Trivia / The Edge of Night

• Channel Hop: The first (of only three) soaps to change networks; Edge moved to ABC in 1975 after being axed by CBS.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Like most Soap Operas, Edge has rarely been re-run regularly since its cancellation. Averated, however, in that the show was re-run on USA Network for several years in the 1980s, and re-runs were aired online by P&G for several years in the 2000s.
• Screwed by the Network:
  • Edge was the number 2 rated daytime serial in the late 1960s and early 1970s...until CBS moved the show to an earlier timeslot in 1972 (averted, perhaps, in that P&G demanded the timeslot switch). Ratings tanked in the new timeslot, so that when CBS needed a half-hour on its schedule to expand As the World Turns in 1975, Edge left the CBS schedule.
  • Averted, in that ABC, despite the show's low ratings, was willing to continue production of the show beyond 1984; P&G pulled the plug on the show because, with the show's low clearance rate, it was losing money for P&G.
• The Other Darrin: Just like any other Soap Opera, characters were recast regularly. Most notably, the main character Mike Karr was played by three actors during the show's run.