Which daytime soap opera was originally supposed to be a television version of Perry Mason, but was retooled when Mason author Erle Stanley Gardner had a falling out with the network?

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The Edge of Night Although Perry Mason was already successful on radio as a serial soap opera, the producers of Perry Mason, in bringing the character to television, redefined Mason as a lawyer-statesman who functioned exclusively in public space. They did this, on an intentional level, by stripping the soap opera elements from the program and placing them, without Perry, in what became the long-running daytime serial Edge of Night. http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/syracuse/epstein.html The show was originally conceived as the daytime version of Perry Mason, which was popular in novel and radio formats at the time. Erle Stanley Gardner was to create and write the show, but a last-minute tiff between him and the network caused Gardner to pull his support from the idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_of_Night Mar 06 08, 9:22 AM