati's skyline is pretty nice to look at, especially in this elevated view from across the Ohio.
"Edge" gave the city some nice publicity in the opening and closing credits; I didn't like later on when they switched to LA's skyline
Beautiful theme
I'm 48 & my grandma used to watch this back in the 70s
Presented Live...Sweet 'Edge of Night' OMG. I saw and remember every detail of this episode as a kid and was in love with Emily Prager as Laurie Ann.
I remember Emily Prager. She's a beauty. So was Lucy Martin( Tiffany Whitney). I had crushes on them.
As I was still in grade school at the time, all I remember about EDGE (and, in fact, soaps in general) was the theme sequence. Didn't know until years later that it was Cincinnati's skyline that was used.
@Christopher Hagee Probably because the contract with the Bluebonnet Bowl expired after 1975. And yes Edge producer Proctor& Gamble home base was Cincinnati, OH.
@Christopher Hagee I don't know.
@@mshow81 the opening is this is the city, Cincinnati, Ohio the queen city of the Midwest. I live here, I carry my badge! The edge of night!
The opening theme needs to be a ringtone and the title graphic a T-shirt.
There is a graphic t-shirt on Tee Public website.
The ringtone would be perfect for as soon as you leave the house
"The Edge of Night" was riding sky high right throughout 1970 in the daytime ratings landing in 2nd place behind sister soap "As The World Turns". For the first sixteen years it aired, the show was a hit for the Tiffany network
Sadly two years later it's golden run would end due to Procter & Gamble insisting all of the daytime dramas they sponsored aired in one continuous block on CBS. The subsequent change in timeslot had a disasterous impact on the show.
The end result would see the series tumble towards the bottom of the daytime viewing charts and CBS would wipe it's hands of the show completely by late 1975. Despite ABC giving the series a second lease on life, the damage (ratings wise) had already been done.
@Christopher Hagee Search and ATWT were doing very well at their time slots 12:30EST and 1:30pm EST respectfully. CBS did not want to risk moving those shows to a new time. They had to move GL and Edge to a new time. Edge was doing well at 3:30pm EST.
@Christopher Hagee - That's an interesting lineup which certainly could have saved "Edge" from the fate that it was dealt with. However NBC were making significant inroads during this period and had built a 90 min powerblock with three soaps which broke through the CBS stronghold during this time.
"Days Of Our Lives" aired at 2pm followed "The Doctors" at 2:30pm and "Another World" at 3pm.
Whilst "As The World Turns" would have held it's own against "The Doctors", "Search For Tomorrow" would probably have been thumped by "Days Of Our Lives" and "Guiding Light" would have been trounced by "Another World"
when we moved to california our local tv channel had the soaps on in the afternoon
@@woohooboy of some interest was that Another World and Guiding Light were both owned by P&G
@@alexisdiva9 - Correct. Both programs were owned by P&G.
Growing up in Cincinnati, here is some useless 'Edge of Night' Trivia about the downtown scene showing the two prominent buildings in the foreground. The red lettering in this video at the top of the building that is next to the Carew Tower read, "CENTRAL TRUST BANK". Today the signage reads, "PNC".... Useless Trivia..... My Great-aunt Agnes lived in the Carew Tower downtown when I was very young and The Edge of Night came on right after my 3 o'clock children's show ended. The opening intro/music with the Carew Tower shown on TV scared me to death because the Carew Tower scared me when my parents would take me down there to visit "Aunt Agnes".
johnwoa, that must have been SUPER trauma 😨 for you as a little kid.
@@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748 You better believe it! When I would be taken downtown to the Carew Tower to visit "Aunt Agnes"--- even her name was ominous, I was afraid to go to the bathroom because the toilets all had black toilet seats unlike the white ones we had at home and that also scared me to death. I used a metal coffee can because I was too afraid to go in the bathroom.... LOL! Today as an adult, I never tire of watching that ominous opening scene/music showing those downtown buildings.
@@johnwoa I had no idea the Carew Tower had apartments.
@@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748 Yes! As a young child, I was told that Aunt Agnes lived in the (then) "Netherland HIlton" Hotel which was part of the multipurpose commercial structure known as the "Carew Tower". I remember one time on a visit looking out her living room window down at the busy city street below which I assume was W. 5th St.. When I was VERY LITTLE, I thought that Aunt Agnes was the person who turned on the outside top tower lights of the Carew Tower at night with a switch she had out in the hallway--- through a child's eyes.... Those nighttime outside tower lights on the Carew Tower always mesmerized me as a little child when viewing them from far away in Delhi. In 1975, I actually stayed at the hotel for three nights when I was a member of the Cincinnati Reds Rooters Club and attending a special Reds Rooters Weekend sponsored by Stroh's Beer. That was when the Reds won their first of back-to-back World Series Championships (1975 and 1976). Sorry so lengthy!
I remember coming home from school and my mother would be watching this. WOW, does it seem so primitive now!! Damn, I may sound like an old man, but the '70's was indeed the last great decade in America. It was like being a kid in the 1950's. It was about simple fun with friends and visiting with family and neighbors. We are slipping so fast into a banal, cold, and dangerous world. It's as if society is in a trance.
Slipping? We done slipped!
I can still hear he sound of the music and the dramatic acting in the background as well as the advertising of detergents and other products. While my mom stayed tuned in, I played with my Hot Wheels and green army men on the floor without a worry in the world except having to take a nap. That music brings it all back.
this show people is on CBS on channel 2 on tv but it does not come out on tv anymore so please remember this show ok people.
Memories....
If "The Edge Of Night" were paired with "Search For Tomorrow" that would be sonething to behold
Would love to see a rebooted or a full screen movie of The Edge Of Night
Yasss Debra I believe it’s long overdue. You they have Rebooted Game Shows like Card Sharks, Supermarket Sweep, Press Your Lock, etc. Why not reboot classic Soaps?
I rather they show reruns of the show. Seems like a lot of episodes may still be around from the CBS years not all since they used to wipe the shows, but I wish there was a new soap channel that would show it.
Debra, that would make a SUPER cool movie, plus I could imagine The Edge of Night and The Secret Storm as scary as hell 👿suspense 😳 thrillers, both set in a time period of the late-1960s and early-1970s, and both shot in Cincinnati, and you know what?🧐
I'd flock the theater TO SEEEEE........ THEM BOTH!!..........L😆L.
Two of my favorite actresses were cast members on this show. They were Lori Loughlin (who portrayed Jody) and the late Dixie Carter (Brandy).
The storyline of Adam Drake, his presumed deceased wife, Nicole, and his new love interest, Brandy, was quite engaging
"This portion was brought to you by Safeguard; the soap your family really needs..."😂
The opening is so eerily similar to the PSA; It's 10PM, do you know where your children are? The intense voiceover frightened me as a kid.
Great!
Delicious!
Wow, they sure sell a lot of soap on these soap ope... oh, nowwww I get it!
Downtown Cincinnati
I used to run home from school to watch this then CBS.moved it to 2:30 while I was still in.class!
Safeguard. Still around 50 years later.
I even found prell !
Also Prell ... wow!! I finally found it recently.. my brother and I stayed at our grandmothers sometimes when we were young boys..I remember at the kitchen sink my grandmother would shampoo our hair with prell .. Edge of night was one of the fleet of soaps our grandmother watched in the afternoon while we were out playing baseball and getting dirty .. and if we were dirty and sweaty enough .... we had to shower or take a bath then endure a shampooing by her before dinner .. she was a neat freak..
Stay tuned for Gomer Pyle, USMC, Coming up next on over most of these CBS Stations.
They used two Edge of Night logos. I wonder if anyone recognizes that.
The organist went in on the Hammond B-3 at 1:29.
Great soap opera
a bottle of dish soap looks the same 50 years later.
Instead of "Gates" Ya know....This could work again! If you were glued to NCIS, CSI, et al...Just make some tweaks to fit the time. This is grim but there's PLENTY of material to discuss. Much to discuss.
CBS ought to open up their vault take out every soap opera ever shown, let the viewers decide which ones to watch and which to cancel, would be better than they broadcast now
I had a crush on the 2nd Mike Karr (Laurence Hugo).
Remember Harry Kramer’s voice?
Or Hal Simms'?
Cincinnati, Ohio! Home of Kroger, P&G, and your next Super Bowl champs Cincinnati bengals!
Troy Goodwin, and the backdrop of The Edge of Night and on the lighter, funny 😁 😂
sunny🌞side of Cincinnati, 🎶WKRP in Cincinnati.....🎙🎶
Proctor and Gamble sponsored a few soap operas. As The World 🌎 Turns was another. The only ones I really watched were Dark Shadows and The Doctors. I was into all the medical shows in the 70s though. I remember laughing at the FDS commercials from daytime TV when I learned exactly what it was for back then. PU...😆 🤣 😂
Ii read that due to the late afternoon airing - what do you expect from a program called "The Edge of Night"? - it had strong demographics among men coming home from work and small children coming home from school (although some of the latter said they were scared by the theme). IMO opinion P&G should have used some more men and children oriented items in their line for commercials (e.g. use Crest toothpaste instead of Thrill dishwashing liquid - I doubt anyone makes it anymore - and Sure antiperspirant instead of Prell shampoo - my late Mom used to use the tube form of that shampoo which someone else makes.)
Music by Paul Taubman
What city skyline is that? I recall this show from way back!
Cincinnati.
(used as the city backdrop 1956-1980)
I got myself a piano and trying google sheet music. Hard to find.
Paul Taubman is the Composer of the EDGE OF NIGHT Theme look up the music theme by Paul Taubman
I know about Paul Taubman.
What city is this?
Cincinnati, Ohio
The home of Procter & Gamble and the queen city of the Midwest.
Monticello
@@mikejohnson515 why were we drawn to this now?
@@firestormlivingsolutions Eternal appeal
I wasn't scared, I was confused . cincinnati ain't that dramatic.
This title is appropriate for the times we're in, with darkness ( unrighteousess) on the verge of overthrowing the light ( righteousness of God) .
Satan is called the accuser of the brethren ( Rev.12:10) in the last days ( times of the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ going on in the world) before darkness ( the power and authority of Satan through his heads and people/followers) takes over completely, in an overwhelming attempt to overthrow the government of God
Mat.24:-5,11,24; 1Tim.4:1,2; 2Tim.4:3,4; 2Pet.2:1-3; Acts 20:29,30 are happening now!!!
Rev.13:8. Dan.11:32
"Soft Water Thrill...the only dishwashing liquid that softens water." Not quite accurate--ALL dishwashing liquids have to soften dishwater! 🤣