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Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. Guiding Light aired on CBS for 57 years between June 30, 1952, and September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio between January 25, 1937, and June 29, 1956. [ 1 ]
On June 30, 1952, The Guiding Light began airing on CBS television. From June 30, 1952, to June 29, 1956, The Guiding Light ran on both CBS television and radio, with the actors performing, the same scenes but for different audiences, live twice each weekday. The live television performances were in the morning, and then in the afternoon the ...
Later in the decade, in 1966–1967, The Guiding Light was also the first show to regularly feature African American characters, Dr. Jim Frazier and his wife nurse Martha Frazier (played first by Billy Dee Williams and Cicely Tyson and then by James Earl Jones and Ruby Dee).
Took over the daytime programming in 1975 and ultimately removed The Edge of Night from CBS to make room to expand As the World Turns to a full hour, expanded Guiding Light to a full hour in 1977, and later The Young and the Restless. Jeane Renick: Vice President of Daytime Programming: 1980–1986: East Coast Director, 1978-80, Manager Daytime ...
During the 1970s, the head writer for Guiding Light stabilized, with two main storylines from January 1, 1970, to December 31, 1979. Robert Soderberg and Edith Sommer wrote the first half of the decade until the spring of 1973. Then James Gentile, Robert Cenedella, and James Lipton continued in the same direction until near the end of October 1975.
The 1980s was a time of many transitions and many firsts for the show. In 1980, Jerome and Bridget Dobson, the head writers of Guiding Light since 1975, left to become the head writers of sister soap As the World Turns, and were replaced by Douglas Marland.
Alan-Michael Spaulding is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light. The character is the son of wealthy businessman, Alan Spaulding , and his former wife, Hope Bauer . Alan-Michael was born on-screen on September 23, 1981, but this was subsequently revised to 1970 when he turned 17 years old and then later to 1965 or 1966 ...
Raines joined Guiding Light in 1994 in his first television role. [3] He is the third actor to play the part of the sinister, nefarious Alan Spaulding, a role which has earned him three Emmy nominations. He remained on Guiding Light through its cancellation in 2009.