Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded ...

In this image released by CBS, actors, from left, Herb Nelson, Ellen Demming, Susan Douglas and Lyle Sudrow appear in the premiere TV broadcast of “Guiding Light” on June 30, 1952. After 72 years on ...

NEW YORK -- 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 ...

THIS FRIDAY, “Guiding Light,” the longest-running scripted program in broadcasting history, will go dark after 72 years when CBS pulls the plug on the daytime drama. Disgruntled devotee Judy Ryne ...

NEW YORK -- Friday marked the final flicker of CBS' "Guiding Light," as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air.The last episode took an upbeat, life-affirming ...

Like many other Americans, I was recently notified that I would soon be out of a job. I’m a long-term employee at Cedars Hospital in Springfield. I work with Dr. Rick Bauer, who went to medical school ...