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Guiding Light. 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] With 72 years of radio and television runs, Guiding ...
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 final episode on the network aired on September 18, 2009.
Actor Character Duration Mary Kay Adams: India von Halkein: 1984–87, 1990, 1998–99, 2002, 2005 Timothy Adams: Rob Layne: 2000 Anthony Addabbo: Jim LeMay
The series was created by Emmons Carlson and Irna Phillips, who based it on personal experiences. After giving birth to a still-born baby at age 19, she found spiritual comfort listening to sermons by a preacher of a church centered on the brotherhood of man. These sermons formed the nucleus of the creation of The Guiding Light, which began as ...
By winter 1960, Mike and Robin, both seniors in high school, become closer romantically. Robin's stepbrother, Karl Jannings, also a senior, has feelings for her, but Robin's heart is set on Mike. Mike proposes to Robin in the spring of 1960, and they elope in May, much to the disapproval of their families.
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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 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.