Guiding Light Closing: 1993

cast and production credits from November 5, 1993

[@irememberla6460]

It's amazing how this themesong gives me such joy...!

[@cmck2021]

This is so bittersweet! I wish life would go back to those times 🙂

[@NPCSingularity]

Every time I hear this theme I think of Summer afternoons at my Grandmother's house. How we loved the villainy of Roger.

[@abe_froman8360]

Great memories. I'm going to remember Guiding Light for this era, and not the disaster it became under Ellen Wheeler and her "production model."

[@roxannesantoro7503]

Theme reminds me of my mother. She loved this theme. She died May 5, 2000.

[@Aarona13760]

I loved it when they showed all the actors at the end.

[@zt1053]

Its interesting they kept Leonard Stabb in the closing shot because this was well after his hang gliding accident. The Hart character was off the show by this point

[@swimboy1982]

wow, this brings back memories. I've forgotten about lots of these people. It changed alot after Maureen Bauer died.

[@khambrelllewis8759]

Guiding Light The Daytime Soap Opera Of All Time On CBS

[@Itsgrantsrants]

Thank you for posting. LOVE

[@RD-lx1gy]

Guiding Light really was the best show

[@Rolo555]

This theme song is what is played right after someone passes. They see all the main people they interacted with on Earth thru the years.

[@johngibson3914]

This cast was a great one.

[@moonraker30]

Makes think of just getting home from school #Memories #90sTeen

[@keys1125]

this is exactly the year I started watching this! I was 16 and would rush home from school to watch this at 3!

[@booberry349]

BRING BACK THE LIGHT!!!!!!

[@patrickstewart9937]

Beautiful

[@1thetvzone]

WOW! Proctor and Gamble had money for GL fast forward 13 later they had them moved to the countryside in Jersey filming outdoors

[@softwater88]

I kinda wonder why Rick Hurst didn't become a household name. He, to me, seemed like he shoulda gone on to bigger and bigger things like Allison Janney.

[@sherryhannah9262]

softwater88 Rick Hurst played Boss Hogg’s cousin Cletus on The Dukes of Hazzard I hope you will reply to this

[@scoot1105]

This showed the day i turned 20!!! Wow i'm gettin old!!!

[@booberry349]

Bring this show back

[@wiled5]

1:57 RIP Jerry

[@disabled1955]

@antonzap even though that 'production model' stabilized with less jerky camera movement, i still wish they hadn't 'tried' that..it ain't been done since and i'm 99.9% positive it won't be done again.....

[@scoot1105]

Wow!! This was shown on my 20th birthday!!

[@GianniHernandez007]

❤

[@khambrelllewis1246]

Guiding Light

[@tgstock1]

@DarthSnoopy96: Yes, that was one of the actors who played Hart. I forget his name but he left the show after being in a serious accident and was unable to work anymore.

[@zt1053]

Leonard Stabb

[@Cyclops236]

I've never heard voiceovers that played at different times during the same credits.

[@jacktheman2895]

Right around the time I started watching. Unfortunately GL was at the tail end of it's greatness at this point.

[@BROCKMEDIAGROUP]

All the Soaps beefed up their black characters during this time bc Y&R already at #1 leaped even further with the popularity of Drucilla, Neil, & Olivia

[@akil2746]

Because Black women were the number one demographic that watched soaps.

[@JasonAlredge]

Yeah, many said so.

[@rizinggodfist3049]

this would have been great if only they would stop that damn preview talking😣...there were times you'd get lucky enough to hear & witness just the beautiful melody 🎶... extremely well orchestrated.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@wiled5]

I would have liked it better if they kept the key of the closing theme in A major with no key change and let it fade. I watched an atwt closing credits video and there was no key change in it. just remained in the key of C

[@DarthSnoopy96]

Who is that nice-looking guy at 1:55? I went and read the cast list carefully and it appears they omitted him. Was that the actor who played "Hart Jessop" at this time? I do remember his face...

[@JasonAlredge]

Too bad there weren't more black characters on the show. That happened in the early 1990s and ended in the late 1990s. The resurge of black characters on Guiding Light happened when Rick married that young woman, Mel. That was in 2002.

[@robertacosta1965]

There were two black actors who won an emmy! Three emmys!

[@ON-rw5di]

The only good thing Jill Farren Phelps ever did was geting rid of Reva Shane

[@dannyhill8797]

and, unfortunately, she eventually came back..she ain't no Bert Bauer - that's for sure!.......

[@ON-rw5di]

Danny Hill totally agree with u. It all started to go downhill when the Bauers werent the center of the show anymore.

[@dannyhill8797]

@@ON-rw5di i don't know who was worse: reva or Blake sleeping with every male member of the same family..going in that kind of direction was, imho, one of the factors that signaled the end of daytime telly as we once knew it.......

[@ON-rw5di]

Danny Hill they were probably equally destroying in JFP ratings fishing. The best soap in my opinion is ATWT 1975-80. The acting and drama is Oscarclass.

[@mysky]

Jill Farren Phelps did not get rid of Reva. Kim Zimmer left the show in July 1990. Jill didn’t become executive producer until July 1991.

[@wiled5]

1:58 RIP Jerry