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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 July 2, 1956, The Guiding Light became a CBS television show, only, and the show no longer was heard on radio. Episodes continued at 15 minutes in length. In 1953, CBS strongly persuaded Irna Phillips to let The Guiding Light experiment with television's first color broadcast. Phillips was not thrilled with the concept of color television ...
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The radio show's original storyline centers on a preacher named Rev. John Ruthledge and all the people of a fictional suburb in Chicago called Five Points. The townspeople's lives all revolve around him, and the show's title refers to a lamp in his study that family and residents can see as a sign for them to find help when needed.
The Bauers. Papa Bauer (Theo Goetz until end of decade) Meta Bauer Banning (Ellen Demming until June 16, 1966)Bill Bauer (Ed Bryce until 1962, and then September 1965 until July 1969; Eugene H. Smith, October 19, 1964 to 1965), character presumed deceased
On an August 29, 2008 episode of Guiding Light, actors Adam West and Burt Ward (two Batman castmates) made their special guest appearances. On April 1, 2009, CBS announced that Guiding Light would end after 57 years on television.
The 1980s was a time of many transitions and many firsts for the show. In 1980, the Dobsons were moved to As the World Turns, and were replaced by Douglas Marland.Marland had written for such veteran soap writers as Agnes Nixon and Irna Phillips (the creator of The Guiding Light) and had written on his own, as well as acted on As the World Turns in the early 1970s.
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]