The Edge of Night
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Search complete. 12 mentions across 10 episodes found for "The Edge of Night".
Nov 3, 2026
Yusuf LamontGUEST
Interesting little anecdote.
Yusuf LamontGUEST
The old soap opera Edge of Night, which was on CBS, was intended to be like a date.
Yusuf LamontGUEST
It was the same producers.
Yusuf LamontGUEST
It was going to be a daytime version of Perry Mason.
Mark MaddoxGUEST
No, I don't think so.
Mark MaddoxGUEST
Edge of Night's coming.
Mark MaddoxGUEST
No.
Mark MaddoxGUEST
Dark Shadows, I remember being on Cloud 9, you know.
Chris BerrymanHOST
Snoops, Quincy, Emmy, Cagney and Lacey and Simon and Simon and later served.
Chris BerrymanHOST
as head writer of The Edge of Night for over 400 episodes.
Chris BerrymanHOST
And this soap was famous for its very involved crime and mystery storylines.
Chris BerrymanHOST
But here's perhaps the most fun connection.
Anna KeizerHOST
So I have almost all TV shows for him.
Anna KeizerHOST
The Edge of Night.
Anna KeizerHOST
He also has been on some soap operas.
Anna KeizerHOST
Santa Barbara being one of them.
Jeff CrudeleHOST
She'd started out as an actress, Hollywood, and soap operas on CBS.
Jeff CrudeleHOST
I don't know if you remember The Edge of Night and As the World Turns, well, she was on both of them.
Jeff CrudeleHOST
In 1953, a magazine called her TV's first lady of sin.
Jeff CrudeleHOST
And then she reinvented herself as a journalist.
Phil ProctorHOST
I had a similar experience.
Phil ProctorHOST
My first job out of Yale, I was still in Yale as a senior, was the Edge of Night.
Phil ProctorHOST
Oh, wow.
Phil ProctorHOST
So, so far.
Lori LoughlinGUEST
I had done some commercials.
Lori LoughlinGUEST
And then I got a part on The Edge of Night.
Lori LoughlinGUEST
I did a small role in a movie with Blythe Danner for NBC.
Lori LoughlinGUEST
And the name of it was Too Far to Go.
Lori LoughlinGUEST
It was based on a John Updike novel.
Lori LoughlinGUEST
And then after that I got on a soap opera, The Edge of Night.
Lori LoughlinGUEST
And I was too young for the role.
Lori LoughlinGUEST
They sent me in anyway.
Tom LisantiGUEST
And they took One Life to Live and All My Children up with them.
Tom LisantiGUEST
They left Ryan's Hope and Edge of Night sort of in the middle.
Tom LisantiGUEST
But the whole ABC and the adventure storylines that came and the glitz and the glamour in the 80s affected all the shows.
Tom LisantiGUEST
So even when you're doing the book, another world, It looks like it was more homey in like 77, 78, 79.
Tom GulleyHOST
They paid very copious attention to that, okay? And the radio series without the Mason character, they took the radio series of Perry Mason, right, which Gardner despised, it was romance.
Tom GulleyHOST
They took that and they, they removed Perry Mason entirely and turned it into a TV soap opera called The Edge of Night, which was on for a long, long, long time.
Tom GulleyHOST
So after these film and radio attempts to do Perry Mason, Gardner refused to license his insanely popular Perry Mason for any more adaptations.
Tom GulleyHOST
Well, his literary agent was an advertising executive named Thomas Cornwall Jackson, who had married an actress, an actress by the name of Gail Patrick in 1947.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
It just had a lot of atmosphere.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
It was just a few steps beyond Peyton Place or the Edge of Night in terms of having an air of mystery and the unknown.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
Sounds were heard in the Collinwood Mansion and sounds of sobbing and doors opening and closing, hints of ghosts.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
But that was really it.