Guiding Light - 5/28/80 pt. 8

Guiding Light - 5/28/80 pt. 8

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Entertainment

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• Guiding
• Light
• Soap
• Opera

[TimsDale4ever]

What I always found so interesting about this title card was that the actual title was not only toward the bottom but also over to the right. I know this was to get it away from the sun rays filtering in through the trees, but I still think it was clever and different NOT to have it exactly in the center of the screen.

[fxcamera1]

I never really watched this too often. My mom did and I had to record the final episode in 2009 for her.The only character I recognize is "Holly", and that actress really retained a good amount of her youthfulness considering the 29 year difference!

[STFUGTFO1]

@sheri451 Sorry, none of those people were still affiliated with the show when it ended. Lemay had been a consultant a few times over the years but not since the 90s. Allan Potter was replaced in the 80s as executive producer (I believe by Gail Kobe) and Bruce Barry lost his job somewhere in the last few years of GL when they went to hand held cameras.

[Sheri451]

@coolwafferman WOW! I didn't know that. I hope I live to be 90, but able to do what I do now. I know a woman that told me her 92 year old Mother could dance up until last year.

[coolwafferman]

@Sheri451 Oh okay, now it makes sense. I highly doubt Harding Lemay would return to the few soaps left on TV. He is almost 90! lol

[Sheri451]

@coolwafferman I might have been guessing wrong, I guess I remember Susan Lemay, played by Brittany Snow, then later Susan went to school somewhere and came back about three years younger and renamed herself Daisy, after what Harley named her as an infant, she was played by Bonnie Dennison.

[coolwafferman]

@Sheri451 Harding Lemay was on "GL" when it ended in 2009? Hmm.. Well I don't know about that. I looked it up, and he left "GL" in 1981. If he was there towards the end, I would think the writing would have been better. He is perhaps one of the greatest soap writers.

[Sheri451]

Look at the writers. Harding Lemay was still there when they left the air in 2009. Was this on an hour than?And Bruce Barry and Alan A Potter That's weird I mean they were on there after all those years.That answered my question, yes it WAS an hour long.

[gspinc1]

I never watched GL & had never seen this before. I was a little guy when this opening was on but perusing youtube and watching this now is quite amazing. It is stunningly beautiful and dreamy and yet has a very modern vibe. This musical score is very contemporary and sophisticated and the synchronised graphics are extraordinarily mod. I love it.

[gymnastix]

@softwater88 Mart Hulswit was probably my favorite "Dr. Ed Bauer," although I also very much liked the first adult "Ed," played by Robert Gentry, who briefly returned in the 1990s. His work (from 1966) may be seen here on You Tube. The kinescopes of those episodes are now so old the black & white has naturally tinted into sepia-toned.