Overview - Guiding Light

Date of release

Genres

  • Soap
  • Drama

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: TeleNext Media

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: RDF Television

    Production country

  • Name: CBS

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Procter & Gamble Productions

    Production country United States of America

Overview

Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio. Guiding Light stands as the third longest-running program in all of broadcast history; only the Norwegian children's radio program Lørdagsbarnetimen and the American country music radio program Grand Ole Opry have been on the air longer. On April 1, 2009, it was announced that CBS canceled Guiding Light after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final scenes for CBS on August 11, 2009, and its final episode on the network aired on September 18, 2009.

Seasons

  • Name: Season 1

    Episode: 213

    This show took place in the fictional Midwestern town of Springfield and centered on the middle class Bauer family.

    Date first aired: