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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 440146" data-attributes="member: 27">Not relevant to a discussion of MTM but a famous example of this inability to distinguish comes from a plot twist on The Edge of Night in 1960.  For four years, Teal Ames had played Sara Karr, wife of the show's lead character Mike Karr.  "Sara" got hit by a car and killed when Ames opted not to renew her contract.  The day the (live) episode aired, the CBS switchboard was inundated with callers, most of whom were devastated and asking where they could send condolences.  The producers had to get Teal Ames to appear in a segment at the close of a subsequent episode speaking directly to the camera to prove she had not died IRL, explaining that she was moving on to other roles in television.</blockquote>