GL final title card on CBS, 2008 � 2009
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| Name | Guiding Light | | Genre | Soap opera | | Created by | Irna Phillips | | Written by | Carolyn Culliton (2002 � 2003)
Lloyd Gold (2002 � 2009)
Ellen Weston (2003 � 2004)
David Kreizman (2004 � 2009)
Chris Dunn (2008 � 2009)
Jill Lorie Hurst (2008 � 2009) | | Country of origin | United States | | No. of episodes | NBC: ~2,500
CBS: 15,762 | | Executive producer | Paul Rauch (1996 � 2003)
John Conboy (2003 � 2004)
Ellen Wheeler (2004 � 2009) | | Running time | 15 minutes (1937 � 1968)
30 minutes (1968 � 1977)
60 minutes (1977 � 2009) | | Production company | Procter & Gamble Productions (1986 � 2008)
TeleNext Media for P&G Prod. (2008 � 2009) | | Original channel | NBC Radio (1937 � 1946)
CBS Radio (1947 � 1956)
CBS TV (1952 � 2009) | | First aired | NBC Radio:
January 25, 1937
� November 29, 1946
CBS Radio:
June 2, 1947
� June 29, 1956
CBS Television:
June 30, 1952
| | Last aired | September 18, 2009 | | Status | Ended |
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'Guiding Light' (known as 'The Guiding Light' before 1975, or simply 'GL') is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009. At the time of its cancellation in 2009, it was the longest-running soap opera in production. It is also among the longest running broadcast programs in history of any kind, across radio media for 15 years, and then television media for 57 years, being first broadcast five days after President Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inauguration. It aired on radio from January 25, 1937, to June 29, 1956, and debuted on CBS Television on June 30, 1952 running for 57 years. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half hour in 1968, and then to a full hour on November 7, 1977.
Guiding Light was created by Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25, 1937. In 1947 the show moved to CBS radio, before starting on television on June 30, 1952, on CBS television. The show's title refers to a lamp in the study of Reverend Dr. John Ruthledge, a major character when The Guiding Light debuted in 1937, that family and residents could see as a sign for them to find help when needed.
On April 1, 2009, CBS announced that it canceled Guiding Light because of low ratings. The show taped its final scenes on August 11, 2009, and its final episode aired on CBS on September 18, 2009. On October 5, 2009, CBS replaced Guiding Light with an hour-long revival of Let's Make a Deal, hosted by Wayne Brady, and the interim two weeks had Guiding Lights slot filled with second-run episodes of The Price Is Right.
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