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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 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.
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).
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Guiding Light (GL) is an American soap opera from 2000-2009. It was the longest-running American soap opera. It was the longest-running American soap opera. Show development
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.