CBS’s daytime drama Guiding Light will broadcast its final episode on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. At the time of its final broadcast, the series will have spanned 72 years and more than 15,700 episodes on ...

CBS is canceling the longest-running drama on TV, the daytime soap "Guiding Light." The network is ending the show after 72 years and more than 15,700 episodes on television and radio. The series will ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. CBS will shut down Guiding Light this fall. After seven decades of daytime melodrama Light is unable to satisfy working mothers and advertisers who ...

Until not so long ago, Stage 42 at CBS' Broadcast Center held a honeycomb of chambers where "Guiding Light" was shot. Here stood a life-size dollhouse whose rooms (the Spaulding study; the Company ...

On Wednesday, September 18 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, pay tribute to the 15th anniversary of the final episode of Guiding Light with one of the show’s stars — Frank Dicopoulos, who played Frank Cooper ...

CBS is canceling the longest-running drama on TV, the daytime soap "Guiding Light." By James Hibberd, The Associated Press CBS is canceling daytime soap “Guiding Light,” the longest-running drama on ...

It’s been 72 years since Guiding Light first debuted on television — almost to the day! The classic CBS sudser debuted on June 30, 1952 and aired for the next 57 years until finally shutting off the ...

Lee Lawson, best known for her long-running role as Bea Reardon on the soap opera "The Guiding Light," died on May 22 at the age of 80. Lawson played Reardon on the CBS soap from 1981 to 1990. The ...