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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 ]
The former's cynicism often acts as a foil to the latter's optimism. Rev. Ruthledge's daughter Mary also embarked on a secret romance with her foster brother Ned Holden. Ned and Mary would eventually marry in a 1941 episode of the soap with Rev Ruthledge's blessing, but not before a series of complications arose.
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.
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 book traced the backstory of the radio series, told from the point of view of the "keeper of the guiding light", Reverend John Ruthledge. In 1949, Phillips created the first serial broadcast on a major television network, These Are My Children , which ran on NBC for one month.
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
The Dobsons crafted a full-fledged marital rape (at the time this was not considered a crime) in a March 1979 episode involving Roger and Holly who had married in January 1979. This rape scene was a counterattack against rival network NBC 's soap opera Another World , whose much ballyhooed expansion to 90-minute telecasts (complete with the ...
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 ( Lisa Brown ); Reva Shayne ( Kim Zimmer ); and Beth Raines ...