A surprising number of people get pushed down stairs in soaps. Ryan's Hope started with Frank falling or being pushed down some stairs, (spoiler alert, he was pushed by Dehlia).
@@edgefan4437 I remember that! No wonder I thought people were constantly being pushed down stairs. It truly was a consistent plot ploy on the soaps. And oh so melodramatic! 😂
Joel Crothers was previously cast member, cult Gothic/Horror-themed Mon.-Fri. daytime s'rizd drama series "Dark Sh'dws", which was also aired by ABC-TV Network back when
My thanks to you, and to Mark Thomas Faulkner. I'm so sorry that almost none of the '70s soaps survive as I've often heard that was when they were at their best, most challenging, and more modern than most of what came afterward. I've long felt that Edge of Night was one of the soaps that, if revived today, would still be a success. The show is timeless. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and anyone else reading this.
I could not agree more. Much gratitude for sharing this golden episode with us. You are so right, the 70’s were the try heyday of soaps. I am thankful I was around to see them then. I could not wait to tune in tomorrow!!! I loved all of the CBS soaps, as those are the ones I grew up with. I fell in love with The Secret Storm. It as incredible. I still mourn the loss of it to this day. I wish there were some wonderful of it from at least 1972-1974, when it sadly went off the air. This episode is The Edge of Night is a sampling of how great they were. This episode with Geraldine’s incredible performance is nothing short of magnificent!!! It is such a treat to see this awesome masterpiece. Thank you again!!!
Yes. One of the best from that iconic era of soaps. Was one of my late mother's favorites. She also loved "The Guiding Light", " Love of Life" and "Search for Tomorrow".
So did my mother back in the 1960s, the opening theme music and credits bring back soooo many memories. She watched this one, Love of Life, Search for Tomorrow and Secret Storm. RIP Mom.
Odd, but I remember that day, not because I was able to see it, but because I was at my grandmother's after school and recorded her chatting with a neighbour and griping with her sister about their other sister, who was sick and didn't want to take the medicine. She laughed barrels after hearing herself and I always recall it because she mentioned the death (of the day before) of my cousin, whose family I spent the summer of 73 with. His wife used to watch the show religiously . . .The show is a fond memory . . .unique in the annals of TV entertainment.
THIS IS THE BEST KMAS GIFT!!!!!!!!Thanks so much Sharon.Happy safe holidays to you and to everyone in here!!!!!!!greetings from italy.here EDGE was named AI CONFINI DELLA NOTTE the literal translation indeed.please keep diggin in your vaults for peraphs other gems.Blessings to you and to all the fans.!!!!!ciao
I remember reading in different articles and books regarding soaps about this legendary 90-minute episode to transition EDGE from CBS to ABC. I never thought I would get the opportunity to see it. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Sharon Rose Gabet! You have made a long time EDGE fan tremendously happy! ❤
Wow. I remember watching this when it first aired, and then again when ABC re-aired it on late-night TV to promote "Edge." I didn't know that it still existed. Thanks so much for the early Christmas present, Ms. Gabet!
The story I remember reading is that ABC wanted to regularly air the show as part of their late-night block. However, doing that required a contract change for the actors, and Donald May, aka Adam Drake, wouldn't agree to it. I'm curious if the late-night airing of this episode was pretty much what had been broadcast earlier or if each airing had different commercials that targeted the audiences who would have watched at the different times.
Thank you so much for posting this. I had always heard about the premiere but never saw it. I think ABC transitioned it nicely. By the end of the 90 minutes you were invested in the characters quite nicely. Danny, Tracy, Johny and Laurie all going down a story. Surprising to see Kevin Jameson was a suspect in the Geraldine attack.
Actually, ABC utterly gutted the gothic yet tantalizingly credible work of art that CBS had accomplished with live broadcast and all the talent that funneled into it. It went right squirrelly. ABC then was on a hubristic ramage and progressively cheapened every formula of drama they took in hand. NO network worked harder to lower the intelligence or taste bar more than ABC in the latter 70s, like it/don't like it. The Edge of yesteryear at this point was positively rivetting by comparison.
Did anybody (besides me) recognize the French doctor - from his role in "The List Of Adrian Messenger" in 1963? Jacques Roux was the survivor of the plane crash who helped George C. Scott solve the mystery in that classic movie Back In The Day. And sure enough, twelve years later, he he comes again, to save the day on an American serial! Just one more thing to love about Edge Of Night! The lack of faith that CBS had in this show (and in Henry Slesar) was bad enough; Procter & Gamble wasn't much better, and ABC should have shown a little more chutzpah in the promotion department - but those are all Other Stories ... Sharon Rose Gabet deserves medals for the rescue here. Quoth The Raven: "EVERMORE!"
Lois Kibbee was such a force of power in the 70s Edge. Poor Geraldine. Twice she is almost murdered in her own foyer and living room. Here and again in 1981.
@fbueller The hit man fake Sky Whitney hired to kill Raven. Geraldine unexpectedly came to the Whitney house and the hit man attacked her, leaving her unconscious. Fortunately she survived the sttack
Thanks for the upload !! The Donald May and Dixie Carter episodes !! So much for breaking it to Nicole "Gently" 😂😂 Another world on NBC would also go to 90 Minutes in 1979-80..
It was a bad idea for AW for 90 minutes on a daily basis. There weren't much stories to fill in. The best part was when the show hired Susan Keith as Cecile
@@nightowlchad Susan...?? Who ONLY lasted Just two years for the show !! Remember the Laroway Family. That was hired for the 90 minute version of the show And was let go When the show was cut back to 60 minutes ?? .. Maybe P&G was trying out 90 minute versions of Their shows and then cut them back..?? I loved it when The show got Carol Shelly in the role as Iris in 1979-80.!! She was a real hoot !!. 😂😂
@@MrCraigblaze Susan Keith I had a huge crush 🥰 on as Cecile 😍. And I'm a huge fan of hers. She made me want to watch for more. I feel the same way about her, like you do of Ellen Wheeler. Unfortunately I couldn't say the same of the replacement, Nancy Frangione, whom I never found as attractive, and her portrayal was one dimensional and TOO OVER THE TOP!
@@nightowlchad I can't believe she died just back in August ..?? That is how I fell about Kimberlin's Brown portrail for Sheila Carter Forrester on Y&R and B&B just a mean bullying person who I thinks performance is Way over rated And way way over the top..
I remember how thrilled we were when Maeve McGuire returned as Nicole Travis Drake. And two years later they replaced her with a younger actress? Unforgivable.
I wish when proctor & gamble briefly released box sets of some great and some very very old episodes of Guiding Light and As The World Turns after their cancellations, that they had done the same with other p&g soaps like Edge of Night especially, and Another World. Come on soap classics please! BTW I am a 52 year old man whose first experience to soaps was when the babysitter would watch all ABC soaps... But only Edge interested me. The suspenseful crimes and murder mysteries etc held more attention than romance did. So I remember well my favorites: geraldine, the funny butler, Preacher and the college admissions scandal girl (Lori Loughlin aka Jody Travis), and especially my favorites Sky and Raven! Great chemistry between Sharon and Larkin Malloy. Those wonderful memories are buried in the cobwebs of my mind from those decades ago. Edge you always will always be remembered and yep the 79s and early 80 to mid 80s soaps blew away what soaps are doing these days. And rip to the actors sho sadly were taken way too soon by the awful AIDS crisis. Edge had a lot more losses than other soaps. RIP to Joel, Irving, and Dennis who are the actors I remember plus many other actors from the New York soaps. Anyway Edge ruled and I would love love to have some released on DVD someday but I should just enjoy what I can find on You Tube, a great treasure trove of television greatness gone by!
Yes. In the UK Time-Life did a series of Shows focusing on Coronation Street, Britian's Longest Running Soap Opera that debuted on December 9th 1960. Ironically it was the same day that Bill & Bert Bauer married and sadly it was the day that John Lennon got assasinated in 1980. In this Scene the Lady could make Katherine Chancellor look like Mary Poppins.
I had read about this episode, but never had the joy of viewing it! A gazillion THANK YOUS to you, Ms. Gabet, for sharing this so i could see it! I have always wanted to see the murder of Mark Faraday on the courthouse steps!! This made my 2024!
Thank you so much for this!! I’ve always wanted to watch a soap opera but how do you start if you haven’t seen it from the beginning?? So this is GREAT!!! Thank you so much!!!!☺️👍❤️
Thanks so much for this, Sharon! It's too bad that so few of the old soaps (nay, so much of daytime television) survive, as they were cast aside as a way to cut costs.
It's cool that you posted this Sharon, I never saw this show until Spring 1979. It's cool to see Kevin Jamison, he was only a name from the past mentioned in the shows I watched. Also this house in the opening scene where Geraldine lived - I never saw that house until the early 80s. I'm curious if the house/set returned after a long absence from the soap.
In 1980 when Sky (Jeff Brown) was engaged to Raven - they moved in to the renovated Whitney Mansion. I loved that set. It was wonderful to see the old one.
@@SharonRoseGabet Yes that's what I thought, I remember seeing some of that story. At the time I thought it was a new set, I didn't realize the house design was used in the past. I loved the actors that played the staff in that house (Gunther, etc.)...they were hilarious...
I believe it is. They then taped about 2 weeks worth of shows in the CBS studio while the new studio EUE Screen Gems in NYC was being prepared for them to tape for ABC.
By this time Agnes Nixon set the soap model for the vixen you loved to hate and couldn't do without in Erica Kane portrayed by the fabulous Susan Lucci . And lucky for soap viewers there was only one Susan. Because of that each soap had the most iconic miles away from Erica Kane vixens/ divas in their own shows that viewers flocked to see daily. No one in Madison could hold a candle to Raven Alexander Whitney. She WAS The Edge Of Night in persona in every way possible. Come for the mysteries. Stay for Raven. Love you Icon❤👍💯👏👏👏
So this was actually posted by THE Sharon Gabet? I tell you, she was unforgettable as Raven Alexander Jamison Swift Whitney Brown Whitney (do I have that right after all these years? Sadly, I lost track of Raven's marriages when our local ABC affiliate dropped "Edge" in 1982... one of the dark days of my life). Anyway, I never forgave the show for replacing Maeve McGuire as Nicole Travis Drake, but I continued watching because of Sharon Gabet. She is so talented, and so beautiful. Dazzling, actually.
Soap opera stairs are often very clumsy from an architecture point of view. I noticed when Geraldine climbs the stairs, and the camera pans left, there's a wall in the living room, which Geraldine would be walking into unless there's a very odd 90-degree turn and a hallway built around the outside of the house. And everyone has noticed that the staircase of the Whitney Mansion ascends in the opposite direction when Jefferson Brown lived there.
Yes they "renovated" the Whitney Mansion before Sky and Raven moved in. It was much easier to get camera shots with the direction of the stairs, the larger foyer, and even the added balcony.
@@SharonRoseGabet In general, almost every set of stairs on soap operas make no architectural sense. They often show an exterior shot of a house before moving to the action inside and very rarely do the stairs make sense. Except for maybe the stairs in the Martin and Wallingford homes on AMC, and on OLTL, the stairs a Llanfair and La Boulaie.
I remember watching the final CBS episodes and this ABC 90 minute premiere - bringing back Maeve McGuire as Nicole was huge and brought about a great dramatic story. Two years later, the show would shift losing almost every single character in this episode with the exception of Mike, Nancy, and Geraldine.
@@edgeof1956Slesar nearly always wrote off characters unceremoniously. Phil, Louise and Sara Louise Capice, And Martha Marceau just ceased to appear. Cookie and Ron Christopher were supposed to make periodic appearances (According to Daytime TV magazine) but they never did. Alberta Grant(Liz Fields) was only supposed to be gone three months but it turned out to be permanent. Jim Fields (Alan Feinstein) left for Canada and we never knew if his marriage to Liz lasted. Then Tiffany was killed off 4 months after this episode. Laurie was committed to a mental institution, Phoebe was killed in an car accident off screen, Danny and Tracy left town, Johnny left too without fanfare, Kevin later was killed in a car accident too. Nicole (Maeve McGuire) would leave 2 years later, Serena was committed to an institution. Quentin was murdered, and Adam Drake was brutally killed off sparking viewer outrage and further erosion of ratings.
@@larkpraise But that was also one of the hallmarks of Edge, there was never really a guarantee that a character would stick around. Yes, you had Mike and Nancy but with everyone moving or dying or disappearing or all that, it never really surprised me when a character was on screen for months or years and then suddenly was taken off the board.
@@larkpraiseYes, 1977 was definitely the year when Edge of Night changed. But 1976/77 was when characters like Raven, Steve, Deborah, April, Miles were introduced. I consider that to be the next generation.
Were the last scenes filmed in downtown Manhattan near the courts? It looked like the same buildings. Great video! The fashions are kind of funny then, but that's what was in style.
@@SharonRoseGabet But you looked gorgeous during your whole duration on the show, on Another World, One Life to Live, and continue to look great thru the present.
Those were definitely the court buildings in the civic center in downtown Manhattan. I forget which court that is because there are two courthouses right next to each other. One is NYS court and the other is Federal court. Not far from there is City Hall and the Municipal Building.
This was initial airing, innovative Whodunit-themed Mon.-Fri. daytime serialized drama series "Edge, Night" on its new successor network, ABC in late-Autumn, 1975, just 3 days after its swan song airing on its pr'dcssr network, CBS (which had aired pgrm. since early-Spring, 1956)
Exactly 3 wks. later (December 22, 1975-Mon.) ABC aired 1975 College Football season's XVIIth Liberty Bowl classic bet. Univ., So. Calif. and Tex. A./M. It was lst, in quartet, post-season bowl games which "alphabet" network aired that 1975 collegiate gridiron season. Other 3 bowl games were XVIIth Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl classic bet. Univs., Colo./Tex.-XXXIst G'tr Bowl cl'ssc bet. Univs., Fla./Md.-XLIInd S'gr Bowl cl'ssc bet. Univ., Ala./Penn State
1975 College Football season's XVIIth Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl classic bet. Univs., Colo./Tex. was also last one aired by ABC-TV N'twrk in its llnd stint, airing that specific bowl game. I presume that it p'ssd up airing f'llwng season's (1976) XVIIIth edition, contest bet. Univ., Neb./Tex. Tech on evening, Dec. 31, 1976 (Fri.-New Yr.'s Eve) fearing that its affiliates in Eastern time zone would feel nervous that game w/8:00 PM (E.T.) airing time might have impact on its news coverage, New Yr.'s Eve activities/in worst possible scenario, stretch into ABC's annual "New Yr.'s Rockin' Eve" m'scl 🎼 sp'cl st'rtng at 11:30 PM (E.T.)
Syndicated TVS network aired 1976 College Football season's XVIIIth Astro-Bl'bnnt Bowl cl'ssc bet. Univ., Neb./Tex. Tech st'rtng at 8:00 PM (E.T.) on evening, Dec. 31, 1976 (Fri.-New Yr.'s Eve), while ABC went w/its reg. Fri. prime time lineup c'mprsng, Donny/Marie Osmond's m'sil variety series' New Yr.'s Eve show at 8:00 PM (E.T.) and "ABC Fri. Night Movie" at 9:00 PM (E.T.)
This was the first time I ever saw John Driver’s [Kevin Jamison] face in all of the UA-cam EON postings - but I recognize him. He was/is also remembered for portraying doctors and/or attorneys on the main Law and Order series (starting 18 years after this broadcast); and as Commissioner Lyle Morris on L&O: SVU…
I was such a fan of Maeve McGuire as Nicole. I’ve seen these clips of when Kevin found her before but I always keep hoping that I can see the episode again where Adam sees her for the first time on New Year’s Eve, and finds out that she is alive, but I have not seen that. I hope that it does exist somewhere.
I didn't really start watching EON until around early 1979. I can honestly say, alot men back in the day, definitely watched this soap! From my football/basketball coaches, my uncles, older male cousins were into EON. This soap definitely kicked ass! Had the best murder mysteries, trials, court drama, overall great actors than any other soaps, that were on during that time. On a side note, the actress that's in this episode, who's playing the character Tracey? Seriously looks like the actress who will play (the 3rd?) Nicole Kavanaugh a couple years later.
She was thrown out a window wearing Nicole’s raincoat. Killer thought she was Nicole. Her last line while ponder out the rainy window was ………………Rain Rain go away. Come again another day ……………… classic Friday cliffhanger. Remember it like yesterday.
Interesting that the island where Adam & Nicole were honeymooning when they were on an exploding boat was called St. Anthony's - and Nicole was presumed dead for 18 months. St. Anthony is the patron saint of missing items and probably missing persons.
A lot of it had to do with P&G, who owned the soap, and P&G not wanting one of their shows up against another of their shows. At the time, EON was usually the last show in a lineup and ABC had no soaps after GH at 4p. What I don't know is if Another World was up against As the World Turns, both P&G shows. As the shows expanded to an hour, that might have become unavoidable. In the end, AW and ATWT were both on at 2p in the NYC and other markets, but I am guessing that maybe ATWT was on in the 1p hour and AW was on at 2p
I swear all the products were so basic looking in the 70s..... like the Gain detergent box... Just a simple big green box with huge letters GAIN and a swirl...
The actor playing Jaffe would return in 1979 as New York attorney Mr. Seward. He arrives in Monticello with the fateful offer of a prestigious position in the Big Apple to Draper Scott, soon to be thwarted by his controlling mother in law, Margo Dorn.
Loved this show along with Secret Storm, As the World Turns and Dark Shadows!
Lol the hospital scenes here made me connect this to Dark Shadows. That old fashioned looking daytime soap look. Lol.
I remember as a kid thinking a lot of people got pushed down the stairs.😂 Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!
A surprising number of people get pushed down stairs in soaps. Ryan's Hope started with Frank falling or being pushed down some stairs, (spoiler alert, he was pushed by Dehlia).
@@edgefan4437 I remember that! No wonder I thought people were constantly being pushed down stairs. It truly was a consistent plot ploy on the soaps. And oh so melodramatic! 😂
I remember that too.
@@ritagreenlaw8923 It's no wonder we thought that since writers used that "method" a lot. 😬
This landing was kinda gruesome, Geraldine’s head dangling like that!!!
Another nice treat beyond this excellent episode - Joel Crothers in an ad at about an hour and 9 minutes, two years before he joined the show.
1:09:24, the future Dr. Miles Cavanaugh!
I thought that was him!
He was in Somerset before moving to Monticello.
He was on Somerset at time..
Joel Crothers was previously cast member, cult Gothic/Horror-themed Mon.-Fri. daytime s'rizd drama series "Dark Sh'dws", which was also aired by ABC-TV Network back when
My thanks to you, and to Mark Thomas Faulkner. I'm so sorry that almost none of the '70s soaps survive as I've often heard that was when they were at their best, most challenging, and more modern than most of what came afterward. I've long felt that Edge of Night was one of the soaps that, if revived today, would still be a success. The show is timeless. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and anyone else reading this.
I could not agree more. Much gratitude for sharing this golden episode with us. You are so right, the 70’s were the try heyday of soaps. I am thankful I was around to see them then. I could not wait to tune in tomorrow!!! I loved all of the CBS soaps, as those are the ones I grew up with. I fell in love with The Secret Storm. It as incredible. I still mourn the loss of it to this day. I wish there were some wonderful of it from at least 1972-1974, when it sadly went off the air. This episode is The Edge of Night is a sampling of how great they were. This episode with Geraldine’s incredible performance is nothing short of magnificent!!! It is such a treat to see this awesome masterpiece. Thank you again!!!
💯 agreed
How is Mark Faulkner doing?
Yes. One of the best from that iconic era of soaps. Was one of my late mother's favorites. She also loved "The Guiding Light", " Love of Life" and "Search for Tomorrow".
@@birdsfan57My Mom love them too.
What an incredible find! This is such a great Christmas gift for ‘Edge’ fans. Thank you, Sharon! 🐦⬛
Sharon Gabet, you were absolutely fabulous in The Edge of Night.
Thank you! I LOVED working on EDGE. Best experience of my acting career on stage and TV.
@@SharonRoseGabet My late mother was also a big fan of yours. She was devastated when the East Coast soaps were taken off the air.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
My Mom used to watch this every afternoon, in black and white before color arrived about 1966. This is captivating. Thank you!
So did my mother back in the 1960s, the opening theme music and credits bring back soooo many memories. She watched this one, Love of Life, Search for Tomorrow and Secret Storm. RIP Mom.
@@notgivinup Amen. RIP Mom.
Fantastic! I never thought I'd see this again in its entirety.I remember cutting my last class so I could see it!
Odd, but I remember that day, not because I was able to see it, but because I was at my grandmother's after school and recorded her chatting with a neighbour and griping with her sister about their other sister, who was sick and didn't want to take the medicine. She laughed barrels after hearing herself and I always recall it because she mentioned the death (of the day before) of my cousin, whose family I spent the summer of 73 with. His wife used to watch the show religiously . . .The show is a fond memory . . .unique in the annals of TV entertainment.
THIS IS THE BEST KMAS GIFT!!!!!!!!Thanks so much Sharon.Happy safe holidays to you and to everyone in here!!!!!!!greetings from italy.here EDGE was named AI CONFINI DELLA NOTTE the literal translation indeed.please keep diggin in your vaults for peraphs other gems.Blessings to you and to all the fans.!!!!!ciao
Best Christmas gift on UA-cam!
Thank you so much for this early Christmas present, Sharon! It really means a lot to this 19-year-old.
Amazing… have only seen a little of this on UA-cam. SO happy to see the whole 90 minute episode. Thanks so much Sharon. 😊
Thank you Sharon and Mark for a piece of EON history! 🎉
Oh I never saw the 90 min ABC premiere. .thanks to all who found and posted this. I will watch after the Christmas hubbub slows down. Happy Holidays!
I remember reading in different articles and books regarding soaps about this legendary 90-minute episode to transition EDGE from CBS to ABC. I never thought I would get the opportunity to see it. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Sharon Rose Gabet! You have made a long time EDGE fan tremendously happy! ❤
Another world world also go to 90 minutes from March 1979 to 1980
Yes thanks to Mark for making this available and to Sharon for sharing
Merry Christmas! Thank you!
Wow. I remember watching this when it first aired, and then again when ABC re-aired it on late-night TV to promote "Edge." I didn't know that it still existed. Thanks so much for the early Christmas present, Ms. Gabet!
The story I remember reading is that ABC wanted to regularly air the show as part of their late-night block. However, doing that required a contract change for the actors, and Donald May, aka Adam Drake, wouldn't agree to it.
I'm curious if the late-night airing of this episode was pretty much what had been broadcast earlier or if each airing had different commercials that targeted the audiences who would have watched at the different times.
Yes What a great show outstanding ❤
I also watched this the day it aired on abc. The episodes that followed were really good too!
Thank you so much for posting this. I had always heard about the premiere but never saw it. I think ABC transitioned it nicely. By the end of the 90 minutes you were invested in the characters quite nicely. Danny, Tracy, Johny and Laurie all going down a story. Surprising to see Kevin Jameson was a suspect in the Geraldine attack.
Actually, ABC utterly gutted the gothic yet tantalizingly credible work of art that CBS had accomplished with live broadcast and all the talent that funneled into it. It went right squirrelly. ABC then was on a hubristic ramage and progressively cheapened every formula of drama they took in hand. NO network worked harder to lower the intelligence or taste bar more than ABC in the latter 70s, like it/don't like it. The Edge of yesteryear at this point was positively rivetting by comparison.
Once again its always a treat to see more soap gems from this era of soaps. Thanks for keeping us entertained Sharon
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Thank you very much for this beautiful gift
Just got back from New York and all of Christmas Eve Magic This tops it all...
Thanks 🎉...
Thank you to both you & soap historian Mark Faulkner for making it possible to see Edge history.
AMAZING! ♥️ IT!!! Thank you Sharon for posting this classic!!!
Wow. I too, had heard of this treasure but, never saw as much as a clip.
Thanks so much, Ms. Sharon. This is a true gem.
Thank you for posting these episodes.
Thank you very much Sharon! I always wanted to watch this episode! I love The Edge of Night! All my best wishes and Merry Christmas from Spain!
Thank you so much for posting! Good to see the first episode on ABC
What a treat! Thank you.
This soap looks good.
It was the best soap ever! Imo.
Thank you so much for posting this Sharon! I hadn't seen it since it first aired. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones. 🌲
Did anybody (besides me) recognize the French doctor - from his role in "The List Of Adrian Messenger" in 1963?
Jacques Roux was the survivor of the plane crash who helped George C. Scott solve the mystery in that classic movie Back In The Day.
And sure enough, twelve years later, he he comes again, to save the day on an American serial!
Just one more thing to love about Edge Of Night!
The lack of faith that CBS had in this show (and in Henry Slesar) was bad enough; Procter & Gamble wasn't much better, and ABC should have shown a little more chutzpah in the promotion department - but those are all Other Stories ...
Sharon Rose Gabet deserves medals for the rescue here.
Quoth The Raven: "EVERMORE!"
Thank you so much! I had 7 incredible years on EDGE. I wish it had been at least 20.
Agreed absolutely 💯 true
Wow , thank you I remember this so well ❤ wonderful to see again 😮👏👏👏💯😊
I hope that we can expect to see more lost episodes in the near future. Thanks for the stocking stuffer!
Lois Kibbee was such a force of power in the 70s Edge. Poor Geraldine. Twice she is almost murdered in her own foyer and living room. Here and again in 1981.
Who attacked Geraldine in 1981?
@fbueller The hit man fake Sky Whitney hired to kill Raven. Geraldine unexpectedly came to the Whitney house and the hit man attacked her, leaving her unconscious. Fortunately she survived the sttack
Yes what a tremendous actress she should have won a Daytime Emmy award 💯❤️❤️
Thanks for the upload !! The Donald May and Dixie Carter episodes !! So much for breaking it to Nicole "Gently" 😂😂 Another world on NBC would also go to 90 Minutes in 1979-80..
It was a bad idea for AW for 90 minutes on a daily basis. There weren't much stories to fill in. The best part was when the show hired Susan Keith as Cecile
@@nightowlchad Susan...?? Who ONLY lasted Just two years for the show !! Remember the Laroway Family. That was hired for the 90 minute version of the show And was let go When the show was cut back to 60 minutes ?? .. Maybe P&G was trying out 90 minute versions of Their shows and then cut them back..?? I loved it when The show got Carol Shelly in the role as Iris in 1979-80.!! She was a real hoot !!. 😂😂
@@MrCraigblaze Susan Keith I had a huge crush 🥰 on as Cecile 😍. And I'm a huge fan of hers. She made me want to watch for more. I feel the same way about her, like you do of Ellen Wheeler. Unfortunately I couldn't say the same of the replacement, Nancy Frangione, whom I never found as attractive, and her portrayal was one dimensional and TOO OVER THE TOP!
@@nightowlchad Susan Keith later came to the EDGE of NIGHT to replace Kate Capshaw as Jinx Avery.
@@nightowlchad I can't believe she died just back in August ..?? That is how I fell about Kimberlin's Brown portrail for Sheila Carter Forrester on Y&R and B&B just a mean bullying person who I
thinks performance is Way over rated And way way over the top..
I remember how thrilled we were when Maeve McGuire returned as Nicole Travis Drake. And two years later they replaced her with a younger actress? Unforgivable.
Yes the most popular actress To play Nicole Maeve McGuire
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I loved her as Nicole . She was the only Nicole to me.
Yes love Maeve McGuire as Nicole the original and best actress to play the role ❤️❤️💯
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Lord, I love Louise Shaffer. "You will defend me, won't you?"
AMAZING!!!!❤
I wish when proctor & gamble briefly released box sets of some great and some very very old episodes of Guiding Light and As The World Turns after their cancellations, that they had done the same with other p&g soaps like Edge of Night especially, and Another World. Come on soap classics please! BTW I am a 52 year old man whose first experience to soaps was when the babysitter would watch all ABC soaps... But only Edge interested me. The suspenseful crimes and murder mysteries etc held more attention than romance did. So I remember well my favorites: geraldine, the funny butler, Preacher and the college admissions scandal girl (Lori Loughlin aka Jody Travis), and especially my favorites Sky and Raven! Great chemistry between Sharon and Larkin Malloy. Those wonderful memories are buried in the cobwebs of my mind from those decades ago. Edge you always will always be remembered and yep the 79s and early 80 to mid 80s soaps blew away what soaps are doing these days. And rip to the actors sho sadly were taken way too soon by the awful AIDS crisis. Edge had a lot more losses than other soaps. RIP to Joel, Irving, and Dennis who are the actors I remember plus many other actors from the New York soaps. Anyway Edge ruled and I would love love to have some released on DVD someday but I should just enjoy what I can find on You Tube, a great treasure trove of television greatness gone by!
Definitely miss this soap the number 1 soap in my opinion ❤
Yes. In the UK Time-Life did a series of Shows focusing on Coronation Street, Britian's Longest Running Soap Opera that debuted on December 9th 1960. Ironically it was the same day that Bill & Bert Bauer married and sadly it was the day that John Lennon got assasinated in 1980. In this Scene the Lady could make Katherine Chancellor look like Mary Poppins.
Sadly alot of Actors who acted on the original Wentworth known as Prisoner Cell Block H starting in 1979 died of Aids, Strokes, and Heart Attacks.
I aslo loved Sharon on Another world from 1985-87 as well..!!
😊yes I remember that
I'm getting ready to get into this. I have missed this for so long. From start to finish, I'm all in.! Thank you.
Forrest Compton looks exactly the same as he did when the show ended!
I was on EDGE for 7 years and he never changed!
I had read about this episode, but never had the joy of viewing it! A gazillion THANK YOUS to you, Ms. Gabet, for sharing this so i could see it! I have always wanted to see the murder of Mark Faraday on the courthouse steps!! This made my 2024!
Funny seeing Dixie Carter outside designing women.. Kevin wasn't expecting that one !!😂😂
Dixie Carter fantastic actress
I loved this episode.
Thank you so much for this!! I’ve always wanted to watch a soap opera but how do you start if you haven’t seen it from the beginning?? So this is GREAT!!! Thank you so much!!!!☺️👍❤️
Thanks so much for this, Sharon! It's too bad that so few of the old soaps (nay, so much of daytime television) survive, as they were cast aside as a way to cut costs.
It's cool that you posted this Sharon, I never saw this show until Spring 1979. It's cool to see Kevin Jamison, he was only a name from the past mentioned in the shows I watched. Also this house in the opening scene where Geraldine lived - I never saw that house until the early 80s. I'm curious if the house/set returned after a long absence from the soap.
In 1980 when Sky (Jeff Brown) was engaged to Raven - they moved in to the renovated Whitney Mansion. I loved that set. It was wonderful to see the old one.
@@SharonRoseGabet Yes that's what I thought, I remember seeing some of that story. At the time I thought it was a new set, I didn't realize the house design was used in the past. I loved the actors that played the staff in that house (Gunther, etc.)...they were hilarious...
My mother used to watch this faithfully and hated when it ended. So dramatic now 😂
So is this the first EON to be broadcast after being taped in advance?
I believe it is. They then taped about 2 weeks worth of shows in the CBS studio while the new studio EUE Screen Gems in NYC was being prepared for them to tape for ABC.
Wasn't there another woman on the show that was pushed down the stairs in the 70's as well besides Gearodine ??
There might have been. Anyone else know? I didn't show up until 1977 so I don't know.
@SharonRoseGabet Oh that's right. Julian Cray was the original Raven. 😂😂
@@SharonRoseGabetI think it was Dorothy Lyman's character ??
i was raised on soap operas. thank you sharon
By this time Agnes Nixon set the soap model for the vixen you loved to hate and couldn't do without in Erica Kane portrayed by the fabulous Susan Lucci . And lucky for soap viewers there was only one Susan. Because of that each soap had the most iconic miles away from Erica Kane vixens/ divas in their own shows that viewers flocked to see daily. No one in Madison could hold a candle to Raven Alexander Whitney. She WAS The Edge Of Night in persona in every way possible. Come for the mysteries. Stay for Raven. Love you Icon❤👍💯👏👏👏
Girl. You know Raven's real name was Charlotte 😂😂😂.
THANK YOU for this! Raven was the character of a lifetime! I've never had so much fun acting in my life.
@@106dls I have that scene where she tells April and Draper her real name. I will post it soon with some other goodies.
What an absolute honour to receive a reply. Thank you
@@SharonRoseGabetCan’t wait!!!
The Eroupean health Spa Scarsdale location STILL sits Abandoned to this day. A Very creepy appearance...
Classic episode
So this was actually posted by THE Sharon Gabet? I tell you, she was unforgettable as Raven Alexander Jamison Swift Whitney Brown Whitney (do I have that right after all these years? Sadly, I lost track of Raven's marriages when our local ABC affiliate dropped "Edge" in 1982... one of the dark days of my life). Anyway, I never forgave the show for replacing Maeve McGuire as Nicole Travis Drake, but I continued watching because of Sharon Gabet. She is so talented, and so beautiful. Dazzling, actually.
Thank you!! YES, it's me. And EDGE was the best professional experience of my life.
Dixie Carter is on here from Designing Women
Soap opera stairs are often very clumsy from an architecture point of view. I noticed when Geraldine climbs the stairs, and the camera pans left, there's a wall in the living room, which Geraldine would be walking into unless there's a very odd 90-degree turn and a hallway built around the outside of the house.
And everyone has noticed that the staircase of the Whitney Mansion ascends in the opposite direction when Jefferson Brown lived there.
Yes they "renovated" the Whitney Mansion before Sky and Raven moved in. It was much easier to get camera shots with the direction of the stairs, the larger foyer, and even the added balcony.
@@SharonRoseGabet In general, almost every set of stairs on soap operas make no architectural sense. They often show an exterior shot of a house before moving to the action inside and very rarely do the stairs make sense. Except for maybe the stairs in the Martin and Wallingford homes on AMC, and on OLTL, the stairs a Llanfair and La Boulaie.
Very true
joel crothers in roman brio commercial.
I remember watching the final CBS episodes and this ABC 90 minute premiere - bringing back Maeve McGuire as Nicole was huge and brought about a great dramatic story. Two years later, the show would shift losing almost every single character in this episode with the exception of Mike, Nancy, and Geraldine.
Sad about the character losses.
Yes very true talent actors
@@edgeof1956Slesar nearly always wrote off characters unceremoniously. Phil, Louise and Sara Louise Capice, And Martha Marceau just ceased to appear. Cookie and Ron Christopher were supposed to make periodic appearances (According to Daytime TV magazine) but they never did. Alberta Grant(Liz Fields) was only supposed to be gone three months but it turned out to be permanent. Jim Fields (Alan Feinstein) left for Canada and we never knew if his marriage to Liz lasted. Then Tiffany was killed off 4 months after this episode. Laurie was committed to a mental institution, Phoebe was killed in an car accident off screen, Danny and Tracy left town, Johnny left too without fanfare, Kevin later was killed in a car accident too. Nicole (Maeve McGuire) would leave 2 years later, Serena was committed to an institution. Quentin was murdered, and Adam Drake was brutally killed off sparking viewer outrage and further erosion of ratings.
@@larkpraise But that was also one of the hallmarks of Edge, there was never really a guarantee that a character would stick around. Yes, you had Mike and Nancy but with everyone moving or dying or disappearing or all that, it never really surprised me when a character was on screen for months or years and then suddenly was taken off the board.
@@larkpraiseYes, 1977 was definitely the year when Edge of Night changed. But 1976/77 was when characters like Raven, Steve, Deborah, April, Miles were introduced. I consider that to be the next generation.
GERALDINE: I may know more about your sordid life than YOU might know!
Reminiscent of her catching Eliot and Raven in bed. Of course Geraldine merely left with a warning on that one, lol!
She called Raven an "alley cat!" when Raven told her she was pregnant and Geraldine knew it couldn't be Kevin's child.
Good writers on Edge of Night by Henry Slesar
Were the last scenes filmed in downtown Manhattan near the courts? It looked like the same buildings. Great video! The fashions are kind of funny then, but that's what was in style.
Yes. Shot in Manhattan! Fashions are always hilarious when we look back. I shudder when I see what I wore in the 80s. And the HAIR!!
@@SharonRoseGabet But you looked gorgeous during your whole duration on the show, on Another World, One Life to Live, and continue to look great thru the present.
Those were definitely the court buildings in the civic center in downtown Manhattan. I forget which court that is because there are two courthouses right next to each other. One is NYS court and the other is Federal court. Not far from there is City Hall and the Municipal Building.
This is so old fashioned looking. Reminds me of Dark Shadows a little bit. Is that Michael Stroka playing Josie’s/Mrs Faraday’s doctor?!
This was initial airing, innovative Whodunit-themed Mon.-Fri. daytime serialized drama series "Edge, Night" on its new successor network, ABC in late-Autumn, 1975, just 3 days after its swan song airing on its pr'dcssr network, CBS (which had aired pgrm. since early-Spring, 1956)
Exactly 3 wks. later (December 22, 1975-Mon.) ABC aired 1975 College Football season's XVIIth Liberty Bowl classic bet. Univ., So. Calif. and Tex. A./M. It was lst, in quartet, post-season bowl games which "alphabet" network aired that 1975 collegiate gridiron season. Other 3 bowl games were XVIIth Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl classic bet. Univs., Colo./Tex.-XXXIst G'tr Bowl cl'ssc bet. Univs., Fla./Md.-XLIInd S'gr Bowl cl'ssc bet. Univ., Ala./Penn State
In 1975 College Football season's XVIIth Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl classic, Univ., Tex. came back from 21-7 halftime deficit to d'ft Univ., Colo., 38-21
1975 College Football season's XVIIth Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl classic bet. Univs., Colo./Tex. was also last one aired by ABC-TV N'twrk in its llnd stint, airing that specific bowl game. I presume that it p'ssd up airing f'llwng season's (1976) XVIIIth edition, contest bet. Univ., Neb./Tex. Tech on evening, Dec. 31, 1976 (Fri.-New Yr.'s Eve) fearing that its affiliates in Eastern time zone would feel nervous that game w/8:00 PM (E.T.) airing time might have impact on its news coverage, New Yr.'s Eve activities/in worst possible scenario, stretch into ABC's annual "New Yr.'s Rockin' Eve" m'scl 🎼 sp'cl st'rtng at 11:30 PM (E.T.)
Syndicated TVS network aired 1976 College Football season's XVIIIth Astro-Bl'bnnt Bowl cl'ssc bet. Univ., Neb./Tex. Tech st'rtng at 8:00 PM (E.T.) on evening, Dec. 31, 1976 (Fri.-New Yr.'s Eve), while ABC went w/its reg. Fri. prime time lineup c'mprsng, Donny/Marie Osmond's m'sil variety series' New Yr.'s Eve show at 8:00 PM (E.T.) and "ABC Fri. Night Movie" at 9:00 PM (E.T.)
ABC t'lvsd annual Bl'bnnt Bowl College F'tbll cl'ssc on 2 separate occasions:1966/7 seasons, back-to-back/1973-4-5 seasons in succession
This was the first time I ever saw John Driver’s [Kevin Jamison] face in all of the UA-cam EON postings - but I recognize him. He was/is also remembered for portraying doctors and/or attorneys on the main Law and Order series (starting 18 years after this broadcast); and as Commissioner Lyle Morris on L&O: SVU…
I'm Sure This Made Many People's Christmas, Including Stephen King! 😅
The great Roy Thiennes...
Really? I remember him from General Hospital. I don't see EDGE on his resume although it certainly does look like him.
@@SharonRoseGabet Oops...my mistake...☺️
The acting is much better than in an episode I watched from’82
I think the quality of the show acting and storyline wise went down in early 1982.
That's Hal Simms, long associated with CBS, doing the voice-over promo for "Edge". Is that why he had to stop saying his name when they moved to ABC?
I was such a fan of Maeve McGuire as Nicole. I’ve seen these clips of when Kevin found her before but I always keep hoping that I can see the episode again where Adam sees her for the first time on New Year’s Eve, and finds out that she is alive, but I have not seen that. I hope that it does exist somewhere.
I didn't really start watching EON until around early 1979.
I can honestly say, alot men back in the day, definitely watched this soap! From my football/basketball coaches, my uncles, older male cousins were into EON. This soap definitely kicked ass! Had the best murder mysteries, trials, court drama, overall great actors than any other soaps, that were on during that time. On a side note, the actress that's in this episode, who's playing the character Tracey? Seriously looks like the actress who will play (the 3rd?) Nicole Kavanaugh a couple years later.
Great episode, but those green drapes in the courtroom are hideous.
Also, was that Joel Crothers in the "Roman Brio" ad?
YES that was Joel! EDGE had the ugliest drapes ever!! And Raven got a lot of them in her dumpy apartments.
What happened to Tiffany Douglas?
she was murdered
Monticello had a particularly high murder rate, even for a daytime serial.
She was thrown out a window wearing Nicole’s raincoat. Killer thought she was Nicole. Her last line while ponder out the rainy window was ………………Rain Rain go away. Come again another day ……………… classic Friday cliffhanger. Remember it like yesterday.
100 agreed 👍
@@JP-hh9gzI remember that too!
Always loved the ORIGINAL Nicole.
Maive was one of a kind. I'm hoping to get some more tapes from HER so I can post here.
Interesting that the island where Adam & Nicole were honeymooning when they were on an exploding boat was called St. Anthony's - and Nicole was presumed dead for 18 months. St. Anthony is the patron saint of missing items and probably missing persons.
CBS should've NEVER moved Edge to ABC!!
That was Edge's progenitor to cancellation. ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️😲
CBS cancelled it. If it hadn’t moved to ABC, then it would have ended in 1975 and we would have missed out on nine additional years of the show.
As the World Turns was expanded to an hour on CBS.
A lot of it had to do with P&G, who owned the soap, and P&G not wanting one of their shows up against another of their shows. At the time, EON was usually the last show in a lineup and ABC had no soaps after GH at 4p. What I don't know is if Another World was up against As the World Turns, both P&G shows. As the shows expanded to an hour, that might have become unavoidable. In the end, AW and ATWT were both on at 2p in the NYC and other markets, but I am guessing that maybe ATWT was on in the 1p hour and AW was on at 2p
@@SeeingEyeMultimedia And The Price is Right also went to one hour in November 1975; that also affected EON as well.
No doubt about it 👌
I swear all the products were so basic looking in the 70s..... like the Gain detergent box... Just a simple big green box with huge letters GAIN and a swirl...
No one was going to trifle with Geraldine Whitney!!!! She will have her revenge.
Totally!!! I loved working with Lois Kibbee!! She was a hoot!
The actor playing Jaffe would return in 1979 as New York attorney Mr. Seward. He arrives in Monticello with the fateful offer of a prestigious position in the Big Apple to Draper Scott, soon to be thwarted by his controlling mother in law, Margo Dorn.
“They recovered some of the semen, at least their bodies”
Amazing… have only seen a little of this on UA-cam. SO happy to see the whole 90 minute episode. Thanks so much Sharon. 😊