CAROLYN: Gee, this lime green sweater and matching skirt always worked its wiles on Adam... maybe tomorrow I'll wear that SILVER number for Chris.

I, too, preferred the 60's storylines to the time travelling ones. There were aspects of 1897 and 1795 I enjoyed (and you often got the feeling that the cast embraced the period costumes, sets, wigs, dialogue, etc.)... after all, without 1795, there'd be no Reverend Trask or Angelique, and without 1897, we'd have no Magda & Sandor. Yet when the DS tapes first became available many years ago, I skipped the 1795 story altogether for my collection... and not just because Don Briscoe had yet to join the cast

 

Don Briscoe reacts to the latest prank from the stagehands: a teleprompter with the script written in pig-latin.

And whatever became of those silky blue pajamas that Don Briscoe wore as Todd in the movie "House of Dark Shadows"??! (Hi, Jen) If those went up for auction at a DS Fest, I'd be getting my credit card limit extended by cell phone!

Weren't Clarice Blackburn and Humbert Astredo also on Edge of Night at one point?

I don't believe so, Gothick, unless they were one-day cameos versus a continuing character. Clarice went over to "The Secret Storm" in 1969-70, after her Minerva Trask gig. She came back to DS once during the Leviathan story, and later in the "1995" segments as Mrs. Johnson when her character on "Storm" was "killed off."

But as for Six Degrees of Separation between DS and "Edge," Lois Kibbee, who for years played dour matriarch Geraldine Whitney on "Edge," co-wrote "The Bennett Playbill" and was very close friends with Joan Bennett. Robert Gerringer's character on "Edge" tried to woo Geraldine. And Meg Myles, who co-starred with the Divine One (Grayson Hall) in "Satan In High Heels", appeared on "Edge" around 1980-82 as Sid, a gravelly-voiced tavern owner. The soap world's a small one.  LOVED me some "The Edge Of Night."  Often as disturbing and tense as DS could be.

JULIA: I hint about wanting a romantic night out at The Collinsport Inn for my birthday, and instead, you get me a lousy stethoscope?!

BARNABAS: Well, now that I've seen you in your sexy mod nightgown, Julia, your first idea holds new promise.

Hope it's been a great day for you, Midnite. Happy, happy birthday baby - you put the "B" in birthdays (and in "Briscoe"). Will miss seeing you at the convention this year - but next time it's held in California, we'll reunite around the piano in the lobby (bubbly or Chablis in hand).

xxoo
Sandor