From June 3. 0, 1. June 2. 9, 1. 95. The Guiding Light ran on both CBS television and radio, with the actors performing, the same scenes but for different audiences, live twice each weekday. The live television performances were in the morning, and then in the afternoon the actors read for the live radio show. On July 2, 1. 95.
The Guiding Light became a CBS television show, only, and the show no longer was heard on radio. Episodes continued at 1. In 1. 95. 3, CBS strongly persuaded Irna Phillips to let The Guiding Light experiment with television's first color broadcast.
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- Guiding Light The longest running soap opera, Guiding Light, aired on radio in 1937 before moving to CBS television in June 30, 1952 where it aired until September 18, 2009 after a record seventy-two years. The storyline focused on the Spaulding, Cooper and the.
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- Created by Irna Phillips. With Kim Zimmer, Beth Chamberlin, Maureen Garrett, Robert Newman. Guiding Light takes place in the fictional Midwestern town of Springfield. In its early years the stories centered on the middle class Bauer family, but later the wealthy.
Phillips was not thrilled with the concept of color television, and thwarted the effort by CBS by having that day's episode take place entirely in a hospital setting with gray walls and white uniforms. The Guiding Light would remain broadcasting in black and white for the remainder of the decade. In 1. 95. 6, Phillips created As the World Turns, which first started airing on April 2, 1. CBS. When the workload of writing both that show and The Guiding Light became too much for her, Phillips handed the reins at The Guiding Light to her prot. There is some indication that Procter & Gamble and CBS may have forced Phillips out of writing for The Guiding Light when on the March 3. Katherine . Kathy, confined to a wheelchair, was killed after being struck by a car.
CBS was deluged with protest letters. Prior to the launches of the half- hour shows As the World Turns, and The Edge of Night (both launched the same day), CBS and Procter & Gamble tried to convince Phillips to combine The Guiding Light and Search for Tomorrow into one single half hour show. Phillips declined.
Major characters. Paul Keeler (Ed Begley to November 1. Joe Roberts (Herbert . Paul Keeler (Melville Ruick to 1. Joey Roberts (Richard Holland to December 1. Trudy Bauer Palmer (Lisa Howard, March 1.
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March 1. 4, 1. 95. Bill Bauer (Ed Bryce, November 1. Other characters. Gloria La Rue Harper (Anne Burr Mc. Dermott, November 1. April 1. 95. 4), written out.
Sid Harper (Philip Sterling, November 1. April 1. 95. 4), written out. Richard Hanley (Mandel Kramer, January 1. December 1. 95. 5, then October 1. Janet Johnson (Ruth Warrick, March 1.
October 1. 95. 4; Lois Wheeler, October 1. September 1. 95. 6, then May 1. August 1. 95. 8), written out.
Peggy Ashley Regan (Patricia Wheel, May 1. March 1. 95. 5), written out. Laura Ashley Grant (Katherine Anderson, 1. Alice Yourman, 1. Michael . Jim Kelly (Paul Potter, 1.
January 1. 95. 6), written out. Dr. John Brooks (Charles Baxter, 1. Bart Thompson (Barry Thomson, 1. Dan Peters (Paul Ballantyne, 1. Mrs. Laurey (Lois Wilson, January 1.
December 1. 95. 5; Virginia Payne, January to April 1. Marie Wallace and Dr. Dick Grant lived in in New York City, written out. Marie Wallace Grant (Joyce Holden, January to December 1. Lynne Rogers, December 1.
Mark Holden (Whitfield Connor, October 1. March 1. 95. 6, then August 1. Dr. Paul Fletcher (Michael Kane, January 1. April 1. 95. 6; Bernard Grant, May 1. Elise Miller Franklin (Ethel Remey, 1. Bert and Alma- Jean's mother. Elise's 2nd husband Albert Franklin died offscreen in Arizona.
Alma- Jean Miller, talked about but never seen. Youngest daughter of Elise Miller. Bert Bauer's Younger sister. Dr. Bruce Banning (Lester . Paul Fletcher's biological father, written out. Marian Winters Lipsey (Katherine Meskill, January 1. June 1. 95. 8), Dr.
Paul Fletcher's mother, written out. John Lipsey, character talked about but never seen, Dr. Paul Fletcher's adoptive father and husband to Marian Winters. Henry Benedict (John Gibson, March 1.
Helene Benedict (Kay Campbell, April 1. Amy Sinclair (Joanne Linville, January 1. December 1. 95. 9)Nora Sinclair AKA Marie Grant, talked about but not seen, Amy's daughter who Dick and Marie Grant adopted not realizing Nora/Marie was part of Joe Turino's illegal adoption scam ring. Karl Jannings (Richard Morse, September 1. Joe Turino (Joseph Campanella, December 1.
Plot development. The Bauers, living in the fictional suburb of Los Angeles, Selby Flats, were headed by a wise patriarch, Friedrich . Papa Bauer, who immigrated to this country from Germany with little more than a dream, and was a hard worker who was full of wisdom.
He imparted his wisdom to his children in a folksy tone, commonly interweaving German words. The original primary focus of the Bauer story line was on Meta, who at one point earlier in the 1.
Bauer household to pursue a career in modeling under the alias Jan Carter Meta as Jan had gotten involved, romantically, with the British Theodore . Jan found herself pregnant with Ted's child and decided to get her son up for adoption to Ray Brandon and his wife, the former, Charlotte Wilson. Around the time Jan found out that Ray and Charlotte were the adoptive parents of her son, Charles . Mary Leland (Ross' wife) not to do so.
Jan and Ted did win custody of Chuckie, but at the time they did Mary told Jan (who revealed her true identity as Meta) that her mother . Bill meanwhile had gotten married to a woman who was striving for material success and thought Bill should as well, Bertha . Meta, still as Jan to him, convinced Ted to hire Bill at his father's advertising agency. Ted did so, but later got mad at Meta for covering up who she really was.
Meta and Papa did make amends, although Trudy was jealous of her older sister and her lifestyle and was in love with the married Dr. Ted then started turning violent to her and Chuckie, and Meta sued for divorce and then Ted and Meta ended up in a custody battle over Chuckie which Meta won, but Ted was granted some lenient time of visitation and to take Chuckie on outings of his own.
That's when Ted left the now, five- year- old, Chuckie to die in a freak boxing accident. Meta then left her house and then the Bauers in a daze and ended up in front of Ted's house and shot him dead!
In 1. 95. 0, on the radio version at one point listeners got the chance to choose whether or not to find Meta guilty of murdering her ex- husband Ted White. Ray, on Charlotte's urging, who defended Meta despite the previous custody battle, must have been convincing because the radio audience had Meta acquitted due to temporary insanity. Ray and Charlotte Brandon and Dr. Mary Leland faded into obscurity shortly after this, with the only mention of the Brandon's being with Bill and Bert bought their house in the Hollywood Hills. Meta and Trudy later became best friends, with Trudy later marrying the well- off Clyde Palmer and they moved to New York City. The conflicts between the Bauer clan and Bill's headstrong wife Bert were an integral part of the plot in the television show's first decade.
Although Bert and her sister- in- law Meta eventually became very close, initially there was a considerable amount of hostility between them. An additional plot- line in this period focused on Bill Bauer's alcoholism and his career difficulties, which were exacerbated by Bert's materialistic nature: she wanted to live much more extravagantly than Bill's salary would allow. Enter to all of this, in 1.
Bill and Bert's marriage. After Ted White's death, Bill had to seek employment with another advertising agency and worked with show business manager, Sid Harper, who was trying to get a singer named Gloria La. Rue to sign with him and sought Bill's help. What neither one of the men knew was that Gloria was also an alcoholic and she and Bill started an affair. Gloria nearly had Bill divorce Bert, but Bert refused to let him go and then Bert discovered she was pregnant.
When Bill discovered that Bert was pregnant, he agreed to stay with her. Gloria then fell off the wagon, and Sid offered her a new radio and television career which gave her the strength to get sober.
Gloria and Sid then got married, and with Bill back with Bert and her expecting their first child, things seemed to stabilize for the Bauers. Bert gave birth to a boy named Michael (later named, ! Soon both Bert and Sid had to watch in anger as Gloria became more emotionally dependent on Bill for her new career. Fortunately for the two of them, Gloria developed vocal problems and had to abandon her new show and she and Sid moved to New York City. Things might have been fine after this, but in 1. Meta's new stepdaughter and her former roommate.
During Meta's murder trial, she got a champion for her cause to be acquitted, via City Timesnewspaper reporter Joseph . They quickly fell in love and it was found out that Joe had two children from a previous marriage, Katherine . Kathy and Joey's mother, and Joe's first wife, had died a few years earlier. A nanny, who was also a nurse, named Peggy Ashley Regan had been hired to look after the family, and Kathy and Joey had become quite fond of Peggy. But then Meta started hanging around Joe and the household, as Joe started dating Meta, and Joey liked Meta, but Kathy definitely did not.
That's how innocent the problems Kathy was about to face, started, and would be reminiscent to Meta in many ways to what she had just faced in going to trial for shooting and killing Ted White. Joe wanted to marry Meta, but Meta kept putting him off, feeling that if both of his children were not comfortable with her being their new stepmother (i. Kathy), she was unwilling to proceed with a marriage. Meta even tried to escape to New York City and to her sister Trudy and her husband Clyde, to sort out her feelings, and she even started to become involved with one of Clyde's friends, Dr.
Bruce Banning, who wanted to marry Meta. But Joe followed Meta there and wore down her defenses and finally she and Joe married, but they decided to keep the marriage a secret to everyone (Bill, Bert, Papa, Kathy and Joey) with only Trudy her bridesmaid and Clyde the best man knowing about this union.
Meta, although thrilled to be married to Joe, who she truly loved, knew that they were in for some troubles with Kathy and Joe agreed that when they returned to Selby Flats that Meta would live separately from Joe and his children, until they could win Kathy over.