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Originally a radio drama series, by the early 1980s, Guiding Light was CBS's main contender challenging ABC's dominance of the daytime television soap opera ratings. [1] Major characters and cast members over the years have included Roger Thorpe (Michael Zaslow); Nola Reardon ; Reva Shayne ; and Beth Raines (Beth Chamberlin). [1]
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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 ]
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).
Renauld White, known for his trailblazing modeling career and performance on the soap opera Guiding Light, has died.He was 80 years old. Fashion designer Jeffrey Banks, a close friend of the late ...
Longtime cast member Theo Goetz, who played Papa Bauer on The Guiding Light, passed away on December 29, 1972 at the age of 78. Soderberg and Somer wrote a tribute episode that aired on February 27, 1973, after Papa Bauer's death was incorporated into the show.
Guiding Light (CBS/) Lawson played boarding house operator Bea Reardon for nearly a decade before leaving the CBS daytime program in 1990. She appeared on more than 50 episodes of the soap opera ...
From 1943 to 1946, The Guiding Light and two other Phillips-created soaps (Woman in White and Today's Children) were aired as a programming block known collectively as The General Mills Hour, with Guiding Light cast member Ed Prentiss acting as master of ceremonies.