The Edge of Night, Episode # 6218 - March 14, 1980

[@kevinashwood2146]

Best daytime drama ever! I wish it was still on daytime TV!

[@castlist3384]

One of EON's best episodes ever! Nola and Margo were two of the most fascinating characters the show ever had.

[@ziggy12657]

Prior to her murder, Margo was a suspect in Wade Meacham’s murder since she bankrolled Wade’s porno enterprise and he was blackmailing her.

[@christobellagio191]

Wow, that's what I call entertainment that keeps one on the edge of their seats.... Why can't soaps be like that anymore

[@anglerfish8278]

This actress was fantastic. Such a talent. What a performance on a show that is unlike no other.

[@anglerfish8278]

Kim Hunter was over the top. What talent...

[@rhsharp]

A true EDGE masterpiece episode!

[@MrCraigblaze]

Hard to believe the show would be over in 4 years !! XD

[@179cpv]

Lots of praise for Kim Hunter here, and rightly so, but let’s show some love to Frances Fisher too. She’s awesome in this scene as well.

[@netguy02]

In 1980, this episode was preempted and was never televised in my area because of a presidential news conference that aired earlier in the day. (An episode of Family Feud aired in EON's time slot that Friday.) How frustrating to tune in to EON the following Monday and realize I'd missed everything. It was amazing to finally see this episode for the first time when it was posted online in 2007.

[@ml1954]

Kim Hunter was so brilliant as Nola Madison and I've always thought that her swan song here reminds me of Sunset Boulevard"

[@gv41660]

Love Ann Williams. Her characters had a bad habit of getting killed off.

[@brentlwhite]

Well-deserved daytime Emmy for Kim Hunter-scary, crazy, and dignified at the same time. Off to the red carpet and limo, arm in arm with her husband. A masterful performance.

[@telephotousa]

FYI she was nominated but didn't win. Though she should have. Judith Light won that year for her work on One Life To Live.

[@stacyanderson8890]

Yes Kim Hunter was so good in the Planet of the Apes!

[@MrCraigblaze]

Yes..Since she was Blacklisted in Hollywood for a number of years..She was good in the columbo episode Sutible for framing 1971 !! XD

[@MrCraigblaze]

@@telephotousa And Judith just brushes her Soap opera work off..As just soap opera acting.. XD

[@heddalee]

I'm glad Deborah showed so much compassion for Nola. It made Deborah heroic.

[@larkpraise]

It's so sad that Proctor and Gamble did the damage of moving EON to an earlier time slot in 1972. It just never recovered from that move. The decline had nothing to do with Henry Slesar's excellent writing. This video is a great example of this. However, Slesar's made some boo boos too. Killing off Adam Drake was a big mistake. Recasting Nicole and de-aging her was another. The show was slowly pounding the nails into its coffin but this story about Nola was a good one! Just as good as the "Julie Jamison", "Stephanie Martin", Jonah Lockwood, "The Haunting of the Marceau Home", "Elly Jo Jamison", "Martha Marceau trial", "Nicole found after being presumed dead", "The Serena Faraday Story", "Beau Richardson and Nancy Karr", "Geraldine in a coma", "Draper and April", etc.

[@belinda8780]

Wow Nola. Kim what great acting she did . She brought a tear to my eye and to see Owen help her. Just too good.

[@melvinmoore3949]

i wish we could get a reboot of this...

[@scootover7]

Wish I had the money to buy the rights to this show

[@retrowarehouse2554]

If I ever had money, I'd most definitely buy the rights to this show, and reboot it.

[@makeittrue]

Just to think Kim Hunter as Nola worked with the likes of Vivien Leigh, Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando in the large supporting character Stella in "Streetcar Named Desire"!

[@Soapking1965]

....and won an Oscar for DESIRE.

[@mikejohnson515]

I loved Nola's reaction to Deborah telling her that wasn't Margo's wig!

[@shawnmalone9711]

I'm watching this episode of the Edge Of Night because my grandmother watched it and other soap operas in the 1960s , the 1970s and the 1980s. We lived in Southern California and according to Google Newspaper Archives ( the Oxnard Courier , the EON was on KNXT Channel 2 Los Angeles at 1:30pm.

[@rickjr37]

In 1975,it moved to ABC(KABC 7 in Los Angeles)until its 1984 cancellation.

[@shawnmalone9711]

@@rickjr37 Hi , The Edge of Night was on CBS from April 2 , 1956 until November 28 , 1975. The EON went to the ABC network in December 1 , 1975 until December 28 , 1984. Alex McNeil 's Total Television 4th edition, pp. 250-253.

[@netguy02]

@eonschuylerwhitney It's good that you had two chances to see the show. Only one of the two ABC channels aired EON once a day in my area, so if I missed an episode, I couldn't see it again. Oddly enough, the 3/14/80 episode was the only one that wasn't shown, which was obviously annoying. But airing Family Feud instead of EON that day was a classic example of the disrespect that TV networks have commonly displayed for soaps and their viewers over the years.

[@sbookey]

Glad to see Nola has a sense of humor...

[@dominickdirienzo8266]

8:46, the mystery revealed!

[@jamesoffutt2801]

I love Francis Fisher!! She still looks simile!!!

[@Laura-i2r9r]

Love Kim Hunter here . She was such a wonderful graceful Actress . Elliot Dorn was such a Philanderer on Edge. Ahh the Golden Age of Daytime Drama’s ❤😊

[@anglerfish8278]

kim hunter starred in the very best soap opera there ever was

[@adamwerner]

I grew up in NYC and we only had one chance to see an EON episode, 4pm on WABC TV channel 7. And yes, back then this particular episode was pre-empted for some reason. I do clearly remember that. I guess it was Election related. I too, saw it for the first time recently when EON was re-run on AOL.

[@deepnation10009]

Just seeing your comment. This 100% aired that day. It was not pre-empted. I'm from NYC. I ran home from school not to miss it.

[@MrCraigblaze]

Thanks for the Upload 👍 !! XD Do most basements have Exit to street on the side ?? XD

[@eonschuylerwhitney]

@netguy02 Hey netguy, how frustrating. I remember being 14 years old, and how me and all my friends made sure to tune in at 4 p.m. to see. In Montreal I guess we were lucky, because if we missed it at 4 p.m. we could see it the next day on CBC, or tape it at 2:00 p.m.. My Dad would often see The EON at 2:00 p.m. as he was a musician and worked nights.

[@KJTV67]

What a brilliant publicity stunt to get the star of your movie arrested for murder!

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

Frances Fisher (Titanic) & Kim Stanley (A Streetcar Named Desire).

[@anglerfish8278]

Kim Hunter...for goodness sakes get it straight.

[@dianebrown4955]

They need to lock Elliot up also because if he didn't play with Nola's feelings in the first place Nola never would have killed Margo

[@a.b.s_productions]

Diana R Ross Elliot got his 7 months later when he was murdered by a hand puppet.

[@dianebrown4955]

@@a.b.s_productions well he deserved it

[@a.b.s_productions]

Diana R Ross He lasted longer than expected, well just 2 years but was a front burner character. Some villains on EON last a few months to a year. I honestly have to say I like Elliot with Raven as a pairing better than Raven with Sky.

[@dianebrown4955]

@@a.b.s_productions i agree i didn't like Sky Whitney and Raven together but I'm glad after Margo was killed April still keep the penthouse it is so beautiful

[@a.b.s_productions]

Diana R Ross I felt like EON was trying to push hard with Sky & Raven as a super couple to try and compete with the other ABC soaps pushing out super couples which was extremely popular at that time. As for the Penthouse, it went from being Margo and Elliot’s to Draper and April’s and lastly Miles and Nicole took over the penthouse. Great penthouse but I find it odd that April wanted to live where her mother was killed at.

[@maryhlad5277]

Nola is a real nut case, willing to do anything, even kill Margo to have Elliot.

[@tonid2587]

Whoa have seen this in years .. Nola reminds me Norma Desmond just as delusional 😵‍💫🙋🏽‍♀️I missed the good ole days when soaps were really good 🫣🫶🏽🙂 I miss EON soaps are trash 🗑️ now 😑

[@jamesoffutt2801]

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