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Edge in the 60's

posted 16 years ago by lastmidnite2
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When I was a kid I watched it with my mom all through the 1960's. Man they had the best murder mysteries, I was hooked. Does anybody remember when Nicole was falsely accused of stabbing Stephanie?

[–] MissMargoChanning 16 years ago

It's been such a long time, but I do remember Nicole being in some trial. Was Adam her lawyer? I think they were romanticly involved as well. I was just a kid at the time.
I also recall thinking "That's Brandy!" when I first saw Dixie Carter on Designing Women.

[–] lastmidnite2 16 years ago

Yes, Adam was her lawyer AND her boyfriend. Stephanie was a psycho who was terrorizing Nicole for reasons I can't remember. I remember the scene where she was waiting in a basement for Nicole to come along, when all of a sudden a look of shock and pain came over her face. Then she fell forward with a knife sticking out of her back. Man did that impress me! lol. Anyway, Nicole was accused but the real killer turned out to be a woman who I can't remember either! Afterward, Martha Marceau served tea, and all was well!

[–] MissMargoChanning 16 years ago

LOL! I am thinking back to what you said about this Stephanie. I remember this woman who was a psycho. Did Stephanie have a split personality?

As for the show, I always found it to be exciting and very edgy. The best crime drama. The court trials were always exciting and interesting. I can no longer watch soaps now days. The writing is just too ridiculous. I miss the well thought out story lines of the past. The Edge Of Night always kept you on the edge of your seat.

[–] lastmidnite2 16 years ago

I don't remember if she had a split personality, but she was a wacky blonde about 45 or so who was always flipping out. She would always call Nicole on the phone, so Adam worked out a system when he called her. He would let the phone ring twice, then hang up, then call back again; which would mean it was safe to answer the phone! I can't believe I remember all this useless information!

[–] Belleluvsroses 16 years ago

Do I ever!! Adam Drake (portrayed by the GREAT Donald May, who also played the small role of the Kurt Russell character's alcoholic father in the Disney film "Follow me Boys") defended her, which caused the two of them to fall in love. I watched it for four or five years, got interested in other things, including another soap (the now defunct "Another World")then,in 77, after it had been on ABC for a year and a half, watched it for a short while, then, because of other things that came up in my life, had to give it up. Never did get back to it on a regular basis after that. Oh, I'm ashamed to state that I forgot who did off Stephanie. Do you remember who did so?

[–] lastmidnite2 16 years ago

I remember it was a middle aged woman. Who and why? Sorry hon, those brain cells are gone!

[–] abajasds 16 years ago

Stephanie who?

[–] charleslpearson 16 years ago

Stephanie was mistakedly killed by Pamela Stewart who married Nicole's ex-husband Duane who was still in love with Nicole...Stephanie's deaf-mute daughter, Debbie, was key... Debbie always went into a fit of hysterics when she saw a mannequin that resembled Nicole--which I found terrifying!...However, Debbie's true fits were over the dress the mannequin was wearing, the same dress that Pamela wore when she went McGrath's Boutique that night and stabbed Stephanie instead of Nicole from behind a curtain...Pamela had worn that particularly dress because it was only one she had that made her look as good as stylish Nicole Travis...Stephanie hated Nicole because she blamed Ben Travis for the death of her husband and Debbie's sister...Stephanie stirred up Monticello...and Cookie thought Stephanie was having an affair with Ron, her husband..One night Stephanie phoned Nancy Karr anoymously and told her that Mike was with Nicole...

[–] lastmidnite2 16 years ago

Wow, is this all from memory? If so you're a better man than I!! You really jogged my memory with the mannequin reference; it freaked me out too! Thanks for jogging my sadly fading memory!

[–] abajasds 16 years ago

Wow that stuff sounds very interesting. I only seen about 4 episodes of EON from the 60's.Actually I wasn't even born when the show was still on. Only thing I know about this show is from what I read.At least now thanks P&G channel I can watch episodes from the 70's and 80's now.

That storyline you mentioned shows as scary as Jingles The Clown from "Somerset"!

[–] tobisteiner62 14 years ago

Stephanie's deaf-mute daughter, Debbie, was key...

Sorry to sound nit-picky, but Debbie, though (temporarily) mute as a result of trauma, was not deaf. And she regained her speech just in the nick of time. When the murderess, trying to bluff her way out of Debbie's dramatic courtroom identification, stood sneering beside the mannequin, Debbie burst out with "It's the dress! The dress she wore the night she killed my mother!"

Thanks for bringing this all back to me. TEoN was an incredible show back in the sixties and the early seventies. The writing was superb, and I regarded most of the characters almost as family. Although some of them I certainly wouldn't have wanted as relatives--that wacko Stephanie or her killer to name two.
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[–] wbf200 14 years ago

Another thing about that storyline that was so kool was that whenever Stephanie would be plotting against Nicole and her friends, she would always be quoting Shakespeare. Just before she was murdered herself, she was planning to do in Nicole by stabbing her, and she quoted the dagger soliloquy that Lady Macbeth gave just before she committed murder herself. And then Stephanie was stabbed herself! Great stuff.

[–] rhettsamigo2003 13 years ago

Do you all recall the stocking that Stephanie would wear over her head when she was stalking Nicole? That really freaked me out as a child. And when she peeled it off one time to reveal to us in the audience that it was SHE ( we thought she was so sweet, working with Nicole at the Boutique !) , we were shocked . I don't remember much about Pamela ( played by Irene Dailey), but Stephanie and Jonah Lockwood/Keith Whitney really epitomized the criminally insane. Henry Slesar knew how to keep us tuned in !

Years later on ABC, Winter Austen pulled a 180-degree personality change, the clips on youtube have that scary confrontation where she and Nicole are trapped inside the WMON studio late at night. Then when that paid assasin would wear that clear plastic mask to distort his facial features, he went after Raven one night, it was very frightening.

[–] abajasds 13 years ago

The plastic mask man chasing Raven was Romeo Slade. That was from 1981. A great chase storyline that I've only seen part of was when Molly Sherwood tried to kill April and I think Raven at the Oakdale house in early 1981. From what I saw; it was kind of like an 80's slasher movie. The first Friday the 13th in some sort. It's sad AOL didn't air it. When they stopped posting episodes, they were up to late October early November 1980.

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[–] julierom 8 years ago

I remember Edge in the 60s so well. The "Stephanie Martin" story was riveting. There were so many red herrings. I was only 10 at the time but the story had me glued to the set. I remember Nancy Karr was shot by mistake when Stephanie was stalking Nicole. Stephanie was outside of the house aiming for Nicole and happened to shoot just as Nancy stepped in front of the window. Nancy fell to the floor and Nicole started screaming. Fortunately, the shot only wounded Nancy's shoulder. Then there were all these suspects that Adam Drake was putting on the stand during Nicole's trial. He put Dr. Jim Fields on the stand because he was treating Debbie Martin at an institution and Jim was suspect because Stephanie knew Jim was making progress in Debbie's treatment and he had threatened to take Debbie away. Then Liz Hillyer, who was dating Jim at the time, was suspect because she was doing volunteer work at the institution and had formed a close bond with Debbie and Stephanie was jealous of the friendship so she took Debbie out of the institution making Liz furious with a motive to kill Stephanie. Adam put her on the stand. Then Cookie, Nancy's sister, had a motive because she thought Stephanie was after her husband, Ron. Adam put Cookie on the stand and Cookie, who was mentally unstable,had a breakdown on the stand causing Nancy to tell Mike she didn't want him to be Adam's law partner anymore. Ron was a suspect because he was trying to protect Cookie by rebuffing Stephanie's advances and she threatened to tell Cookie that she and Ron were having an affair. Finally, Pamela turned out to be the killer because she thought Stephanie was Nicole, who she hated because she thought her husband Duane was still in love with Nicole, his ex wife. Fascinating stuff!