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Guiding Light 1937 - 1956

type: TVSeries

language: English

genre: drama

director: Ellen Wheeler

Score: 4 / 10

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. With 72 years of radio and television runs, Guiding Light is the longest-running soap opera, ahead of General Hospital, and is 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 (1924–2010) have been on the air longer.

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Guiding Light has had a number of plot sequences during the series' long history, on both radio and television. These plot sequences include complex storylines, and different writers and casting.

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award	Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Daytime Serials
director	Ellen Wheeler
genre	drama
keywords	agnes nixon airplane crash alan spaulding alexandra spaulding all my children allen m. potter another world as the world turns begin beth raines beverlee mckinsey billy dee williams bridget and jerome dobson california cancel casting director charita bauer cicely tyson climb complex relationship date david kreizman days of our lives daytime emmy douglas marland ellen demming end estrange florida keys follow gail kobe gather giving birth immigrant family james earl jones jane elliot jill farren phelps jill lorie hurst keeping up appearances kill kimberley simms lenore kasdorf lighthouse lisa brown listening to the radio love quadrangle lynne adams marcy walker marvel comics michelle branch mindy lewis murder nancy addison new baby open our lives outstanding drama series pam long passion phillip spaulding pick up pick-up truck plane crash plot twist preston bradley presumed dead procter & gamble radio broadcast radio series rat record reva shayne rita stapleton roger and holly roger thorpe roger thorpe and holly norris ruby dee salt of the earth santa barbara california soap opera spring still born still-born baby storytelling string television producer television show texas the first hundred years the young and the restless time travel uterine cancer villain work ethic world war i write young love
nomination	Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Daytime Serials NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
publisher	CBS Radio NBC Radio