Fans of the world’s longest running soap opera, Guiding Light, had a sad farewell to the show on Friday, after 72 years following the lives of four families in America. Its role in US culture cannot be underplayed.
Starting out as a radio play in 1937 before graduating to CBS daytime TV in 1952, it was funded by Procter & Gamble, which employed Irna Phillips, the “mother of the genre”, to write it.
Kevin Bacon, Calista Flockhart and Mickey Rourke all started out on the show. From 1952 – 15,762 episodes, final episode Friday September 18, 2009.
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