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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 ]
This is a list of actors and actresses who have had roles on the soap opera Guiding Light. 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]
The Guiding Light was broadcast in black and white for the remainder of the decade. In 1956, Phillips created As the World Turns, which first started airing on April 2, 1956 on CBS. When the workload of writing both that show and The Guiding Light became too much for her, Phillips handed the reins at The Guiding Light to her protégé Agnes Nixon.
The following is a list of television Nielsen ratings and rankings for American daytime soap operas from 1950 to the present, as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. [1] The numbers provided represent the percentage of TV households in the United States watching that particular show in a year. [1]
Soap Opera Digest named her 1984's Most Beleaguered Heroine, called her a part of "one of the top triangles ever to grace daytime" and compared later storylines to General Hospital's romantic/adventure couple Luke and Laura. [1] Beth Raines first appeared on Guiding Light in the spring of 1983. Beth was acknowledged to have been born March 16 ...
Grant Aleksander (born Grant Aleksander Kunkowski; August 6, 1960) [1] is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Phillip Spaulding on the CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light, off and on from 1982 until the show's cancellation in 2009.
Simms told Soap Opera Digest that she wanted to stay on the series for another year, but the show would only agree to a two-year deal. [6] [7] Her final airdate was June 26, 1992. The role was recast with Ann Hamilton. Simms returned to Guiding Light for two episodes in September 1997. [8]
P&G previously worked on As the World Turns, Guiding Light and Another World. The Gates will be the network’s first new soap opera since The Bold and the Beautiful premiered in 1987.