Guiding Light: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
| Guiding Light | |
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| Also known as | The Guiding Light GL |
| Genre |
Soap opera Drama |
| Created by | Irna Phillips |
| Written by | Various |
| Directed by | See below |
| Starring | Series cast |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | NBC and CBS: 19 (radio) CBS: 57 (television; includes four years on both TV and radio) Total: 72 |
| No. of episodes | NBC: 2,500 (radio) CBS: 15,762 (radio & TV) Total: 18,262 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Lucy Ferri Rittenberg (1952–75) Allen M. Potter (1976–82) Gail Kobe (1982–86) Joe Willmore (1986–87) Robert Calhoun (1987–91) Jill Farren Phelps (1991–95) Michael Laibson (1995–96) Paul Rauch (1996–2002) John Conboy (2002–04) Ellen Wheeler (2004–09) |
| Producer(s) | See below |
| Location(s) |
Chicago, Illinois (1937–47) Los Angeles, California (1947–49) New York City, New York (1949–2009) |
| Running time | 15 minutes (1937–68) 30 minutes (1968–77) 60 minutes (1977–2009) |
| Production company(s) |
Procter & Gamble Productions (1952–2008) TeleNext Media, Inc. (2008–09) |
| Distributor |
CBS Daytime TeleNext Media, Inc. |
| Release | |
| Original network |
NBC Radio (1937–46) CBS Radio (1947–56) CBS Television (1952–2009) |
| Original release |
NBC Radio: January 25, 1937 – November 29, 1946 CBS Radio: June 2, 1947 – June 29, 1956 CBS Television: June 30, 1952 – September 18, 2009 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | "The Cradle Will Fall" |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, preceded by a 19-year broadcast on radio.Guiding Light is the longest running soap opera and the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program Grand Ole Opry (first broadcast in 1925), the BBC religious program The Daily Service (1928), the CBS religious program Music and the Spoken Word (1929), and the Norwegian children's radio program Lørdagsbarnetimen (first aired in 1924, cancelled in 2010) have been on the air longer.
Guiding Light was created by Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25, 1937. On June 2, 1947, the series was transferred to CBS Radio, before starting on June 30, 1952, on CBS Television. It continued to be broadcast concomitantly on radio until June 29, 1956. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour during 1968 (and also switched from broadcasting live to pre-taping around this same time), and then to a full hour on November 7, 1977. The series broadcast its 15,000th CBS episode on September 6, 2006.
On April 1, 2009, it was announced that CBS had canceled Guiding Light, after a 72-year run, due to low ratings. The show taped its final Procter & Gamble scenes for CBS on August 11, 2009, and its final episode on the network aired on September 18, 2009. On October 5, 2009, CBS replaced Guiding Light with an hour-long revival of Let's Make a Deal, hosted by Wayne Brady.
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