PART 7. THE EDGE of NIGHT Lost and Found Treasured Episodes 1976-1980.
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024
- EON #5713 March 17 1978 with Forrest Compton, Ann Flood, Doug McKeon, Joel Crothers, Jayne Bentzen, Denny Albee, Joe Lambie, John Driver, and presenting... Sharon Gabet as RAVEN.
PLO raids in Israel make the headlines. Miles and Nicole are in love and Miles wife, Denise, is not happy. Timmy's mother Serena has died of pneumonia and Mike and Nancy have to break the news to him. Doug McKeon gives an exceptional performance.
Logan Swift and Detective Guthrie decide to enlist Kevin Jamison to help them nail Tony Saxon in an undercover operation. They call Kevin to set up a meeting. Kevin's new bride, RAVEN who is having an affair with Logan Swift takes that opportunity to attempt a rendezvous with Logan.
Joel must have just gotten off Somerset when this came on ??
EDGE's producer Nick Nicholson was known for using actors he had worked with on previous shows. Nick went to Joel when he cast Miles for Edge. I adored Nick. He was super loyal to actors he admired.
@@SharonRoseGabet I wish Somerset was on longer than it was. Didn't Henry go to Somerset to get ratings up 1973 ish ??
@@MrCraigblaze Yes he did.
That kid SLAYED that scene!
I agree! Incredible performance!!!
I really love watching the Edge of Night
And I LOVED working on that show. Best place to work on daytime.
@@SharonRoseGabetRaven is my favorite character. What I like about her is that she never gives up without a fight.
@@dominickdirienzo8266 I loved that about Raven too!!
Thank you Sharon
This…
You are so welcome. I hope more episodes show up. You never know.
Cool another episode and the quality is great. Thank you again Sharon.
Doug McKeon reminds me of Ricky Schroder.
Oh my poor Swifty. In a couple years he'll be in poor Kevin's shoes. I never tire of Raven's antics! 😄
HAHAHA!!
Hopefully, we’ll see the episode where Logan becomes Raven’s second husband. I think they got married after Winter was “acquitted” in Wade Meacham’s murder.
And then cheated on him shorty there after! Lol@@dominickdirienzo8266
It’s so good to see Raven in a scene with Kevin Jamison!
I am loving Joel's performance here. His voice actually seems different from the later shows. He was often yelling in the 1983 era...
When he was on Santa Barbara his voice was kinda loud too..In 85.. Just two years later..
@@MrCraigblaze sadly, Joel died in 1985, the same year he was on Santa Barbara. Gone but not forgotten.
Everyone was young and fresh here. Even Raven was a bit less "out there" than later when I relaxed more and developed her.
I noticed that too. And I liked his delivery better here. Seems over time he changed his speech inflections and tone from his earlier years on EON to what it became later.
Doug McKeon was a fine young actor. I remember his character just disappearing and no one ever bringing him up again.
Didn't they just decide Nancy and Mike shouldn't have a child, or something? Such a waste of potential - he could have even been aged up a bit and used in the teen stories of the early '80s, instead of their bringing in Nancy's nephew or whoever that was.
He was amazing!! I cry every time I watch that scene.
Doug McKeon was in demand and left for a film career. He landed the part in On Golden Pond shortly after leaving. I’m surprised they never mentioned him again although I can see why they didn’t replace him. Not easy to find a child that can act like that!
yes Kelly McGrath 😊😊
LOGAN: It's my cleaning lady's year off.
HAHA!!
Doug McKeon was a natural-born actor whose instincts were astonishingly genuine and honest for such a young performer. He did a wonderful job with the heady material Slesar gave him - not a false note can be heard. I never understood why Slesar didn't choose to bring Timmy back (with some slight soap opera aging) instead of creating the character of Kelly McGrath; Timmy's childhood traumas and his connection to historical narrative (is Timmy reliving the instability of his notorious mother Serena?) would have played out well if Timmy played the Kelly role in the Eliot Dorn story. I never knew the Karrs had a staircase in their living room! How exciting to see a Gabet-Driver scene ... Kevin and Raven were before my coming to EDGE, and I have always wanted to see them together onscreen. NOTE TO MS GABET: have you ever considered an online reunion of Raven with all her "men"? Driver, Lambie, Godart ... maybe even convince Christopher Jarrett to make a surprise appearance?
Wow...after hearing the name Kevin Jamison, it's shocking to see him in an episode with Raven finally. I would love to see more of this series pre-1979! I love the humor the soaps used to have.
I have been a big fan of The Edge of Night since I was in the 10th grade & that was back in the late 70's. It was way ahead of it's time & it got cancelled too early. It was my favorite daytime drama!
Thank you! It was my favorite daytime job as well. LOVED that show and all my co stars.
Thank you so much for sharing this episode. The scenes with the Karrs were tremendously moving - and just to lighten the situation up a little, we got the extra playing Hallucination Josie (as Louise Shaffer was on Ryan's Hope by this point). Never seen Jayne's Nicole this early - it seems like they aged her up a little by the time of the episodes I have seen more of (summer '79 and on). I love everything with Raven, Steve, Kevin and Logan. The image of Raven and Kevin just sitting in their living room "catching up on reading" (today they would be looking at their phones or Tablets), Raven's flirty games with Logan (which remind me so much of how she was with Derek a few years later). The conversation between Logan and Steve felt so real, not at all leaden the way many soap talks can be. The actors and writers all tried so hard at Edge.
Thank you. I LOVED that show. All the actors worked hard and we all cared. Best show I ever worked on.
Wow, Doug McKeon really did a great job in this scene. I thought he was really good in On Golden Pond too. According to his IMDb listings he's done some acting off and on right up to 2019 on the show Shameless. The net says he is also a director and a screenwriter. He sure could act when he was so young.
I cry every time I watch that scene.
@@SharonRoseGabet Thanks for another entertaining 23 minutes of good stuff. At any given time during EDGE's run the cast is excellent. Rarely were there the 'limited' actors one can still see scattered over show biz. EDGE actors always seemed professional thoroughbreds, every one knew their craft so well. I'd have loved to be on set even just rehearsals watching you, Ms.Gabet, and Ms. Kibble perform a scene would have taught more than most acting classes. And the McKeon kid was unbelievably spot on. What talent for a boy that age. Thanks again for your time and effort and bringing us pieces of a less insane time of life. Lol
@@daddy2299 I completely agree. Great comments and to have been on the set or in the control room quietly watching Ms. Gabet and Ms. Kibbie rehearse and/or actual tape a scene would have been a great experience and acting lesson. I wanted to be an actor when I was young but I didn't pursue it for many reasons. I knew it is a very competitive business and you will face tons of rejection and the odds are really against you. But I really enjoy actors that are so great at their craft like on The Edge Of Night.
The boy who plays Timmy is so talented!
Thanks so much for this gem, Sharon! I love your scene and the glimmer in your eyes. You have a devilish twinkle in them :)
thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the upload !! If Friday it's must be Edge of night .. I thought when Logan left that was major loss for the show..
I agree. He was a fantastic actor and was missed. And Logan had terrific chemistry with April.
@@SharonRoseGabet Joe Kinda reminds me of Doug Davidson from the Young and the restless..
The show really deaged Nicole ??
I'm sad that Maeve is gone, but it was nice to see you, Sharon! Others have said it here, but WOW, Doug Mckeon did a fantastic job as Timmy! I remember this episode, but forgot how well he played it. I don't think they had a young actor Emmy back then, but he would have won. Let's not talk about how insensitive Mike was...sorry Timmy, your mom is dead, but now we can adopt you and you can call us mom and dad. Great episode. As always, thank you so much Sharon!
I know! I was really surprised at that dialogue! Just awful. Doug certainly did deserve an Emmy for this show.
That was definitely a case of too soon!!!
Bless you
WABC TV New York....St. Patrick's Day. One of Jayne Bentzen's first episodes as Nicole after Maeve left.
@Sharon Rose Gabet when did Jayne Bentzen take over the role of Nicole? If WMON is already on it must be a few months earlier? I believe Joel Crothers and Maeve McGuire did have scenes together. Yes?
They must have. McGuire and Crothers appeared on the cover of Soap Opera Digest's August 1977 edition.
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@@eonschuylerwhitney Bentzen first appeared as Nicole in January '78. Nicole began work at WMON in Feb. or March after Nancy turned down the job.
@@hodjpodj3958 thank you for giving me this background, context. I was and am a big fan of Miles (Joel Crothers) and Nicole (Jayne Bentzen)
@@eonschuylerwhitney Do you happen to know if Bentzen opted to leave EON in '81...or was she "let go"?
I loved the Serena/Josie story line. Too bad it ended so sadly. Louise Shaffer was a wonderful actress!
Thanks so much for posting these lost and found episodes , The Edge Of Night is my all time favourite. I am from Canada, since you have found these I would like to ask, is there somewhere where you can find a clean version of the c and b vocal end theme like what is on here, a complete version like there is for the instrumental version? Let me know if you can and thanks again!....Mike
I vaguely remember there is something out there. Have you searched on YT?
@@SharonRoseGabet , The Sharon Gabet, you are like royalty! I can't believe it. You are one of my favourites! This is so cool, by the way.....what is YT?
I'm sorry just realized YT is youtube, I checked the themes , some I posted too, maybe someday a clean version of the vocal theme, and again it is an honour to have the Sharon Gabet answer back!
Sharon (I almost called you Raven!), you are soooo good on this!
HAHA!!
Great short scene for you Sharon. I guess that was in the original Whitney mansion set but we don't see much of the place where Kevin and Raven are at. The fireplace looks more elaborate to me. I've seen the one or 2 episodes about Geraldine being pushed down the stairs and Lois Kibbee laying on the bottom stairs and the staircase and front door of that set are a lot different than the set used in the return of the mansion to the show.
Yes, it was the Whitney mansion. But it was "renovated" before Sky and Raven moved back in. They changed things around a bit.
Logan's apartment is interesting with the refrigerator in the wall. I guess that design idea never caught on?
HA!
Nice to see Kevin at last...I'd heard about him in later episodes.
Too bad he married Raven... that often cut men's life short or destroyed them in some way...
@@SharonRoseGabet How about seeing Kevin’s demise and Raven’s reaction. It sounds like one of Raven’s finest performances.
I used to be able to get channel 7 when it was cloudy or rainy, although through snow. I was able to see the reenactment of the Nora Fulton murder that way.
So funny. Wish we had every episode to watch. So many were lost.
I wonder if there’s a chance we’ll see Draper and April get married. I understand that Draper was originally engaged to April before Raven was married to Kevin. Or the episode where Geraldine married Tony Saxon. After all, Geraldine was like a mother to both Raven and Kevin.
So far, no luck on finding those episodes. We will never stop looking...
I have never really seen Timmy before, but the scene where they tell him his mother has died is just wrenching and I am all teary. It's a shame that Timmy went to summer camp a few months later and never returned and was never mentioned again after 1978.
I guess he really didn’t mean that much to Nancy and Mike after all! 😂
Timmy's real aunt Josie came for Him. She was played by Jane House.
Nicholle is really beautiful
I love the idea that Raven might have dinner "with a girlfriend." Doesn't her own husband know that Raven doesn't have girlfriends?
HAHAHA!!
@@SharonRoseGabet Was Raven friends with April at this point? Was April even on the show yet?
Terry Davis was included in the cast credits at the end of the show, and Nicole mentioned April a couple of times in her scene with Miles at the WMON studio. Also, I vaguely recall scenes on the show with April and Maeve McGuire's Nicole.
@@sbookey Raven and April weren't "friends". April was sweet on Draper, and Raven was holding Draper "in reserve" in case things didn't work out with Kevin. Or Logan. Or Ansel. Draper was like Raven's #4 Priority Victim at the time. (In fact, when Raven ended up pregnant and Sterile Kevin couldn't possibly be the Baby Daddy, she went running and told April that Draper had done the deed, lol.)
What happened to the character of Timmy later in the series? Producers brought in younger characters soon after this with the introduction of Jody, Kelly and Gavin. The child actor playing Timmy did a great job here!
He really did. I think I read he went on to a film career.
@@SharonRoseGabet It seems like the producers could have SORAS’d Timmy to become a peer of Jody and Kelly.
Watching this makes me see the glaring difference in how Nicole was portrayed once Jayne Bentzen took over the part. I know I have mentioned this before, but what on earth were they thinking when they recast such a seasoned and wonderful actress like Maeve McGuire with a 20 years younger Jayne Bentzen? To me that's like replacing Erika Slezak on One Life To Live with Britney Spears as the new Victoria Lord. Lol!!!! Totally distracting and ludicrous.
I was an occasional viewer of the show when Maeve McGuire played Nicole, but I was a regular viewer and big fan of the show when Jayne Bentzen and Lisa Sloan were in the role. It's kinda crazy, but I've always considered the character that Jayne and Lisa played to be a different one than what Maeve played. It strained my credulity to to believe that either of the younger actresses was old enough to have experienced what viewers had seen Maeve's Nicole went through in her time on the show. Neither could I really see either younger actresses with Donald May. They'd have looked like Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn in "Sabrina," like a grumpy ole pawpaw and his perky granddaughter.