@gspinc1 - are you talking about the blue eyed guy who does the naughty up-and-down look at the woman's leg and tapping foot (in heel)? That is none other than Josh Lewis (Robert Newman). Looking different here of course, younger and minus the beard.
This Opening is a hoot...I LOVE IT!.....It is disco-Charlies Angel-Saturday Night Fever-Loves Baby Soft all rolled into one...Love the guy with the blue eyes in this opening: who is he? That stud had strikingly beautiful blue eyes...and the little disco-dance montage here is great...Love it!!!!
I stumbled on this opening a few days ago and now I just can't watch it enough. It's just so awesome. I loved the Hold on to Love them and sequence, but this one is just awesome.
It's kinda ridiculous, because even if the replaced soaps with game shows, they would still be losing money and nobody would be watching it anyway... so why not sontinue airing GL? if not they should just shut down CBS daytime completely
Who could ever forget the six months that Jane Elliot playing Carrie Marler!!! She was fantastic playing all those multiple personalities!!! Douglas Marland was the greatest writer of this soap who knew how to tell stories that involved every cast member both past and present!!
who's that at 0:19 with the one guy throwing the other on the wall, and the couple dancing (guy got a white hat on). they come on then nola winks at josh
@thomas123853 That's attorney Derek Colby (played by Harley Venton) who is dancing with Hillary (they were engaged to be married and Derek was working as junior partner of Mike's at the time (Derek and Venton were on the show from February 1980, during his first six month Venton was a recurring character a P.I. hired by Lucille Wexler to find Amanda's real mother and pretending to be Amanda's accountant, to October 1982 -- which I have found out through looking at old summaries of the show
@sneeyize45 The guy who is thrown against the wall by Tony Reardon is also Derek, and so is the guy who Ross pushes in front of him on the elevator. Derek was considered a mild-mannered character, but also misinterpreted many things and didn't understand that when Hillary met Tony she developed feelings for him (she also had unresolved feelings for Kelly Nelson as well.) Derek also had an interesting dating history, Lucille first tried to throw him at Amanda,
@sneeyize45 then he dated nurse Lesley Anne Monroe, then he got involved with Hillary and after their relationship ended in June 1982 he dated nurse Katie Parker (who was best friends with Hillary, and was really in love Dr. Justin Marler at the time.) Derek left Springfield for two reasons, he got a job elsewhere (Venton was being considered for the role of David Addison on "Moonlighting" {role lost to Bruce Willis}) and he realized Katie didn't love him.
@czcapitol Thanks for letting us know about Geraldine's passing. When she played Jennifer Richards (around the time of this opening), she was part of one of GL's best stories ever: "Who Are Amanda's Parents?" Geraldine gave a wonderful performance that carried that storyline through its conclusion.
i wish i could find the mike-tim (kevin bacon)-darren storyline on youtube. mike was investigating the muder of darren's girlfriend. tim was the main suspect. darren was the son of a senator. this would be roughly 1981. in a reenactment of bacon's death scene from friday the 13th (or a reenactment of nancy loomis's death in halloween), mike lunged from the back seat of a car and slapped his hand over tim's mouth. in the commercials it looked like a horror movie preview.
Love this dramatic opening. That's the Josh I remember. Love the terrific shot with Bert and what an iconic shot of Mike. If only Mike had still been around when Danny was introduced, what a great family relationship that would have made.
Guiding Light became quite cartoonish in the 1990's up until its demise in 2009. I remember turning it on not too long ago and amazed at how they filmed the show. It looked liek ametuer film makers were working the camera and the sets sucked. They left the soap type "look" for a realsitic type and the storylines became too wishy washy and too sweet and irritating. I hope the Y&R stays on course. I see ATWT is getting the axe now. CBS really wants to end their soap opera history.
The writers really had no connection to the characters anymore. There were many character 'assassinations" The only good writer they had was lucky gold i think his name is. when phelps left the show went down hill, phelps and pam long and john conboy were the best executive producers. wheeler was okay, but the writing and her production did not mesh and the audience left. can't blame them, i am just pissed that the audience has better ideas and could probably write better
@schuyler10: I started watching the GL again in Sept. of '81 (after having not seen for about a year). I was getting bored with cartoons after school, and tuned in on the Friday episode when Diane Ballard was murdered. I was immediately hooked again. Doug Marland was a f-----g genius and, by far, the BEST writer GL ever had period.
I think my favorite opening was mid-90s (?) - it was very "cinemagraphic" with multi colors and vignettes of some of the characters (Harley was one). I stopped watching regularly around 2002. I just rewatched an old tape marked "Josh and Reva's Wedding," and it must have been wedding #3. It wasn't as farfetched as Reva being cloned, or joining an Amish community, but when she sang, "When I Fall In Love," I could only roll my eyes.
This was my favorite Guiding Light Theme. I had been watching maybe a few months when this theme started. I was maybe 13 at the time, I remember GL having a reputation as the soap your Mom watched, all the people my age watched General Hospital yeech!! I remember GL getting a lot of new converts around this time, this theme might have had something to do with it. They should have kept it longer!!
@CapricornDavo Guided Lighting was the title of this them. Eventualy was changed to "My Guiding Light." Several arragments of the later were recorded and eventualy dumped by 1992.
THIS was my fave open and period on GL. Carrie & Ross, Alan & Hope (after the Island, before she started drinking). Nola as a lead (Nola and Gracie were so fun--she was perfect evil-nice), Ed and Mike still had relevance, who knew Robert Newman would be such a great character--he was sexy bad rich boy). I also loved the music and LOVED the closing version of this. Yeah, it's dated and disco. But imagine this with some of these shots, but losing the cheesy "staged" ones... The next theme was good
The first 15 notes & the you can segue into LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE...
though I started watching GUIDING LIGHT not long after this theme went into mothballs, I do love the kitschy disco music. I only recognize three or four characters in this version...I met Robert Newman at Kings Dominion two years ago for 15 seconds, took a picture & he was as kind as I hoped he would be...and as fine as Robert looks on TV, he really is
On 4-1-09 it was announced that the Guilding Light has been cancelled after 70+ years. Hey current GL writers, thank you for ruining this show which led to it being cancelled.
57 years on television and 72 years in broadcasting (starting in radio), GL has been on the brink of cancellation for ten years, so it wasn't a big shock. Soaps are
becoming extinct. When GL dies, As the World Turns will be the last Proctor and Gamble produced soap. They will be the last of the curlews sort of speak.
well, in another perspective, I felt it was a big shock because as you pointed out it's been "on the brink" of cancellation for 10 years but those like me never really felt the show would officially become canceled by CBS because we'd heard the doom and gloom rumors for years.
There was always optimistic feelings that a storyline or two would come along to spike the ratings at just the right time, which is how the show's been able to survive much longer than critics expected in the mid 1990's.
You said it perfectly!!!! This show was always good until...now! Put it out of its misery! The people that are now writing this show not only have a sense of GL's history, but come up with truly disturbing stories! The Beth Raines I know would NEVER have married Alan Spaulding. Philip is dead, but NOT dead. Lizzie being comfortable with Jonathan running around the country with her daughter? Truly disturbing!
I loved the disco theme as well. My favorite GL theme has to be 1983-84 with great music. I was thinking of using the 1983-84 theme at my wedding for an "interpretive dance"...sadly, I am the only one who is serious when I mention this. [Maybe in my next life...] I was 11-12 in 1983-84 and the sun rose and set on GL for me at that time.
sorry if you disagree with me but the credits for guidng light now suck , there really bad and the filming isnt that great now eather ist like someone got a home video camera and just started filming, the disco credits were awesome!!!
I agree with you. I think that the powers-that-be are trying to keep up with the times, which is fine, but their attempt is horrible..."GL" now is unwatchable...the characters talk and talk in wierd camera angles and even wierder locations, yet there is no story,plus I can't stand Daisy (younger than Marina?), Marina (the actress has no watchable qualities), nor the fact that Dinah, the murderess, was ever brought back to the canvass. How can we root for her?
Trsut me, kristismom, I was a major GL addict while I was growing up...I remember the delicates of almost every storyline...when I heard that it was being cancelled last month, I was not upset. Sort of like watching a horse, struggling to make it up a hill with four broken legs...put it out of it's misery!!!
Other ridiculous plot points, Reva post 1995, 55 y/o Reva giving birth, Daisy the same age as she was in '99, Harley sleeps with Cyrus behind Marina's back, Harley + Gus break up for boring Natalia, Catholic Natalia and maneater Olivia turn gay (I'm not prejudice, its just not likely), Beth marrying Alan, then Rick, Alan killing Tammy, getting away with it and the hitman dating Daisy, Tammy and Jonathan's cousin loving, Josh as minister, Cassie and Cyrus, Jeffery is a rapist- but he's OK now,
All of these storylines disturbed me...plus some storyline about Alexandra being a drug dealer or something a few years ago (I don't even know the details, I was so turned off by it)...from 1986-late 1988, GL was really hard to watch. The writing was horrible, and I never again thought that it would happen. Then it did, and it's done the show in. Even worse than ATWT was in the mid-90s...
@schuyler10 Lizzy letting Jonathan taking their baby sickening. That Jonathan was a puke. I would watch off an on after 80's. I know i am minority out here. But I was so sick of Reva. I wish she would left for Tulsa and never came back. Kim Z is a wonderful actress but i never liked Reva. The cloning, the marrying the prince, YUCK,
Who is the man shown at approximately 00:17?? Hw looks very familiar, just can't decide who he is, or who he 'was'! Is he now on another soap?? Back on "Guiding Light"??
Watching this opening makes me want to cry for mere nostalgic purposes alone (and the fact I'm getting old too). I use to come home from middle school (yeah I'm 38 years old...lol), catch the ending credits for "Search for Tomorrow", and couldn't wait to watch "Guiding Light". I distinctly remember when they switched to this "disco" theme in 1981 and loved it. I just hated the fact I missed most of those great scenes already included in the opening montage.
I would do almost anything to see GL like this again....I know that many years have paased, and that we all have to change, but the current "reality" concept only pushes me away...the show is more into
outdoor scenes and ridiculous, repetitive dialogue than developing story...
This was also the formal point at which the show finally dropped the "The" from its legal title after doing so in the title cards since '75. It's very much a disco period piece, though the show's writing remained rock-solid for a while. The open and title was still a radical change at the time and though it still sticks in my craw 27 years later, I guess P&G did what it had to stay "current.".
I will say that I loved your "rock-solid story" comment, because that's what it was. I was a 12-13 year old boy, running home from school to catch up with my "friends" in Springfield. My father was devestated when I started watching soaps, but I told him that "GL" was not a soap, but a "crime drama".
During those years, yes, Doug Marland was writing stories rich in mystery and intrigue...Someone must post some scenes from the Carrie1/Carrie2 storyline, soon, or I will friggin burst!!!
theres nothing rong with a guy watching soaps soaps are for everybody or anybody who is interested in watching them.and remember soaps were the first shows on tv besise the news
Stephan Yates left the show as Ben in the fall of 1981 returning briefly in Jan 82 to wrap up his story with Eve and Amanda. Janet Grey continued on as Eve through June of 1983(when Eve joined Ben in Italy) Only Eve was on the show when this opening was created, and I guess wasn't included because she did not have a story of her own.Janet as Eve is included in the opening after this one as each character is used either in posed shots or shots from the show.
That shot of the lantern catching fire on the floor at :07 -- it must be from the time when Roger left pregnant Rita tied up in the cabin, and she accidentally kicked the lantern over when she went into labor.
Yes, and I had just started watching soaps (I was 11), so it was jarring for me that the actress that I had come to know as "Rita" was being replaced (especially during the vital scenes)
@schuyler10 Actually Lenore's replacement last only two weeks in February 1980. Lenore took a break during the time Roger was holding Rita hostage in his father, Adam's cabin, during a blizzard, because it was thought a pregnant Kasdorf couldn't do the hard part of being tied up. Roger knocking over the kerosene lamp was on Friday and the replacement Rita was still there with Ed & Mike rushing to save her and confront Roger. The following Monday, Lenore was back, but still tied up on the bed
@sneeyize45 with Ed saving Rita -- but Rita would suffer from breathing in smoke and would lose the baby due to that. Lenore then left the 2nd week of March 1980 (along with Rita) -- the same week Roger kidnapped Holly in Santo Domingo. Lenore (and Rita) would return from her pregnancy leave in July 1980 and try to renew her marriage to Ed -- with of course not great results. I remember all of this, because reams of stuff have been written about a pregnant Lenore having to play
@sneeyize45 Rita miscarrying the baby. This is part of the reason why it is suspected that Lenore left when she did, for good, in July 1981 and why it is suspected Lenore never came back to the show, later, because of the fact she had to play that out while she was pregnant in real life.
I had actually forgotten that it opened with Ross and Carrie; I always think of the Ed and Maureen laughing shot as the first. Ah, the good old days of Kathleen Cullen's neurotic Amanda and the sturdy Tom O'Rourke as Justin Marler.
Damn. That was JOSH?? He's still a fine looking man now, and though I watched the show in the early '80s, I don't ever remember him being that handsome.
Robert looks fantastic. I've noticed that Robert's a gemini. Most Gemini men are forever young. Prince is a gemini and so is my hubby is a gemini, and they look YOUNG!!!UGH. LOL.
i liked this opening! parts of the opening with the Mike Bauer scene and the zoom-up effect on the faces looked like the opening to a night time drama instead of a daytime drama.
"the faces looked like the opening to a night time drama instead of a daytime drama."
This was hard on the heels of the fantastic Roger Thorpe abduction-chase story line in early 1980 when GL was superior to night time drama. Not since "The Fugitive" series had I been on the edge of my chair so often as those golden months of Guiding Light. No prime-time drama matched it.
Although, this opening did get a facelift sometime in the summer of 1982 after the departure of Jane Elliot as Carrie Todd Marler and shortly before the departure of Harley Venton as Derek Colby. There were also a couple of more scenes with a couple of more characters added. I also think it got one more facelift in the spring of 1983 that added a young Grant Aleksander as Phillip Spaulding.
@gspinc1 - are you talking about the blue eyed guy who does the naughty up-and-down look at the woman's leg and tapping foot (in heel)? That is none other than Josh Lewis (Robert Newman). Looking different here of course, younger and minus the beard.
PJChgo1 2 months ago
This Opening is a hoot...I LOVE IT!.....It is disco-Charlies Angel-Saturday Night Fever-Loves Baby Soft all rolled into one...Love the guy with the blue eyes in this opening: who is he? That stud had strikingly beautiful blue eyes...and the little disco-dance montage here is great...Love it!!!!
gspinc1 2 months ago
This is the gayest opening ever.. AND I LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT!
Vidways 2 months ago
damn that was very different, I love it!
keys1125 5 months ago
I stumbled on this opening a few days ago and now I just can't watch it enough. It's just so awesome. I loved the Hold on to Love them and sequence, but this one is just awesome.
spazzo47 5 months ago
Was Ross trying to block media photo shoots when he threw his hands up at the camera?
williambrown007 8 months ago
It's kinda ridiculous, because even if the replaced soaps with game shows, they would still be losing money and nobody would be watching it anyway... so why not sontinue airing GL? if not they should just shut down CBS daytime completely
BestFilmExpert 8 months ago
Who could ever forget the six months that Jane Elliot playing Carrie Marler!!! She was fantastic playing all those multiple personalities!!! Douglas Marland was the greatest writer of this soap who knew how to tell stories that involved every cast member both past and present!!
worldturnsdisco 9 months ago
who's that at 0:19 with the one guy throwing the other on the wall, and the couple dancing (guy got a white hat on). they come on then nola winks at josh
thomas123853 10 months ago
@thomas123853 That's attorney Derek Colby (played by Harley Venton) who is dancing with Hillary (they were engaged to be married and Derek was working as junior partner of Mike's at the time (Derek and Venton were on the show from February 1980, during his first six month Venton was a recurring character a P.I. hired by Lucille Wexler to find Amanda's real mother and pretending to be Amanda's accountant, to October 1982 -- which I have found out through looking at old summaries of the show
sneeyize45 3 months ago
@sneeyize45 The guy who is thrown against the wall by Tony Reardon is also Derek, and so is the guy who Ross pushes in front of him on the elevator. Derek was considered a mild-mannered character, but also misinterpreted many things and didn't understand that when Hillary met Tony she developed feelings for him (she also had unresolved feelings for Kelly Nelson as well.) Derek also had an interesting dating history, Lucille first tried to throw him at Amanda,
sneeyize45 3 months ago
@sneeyize45 then he dated nurse Lesley Anne Monroe, then he got involved with Hillary and after their relationship ended in June 1982 he dated nurse Katie Parker (who was best friends with Hillary, and was really in love Dr. Justin Marler at the time.) Derek left Springfield for two reasons, he got a job elsewhere (Venton was being considered for the role of David Addison on "Moonlighting" {role lost to Bruce Willis}) and he realized Katie didn't love him.
sneeyize45 3 months ago
Geraldine Court (ex-Jennifer) passed away at her home in Warwick after a long illness, she was 71 one years old.
czcapitol 11 months ago
@czcapitol Thanks for letting us know about Geraldine's passing. When she played Jennifer Richards (around the time of this opening), she was part of one of GL's best stories ever: "Who Are Amanda's Parents?" Geraldine gave a wonderful performance that carried that storyline through its conclusion.
OceanKingNY 11 months ago
@czcapitol: OMG, no! I had no idea and always wondered what happened to Geraldine Court. How very sad. She was great on GL.
honeycone71 8 months ago
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i wish i could find the mike-tim (kevin bacon)-darren storyline on youtube. mike was investigating the muder of darren's girlfriend. tim was the main suspect. darren was the son of a senator. this would be roughly 1981. in a reenactment of bacon's death scene from friday the 13th (or a reenactment of nancy loomis's death in halloween), mike lunged from the back seat of a car and slapped his hand over tim's mouth. in the commercials it looked like a horror movie preview.
johnrunion 1 year ago
Nice; I use to love Josh & Reva.
rmbb10 1 year ago
Love this dramatic opening. That's the Josh I remember. Love the terrific shot with Bert and what an iconic shot of Mike. If only Mike had still been around when Danny was introduced, what a great family relationship that would have made.
Robansuefarm 1 year ago
Guiding Light became quite cartoonish in the 1990's up until its demise in 2009. I remember turning it on not too long ago and amazed at how they filmed the show. It looked liek ametuer film makers were working the camera and the sets sucked. They left the soap type "look" for a realsitic type and the storylines became too wishy washy and too sweet and irritating. I hope the Y&R stays on course. I see ATWT is getting the axe now. CBS really wants to end their soap opera history.
NFitalianGuy 2 years ago
The writers really had no connection to the characters anymore. There were many character 'assassinations" The only good writer they had was lucky gold i think his name is. when phelps left the show went down hill, phelps and pam long and john conboy were the best executive producers. wheeler was okay, but the writing and her production did not mesh and the audience left. can't blame them, i am just pissed that the audience has better ideas and could probably write better
shamusroc 2 years ago
Doug Marland was this show's best writer...it was like theatre every day!!!!
schuyler10 2 years ago
@schuyler10: I started watching the GL again in Sept. of '81 (after having not seen for about a year). I was getting bored with cartoons after school, and tuned in on the Friday episode when Diane Ballard was murdered. I was immediately hooked again. Doug Marland was a f-----g genius and, by far, the BEST writer GL ever had period.
honeycone71 1 year ago 6
@honeycone71 Everything Marland touched was genius;)
msgreeneyez26 9 months ago 2
.........this was my favorite GL theme,the
disco version,but I'm STILL an Edge
of Night fan.
tvercetti1970 2 years ago
I think my favorite opening was mid-90s (?) - it was very "cinemagraphic" with multi colors and vignettes of some of the characters (Harley was one). I stopped watching regularly around 2002. I just rewatched an old tape marked "Josh and Reva's Wedding," and it must have been wedding #3. It wasn't as farfetched as Reva being cloned, or joining an Amish community, but when she sang, "When I Fall In Love," I could only roll my eyes.
GeorgiaPat 2 years ago
Guiding Light, still a few episodes and its over! Worlds longest daytime series, 72 YEARS will be Lost forever.
nederlandnu 2 years ago
WOW i never saw this one THIS ONE IS THE BOMB!!
jordanda211 2 years ago
This was my favorite Guiding Light Theme. I had been watching maybe a few months when this theme started. I was maybe 13 at the time, I remember GL having a reputation as the soap your Mom watched, all the people my age watched General Hospital yeech!! I remember GL getting a lot of new converts around this time, this theme might have had something to do with it. They should have kept it longer!!
CapricornDavo 2 years ago 4
@CapricornDavo Guided Lighting was the title of this them. Eventualy was changed to "My Guiding Light." Several arragments of the later were recorded and eventualy dumped by 1992.
donmccullen 1 year ago
@donmccullen "My Guiding Light" last aired in February 1991.
sneeyize45 3 months ago
This opening has sentimental value for me. It was theme when I started watching GL when I was 12 years old.
rockhopper10r 2 years ago
I was 13 and had been watching for almost 2 years at this point...I LOVED this opening...
schuyler10 2 years ago
THIS was my fave open and period on GL. Carrie & Ross, Alan & Hope (after the Island, before she started drinking). Nola as a lead (Nola and Gracie were so fun--she was perfect evil-nice), Ed and Mike still had relevance, who knew Robert Newman would be such a great character--he was sexy bad rich boy). I also loved the music and LOVED the closing version of this. Yeah, it's dated and disco. But imagine this with some of these shots, but losing the cheesy "staged" ones... The next theme was good
SoapsGoldenAge 2 years ago 7
The first 15 notes & the you can segue into LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE...
though I started watching GUIDING LIGHT not long after this theme went into mothballs, I do love the kitschy disco music. I only recognize three or four characters in this version...I met Robert Newman at Kings Dominion two years ago for 15 seconds, took a picture & he was as kind as I hoped he would be...and as fine as Robert looks on TV, he really is
more beautiful in person, if that's possible.
LujackLvr 2 years ago
Guiding Light says goodbye to CBS in September
DanielARoyer1 2 years ago
On 4-1-09 it was announced that the Guilding Light has been cancelled after 70+ years. Hey current GL writers, thank you for ruining this show which led to it being cancelled.
schs1977 2 years ago
57 years on television and 72 years in broadcasting (starting in radio), GL has been on the brink of cancellation for ten years, so it wasn't a big shock. Soaps are
becoming extinct. When GL dies, As the World Turns will be the last Proctor and Gamble produced soap. They will be the last of the curlews sort of speak.
TIPTON340 2 years ago 3
well, in another perspective, I felt it was a big shock because as you pointed out it's been "on the brink" of cancellation for 10 years but those like me never really felt the show would officially become canceled by CBS because we'd heard the doom and gloom rumors for years.
There was always optimistic feelings that a storyline or two would come along to spike the ratings at just the right time, which is how the show's been able to survive much longer than critics expected in the mid 1990's.
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
Well said, ACcountyFan. I couldn't have said it better.
Najee1020 2 years ago 2
You said it perfectly!!!! This show was always good until...now! Put it out of its misery! The people that are now writing this show not only have a sense of GL's history, but come up with truly disturbing stories! The Beth Raines I know would NEVER have married Alan Spaulding. Philip is dead, but NOT dead. Lizzie being comfortable with Jonathan running around the country with her daughter? Truly disturbing!
schuyler10 2 years ago 2
couldn't agree with you more.Beth Raines would have NEVER married Alan Spaulding.That was total character assasination.
melissa762000 2 years ago 2
Back Then I liked how the actors/actresses were good looking without coming accross as walking, talking models
trevor40 2 years ago 2
My Aunt Rose was a big fan of this show.
frankd1965 3 years ago
<<<Disco LIGHT!!!~~Shake yer BOOTY..Bauer family...
pekoe 3 years ago 2
Disco. Amazing.
CarlD2 3 years ago 2
I loved the disco theme as well. My favorite GL theme has to be 1983-84 with great music. I was thinking of using the 1983-84 theme at my wedding for an "interpretive dance"...sadly, I am the only one who is serious when I mention this. [Maybe in my next life...] I was 11-12 in 1983-84 and the sun rose and set on GL for me at that time.
Much like today...
LujackLvr 3 years ago 2
I grew up with GL in the eighties, and when I was 12 in 1991, I had the biggest crush on Phillip Spaulding.
kristismom 2 years ago
sorry if you disagree with me but the credits for guidng light now suck , there really bad and the filming isnt that great now eather ist like someone got a home video camera and just started filming, the disco credits were awesome!!!
NEXTGENSKYN 3 years ago
I agree with you. I think that the powers-that-be are trying to keep up with the times, which is fine, but their attempt is horrible..."GL" now is unwatchable...the characters talk and talk in wierd camera angles and even wierder locations, yet there is no story,plus I can't stand Daisy (younger than Marina?), Marina (the actress has no watchable qualities), nor the fact that Dinah, the murderess, was ever brought back to the canvass. How can we root for her?
schuyler10 3 years ago
Wow! Thank you! These are major mistakes that no one seems to catch.
kristismom 2 years ago
Trsut me, kristismom, I was a major GL addict while I was growing up...I remember the delicates of almost every storyline...when I heard that it was being cancelled last month, I was not upset. Sort of like watching a horse, struggling to make it up a hill with four broken legs...put it out of it's misery!!!
schuyler10 2 years ago
Other ridiculous plot points, Reva post 1995, 55 y/o Reva giving birth, Daisy the same age as she was in '99, Harley sleeps with Cyrus behind Marina's back, Harley + Gus break up for boring Natalia, Catholic Natalia and maneater Olivia turn gay (I'm not prejudice, its just not likely), Beth marrying Alan, then Rick, Alan killing Tammy, getting away with it and the hitman dating Daisy, Tammy and Jonathan's cousin loving, Josh as minister, Cassie and Cyrus, Jeffery is a rapist- but he's OK now,
kristismom 2 years ago
All of these storylines disturbed me...plus some storyline about Alexandra being a drug dealer or something a few years ago (I don't even know the details, I was so turned off by it)...from 1986-late 1988, GL was really hard to watch. The writing was horrible, and I never again thought that it would happen. Then it did, and it's done the show in. Even worse than ATWT was in the mid-90s...
schuyler10 2 years ago
There are so many more that I didn't list, but I ran out of room.
kristismom 2 years ago
@schuyler10 Lizzy letting Jonathan taking their baby sickening. That Jonathan was a puke. I would watch off an on after 80's. I know i am minority out here. But I was so sick of Reva. I wish she would left for Tulsa and never came back. Kim Z is a wonderful actress but i never liked Reva. The cloning, the marrying the prince, YUCK,
416mcp 1 year ago
Who is the man shown at approximately 00:17?? Hw looks very familiar, just can't decide who he is, or who he 'was'! Is he now on another soap?? Back on "Guiding Light"??
Manlyrog 3 years ago
at 00:17 thats josh hes is still on the show he and reva are getting married i think.
NEXTGENSKYN 3 years ago
guiding light's disco opening credits how classic is that
y2kmalone 3 years ago
Watching this opening makes me want to cry for mere nostalgic purposes alone (and the fact I'm getting old too). I use to come home from middle school (yeah I'm 38 years old...lol), catch the ending credits for "Search for Tomorrow", and couldn't wait to watch "Guiding Light". I distinctly remember when they switched to this "disco" theme in 1981 and loved it. I just hated the fact I missed most of those great scenes already included in the opening montage.
driley1969 3 years ago
I would do almost anything to see GL like this again....I know that many years have paased, and that we all have to change, but the current "reality" concept only pushes me away...the show is more into
outdoor scenes and ridiculous, repetitive dialogue than developing story...
schuyler10 3 years ago
This was also the formal point at which the show finally dropped the "The" from its legal title after doing so in the title cards since '75. It's very much a disco period piece, though the show's writing remained rock-solid for a while. The open and title was still a radical change at the time and though it still sticks in my craw 27 years later, I guess P&G did what it had to stay "current.".
davemock 3 years ago
I will say that I loved your "rock-solid story" comment, because that's what it was. I was a 12-13 year old boy, running home from school to catch up with my "friends" in Springfield. My father was devestated when I started watching soaps, but I told him that "GL" was not a soap, but a "crime drama".
During those years, yes, Doug Marland was writing stories rich in mystery and intrigue...Someone must post some scenes from the Carrie1/Carrie2 storyline, soon, or I will friggin burst!!!
schuyler10 3 years ago
theres nothing rong with a guy watching soaps soaps are for everybody or anybody who is interested in watching them.and remember soaps were the first shows on tv besise the news
NEXTGENSKYN 3 years ago
How come Ben and Eve weren't in this opening? They were n the sow through late 1982 or early '83.
mthivier 3 years ago
Stephan Yates left the show as Ben in the fall of 1981 returning briefly in Jan 82 to wrap up his story with Eve and Amanda. Janet Grey continued on as Eve through June of 1983(when Eve joined Ben in Italy) Only Eve was on the show when this opening was created, and I guess wasn't included because she did not have a story of her own.Janet as Eve is included in the opening after this one as each character is used either in posed shots or shots from the show.
banram88 3 years ago
That shot of the lantern catching fire on the floor at :07 -- it must be from the time when Roger left pregnant Rita tied up in the cabin, and she accidentally kicked the lantern over when she went into labor.
OceanKingNY 3 years ago
.......I remember that episode when Roger
left pregnant Rita tied up in the cabin.
tvercetti1970 3 years ago
My first experiences with soaps...Roger left Rita in the cabin, and Rita was actually being played by a replacement (look-a-like)actress.
"The part of Rita Bauer is being played today by blah blah blah"...
However, I guess that Lenore Kasdorf was on maternity leave, because her replacement lasted for a month or two. Remember that?
schuyler10 3 years ago
I too remember replacement Rita (bareley.) during the cabin / Roger scenes. Those were classic GL days.
Najee1020 3 years ago
Yes, and I had just started watching soaps (I was 11), so it was jarring for me that the actress that I had come to know as "Rita" was being replaced (especially during the vital scenes)
schuyler10 3 years ago
@schuyler10 Actually Lenore's replacement last only two weeks in February 1980. Lenore took a break during the time Roger was holding Rita hostage in his father, Adam's cabin, during a blizzard, because it was thought a pregnant Kasdorf couldn't do the hard part of being tied up. Roger knocking over the kerosene lamp was on Friday and the replacement Rita was still there with Ed & Mike rushing to save her and confront Roger. The following Monday, Lenore was back, but still tied up on the bed
sneeyize45 3 months ago
@sneeyize45 with Ed saving Rita -- but Rita would suffer from breathing in smoke and would lose the baby due to that. Lenore then left the 2nd week of March 1980 (along with Rita) -- the same week Roger kidnapped Holly in Santo Domingo. Lenore (and Rita) would return from her pregnancy leave in July 1980 and try to renew her marriage to Ed -- with of course not great results. I remember all of this, because reams of stuff have been written about a pregnant Lenore having to play
sneeyize45 3 months ago
@sneeyize45 Rita miscarrying the baby. This is part of the reason why it is suspected that Lenore left when she did, for good, in July 1981 and why it is suspected Lenore never came back to the show, later, because of the fact she had to play that out while she was pregnant in real life.
sneeyize45 3 months ago
What storyline was that at 0:07 or 0:08 where the woman standing on the stair and see a flashing light at the window?
williambrown007 4 years ago
That's just Amanda generally surrounded by gothic, frightening things like lightning.
ivnkplng 4 years ago
Ah, Amanda. I remember her and her crazy, neurotic mother Lucille. Those were the days!
OceanKingNY 3 years ago
This opening music sounds like it's from the 70's, I think.
ksbaxter 4 years ago
I had actually forgotten that it opened with Ross and Carrie; I always think of the Ed and Maureen laughing shot as the first. Ah, the good old days of Kathleen Cullen's neurotic Amanda and the sturdy Tom O'Rourke as Justin Marler.
chsvillage 4 years ago
My FAVORITE GL opening and theme. Jack Urbont wrote this...he also created the classic General Hospital theme.
VERY dynamic for familiar ole' GL.
I would have loved for this theme to have been revived for the "new" GL. Updated a little of course.
BruTube 4 years ago
It's kind of hard to tell, but isn't that Kelly and Morgan at the end before the title comes up?
krystlerita 4 years ago
Yes.
classicGL 4 years ago
Wasnt that Nola flirtin with Josh around :15 to :19 seconds in this clip?
williambrown007 4 years ago
Yes.
classicGL 4 years ago
Damn. That was JOSH?? He's still a fine looking man now, and though I watched the show in the early '80s, I don't ever remember him being that handsome.
WOOF!
neworleansguy10 3 years ago 2
Josh was HOT!!!!!
jamajessie 3 years ago
Robert Newman definitely found the fountain-of-youth. He's still in excellent shape TODAY.
Najee1020 3 years ago 4
Robert looks fantastic. I've noticed that Robert's a gemini. Most Gemini men are forever young. Prince is a gemini and so is my hubby is a gemini, and they look YOUNG!!!UGH. LOL.
trublueone 3 years ago
@williambrown007 I would too with those eyes of his;)
msgreeneyez26 9 months ago
@msgreeneyez26 LOL!!! No no no i was only asking was that Nola but now which i know it is. LOL!!!!
williambrown007 9 months ago
The very best GL EVER! They should re-incarnate it for 2008!! =]
DaysFan65 4 years ago
Kevin Bacon was on this soap around this time i forgot what character he played
PsWii60pwns 4 years ago
Bacon was gone from GL by the time this opening was used.
classicGL 4 years ago
Kevin Bacon played Tim Werner from 1980-1981.
coolwafferman 4 years ago
yeah didn't he have a drinking problem?
PsWii60pwns 4 years ago
Yes I understood what you meant and yes Tim did have a drinking problem.
That was back in the days when GL was doing there thing! Even that theme song was serious!
coolwafferman 4 years ago
i don't mean kevin bacon i mean his character had a drinking problem just so there is no confusion lol
PsWii60pwns 4 years ago
i liked this opening! parts of the opening with the Mike Bauer scene and the zoom-up effect on the faces looked like the opening to a night time drama instead of a daytime drama.
ACcountryFan 4 years ago
"the faces looked like the opening to a night time drama instead of a daytime drama."
This was hard on the heels of the fantastic Roger Thorpe abduction-chase story line in early 1980 when GL was superior to night time drama. Not since "The Fugitive" series had I been on the edge of my chair so often as those golden months of Guiding Light. No prime-time drama matched it.
Alas, it didn't last...
60sThru80s 3 years ago
Josh looks so young! I've seen this one referred to as the disco version.
DBfromOz 4 years ago
The guy holding the gun. Wasnt that Don Stewart(Mike Bauer)
Motown65 4 years ago
Yes, it is.
classicGL 4 years ago
Although, this opening did get a facelift sometime in the summer of 1982 after the departure of Jane Elliot as Carrie Todd Marler and shortly before the departure of Harley Venton as Derek Colby. There were also a couple of more scenes with a couple of more characters added. I also think it got one more facelift in the spring of 1983 that added a young Grant Aleksander as Phillip Spaulding.
Yesimustbestupid2 4 years ago