"The Edge of Night" (1956) TV series 1956-1984

Creator:

Irving Vendig

Seasons:

1 | unknown

Release Date:

2 April 1956 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

In the fictional city of Monticello, attorney Mike Karr and his colleagues are involved in solving crimes...

Plot Keywords:

Attorney | Soap Opera | Murder | Courtroom

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 6 wins & 26 nominations

Cast

Tony Craig	...	Asst. Dist. Atty. Draper Scott / ... (28 episodes, 1975-1981)
Terry Davis	...	April Cavanaugh Scott / ... (27 episodes, 1977-1981)
Frances Fisher	...	Detective Deborah 'Red' Saxon / ... (23 episodes, 1976-1981)
Margaret Colin	...	Paige Madison (21 episodes, 1979)
Kim Hunter	...	Nola Madison (aka Martha Cory) / ... (20 episodes, 1979-1980)
Jayne Bentzen	...	Nicole Travis Stewart Drake Cavanaugh #2 / ... (19 episodes, 1978-1981)
Denny Albee	...	Detective Steve Guthrie / ... (19 episodes, 1976-1980)
Forrest Compton	...	Dist. Atty. Mike Karr #3 / ... (17 episodes, 1972-1984)
Joel Crothers	...	Dr. Miles Cavanaugh / ... (16 episodes, 1977-1984)
Joe Lambie	...	Assistant District Attorney Logan Swift #1 / ... (15 episodes, 1977-1981)
Ann Flood	...	Nancy Pollock Karr (14 episodes, 1962-1984)
Lee Godart	...	Eliot Dorn (14 episodes, 1978-1980)
Ann Williams	...	Margo Huntington Dorn / ... (14 episodes, 1978-1980)
Lew Resseguie	...	Sgt. Sam Dwyer / ... (12 episodes, 1980)

Also Known As:

Edge of Night (USA) (last season title)

Runtime:

30 min (7420 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White (1956-1967) | Color (1967-1984)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

CBS Broadcast Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Procter & Gamble Productions (PGP)

Trivia:

Created by Irving Vendig, who had been writing the weekday radio drama Perry Mason for CBS and Proctor and Gamble. The program was originally intended to be a TV version of that radio drama, but the rights were denied by Perry Mason's creator, Erle Stanley Gardner, because the producers did not promise that the characters of Perry Mason and Della Street would remain romantically uninvolved.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Starsky and Hutch: Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty (#2.23)" (1977)

Soundtrack:

The Edge Of Night

The Emmy-Winning Seventies

`The Edge of Night' was the consequential daytime drama of mystery, suspense, police detection and crime. For anyone who loved a good murder mystery, this was indeed the afternoon drama to watch. In most instances, you worried every week if lead attorney and crime stopper Mike Karr, his wife Nancy Pollock Karr, or daughter Laurie Ann, would vanish off the face of the earth or be murdered by a larger than life villain who was as well causing grief for Bill Marceau, the chief of police, and the very good citizens of Monticello. The romance between attorney Adam Drake, and socialite and often stalked Nicole Travis Stewart, started `The Edge of Night's' first real super couple and the dynamic twosome simply took our breaths away when they finally wedded in a handsome ceremony in the Karrs garden. It wasn't often that fans of `The Edge of Night' got treated to afternoon romance, bed-hopping and hen-peck husbandry similar to the scenery on most of the other daytime dramas...since `Edge's' important characters were simply too busy scheming about other relevant matters or solving `whodunnit' if `whodunnit' didn't kill them first.

The murder of fan favorite Adam Drake in 1977, was perhaps the show's biggest shocker.