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« on: October 13, 2011, 08:13:49 AM »
My little girlfriend's mother always watched it when I came home from school with her - it must have been a 3:30 show out on the West Coast (it tipped me off that DS was coming up next on ABC, and I'd better grab a cookie and go home to catch Barnabas). The mom wasn't big on DS: "Too violent" she said, yet on The Edge of Night, someone was getting shot, stabbed, kidnapped, blackmailed, poisoned, hypnotized or pushed from a high altitude on a daily basis - though not necessarily the same character. This was around late 1969. DS was going into the Leviathan phase, and "The Edge Of Night" was definitely scary and suspenseful around then. With DS, we the viewers normally knew who the bad guys were up front and throughout, but on "Edge", there was always a plot twist that catapulted an unassuming back-burner character into the spotlight: as the "real" psychotic, murderous villain or villainess you hadn't suspected. The casting was great, just like on DS. The actors playing the killers or would-be killers on "Edge" made those characters indelible in our minds. I remember a scene with a psychotic blonde woman named Stephanie slapping a man in the face and hissing "You filth!" I missed how he triggered that response. Days later she had a knife in her back. It could get you hooked if the storyline was good.