Guiding Light: 2002 opening featuring Joan Collins

This opening for Guiding Light ran in late 2002 when Joan Collins portrayed Alexandra Spaulding.

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• Guiding
• Light
• Joan
• Collins
• Alexandra
• Spaulding

[Bluebirdsims]

To me, this was the last and final good year of the show. The real soap opera years is what counts not all that teen, primetime, predictable junk they feature today.

[aspbitten]

I agree. Millie Taggart wrote for the show at that time, and the show was really good. After she left, the show went downhill quickly. Alexandra as Reva's stalker? I don't think so. The last straw for me was Ben as the Garden of Eden murderer. It made no sense at all. That's when I quit watching.

[OceanKingNY]

This was an excellent opening sequence, and it's hard to understand why it lasted less than a year.  It was a nice successor to "Hold On To Love" (which, although perfect, was a bit played-out after 11 years). And this version is certainly superior to any of the openings that they have used since.

[gct89]

maybe people go crazy for her because she is a very talented actress. Nicole Forrester just didnt have the on screen chemistry that Laura Wright had with the other characters no wonder the shows ratings slid after she left

[TimsDale4ever]

I wasn't watching the show at this time but I do remember this opening -- then I tuned in a few months later and it was gone. I remember thinking at the time that had to be the shortest run of a daytime opening in the history of television. It was so very sad to me to watch this once mighty show die that slow death. I remember around Christmas eve 2008 I watched it to see what was happening and it honesly was the worst (by a long shot) hour of TV ever. Wheeler f'd up this show but good!

[sneezyize]

@sneezyize Rita to the show at that time, might have been a huge positive jolt to the show -- and think of the history connections and huge storyline possibility that would have provided? I think if Rita had come back at that time, GL might have still been with us to today, but only if Taggart had been allowed to continue to write for the show, despite the two other issues I and others had with her.

[sneezyize]

@sneezyize have. The other thing I and many others wish she had done but didn't do, was to have it be more hinted at that Gus' mother was none other than Rita Stapleton Bauer (or perhaps going by another married last name by that time, perhaps Rita married attorney Derek Colby or businessman Kyle Sampson off-camera during the time since she had last been on the canvas, 1981, but it's perhaps possible that a deal with Lenore Kasdorf to come back as Rita fell through? But I think a return of

[sneezyize]

@aspbitten Although I agree that Taggart was the best writer GL had in it's last decade, I do believe she did two things she shouldn't have that might have got her kicked to the can, and another thing that she didn't do that she should have done. The first of those was not having it cleared up for everyone whether Tony had really date raped Marah or not -- I really think there was much lost potential in that lost storyline. The second was keeping the Santos clan around longer than she should

[voyage2k]

God, this was the BEST opening of the modern GL era.... :)

[SoapsGoldenAge]

@DegrassiInstantStar I agree--she was a better Cassie. Laura's a fine actress, but Nicole had more emotion, seemed younger and grittier like Reva's sister. PS: I think GL began a slow decline when Demorest-Curlee-Sheffer stopped workign together. Even though it was "reva-less" it was a great show and intertwined stories wonderfully. After that writing trio left, it had moments of greatness, but never sustained.

[themirrorsofmymind]

Somebody called this the 'lozenges' opening!

[Brandon1921219]

2002 was the last good year 4 Guiding Light. It But in my opinion, Paul Rauch started 2 destroy the show in his later years as EP

[Igenerally]

@poosandabbey SO true unlike ATWT the writing on GL definetly killed the show more than anything else. This was GL's last well produced opening theme. GL's and ATWT's could easily return in a new venue of media perhaps it's time for daytime serials to go strictly to either cable outlets or the internet itself? Obviously the support for these shows has been sabotaged by uncaring network execs.

[poosandabbey]

I agree. This was the last great time for GL. I LOVED Caren!! It is sad, but in reality, it was the writers who did these shows in. First GL and now ATWT. So sad ...