The Edge of Night was cancelled because the show became too expensive to produce. Due to its small audience and declining station clearance, EDGE began losing money for producer/sponsor Procter and Gamble Productions. When P&G decided to cease production of the show, ABC-TV was forced to cancel the series, too.

Monticello was a mythical Midwestern city. Although its exact location remained one of EDGE's unsolved mysteries, Monticello was patterned after Cincinnati, Ohio, home to EDGE's sponsor Procter and Gamble. For 24 of its 28 years on television, EDGE's title sequence featured a shot of the Cincinnati skyline.

The Edge of Night moved from CBS to ABC-TV in 1975 because P&G wanted to expand its top-rated serial "As the World Turns" to one-hour, and CBS needed to drop a half-hour of airtime to accomodate the expansion.

Donald May (Adam Drake) left the show in a dispute over the direction of his character and his leading lady. May wanted Adam paired with Brandy Henderson (Dixie Carter), despite the audience's (and headwriter's) preference for an Adam/Nicole reunion.

Nicole died because actress Lisa Sloan chose not to renew her contract, and the show's producers decided that more dramatic material existed in making Miles a widower, rather than recasting Nicole a fourth time.

When the radio version of Perry Mason was cancelled, sponsor Procter and Gamble wanted to continue the series as a daily television serial. P&G attempted to purchase the Perry Mason rights from creator Erle Stanley Gardner, but Gardner refused, opting to produce his own version of the show on primetime tv. Undaunted, P&G hired Irving Vendig (headwriter of the Perry Mason radio serial) to create a similarly-styled soap for daytime tv. The result was "The Edge of Night", with the characters of Mike Karr and Sara Lane patterned after Perry Mason and Della Street. In fact, many of EDGE's early cast had appeared on the radio version of Perry Mason, including John Larkin (the original Mike Karr) in the title role.

No. "The Edge of Night" was television's first half-hour soap, along with "As the World Turns" which premiered the same day.

Yes. In pre-production, Edge was titled "The Edge of Darkness" and was originally scheduled to air at 1:30 pm Eastern time. When the decision was made to debut the show at 4:30 instead, the show's title was changed to better reflect its late-afternoon timeslot.

There are 1,798 episodes available for syndication. These shows begin in February 1978 and run through the series finale in December 1984.

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Definitely. Demographics taken during The Edge of Night's original run indicated that as much as 50% of its audience was male. 95% of the e-mail I receive from this website comes from other men, and the majority of people who sign the EON Homepage guest book are male, too.

Yes. Joel Crothers (Miles), Dennis Parker (Derek), Irving Allen Lee (Calvin), and Chris Jarrett (Damian) all died after Edge left the air.

As a real-life survivor of sexual abuse, actress Lori Cardille found it too difficult to play the projected story in which she shot pornographer Wade Meechum after he raped her.

Yes. Edge's first ABC telecast (1 December 1975) was rerun as part of ABC's Wide World Mystery, a late-night series of mystery/suspense films. In 1976, the network planned to air same-day rebroadcasts of Edge on its late-night schedule. However, the deal fell through when one of Edge's actors wouldn't agree to residual fee.

Executive Producer Erwin Nicholson attempted to sell The Edge of Night into first-run syndication. Therefore, some plot points were left dangling so that the show would have room to continue with new episodes.

According to SoapNet's programming department, there are currently no plans to re-air the series. However, anything is possible...so keeping writing letters asking for Edge!