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Irving Vendig
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Irving Vendig (1902-1995) was an American soap opera writer.
He created The Edge of Night for Procter and Gamble Productions and CBS in 1956. He had been a writer on the Perry Mason radio show; when Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner refused to allow the show to become a soap opera, Vending refashioned the show into The Edge of Night, and brought actor John Larkin, who played Mason on the radio, to the show as series star Mike Karr.
He was the series' headwriter from 1956 until 1960, then co-headwriter with James Gentile from 1960 until 1965. Vendig was credited on-air as series' creator until his departure from the daytime drama in 1965, He also created the NBC drama Three Steps to Heaven. He also wrote for the daytime dramas Search For Tomorrow (which he wasn't able to see at his Florida home because the local CBS affiliate didn't carry it), Paradise Bay and The Clear Horizon. He also created Hidden Faces, a short-lived drama for NBC which starred Stephen Joyce, Canard Fowles, Louise Shaffer, and a very young Linda Blair.