Edge of Night December 25, 1974
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2015
- This is the Episode of the Edge of Night from December 24, 1974. The Karrs and Pollocks gather for Christmas open house at Mike and Nancy's house. Mike (Forrest Compton), still recovering from hepatitis, wishes he were well enough to defend Martha Marceau, who is being tried for the murder of Taffy Simms. Joe questions Mike about the status of the case. Nancy tells everyone The Marceaus won't be stopping by, as they'd rather have a quiet day at home. However, Johnny John LaGioia) and Laurie (Jeanne Ruskin) will visit, and so will Adam (Donald May) and Brandy (Dixie Carter). Johnny and Laurie invite Danny (Lou Criscuolo) to the Karr open house, but he declines. The Dallases worry about Danny being alone on Christmas, the first since his wife Babs was killed. Johnny wonders why his sister Tracy (Patricia Conwell) isn't at work. Laurie wishes Danny would change his mind about going to Mike and Nancy's. Danny tells his friend not to worry. He's really okay. There's no Christmas cheer at Brandy Henderson's apartment when her boss DA Ira Paulson (Bernard Barrow) stops by to discuss the Simms murder case. Ira is determined to win the case so that he can move to a higher office. When he moves on, he expects his people to go, too. Brandy insists she is doing the best she can to convict Martha Marceau, but Ira suggests Brandy's relationship with Adam is interfering with the prosecution. Adam is surprised to find Paulson at Brandy's apartment on Christmas Day. Doesn't he have family? Ira reveals he and Brandy have a great deal of work to do, despite the holiday season. At the Karr home, Rose (Virginia Kaye) wonders if it's too early to toast the New Year. Nancy and Mike don't think so, but Mike can only have ginger ale. Johnny declines making a toast; he has everything he wants. Nancy thinks Mike looks unwell, but he protests that he's fine. Nancy answers the door and finds Adam, alone. At the New Moon, Danny says a quiet Merry Christmas to himself. He sits at a table, just watching the Christmas tree. He begins to daydream about the Christmas he didn't have. Danny envisions his late wife Babs at the tree, laughing and opening gifts. It would have been their first Christmas as husband and wife. Babs (Leslie Ray) reaches out to Danny with her gift. Suddenly, Danny snaps back to reality. It isn't Babs at all. It's Tracy. After apologizing for his rude behavior, Danny opens his gift from Tracy, a lovely scarf. Tracy senses something troubles Danny today, then she realizes he is thinking of Babs. Tracy listens intently as Danny discusses his grief and loneliness. When he breaks down, she holds him tightly, realizing he is a deeply loving man. It includes the commercials.
Written by Henry Slesar (c) 1974 Procter & Gamble Productions
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Forrest Compton was a great and under rated actor. He earned an MFA from the Yale Drama School.
Soaps will NEVER be like this again.
Agreed!
Donald May, Adam Drake, died on January 28, 2022 at his home in Kent, New York. He was 92. He had recently been diagnosed with cancer of the larynx and had a stroke 5 years earlier according to his wife reports say. Rest in peace Donald May.
I cannot believe that Forrest Compton has died recently. May he rest peacefully!
Donald May also died on January 28, 2022....both men lived long lives with illustrious careers.
The Lovely Classy Dixie Carter RIP
And Julia Sugerbaker .. XD
Memories (continued
from 1954 episode).
Mama still watching, every
Weekday, over 20 years later! From my early pre-school years, to this show date, 4 years after my graduation from high school! Daddy had become ill, she was seeing to him. These shows were her escape from chaotic life. I had married, much to their disapproval, and was working in retail ladies’ clothing.
♥️ Mama’s been in Heaven since 1993; miss her so much. Always there for all of us, unconditionally. ♥️ Daddy already was in Heaven, since 1978, 4 years after this show date. Miss him greatly; he loved us all, just not as unconditional! Complicated man, for sure♥️!
Life is like a long Soap Opera!
Z
Edge of Night was the first soap to have crime as main stories. Waaaaay before all the other soaps.
Dixie Carter had very fond memories of her time on EON; she never forgot her roots and always discussed it in interviews and even co-hosted a SOD Awards show during her Designing Women fame.
I remember the late Ms. Carter for her "DW" role. Another fine sitcom star who was on "Edge" was Lori Loughlin of "Full House" fame.
( sigh ) the classy classy beautiful Dixie Carter loved everything she was in.
R I P Ms. Dixie Carter we are still enjoying your acting into 2016
She was a beauty.
+Brooke Hanley Lucy Martin who played Tiffany Whitney Douglas was a very pretty woman.
She was also very elegant.
She loved everything she was in except Diff'rent Strokes, refused to talk about it in interviews.. I also assume she did voice training after all she did spend 8 years looking after her daughters before going back into TV. TEON was the start of an amazing career.
Leaney McDonald I think Dixie and Gary Coleman had quarrels on set. They said he didn’t like her and he was known to get whatever he wanted. So on mutual sides Dixie choose not to continue her role and the producers didn’t fight to keep her.
10 years later, 1984, would be the last episode for "The Edge of Night."
That finale aired on ABC, which had picked up the show after its long run on CBS. "Edge" thus became the first soap to change networks.
Thanks for the uploads. This was a classic show. I wish it would have stayed on the air. Loved The Edge of Night.
RIP, Ann Flood, Forrest Compton, Dixie Carter, Donald May.
Another Classic soap the edge of night! RIP Forrest Compton(aka Mike Karr) Who has passed at age 94
He died from covid.
He occasionally appeared on Gomer Pyle, USMC as Lieutenant Colonel Grey
WOW - what a gem to watch !! Love the commercials ( the TIDE one was so funny to see ) Thankyou for uploading !!
MAN! I was probably taking a nap in my crib when this episode aired, as I was only four months old.... 😊
Me to I was like 9 months old
Loved this back in the day!
Loving this, thank you so very much!
The ADs, the mannerisms, the style, this was how things were done. Combine this attitude with todays freedoms and rights and technology and you have paradise.
Dixie Carter! I would love to see scenes from when she briefly played Dorian Lord on One Life To Live. She stepped in for Nancy Pinkerton while she was on maternity leave.
She was a beautiful Dorian Lord
I was a kid when this show aired. I remembered thinking that Ann Flood was so pretty
And Ann was on Search for tomorrow right after this.. XD
She is about 85 years old now!
@@bostonblackie9503Think she recently died
This is awesome on so many levels.
I know that "THE EDGE OF NIGHT" was a CBS Daytime series before moving to ABC-TV in 1975, but that trippy opening had something of a gothic tone to it!
I still remember that low note on the piano, as a small child!
....love the vintage ads included from the '60's and '70's!
Loved it!
It's actually film noir.
I remember watching Edge of Night and Secret Storm every day after school. Mike and Nancy Carr were staples for years with their friends the Christophers. It was shocking when Nancy started actually wearing jeans or pants and they showed her vacuuming or being more normal. this show was fun to watch.
December 25, 1974. My father's last Christmas on this earth.
Sorry to hear that...
Presented Live!... They made them work on Christmas Day? :) Loved this show. How I wish we could see all of these older episodes from the 70s.
the only upside is everyone got to go home by 3:00 that afternoon, with EON being on at 2:30 at that time...
@@dannyhill8797Doing a "Live" Episode is very challenging. In 2015 when the UK Soap Opera EastEnders celebrated it's 30th Anniversary they did a Storyline where fans finally found out who killed Lucy Beale. Laurie Brett (Ex-Jane Beale) who was Lucy's Stepdaughter almost fell into laughter. Also Xmas Day on UK Soaps especially on EastEnders is so depressing because someone always gets kicked to the curb or a betrayal comes to light (Ie an affair). When I told UK Soap Fans that Megan Markle got her start on General Hospital they were surprised.
I'd love it if someone created a network which began re airing all these top soaps from day one on.😋
It was 60 years ago that this legendary, cult-classic soap-opera began.
A show that averaged 9-10 million viewers daily and towards its end about 3 million viewers (which is more than a greta many #1 shows on cable and a few on broadcast) hardly fits the definition of "cult."
I loved this soap and I was just a child
Thanks for the upload !! A VERY classy Dixie Carter..I am NOT used to see her in 70's clothes..This was Still the CBS Years !!
This would come on right before Dark Shadow.wow i was a kid then
The actor in the Campbell's Soup commercial is the late Beau Kayzer, who played Brock Reynolds on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS.
His actual last name is Kazer.
That is actually Gil Gerard, not Beau Kazer
I haven’t seen this since I was a kid.
I was watching it when it was still live. Adam Drake, the lawyer, touched the impressive looking row of law books on his shelf, and the false front collapsed. A shell with a wooden prop to hold it upright. He put it back and just kept acting. Most of the cast would be around 95 now…
I remember that! Lolol
Thank you so much! Ive really been missing this episode since saynotoursoap's channel disappeared. Happy holidays to you!
How I miss this show
Omg it's so amazing getting to see Dixie Carter when she was on this. I can't believe I was only 2 y.o at the time.
Wow. CBS and Procter & Gamble made them do a live episode on Christmas. The would be the last Christmas episode for Edge on CBS.
27:58 -"Stay tuned for _The Price Is Right,_ which follows on most of these CBS stations."
And there was no Match Game '74 and Tattletales after that, because it was CBS Festival of the Lively Arts for Young People - A Child's Christmas in Wales.
...this is Hal Simms.... Inviting you to join us each weekday afternoon foooooor Theeee Edddgggggge of Night!!!!
BTB, this is the exact TPIR which followed this edition of TEON this Xmas Day 1974! 😊
ruclips.net/video/I-ISc3KJUkc/видео.html
@@AarHan3 Great... A complete broadcast afternoon when put with other stuff!
Isn’t it amazing these were still done live in 1974. It makes it more fun to watch. You see little stumbles here and there.
The show was still done live at this time. It wasn't until it moved to ABC that they went to video.
Yes As the World Turns and EON were the last live broadcast soaps well until 1975.
Forrest Compton just turned 93!
ah the good old days of live tv
Forrest Compton, aka "Colonel Gray", the base commander on Gomer Pyle USMC
That show portrayed the Marines as a bunch of incompetent morons!
He was a great actor and played several roles on Hogan's Heros, both German and American.
I remember this so well. Martha was the only character in the history of the show to be tried twice for murder, the first time in 1966-67 for the murder of Rick Oliver, Laura Hillyer's lover. It was also nice to see Liz and Jim Fields on the cast credits but Liz had already left earlier that fall but her name was still there. She was a favorite of mine and I held hope she would return. Alas, she didn't. Martha herself, would leave just 3 months later upon her acquittal. The loss of two of my favorite EON characters.
I loved Martha Marceau. She was truly a long-suffering heroine. Laura let poor Martha take the rap for Rick Oliver's murder. In one storyline, the mob was spooking out of her own home, which sent Cookie Christopher back to the looney bin.
When they replaced Mandel Kramer with a former porn star as chief of police, I was dumbfounded.
Nicole was the other character twice accused of murder (Stephanie Martin in 1969 and Nora Fulton in 1983).
My cat barked at me when i told him to stop being a cat!🤔🤨😑😐🙄😏cos he was just darting everywhere like he was on something. He was knocking everything down, shreading a roll of toilet paper, staring out my window making this lil noise they make with their mouths and teeth, when they see a bird or a fly or any moving creature outside. Getting into bags, sniffing on everything,sitting on stuff i just set down,etc. It got so bad , i missed the Edge of night, episode 1974.
the PRICE is RIGHT something Hal Simms mentioned at the end-not to mention aired in most markets at that time-still airs on CBS to this very day-11AM ET/10 CT,RMT & PT.
Everything about that show seems well thought out.
Real writers
You can certainly tell this was live! Bernard Barrow bungled his lines twice, the first time, he corrected it, the second, at 11:00, he calls Brandy Taffy.
I didn't remember Bernard Barrow being on the soap. Seven months later he would star on Ryan's Hope.
I do!
I watched this show from 1969 till the end in 1984. I loved the murder mysteries on this show and I remember quite well what exonerated Martha. Adam Drake was looking at photos of the victim from the crime scene, after Martha had mentioned about Taffy's hair being in curlers, but the photograph showed her hair down. It turned out the murder was faked to ensnare Martha, and Taffy went along with it, but was double crossed by the real murderer, who came back after Martha left and this time really killed her.
A time machine
I REMEMBER CHRISTMAS 1974 I WENT TO THE MOVIES THAT NIGHT TO SEE TOWERING INFERNO
Do you remember the joke about seeing The Towering Inferno and Earthquake together? It was shake and bake.
Still trying to find the 1971(?) shows where Stephanie Martin was stabbed to death in Nicole's dress shop...
God.. XD
Merry Christmas and/or Happy HoliDays!
Bernard Barrow!! :D
Love Dixie Carter. Rip
I didn’t know they were still doing soaps live in the 1970s.
PRESENTED LIVE!
December 25, 1974 (Christmas Day 1974)
I wish all the episodes from this one on were available.
That would be over 7000 episodes. However the policy at the time, for both network and Proctor and Gamble Productions, was to wipe the tape.
@@bostonblackie9503 Just a mere 7000 episodes? just kidding and yes I know their policy was to reuse the tapes. What a shame to lose all the hard work all those people did to create all those episodes before they stopped that policy.
I actually remember Christmas 1974 I was thrilled to death I got an audio recorder just like I had wanted and seeing The Towering Inferno at the theater on Christmas night 1974 pretty crazy movie I knew nothing about The Edge Of Night then
R I P Ann Flood
She was always lovely.
There was a storyline where Adam Drake went on trial for the murder of Jake Berman, who plotted to prevent Adam from marrying Nicole. The real killer was Joel Gantry, who was Jake’s stepson and wanted revenge for Jake killing Joel’s mother Edith.
Too bad Lee Sheldon ruined a once great show. He couldn't hold a candle to Henry Slesar.
So tru...the last great stories was mancion of the damned...and the emily draper april story....after that with jodi etc.the show became beyond boring!
Dixie Carter before Designing Women
This character was fabulous. She'd have lasted longer had not Maeve McGuire returned. Maeve's Nicole was a longtime audience favorite.
Although Dixie was a Southerner, she talked like a Yankee when she played Brandy.
Omg this music. Too much!
Question: Do any CBS episodes from the Spring of 1972 exist with Hal Simms saying "Stay Tuned for 'The Amateur's Guide to Love', which follows on most of these CBS stations"?
I would have loved to hear Hal Simms say stay tuned for All in the Family next on most tgese CBS stations.
Whatever happened to "Lava - with pumice"?
Glad we were lucky. I used to tape the shows, but this episode was long before VCR's.
Some stores still carry it..I think the dollar store does ?? XD
@ 0:01, WJBK, TV2, Detroit (before it was a Fox affiliate, it was a CBS affiliate).
This must be post-SECRET STORM material for Bernard Barrow.He would later become a regular in RYAN’S HOPE and LOVING.
Bernard Barrow was on EoN in 1966 and 1974-75, followed by SS (1971-74), then RH and Loving......
At the 10:57 mark, he calls her Taffy instead of Brandy.
Anybody remember the Eve Morris storyline from 1964? I think she was a hairdresser who stabbed a client with hair-cutting scissors.
Yes, she was played by Constance Ford.
She stabbed Malcolm Thomas (the late Ed Kemmer), who was married to Cookie, Nancy's sister.
Was that a young Sharon Gabet (Raven, EDGE) as the young mother in the Bayer commercial?
was this really live???
Julia Sugarbaker!
Is that downtown Los Angeles?
It’s Cincinnati, then as now the HQ of Procter and Gamble. This show staged in NYC at the CBS Broadcast Center.
Live on Christmas Day?
This must've aired on ABC while NBC & CBS were airing special holiday sports
I take that back,as THIS WAS CBS (I thought EON had moved to ABC by this time. Guess not..... #Oops :D )
Pat Cook, KB0OXD the first ABC episode was an hour long on December 1st 1975
Francis Mercado Actually the debut episode on ABC was 90 minutes long, an hour and a half.
Hal Simms was the announcer
Seems like someone should say"I'll make some coffee! "
The cat that barked liked a dog lol
During this, 900 people died in that hurricane..
Do they still make zest?
"Soap Operas are dying out and
of the remaining four GH,DOOL,&Y&R,
are pale comparisons of their current
episodes,and B&B is also not like its early
days and and soaps like EON
and the others that are no longer on
were classics and still are,
and the commercials were great
they don't show commercials
anymore nowdays,
they only show annoying drivel
selling crap,sorry but they no longer
have anything on tv these days
that I care to watch,
Memories."-🤔.
🌐📻🌐.
that
I was a long-time fan who mourned when EON was canceled. I love these clips but, just as I try to get back into the plot, it says "watch tomorrow" and I don't know where to go to see consecutive shows.. Is there such a place? Thanks.
Mary Oliver - most episodes before 1979 are lost forever. :(. This is a rare episode that survived the wiping process.
Waidaaaaaaaaminute... First, how did you get this on TAPE and what is it doing airing on CBS on Xmas day? Usually XMAS on CBS was the parade and then they shove football down your throat en masse ad nauseaum.....
Today there must be 20 types of Tide back then it was only one
Yes and same with Oreo cookies!! LOl
I was driving around in my 1974 Grand Torino Broughm listening to Head East, Flat as a Pancake!
Not watching much of this stuff at all!
Is that johnny ryan?
I was born in 2002 is that the 1980's.
is that Dixie carter in this epsiode
Louis Tenore Yes. Dixie played the character of Brandy Henderson from 1974 to 1976.
i was right it was her thanks
Before she became the outspoken Julia Sugarbaker, better known as "The Mouth of The South "I remember her as Attorney Brandy Henderson on the TEON when I was a little girl, my grandmother was addicted to all the CBS soaps.
Dixie Carter looks way older than 35 years old here.
Why did they have to point out that things were broadcast live? I mean seriously, how could they air things if the actors were dead?
for a long time, the reverse was the norm: just about everything was live; then, at some point, ATWT and EON were the only two live shows left..for me, watching filmed television in primetime all the time, it was 'special' to see these performers *at the moment* instead of on some tape delay..however, late in 1975, both EON and ATWT stopped doing live shows - ATWT because it expanded to an hour and no one wanted to take the chance of something going wrong..EON (canceled to make room for the 60m ATWT) moved to ABC where there were no live shows - and EON wasn't going to be the exception...
Lol