Guiding Light celebrates 50 years on TV, June 2002

CBS's Sunday morning news show takes a look behind-the-scenes into Guiding Light as it marks its 50th anniversary on TV, making it 65 years old total.

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• kim
• zimmer
• robert
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• josh
• reva
• bert
• charita
• bauer

[stylequeen1987]

can you even imagine TV without soaps. I know I can't. I hate how the guy was kind of bashing or bringing down the Soap Opera Genre.

[guiding101light]

Guiding Light is the best fricken show ever!!!!!! I watched sence 2004 and im 14 now

[Robansuefarm]

Radio 0:57 Kim Zimmer and Robert Newamn interview 1:10 Duz 1:28 Irna Phillips 2:00 Robert Thompson professor 2:20 Bauer family, Papa Bauer, Bert Bauer, Rick Bauer, 2:35 Writers Table with Millee Taggert head writer, story board 3:25 Hot tub scene which I like better than "slut of springfield" 4:10 Suspension of disbelief 5:20 Social Issues 5:40 James Earl Jones talks Guilding Light 6:15

[megameganism]

aww bauer bbq :/ i miss it.

[416mcp]

i wish they would have brought back the old characters. might have saved the show. but now we will never know

[Caitlin232323]

Does anyone know where I can see the clip of them in the hot tub?

[sara31tx]

@Aquaria Does that include Dvrs? What about the people who don't have them?

[Aquaria]

You clearly don't know how the Nielsen ratings work.

1) They've been able to track TiVo usage since at least 2005.

2) Nielsen does collect recording data; advertisers don't care how many people record a show, and they're the ones the ratings are collected for. They only care about how many people will see their products in the commercials. If you're recording, the chances that you'll watch the commercials fall off tremendously compared to sitting through them on a live broadcast.

[Aquaria]

The shows have died because 1) the shows became so expensive to produce 2) the viewership is aging and 3) the viewership is dwindling because women just don't have time for them anymore.

It didn't help that some really ridiculous writing has been out there--cloning? Really?

Not making better use of core families didn't help, either.

Y&R stuck to their core, and didn't go off the deep end with flash plots. How long has it been #1? And that's not a big honking clue?

[johnandvan]

Sniff I watched with my Grandma...

[TheMelissacain]

My great grandma listened to Guiding Light on the radio, then my mom watched it when she was old enough, and as tradition follows, so do my 2 older sisters and I. I feel like a little piece of my life has died really. I'm really sad to see this show off the air. but we always have the youtube to watch an episode when stuff sucks in the real world!

[Oldestboy21]

Thank you for posting.