The CBS soap Guiding Light is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. It's the longest running TV show in history (it started on radio in 1937 then switched to television in 1952). But they're not just throwing a party. Today they launched a new web site and a new campaign to help others. The cast and crew went down to the Gulf Coast to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, and they want fans to go to the site and share their stories of how they've helped someone.
I think they're tying it into the show somehow as well. A new plot has the cast finding a giant sum of money in a bag along with a mysterious note.
This is fantastic, but I think GL can do some other things to celebrate their 70th anniversary.
1. Bring back Grant Aleksander as Philip Spaulding and make him a good guy again.
2. Take Jerry Ver Dorn away from One Life To Live and bring Ross Marler back from the dead.
3. Bring back more old characters: Vanessa, Mindy, Ed, Mike, Fletcher, Holly, Quint, Nola, the other Reardons, India, and make Rick full-time again.
4. Change Beth back to the way she used to be, before the writers ruined her.
5. Get rid of all the useless characters that have joined the show in the past several years: Jeffrey and anyone connected to that damn island.
6. Ease up on focusing on the younger characters (Lizzie, Tammy, Ava) and focus more on the older characters and the show's history.
7. Make Springfield just a vague place in the midwest again, not specifically Springfield, Illinois. Whose idea was that anyway?
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1-03-2007 @ 10:57AM
Jason Elias said...
I agree with bringing back Grant Aleksander...
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1-05-2007 @ 2:55PM
SUSAN said...
I have watched Guiding Light for 50 years now thanks to my mother. She use to put me in front of the TV in my play pen... I'm still a fan. I would be lost if I could no longer watch. Thanks for babysitting me GL...
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1-14-2007 @ 10:50PM
BARBARA ABEL said...
I THINK CBS NEEDS SOME APPLAUSE FOR USING GUIDING LIGHT FOR A SORT OF LAUNCHING PAD TO LEAD THE WAY FOR THE HELP THIS COUNTRY BADLY NEEDS!I AM VERY MOVED SPIRITUALLY BY THE NEW BEGINNING OF THE SHOW WITH THE WHITE LIGHT AND HANDS REACHING OUT TO EACH OTHER.ALL OF US SHOULD BE CONGRATULATING THE PRODUCERS INSTEAD OF CRITICIZING THEM!GO TEAM!!LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER 70-BEST WISHES AND THANKS FOR HAVING THE COURAGE TO DO FOR OTHERS-SINCERELY BARBARA ABEL
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1-17-2007 @ 6:14PM
littlewind58 said...
I have been watching the guiding light for many years and am now debating on watching it any more first reva and josh now cassie and josh ???? Speaking of couples who should be left alone and happy tammy and johnathan just as they get together your killing him off who the heck is writing this stuff? This is the first good thing on this show for a long time. LEAVE THEM ON THE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1-19-2007 @ 7:29AM
Ann Mucherino said...
I would love to have the name of the background music that was used after Tammy and Johnthan were married. Thanks, Ann
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1-24-2007 @ 8:12AM
Caitlin said...
I just want to say that I love the show and I'm proud of all the good they've done. At the same time, I'm very sad to see the characters of Tammi & Jon leaving. I've loved their story from the beginning. I truly think Reva and Jon make daytime t.v. a much warmer place, they've made me laugh & cry! Cassie & Tammi seem so much like a real mother/daughter combo too - it breaks my heart that we won't see them together in future episodes. Even the Lizzie/Jon/Tammi situation was very entertaining to watch. GL will go on, but it won't be quite as "shining" without these two special characters. Thanks to GL for letting us see them marry before saying goodbye...
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