72 Years of Guiding Light and I Missed It

Published April 1, 2009 @ 15:45 in Television

tvAt first I thought it was a typo. The headline in my RSS reader claimed "TV's Guiding Light switching off after 72 years." Television has only been commercially available since the late 1930s. A series couldn't possibly have been running for 72 years.

It turns out Guiding Light began as a 15-minute serial on NBC Radio in January 1937 and debuted on CBS television in 1952. Guiding Light aired in one form or another for 72 years and I never caught a single minute.

Did I miss anything?

4 Responses to "72 Years of Guiding Light and I Missed It"

James Edgar
April 1, 2009 / 16:01

I doubt it very much.

J9
April 1, 2009 / 17:53

What?? No more Reva and Josh?

shane alexander
April 1, 2009 / 18:37

it was just one really long day where a bunch of people died and then came back to life, had a bunch of babies that became teens in minutes and then about a decade older within a few days..so no. not too much.

Stafford
April 1, 2009 / 20:20

"Radar, put on a mask.....!"


The entire cast flew home from Korea. Their aircraft came under fire. It spun down into the South China Sea.

There were no survivors.

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