Guiding Light Ending Credits (circa 1985)

[@billiejones8602]

Still miss it. Many days at 3pm I think of it. So many people still miss it. Cancelling it was a big mistake.

[@jerrycarlson8968]

Billie Jones I wholeheartedly agree! They need to bring it back! I loved Guiding Light and I miss it still to this day.

[@billiejones8602]

@@jerrycarlson8968 I miss it too. And just think they replaced all the soaps with cooking shows, talk shows and doctor shows. Only so many recipes you need, only so much you can talk about and only so much doctors advice to be given. I especially miss Guiding Light and As The World Turns. And can't take watching anymore "reality shows".

[@takelson]

at1:42 is the credit for my dad Ron Kelson, who died in 1994. He won an Emmy award for his sets for Guiding light in 1985, so it is so nice to see this.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I miss Guiding Light.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

This was my favorite soap opera for a long time.

[@TimsDale4ever]

It was just perfect -- theme, title design, background graphics, credit crawl. It just all went together so well. Would have loved to have met whoever put all this together and shake their hand. That glittering, turning jewel was just the bomb! All so elegant and rich which was fitting for the 80's.

[@markc-ru4qz]

This was the best theme!

[@contraryMV]

These people were such a part of my life growing up lol

[@mariellclement8092]

Does this theme make the hair on your neck stand up or what? This is my fave. Not all organ, not lilting and sad and definitely not disco. It is the perfect theme, period.

[@steadfastcoward]

My favorite is still the harp version by Mi-Voix...wish they'd never changed it.

[@MotleySioux-bw6qn]

I miss guiding light so much

[@abe_froman8360]

Gail Kobe and Pam Long, the first team to upset General Hospital as the #1 show.

[@ozzielee9058]

Dynamic duo.

[@johnothy]

They should have kept this theme longer than they did. It was the best!

[@mikeyb2049]

I miss the old CBS daytime lineup.

[@bobcastro3220]

totally agree with you, I miss it too.

[@a.b.s_productions]

I wish I could have seen the CBS line up in the 1970’s, there were 9 soaps on CBS daytime in 1972!

[@facebook51ify]

@@a.b.s_productions now they're only 2 left!

[@richardcleveland6949]

@@facebook51ify Noe I wish Bold and the Beautiful would get cancelled

[@rhondahancock96]

Me too!

[@AWfan1999]

Thirty years ago seems like yesterday.

[@jimbrayfan]

my dad worked for. guiding light. I just saw his name, thank you so much.

[@adelgado75]

Yes, they should have cut at least two minutes from the final episode and played one last credit crawl with theme music as a way of paying tribute to the show's historic run

[@TVBob58]

Your father did excellent work. I loved the sets on "Guiding Light" during the Gail Kobe years.

[@Manuel-zo3wg]

Judi Evans Beth Grapenut cereal 🥣 commercial

[@airpiedmont]

I was never a Guiding Light viewer, but I am beginning to think this may have been the best soap theme ever. Pretty incredible. In terms of an "upbeat" themes I would vote for Ryan's Hope (wasn't a viewer of that one either) but for best overall, this one probably takes it.

[@ozzielee9058]

I was big fan. Best daytime theme and best daytime soap...in my opinion.

[@softwater88]

Churlyryan . . . thank you for posting this. I looked for this from btm85bubs. I think that this should've been Guiding Light's last theme. It was too beautiful . . . it makes me a little dewey eyed. I remember this theme when I was younger. Miss those days when the world seemed like it was mine alone. Who knows . . . a retro-soap theme today . . . tomorrow . . . the world . . . This theme was "sofa-king" awesome ! !

[@bmasters1981]

So GL was done in NYC, in the same CBS studios (as a whole) where their sports and news coverage came from? (I said "as a whole" because the credit said "Recorded at the CBS Broadcast Center, New York City.")

[@anthonyaustin3370]

GL originated from the actual CBS Broadcast Center at 57th St during the mid 60s and then in the early to mid 2000s only. The taping location for the episode in this clip was the Hi Brown studios at 221 West 26th St. GL taped at this location from 1968-88.

[@marianfranklin488]

Love it

[@scoot1105]

This theme definitely takes me back to my childhood days!! This came on before the afternoon cartoons back in the day, so i had to suffer with this(Mama loved this show!!).

[@jonpiotrowski7965]

80s perfection! thank god for you tube

[@boyddavenport1017]

I remember now Pamela K.Long was the headwriter on GUIDING LIGHT in 1985 ?

[@ozzielee9058]

Yes. She had two stints as head writer

[@sherryhannah498]

I hope y'all will reply to this Judi Evans who played Beth Raines on Guiding Light played Adrienne on NBC's Days of our Lives Adrienne was Justin Kiriakis's wife

[@scoot1105]

This is the theme i will always remember. I had to watch the last 30 minutes of the show when i got home from school so i could watch cartoons afterward!!! LOL

[@abe_froman8360]

@Sheri451 Peter Simon had left the show by this point. Ed was being played by Richard Van Vleet. And yes, Pam was married to Jay Hammer (Fletcher).

[@JasonRourhier]

Theme Swap question: Can anybody take this old 1985 Guiding Light closing theme & use it for a classic closing of Days Of Our Lives?--& if so how soon can it be posted?!

[@rhondahancock7942]

Grew up watching this show cried for a week when it ended nobody was as hot as Philip scalding they should have stayed with this same theme until the end does anyone out there know where I can get this theme could hear it over and over

[@jonpiotrowski7965]

still crying 9 years later.................

[@peterpatzig9068]

If you climbing mountains never forget your cereals!

[@rhondahancock96]

India was my fave

[@tommeedee]

Mine too! She was awesome!

[@JasonRourhier]

RIP!! GUIDING LIGHT 1937-2009 AKA RADIO--1937-1952!! TELEVISION--1952-2009!! 72 years on radio & television (15 radio 📻 57 📺)15,000 plus episodes 13 UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS from F.D.R.to BARACK OBAMA!!

[@tommeedee]

Loved India!

[@SlobbyMcSlob]

Those older videos (with Jolly Green Giant) are back up thanks to stffkids2006. They are right there in the related videos section. Thanks for the comment though!

[@jollygiant79]

Hmmmmm has anyone had any contact with btm85bubs? Did the youtube powers that be scold him for material they didn't approve of? They really need to take a chill pill as of lately!