BBC's Neverending Stories-Guiding Light Part 1 (1999)

This program was made in 1999, long before the cancellation of Guiding Light. It features interviews with cast members Kim Zimmer and Jerry VerDorn, soap journalist Mimi Torchin, and the people who were running GL in 1999: Executive Producer Paul Rauch, Head-Writers James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten, and Proctor & Gamble's Executive in Charge of Production Mary Alice Dwyer-Dobbin.

It begins with a brief description of the origin of soaps, then of GL specifically, and then discusses the daily routine of making the show, the changing media climate, and the future of soaps (obviously, as it was in 1999).

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Guiding
• Light
• Kim
• Zimmer
• Jerry
• VerDorn
• Paul
• Rauch
• Esensten
• Brown
• Mary
• Alice
• Dwyer-Dobbin

[Robansuefarm]

Secret to soaps that problems are overlooked once you care about the characters. The Selena-Buzz-Ben scene is a pretty important. 12:00 Jerry verDorn gives a run down of typical shooting day. "You can control the characters's lives, but real life has a nasty habit of intruding." "There is dead dead and soap opera dead." I thought Ghost Reva was more of a physic projection rather than a figment of imagination.

[Robansuefarm]

Enjoy the recipe for a soap opera. I appreciate them taking the history beyond radio and TV. Wonderful tribute to Irna Phillips. That's an interesting way to put it. "Guiding Light is the longest story ever." Zimmer is right: "Guiding Light is an heirloom that gets passed down. Soaps never assumed women would have time to only sit and watch. "Soap audiences are very smart, very hip, you can't fool them." 9:00 setting up a set. "Storylines should last 3 to 6 months." Mimi Torchin interviewed.

[sara31tx]

WOW! Still so sad that we no longer have this show! Thanks 4 sharing!

[sundishine2]

I've never seen this, thank you so much for posting it!

[CarlD2]

I hadn't seen that Bert/Mike clip.

Ugh, MADD! And B&E look so bored. Rauch, ugh.

[sim3182]

lol," soap opera dead that's what you want to be"