Edge of Night: 8-15-1960

[@johnodonnell5474]

Happy Anniversary 68 years

[@Kw1161]

Thanks for sharing and showing a spin-off from the Perry Mason radio show broadcast when I was five months and 7 days old…😊! How times have changed…😅! Have a great day!

[@UncleDavesKitchen]

I didn't know this was a spin off of Perry Mason Radio, I love old time radio, too.

[@merrieshields8551]

I always love seeing these soap stars in their infancy roles!! Amazing how many you already know.

[@tarawehry7105]

Love these commercials

[@UncleDavesKitchen]

Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it.

[@johnodonnell5474]

Happy 65th Anniversary The Edge of Night April 2 1956

[@sandrasanders706]

This Ivory soap commercial is so cute I kind of remember this I think

[@merrieshields8551]

Awesome commercial. I love it too, but I always thought a pedophile's delight.

[@emilystern1829]

That's Joyce Gordon in the Blue Bonnet commercial. She was married to Bernard Grant (GL, OLTL)! Love those glasses!!

[@gordonmcmanus1238]

i was 7 years old this was my mother favorites show

[@AllenJones-w3p]

EDGE was the first daytime TV soap opera to switch networks. It originally ran on CBS then moved to ABC.

[@mikejohnson9852]

"We'll continue with our story in just a moment...." I remember Hal Simms saying that for EON, Dan McCullough for ATWT and Bill Wolff for AW. Also, "borrowing a cup of sugar" reminds me of how nosy Gladys Kravitz was in "Bewitched"....love to have seen her went up against Mike Karr or Bill Marceau!

[@dannyhill8797]

by the time i started watching (1969), Harry Kramer, then Hal Sims said ''our story continues after this message''..on ABC HS said ''our story will continue in a moment''; and instead of giving his name, he said ''we invite you...''..with EoN, i think these announcements went away towards the end of 1977..not really sure.....

[@danielanderson4726]

I wonder if Jack Costello on Young Doctor Malone did the "We'll continue with our story in just a moment...." line just like Hal Simms saying that for EON, Dan McCullough for ATWT and Bill Wolff for AW. I don't remember Mel Brandt doing that on The Doctors, or Bern Bennett on Y&R. Given that YDM was an P&G show, i wonder if that was done.

[@sandrasanders706]

That's right I forgot that Mary Fickett was on the show before she did all my children

[@tomservo56954]

She also spent two years working alongside Harry Reasoner on a show called CALENDER, that ran on the CBS daytime schedule

[@emilystern1829]

Ray MacDonnel (Dr. Joe Martin, MF's eventual husband on AMC) was also on Edge, starting in 1961.

[@allenjones3130]

@@tomservo56954 I vaguely remember Ms. Fickett on "Calendar". I remember Mary taking her shoes off and hosting part of the show in her stocking feet. (Perhaps her shoes were pinching her.)

[@chriscaffee4227]

The great Paul Taubman served as the live organist for The Edge of Night - making so much of it up as he went along. Others like him - Charles Paul, Eddie Layton, Bill Meeder, Clarke Morgan, Chet Kingsbury….among others played for the soaps on CBS and NBC. SUPER talented at improvisation!!

[@MrCraigblaze]

Thanks for the upload !! The organ music in the background is a MAJOR plus..A "Purgour" ?? Xd

[@aquillafleetwood8180]

I might have watched about one minute of this as a kid, then out the door I went with my Roy Rodger pistols to go chase down the bad guys!

[@tonyhassan7117]

Wow Ruth Brent Martin all my children was on edge of night

[@mariellclement8092]

With a head full of beautiful dark hair.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

Didn't know that Mrs. Kravitz once lived in Monticello!

[@dannygaines1352]

"E-I" Tide.

[@HelloooThere]

snooze a roo in those days...

[@johnodonnell5474]

Sara Karr was killed off a year and I half before I was born but I felt so sorry for Mike

[@gregmay6976]

This storyline ran at the same time as the Teresa Vetter storyline.

[@sandrasanders706]

Greg May can you tell me about the Teresa Vetters story and does that have to do with the Sarah Karr incident (Teal Ames leaving the show and first major character death of a loved character on soaps)

[@sandrasanders706]

Greg May the wonderful Mandel Kramer the best soap cop ever...

[@skingerskanger]

Awww the opening credits were interrupted. ;(

[@gregmay6976]

@@sandrasanders706 In 1960 Larry Hagman (who will all knew and loved as JR on 'Dallas') joined the cast at Lt.Ed Gibson. Bill Marceau and Ed Gibson were investigating a numbers racket that had infiltrated Monticello. At the same time, Sarah asked Judy (Bill Marceau's daughter) if she could help her out on a voluntary basis with the Sheriff Youth Ranch now that she had her hands full with the baby. Judy had fallen head over heals for Ed Gibson so Sarah told her that 'the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach' and since she is a pretty good cook why don't you invite Lt. Gibson over for dinner one night - Judy did just that and while she was feeding Ed and Bill she announced she was helping Mrs. Karr with the Sheriff's Youth Ranch. Bill Marceau started talking about the Youth Ranch - he always thought they should reach out to the wealthier residents of Monticello and ask them to roll up their rich sleeves. Judy read about a man in the society page named Victor Carlsen who came from a wealthy socially-prominent family. Judy went to see Victor Carlsen who not only wrote out a big fat check to the Youth Ranch but he asked Judy out for dinner. After Judy left, Victor's brother Jennings said "Are you crazy? Why would you want to date the daughter of the Chief of Police?" Victor replied, "What better way to stay one step ahead of the law?" Victor and Jennings Carlsen were running the numbers racket! Victor was looking for a new front to hide his illegal activities behind so he began an affair with this icy blonde named Teresa Vetter whose husband, George Vetter (played by Vincent Gardenia) owned Vetter Insurance Agency. Victor told Teresa if she would help him talk her husband into providing office space at Vetter Insurance for he and his brother he would make her the wealthiest woman in Monticello. Next thing you know these men in suits and briefcases are running in and out bringing money to the Carlsens from bets they were taking on the street. Jennings was shot and killed. By this time Bill Marceau and Ed Gibson had pieced together enough evidence linking the Carlsens to the numbers racket so Victor decided it was time to leave Monticello - but he was taking Judy with him as his 'ace in the hole'. Victor proposes to Judy and hired a man to pretend he was a justice of the peace. Teresa found out that Victor had moved the fortune they had made from the numbers racket from Vetter Insurance to a locker at the airport. Victor and Judy were planning to fly to South America so Teresa disguised herself as a maid to gain entry to the bridal suite. While Judy was in the bedroom writing a long letter to her father to explain her disappearance Teresa stabbed Victor and framed Judy for the murder. It was during Judy's murder trial that Mike lost his wife Sarah but he continued to defend Judy after Teresa confessed to the murder while she, Mike and Ed were trapped in an abandoned mine.

[@mariellclement8092]

Who in hell is that nosy heffa in Sally's apartment, pawing all over her things? She's annoying. Eww! The drawbacks of Apartment living.

[@johnodonnell5474]

Happy 66th Anniversary The Edge of Night April 2 1956