An early "Guiding Light" logo.Keith I. Marszalek, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Aug 12, 2009 ...

The classic CBS sudser debuted on June 30, 1952 and aired for the next 57 years until finally shutting off the light for the final time on September 18, 2009. And though Maeve Kinkead wasn’t on ...

On April 1, 2009, it was announced that CBS canceled Guiding Light after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final scenes for CBS on August 11, 2009, and its final episode on the ...

Ron Raines joined Guiding Light in 1986 and played the role of Alan Spaulding for 556 episodes, until the show ended in 2009. After that, he continued to act and had parts in One Life to Live ...

I fled before I got trampled. It was the late summer of 2009, the final weeks of “Guiding Light,” which had started as a radio program in 1937 and moved to television in 1952.