GUIDING LIGHT: December 13, 1979

[@mariellclement8092]

Watching these just opened a floodgate, and a deluge of sweet memories came through. Thanks!

[@soapsnthings4182]

+Mariell Clement You're welcome! And I'm glad to have shared.

[@lorimendoza4721]

Well said and so very true for me too. Sometimes wish I could go back to that time.

[@neworleansguy10]

SoapsNthings Any idea why so many episodes of GL between March and July are MIA?? That was the height of Nola's machinations. Much more 79 and 80 on YT than 81.

[@soapsnthings4182]

@@neworleansguy10 I agree, episodes from that period are few & far between here at KZbin. If I had any, I would've surely uploaded them for everyone. I wouldn't mind watching them, myself. 🙂

[@1976mcil]

Wonderful episodes! Wonderful drama between Hope and her father Mike regarding Alan.

[@lorimendoza4721]

whoever wrote Alan's story and the island with Hope was beyond Brilliant. Fell so hard for Alan.

[@lorimendoza4721]

Now that is great soap opera writing.

[@m.e.d.7997]

TOPS! And Mike so very handsome! Also loved when they brought Christmas into the Soaps more!

[@brookehanley3659]

@@m.e.d.7997Very handsome❤

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@brookehanley3659 He really was. May he RIP

[@johnodonnell5474]

This was the best era in The Guiding Light's history. From 1977 to 1983 until the Lewis family took front and center and moved the Bauers to the back burner

[@adriannegrillo8394]

Very true!!

[@paulvoorhies8821]

I’d say 77 to 85. It jumped the shark circa 1986, so I mainly jumped to ATWT (followed Doug Marland), and Y and R as my primaries. With sides of AMC and Days.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Doug Marland is my soap writing God!

[@kathleenpurvis6279]

I absolutely adore Hope!

[@Axlelives1]

Kathleen Purvis Amen!:) Me too.

[@shadypines9929]

@Draper Scott You had to go and bring THAT up.

[@mandymac74]

The BEST SOAP EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

[@soapsnthings4182]

I agree! These were the glory days. Between 1979 and 1982, Guiding Light was unbeatable.

[@neworleansguy10]

SoapsNthings Absolutely true!! GH may have gotten the huge ratings, but GL always held its own and the acting and storylines were soooo much better!!

[@neworleansguy10]

Amanda mccoy Yup!!

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@neworleansguy10 Did this air opposite GH? They must have been good if it held its own against them.

[@brookehanley3659]

@@soapsnthings4182Funny those were also some of the best years of General Hospital too but this was great and At the time I knew fans of this show that never missed this. Love the theme!! I can see this was truly a very atmospheric soap!

[@castlist3384]

Another wonderful, well written episode during the Dobson tenure. The disintegration of the friendship between Jackie and Elizabeth was heartbreaking, given that they managed to be friends despite their mutual involvement with Alan, Mike, and Justin. Both women deserved to have a place in Phillip's life. I think that Phillip as an adult went through multiple marriages and divorces out of his subconscious feeling that Elizabeth and Jackie rejected him. Both characters should have figured prominently in Phillip's adult life (as opposed to Jackie's death in a plane crash and Elizabeth's move to Switzerland).

[@brookehanley3659]

So Dobson was the writer in this era. Wonderful writing and era for the Soap Guiding Light.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

@@brookehanley3659. Marland took over the writing reigns in Nov 79, so this is likely his first work.

[@brookehanley3659]

@@paulvoorhies8821 Okay TY

[@MrCraigblaze]

Thanks for the upload !! Nice to see a Young Cindy Pickett !! A VERY creepy shot of Roger Throper's shadow !!

[@derekdestep40]

Watching this makes me remember my mom she loved guiding light

[@lorimendoza4721]

Roger Alan Hope Mike. That writer was brilliant. Best in daytime

[@m.e.d.7997]

Was it Doug Marland?

[@hodjpodj3958]

@@m.e.d.7997 No, Dobsons here.

[@christopherslappey1681]

@@hodjpodj3958 Douglas Marland Took Over As Guiding Light's Head Writer In January 1980.

[@ilovebeinagirl]

I miss those cute little hats that nurses used to wear.

[@merricat3025]

They probably don't

[@2snowgirl520]

Those nurses have so much free time! I was a nurse and we rarely got breaks. Katie functions more as a secretary than a nurse.

[@carinnovick2995]

That's what I always thought! Not very realistic of a nurse's job!

[@m.e.d.7997]

It was not. Before nursing school the job looked fine watching it on the soaps but it was not a realistic picture.

[@m.e.d.7997]

It was NOT reality. 😢

[@Axlelives1]

Thank you. These are making my day! I love Hope:)!

[@soapsnthings4182]

Lots of early Hope (well, at least Elvera Roussel's Hope). Did you happen to catch her first episode on one of the March '79 uploads I put up a little while back?

[@Axlelives1]

SoapsNthings Perfect!:) Elvera Roussel is the Hope I was referring to. She is the only Hope:)! and you said you have lots more of her!:)! You just made my day:)! again!:)! I think I did catch the first one. I'm not sure. I'll go back and check. You are my favorite new channel!:)! Thank you so much.

[@softwater88]

SoapsNthings Thank you so stinkin' much for posting these episodes!! I miss this time in daytime TV!! This was when Guiding Light was good. Before it got weird when Quentin McCord, the Reardons, the Lewis' came on board. I totally hated Reva Shayne Lewis!! I totally loved Elizabeth, Jackie, Rita, Eve. Thanks once again?

[@soapsnthings4182]

+softwater88 You're MORE than welcome! Not only was it something I just loved to do on a semi-regular basis, but it was fun. Not just to upload and reminisce along with the rest of you while re-watching these episodes once again, but it was a labor of love. Like you, I wasn't fond of the fact that Reva was front-stage-center (especially between the years 1985 to Reva's "demise" in 1990). Frankly, GL became "The Reva Shayne Show, starring Kim Zimmer"! But like you, I preferred watching Jackie, Justin, Hope, Elizabeth, Mike, Amanda et all. Such a shame once Gail Kobe took over the reins as Executive Producer, it was "Out with the old....in with the new". Gone were so many of our favorite core characters. :-(

[@Axlelives1]

SoapsNthings So many have said the said the same thing, about Guiding Light becoming the Reva Show, and I would have to agree with them. At first, I liked Reva, but not any more than I did any other character, and she most certainly was not my favorite, and once they started giving the whole show to her, well, there was no reason for that. There were far, far stronger performers like Maureen Garrett and Elvera Roussel. I will tell you, though, another performer I adored was Kristi Ferrell, Reva's sister, Roxie. Ferrell's the real deal, had yards on Zimmer, and yet, always took a back seat to her, which I think is terrible. Judi Evans is fantastic in all that she does, and for a long, long time Judi was my very favorite, and she'll always be among them, but there was just something about Kristi, and I was looking for Guiding Light to let her rocket off and they never did. Big mistake. My all time favorite, along with Kristi, is actually Another World's Anna Kathryn Holbrook. Now that is move over Zimmer. It's ashamed that Guiding Light felt it was necessary to resort to a Zimmer only route. One thing though, I understand that Michael Zaslow was very fond of Zimmer and her acting abilities and Zaslow hardly strikes me as someone who did not know the best of his field since he was undoubtedly it. I don't think it's not that Kim can't act, but that her importance compared to the importance of other characters and actors was drastically overrated. Look at what GL ended up doing to Zaslow, and Maureen Garrett never got even one much deserved Emmy to Kimmy's over plated six. For some inexplicable reason, P & G made Reva their doll. Ellen Wheeler, by the way is another performer who blows Zimmer out of the water. Her AW's Marley, especially at the show's end was pitch perfect, and I don't like the way Zimmer always puts her down. Ellen is Ellen, an outstanding Emmy Winner in her own right. Finally, Zaslow's former One Life to Life co-star Judith Light actually gave one of the most famous performances in soap opera history, and way before Zimmer. Light is the real deal too. Kimmy Zimmer's alright, has reasonable abilities, but she pales in comparison to these other miracle ladies...she just does.

[@JayFrancisco-pb1ik]

Elvera beautiful as ever as Hope Don Stewart as Mike

[@adriannegrillo8394]

I would have loved seeing Lenore Kasdorf as a main character throughout the GL run. I thought she was a wonderful actor!

[@tommyparkerparker]

And beautiful also.

[@mariellclement8092]

Whoa! I forgot that they changed the fonts for the credits. Earlier, the title was in Helvetica, and the credits were Times New Roman. Now the title/credits are all Helvetica font. Character names in gold, performer names in white.

[@essiefinch1356]

They just don't write soaps like this any more..I don't even watch America soaps now..No melodrama..I watch British soap but they are getting just like america soaps now..I'm Really enjoying this..

[@derekdestep40]

Just looked Elvera Rousel Aka Hope was on bold and the beautiful 2010

[@mariellclement8092]

Jackie was angry at Elizabeth because she cheated on Justin with Mike. She herself, was still in love with the father of her son, Dr. Justin Marler.

[@TheloniousJackson]

Elizabeth had a nervous breakdown and was never seen again

[@montauk6]

The QUICKER picker upper...

[@m.e.d.7997]

Mike Bauer was so good looking!

[@mariellclement8092]

Love his dark hair. Gorgeous! That's why Elizabeth was so sprung.

[@MrCraigblaze]

@@mariellclement8092 "Sprung" ?? 🤣🤣 Didn't what's Is face play him..I just can't think of the actors named ??

[@jefferyjones1357]

What ever happened to Katie Parker?

[@mthivier]

She sort of abruptly disappeared around 1985.

[@TheloniousJackson]

She married Louie Darnell and left Springfield

[@baconbap]

​@@TheloniousJackson No she didn't, she married a basketball player.

[@kathleenparker1050]

Which episode showed Ed giving a Cartier bracelet?

[@mthivier]

That would have been the fall of 1978, probably September or early October. Ed and Rita went to New York together, and he bought her the bracelet there. It later figured in the Roger storyline, as Roger ripped it from Rita's wrist and pocketed it when he raped her, and later gave it to Holly as a gift (which Ed thought that Roger gave it to Holly to mock the fact that he had given an "identical" one to Rita, not realizing that it was, in fact, the same bracelet).

[@derekdestep40]

Greg was on battle star galactica

[@lorimendoza4721]

If I were hope I would have made the same mistake

[@laminage]

If there was one thing that both Mike & Ed had in common is that they were Single Fathers to their Daughters. I wish there was a storyline with Ed and Danny over why Michelle married him. He'd probably be mortified. Did Ed ever know the truth. I said this before but I think that either Blake Marler or her Uncle Ken Norris killed Mick.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

I liked Hope, but God was she clueless.

[@jefferyjones1357]

Alan done a great job being a gay man (the actor playing Alan was in real life) being straight 🤣

[@mthivier]

Curt Dawson, the actor who played Peter Chapman was also gay in real life, and I think a couple of others, as well.

[@egirl622]

Christopher Bernau was an actor, and a very good one. That is what actors do - they portray characters. It's not a surprise. Do you think that Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award because he was a cannibalistic serial killer in real life?

[@soulshaker9018]

Sometimes I think Greg is related to Fred Gwinn

[@mariellclement8092]

Herman Munster?...Bwaaaaahahahaaaaaa! Oh, Mylanta! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@soulshaker9018]

@@mariellclement8092 😆 I know right ?... now I can't UN see it !

[@mariellclement8092]

@@soulshaker9018 That is Hilarical! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😖

[@MrCraigblaze]

Even the Voice too !! The one who played Dila Reed's brother on Ryan's Hope ALSO reminds me of Fred Too..

[@adriannegrillo8394]

The character of hope is so sickening and self righteous

[@74Spirit1]

SORAS Hope; little Blake before she was SORASed.

[@kathleenpurvis6279]

Does anyone know when Greg Fairbanks finally got his comeuppance and what form it took? I can't stand that smarmy guy!

[@mthivier]

I think Fairbanks' dirty laundry all came out around the time that Rita had the miscarriage, a few months after these scenes, by which time he'd also managed to make an enemy out of Sara McEntire, from whom he tried to steal a promotion. I can't remember if it was Rita who told Ed that Greg was the man she'd had the affair with, of it it might have been Sara (since Rita had confided this to her), but once Ed learned the truth, he fired him, and he then left Springfield.

[@mthivier]

What I never could figure out was why Rita was still keeping his identify a secret by this time. Ed already knew that she'd had an affair (just didn't now with whom), so it wouldn't have mattered by then if she'd revealed his identify, if for no other reason than to spare her little sister a bit of pain, since by this time, creepy Greg was dating Eve. Rita was always depicted as being very protective of Eve, so it seemed strange to me that she just let her continue to date Greg without telling her the truth, and letting her know what a bottom-feeder he really was.

[@tonysam1955]

The actor who played Fairbanks, David Greenan, later became a psychologist and family therapist. He is also an adjunct professor at Teachers College at Columbia University. I always like to find out what happened to the actors following their stint on television series, including soaps.

[@soulshaker9018]

@@tonysam1955 I always thought he looked like he could be related to Fred Gwinn😁

[@mariellclement8092]

Eve found out about Fairbanks too, and she told him to kick rocks. This didn't cause a rift between her and Rita though, not like when they both were involved with Dr. Tim Ryan. Who was also a Doctor at Cedars. Eve stopped speaking to Rita because of it.

[@treybelcher3503]

creepy ass theme music

[@mariellclement8092]

Trey Belcher Yes it is. The theme got much better in 1983. But this is GL in its Emmy winning glory.

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

You are kidding, right? This was the best theme music it ever had.

[@mariellclement8092]

You should've heard it with the vocals. There was a warbling soprano singing over the music back in 1975, when the show was 30 minutes. Cah-reepy !😳