Edge of Night Remembered

Edge of Night Remembered was a Yahoo group that had moderated posting, with 309 members at its close. The group's peak period was in 2004. While posting diminished rapidly by in 2012, when it was active it had as many as 186 messages a month. Discussion ranged from celebrity news and episode discussion to discussion of other soaps.
Description: A forum for those of us still mourning the loss of "The Edge of Night," seeking a chance to reminisce and remember.
==Sample Posts==
December 9, 1998
> Hello to all! (all 3 of us, so far!)
>
> I watched "Edge of Night" off and on since the early 1970's, but
> became totally dedicated starting around 1980. My favorite plots were
> those that the audience got to participate in; the "whodunnits" which
> remained a mystery for all but those making the show - until they were
> good & ready to tell us, that is.
>
> The cancellation of the show in 1984 was especially devastating to me
> because of its timing. It was on the Friday of a particularly bad
> week for me. The week had started with my father-in-law's passing.
> Then, on the day of his funeral, my brother (only age 38) died of a
> brain aneurism. Then they cancelled my favorite show (Happy
> Halloween, if I recall).
>
> That was probably too much information, but explains why I took the
> cancellation so hard, still annoyed by it to this day.
>
> Let me hear from the rest of you!hey everyone,
do you remember some of those stories from the early 70's. i started in late 72 or 73 and have been a fan till the end. i am real interested in the storylines before i started watching.
i'd say that the show was probably at its best(in the later years) during the period of 77-80 especially, when they were kicking out great story after great story.
could anyone have figured out that dr norwood had killed denise, or that winter actually did kill wade. how about the paige madison story w/ tobias and then the mansion of the damned and...
i could go on and on...
i met henry slesar last night at his book signing. he was very cordial and friendly. it was a very "intimate" store (read small). there were about 20 people crammed in there on line to have henry sign the books. he is on his way to australia for more book promotion. he was concerned about his traveling and being able to post the
episodes of love kills on the net on time. there wasnt much time to get into deep conversation with him since there were 20 other people standing there hanging on to every word. i guess i didnt want to sound like a star struck fan. i probably did anyway.
hope to hear from yall....
January 5, 1999
The Edge of Night mailing list is now up to 11 members. It really
began to increase shortly after I posted the URL on the homepage
guestbook. (Perhaps I can get the html provided by Onelist.com posted
there as well????)
Some of you have not yet taken the time to introduce yourselves to us.
C'mon! Don't be shy! You're among friends, here! Drop us a line when
you get a chance!
On a previous note, I inquired about attempting a USA-Network blitz
about reviving the EON reruns, and got a positive response. Does
anyone have any experience with such a write-in campaign?
Do we want to send a number of standardized letters, or should we all
just individually compose our own? At the Babylon 5 Fan Club site
(http://www.thestation.com), a number of us had suggestions for
improvements to their bulletin board section. In order to "get organized"
we started an e-mail "letter to the fan club,"
and sent it around for several days, each adding suggestions, via
email, eventually coming up with a letter that we all "signed" to
send. We actually were successful in implementing several
changes that way.
Let's hear everyone's views on this!
B5 Raven
April 1, 2004
> > > > > > Thanks Carmine. You've managed to confirm what I
> > > > > > suspected all along. Both Mandel Kramer and Teri Keane were victims of the
> > > > > > industry wide age discrimination policy. Unfortunately, it's still
> > > > > > prevalent today.
> > > > Obviously not Tony. Otherwise, they wouldn't be
> > > > repeating the same mistakes
> > > > time and time again. It's not just age
> > > > discrimination against the actors
> > > > either, it's also the long time viewer. The Powers
> > > > that be seem to think
> > > > that no matter what they do, the 20+ year viewer
> > > > will stick around and if
> > > > they don't, no big deal, they aren't the ones the
> > > > advertisers are interested
> > > > in anyway.
> > > When I was a teenager I was more interested in the
> > > older characters.
> > > Time and time again younger people save that, but
> > > the powers-that-be never listen.
> >So true. I remember when "Golden Girls" was at its
> >peak and all the "powers that be" were saying "Oh,
> >look, there IS a market for the older folks," when
> > in reality, they should have been saying "Oh, look,
> > there IS a market for intelligent writing and fine acting!"
> > My teenage daughters were some of the biggest "Golden Girl" fans around!
> I just wish I knew what it would take to get the
> POWERS THAT BE to realize
> that the veteran fans know what it takes to make a
> good storyline. Having
> said that I do have to take my hat off to Chris
> Goutman at ATWT. He's at
> least trying to include some of the veteran
> performers in good storylines.
> Mind you, he worked on EDGE as Matt Sharkey, so he
> saw first hand what
> worked.
The viewers want their veteran actors and use of their
respective shows histories. I think we understand
their comes a time when they can't be front-burner,
but they should still an important presence.
Finally, Chris Goutman gets it, but still has a long
way to go.
April 1, 2004
having those tapes today is something I thank USA network for where EON is concerned. They say you don't get second chances but because USA chose to rerun the show I got that chance as did many others my only regret is that I did not record the entire USA run. Where my tapes are concerned I plan to transfer them to DVD since tapes do tend to lose quality over the years and those are something that I do not want to lose.
 
BTW, is there anyone here that taped the show during its original run from ABC? Even thoughtI have the last six months I want the last 10 episodes as they originally aired hopefully including commercials and promo spots for other shows that were on at the time. . . 
 
On the subject of reruns, the perfect all soap network would be called Soap Opera Heaven and would show reruns of Edge Of Night(any pre June 1981 - December 1984 which were shown on USA), Search For Tomorrow(any pre 1982 -1985 also shown on USA. . . I would love to see some of the CBS run again), Love Of Life, Capitol, Santa Barbara, Another World, Dark Shadows, Rituals, Ryan's Hope, Loving, Texas, Another Life.
 
They would have a 12 hour block that would be shown twice daily that way if you missed the first airing you would have the chance to see them again. Where EON and SFT are concerned they would devote a full hour of the schedule to each one and they would show the credits as they originally aired in first run NOT this compressed mess that you see today. If there is one thing I hate about network TV today it is the way they no longer show the credit crawl for programs and the networks that do this picture in picture thing with the credits being unreadable and don't even think about hearing the ending theme because it ain't there. . .
 
just my 1/2 cents worth
March 21, 2011
> Haven't really been keeping up with the board...sorry...but youtube seems to have quite a bit posted of EON....I think I noticed a few complete episodes...albeit in > installments....but it might be worth a look.
i wish YouTube allowed videos more than 15m in length, because i have any number of 1980 EON episodes and clips i'd love to upload!!!!!!!!!
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