GUIDING LIGHT-- Goodbye My Friend, part 11

Ed, Vanessa, Lillian, Alan-Michael, and Nick react to bad news from Eve.

[@walkeww]

“Oh Maureen, Maureen!” And Guiding Light was never the same...

[@69bucksfan]

That's exactly right.

[@frankieseward8667]

It began to go downhill

[@TheloniousJackson]

The show was fine without her. She wasn’t the star of the show.

[@dolemitedavis]

When Vanessa cried "OH MAUREEN MAUREEEN!" I was done....the first time.

[@frankieseward8667]

The moment the show began to die.

[@rachelkristine4669]

Even all these years later, this still has the power to devastate the soul. My God. The sl's & the writing & the actors were truly the GREATEST of any show of any genre on the small screen. It could even rival ANYTHING that Hollywood could EVER create! 😔

[@frankieseward8667]

Too bad it ultimately ended the show in the long run.

[@BLTKellys]

Soap actors are the best actors in the world: FACT. The amount of pages they have to learn, showing up every day and still knocking it out of the park consistently. Movie actors and theatre actors can’t do what they do.

[@keeganthorpe]

That shot of Ed's back as Eve prepares to tell him the news, combined with that music was breathtaking. I remember coming home from high school everyday to catch the last 30 minutes of GL during this time. I remember this shocking the hell out of me.

[@feelgoodwithsharontv8445]

I'm crying watching this... just like the first time...

[@vickilanger1228]

ALL THESE YEARS LATER I'M STILL CRYING OVER MAUREEN'S DEATH AND WILL NEVER GET OVER IT........................

[@marcelparker6755]

25 years later and this still hurts like hell...

[@Aarona13760]

Her reaction is so real...kills me everytime I watch it

[@tkusterb]

I'll never forget the line, "Somebody's gonna get Maureen's heart." Wow, all these years later and I remember that...

[@abf9596]

Interesting that the recipient of her heart appeared on the show years later too.

[@CG480]

Still brings tears to my eyes.

[@CarlD2]

One of the rare times in later GL they remembered that Alan-Michael is part Bauer.

[@GlenBulb]

This storyline blows me away as much today as it did when it originally aired. Ed's reaction in this clip just kills me.

[@frankieseward8667]

It also killed Guiding Light.

[@Sunrise6410]

Damn, Ed's reaction to the news of Maureen's death was profound. Great acting.

[@debradaniel3725]

I still remember the pain & the tears. This was when soaps were great!

[@marsti6987]

One of the most heartbreaking death in soaps. The start of GL going downhill.

[@frankieseward8667]

This was such a blunder Watchmojo should add it in a possible top 10 blunders in daytime soaps.

[@devane85]

I remember this episode so well. So damn depressing but well-acted. The music was chilling. love how Alan-Michael was so concerned for his Uncle Ed. One really did not want Lillian there as a witness. "Imagine if someone's lucky enough to get Maureen's heart." *sigh* Peter Simon was excellent here.

[@2snowgirl520]

Ed makes me sick. So does Lillian.

[@LujackLvr]

It was 1992 & I had watched GUIDING LIGHT since late 1981 [my neighborhood baby-sitter got me hooked; she is 4 yrs older than I am & I remember that instead of saying, "Let me turn on the oven so you can stick your head in there while I watch my show," she said "this person is married to that person & that person is sleeping with this person, etc." I went to get a pencil & paper so I could follow the GL cast/characters/storylines, etc. & I was able to watch GL until the very last episode, even meeting some of its actors over the years at various appearances [Mark Derwin, (original Mallet @Salisbury Mall in Salisbury, MD); Rick Hearst & Melina Karakaredes (2nd Alan-Michael & original Eleni @Wheaton Plaza in Silver Spring, MD); Mark Lewis & Kim Zimmer (Kurt Corday & Reva Shayne @Prince George's Plaza in Silver Spring, MD); Bradley Cole & Robert Newman (Richard Winslow/Jeffrey O'Neill & Josh Lewis @Kings Dominion in Richmond, VA); Vincent Irizarry (Lujack/Nick, GL; at the Marriott Marquis in NYC when Vincent had his online fan club, Friends of Vincent Irizarry, during his ALL MY CHILDREN tenure as Dr. David Hayward; I have also spoken with him in the ICU after brain surgery--when you have an IV Demerol drip, a button you can push to control how much other IV meds you can take AND Vincent Irizarry whispering in your ear, you're having a pretty sweet night while flying high & giggling uncontrollably @the impossibility of such a soul-healing encounter {ahem}...All hail my favorite show, GUIDING LIGHT. I still miss it...

[@canton731]

I am from Delaware and it sounds like you may be living in a nearby state? I know Salisbury, MD very well.

[@steffiphill]

Later we find out that Jessie Blue gets Mo's heart. I hated that they killed Mo off, and god this was really sad, but I liked how GL kept the continuity from this episode to the later 90's. God, I miss the incredible writing.

[@rachelkristine4669]

Ikr?! I was in high school at the time. Came home around 3, right after the show was over & found my mother absolutely inconsolable. When she told me why, I was devastated. It's like Mo was part of my own family. I was 16. 😔

[@waterlilyqueen]

@CarlD2 It took me a little while to remember than Alan Michael and Maureen were related (abeit by marriage). I also realized only recently that Vanessa's husband Matt was Maureen's nephew.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

Maureen was killed off to make room in the budget for Justin Dean to join the show as Buzz.

[@lmitchell477]

This was the best

[@MrJawstherevenge87]

Love how Vanessa and Alan Michael have the same haircut

[@OceanKingNY]

The only saving grace of this storyline was that the aftermath of Maureen's death was beautifully written. Ed & Michelle's scenes together were wrenching as he tried to ease her pain and deal with his guilt. And when Holly stepped in as Michelle's substitute mother, it reminded long-time fans of her scenes with young Chrissie (Blake). Maureen Garrett has a nice acting chemistry with children. (But GL had to ruin even that by having a crazy Holly kidnap Springfield's kids years later.)

[@thexxit]

I love and hate these scenes... the acting by everyone was so amazing, the writing was great... but what a horrible, horrible decision.

[@frankieseward8667]

Definitely.

[@anabanana0714]

@williambrown007 No, Alex and Ed aren't related. Alan Michael's mother, Hope, is Ed's niece.

[@74Spirit1]

Which makes Alan-Michael his grandnephew

[@triciajohansen7124]

And Alex's nephew.

[@leforge6937]

@Messylin That's a shame if true. Ellen Parker was great and should not have been pushed aside for Justin Deas. When I think about it, the character of Buzz really could have stayed dead and I wouldn't have cared. I've always though Deas was a bit overrated.

[@yvettedowie7448]

I still cry at this part of her daughter's

[@djintheatl]

Ellen Dolan played Maureen Bauer before she played Margo Hughes.

[@Nigelsmom2136]

I still get so angry every time I see Lillian standing there crying. She and Ed were to blame for the whole thing.

[@9340jr]

This was the last episode of GL I watched.

[@michaelgarcia8602]

One of GL most sad Story. 😢😮

[@85marcholm]

the good ole GL days. hell the good ole soap days is gone. and to think that all the soaps may be extinct in the next decade. is heartbreaking. i wish they could keep GL on as repeats.

[@nyc78]

So sad :(

[@scorpioguy3234]

Geez that actor that played Maureens husband is such a BAD actor.... He almost looks Psychopathic

[@whalers59]

What did Eve say? “I’m sorry?” I just can’t make it out.

[@JasonAlredge]

Seriously?

[@TheloniousJackson]

The acting from Maeve, Tina and Rick in this scene was terrible

[@vampirebabe1400]

Jesse Blue got Maureen's heart

[@cathylanders2479]

how