Guiding Light July 1, 1980

[@anneb4160]

Hope was so pretty and lovely. I liked her love story with Alan so much. My favourite guiding light couple.

[@honeycone71]

OMG...I LOVE AND LIVE for these vintage episodes of GL❤

[@ritagreenlaw8923]

I love Rita, Allan, and Hope episode of GL.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

This aired 4 days after my late mom's 39th birthday when she watched this on WCBS Ch 2 living in East Keansburg, New Jersey. At the time, she was engaged to my dad and they were married 3 months later by Oct 12th.

[@tom-ks6hz]

The best of GL. Rita was one of the best creations and Kasdorf was awesome!

[@merricat3025]

Always though she was too good for Ed

[@esmedarling7812]

Rita was an insecure loser

[@jphillips5223]

Thank you for adding this classic episode.

[@vickilanger1228]

I successfully cut school for this show not even knowing it would someday be💓💓 vintage 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

[@kstadives3]

me too!

[@UncleDavesKitchen]

I missed so many episodes due to work ages ago, so nice to get to see these again, and the commercials.

[@stephent849]

Thank you for this episode of Guiding Light please post more episodes I have been a fan since 1978 and stayed a loyal fan until it's unfortunate cancellation in September 18th 2009

[@josephgraefe4886]

You mean 2009.

[@stephent849]

@@josephgraefe4886 yes September 18 2009 corrected

[@vickilanger1228]

Hi small world me too on the years☺️ started with and ended with too☺️☺️

[@VickySwindoll]

My favorite soap ❤

[@mthivier]

I remember CBS ran a commercial all week long, the week when Lenore Kasdorf returned to "Guiding Light" during the first week of July: "Rita's back, and that's a fact!".

[@teresapflaumer5717]

Second consecutive year GL won the Emmy and just like in 1981, they're proud to show it!

[@der22672]

GL didn’t win Outstanding Daytime Drama two years in a row. They won in 1980 and again in 1982. They won for writing in 1981. 😊😊

[@michaelnelson1128]

Maybe they were talking wining for best writing ​@@der22672

[@callicordova4066]

I had forgotten about Vanessa Chamberlain. What a witch.

[@MrCraigblaze]

Nice To see Barbara Burjer as Mrs. Thorpe..She was good as Brigette O'Connel on Another World as Vicky and Marley housekeper. .As Barbara Norris Thorpe !!

[@TheloniousJackson]

Barbara Norris Thorpe only wanted the best for her children

[@darnellanders8768]

I sure wish i could have seen or heard what Rita had to say to Holly. Rita was so insecure without cause . Sure Holly was pretty but she couldn't hold a candle to Rita. and Rita was rocking those bathing suits.

[@citydweller99]

Rita was her own worst enemy...and her insecurity caused more problems than Holly ever did....though Ed/Holly has unresolved feelings for one another. Roger, Maureen and Rita were jealous

[@darnellanders8768]

@@citydweller99 I agree that all three parties were jealous but so was Holly jealous of Rita. Her meddling mother Barbara had nerve to judge Rita and call her out on betraying Ed with dishonesty when Holly did the same thing with her affair with Roger leading to her pregnancy with Christina. Holly lied tring to pass Christina off as Ed's baby girl. Rita just used that jealousy bit as so to be free to move on. She and Ed grew apart after she lost the baby that turned out to be his. Rita was just restless and bored with being the wife of a doctor. As far as Maureen goes she was jealous of Holly but she came to realize it was her best friend Lilian whom she should have been watching. .Maureen died upon finding out Ed had an affair with Lilian. ED didn't love any of those women as much as he loved Rita. They were so happy just weeks before Rita was raped. She spent the weekend in New York with Ed. ..After the rape it was all about the shame guilt and coverup for Rita and things went down hill.. I was pretty much done with Rita when she started supporting the cause of the ruthless Alan Spaulding even knowing that he was the one who financed Roger's escape and that also led to Roger kidnapping Rita and tying her up then leaving her there in the cabin to kick over that lantern which started the fire which led to the death of her baby..

[@aphillyate1]

Oh the stir that Vanessa Chamberlain caused when she popped up in Springfield. All the ladies were jealous and gossiping, "Oh you know what she's like..." 😅

[@jphillips5223]

Do you have any more epispdes?

[@baconbap]

Bert knew this would devastate Hope.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Lenore Kasdorf would’ve made an even better Lois Lane than Margo Kidder; she’s luminous.

[@tom-ks6hz]

I think she would have been perfect as a Charlie’s Angels. She was beautiful and could act!

[@adriannegrillo8394]

Guiding Light was the best there was. I especially loved the 70's. I couldn't stand hoity-toity Hope. To self righteous for me.

[@MrCraigblaze]

Thanks for the upload !! What was the outcome when Roger then a Pregnant Rita into the car drive to the cabin hold her prisoner there.. ?? Maybe Diane Ballard is best to stay away !! ?? XD

[@a.b.s_productions]

I believe Rita lost the baby and there was a fire at the cabin. Mike and Ed I believe eventually found her at the cabin.

[@mthivier]

As authorities were closing in on Roger, he fled, knocking over a kerosene lantern in the process, which set the cabin on fire. Rita was rescued, but all the smoke that she had inhaled caused her to lose the baby. She was devastated over the loss, and couldn't face Ed, and she returned with her mother to West Virginia for several months, until she'd recovered from the loss. This episode is set just as she was returning to Springfield from West Virginia.

[@darnellanders8768]

@@mthivier Actually it was a tied up Rita who knocked over the lantern causing the fire as she tried to free herself. Before all that the test results proved that Ed was indeed the father and not Greg Fairbanks. They meaning Greg Eve Ed and doctor Mckintosh found out before Rita due to being kidnapped by Roger. I lost track of the show when i started working so wish i could see Eve's reaction after finding out it was Greg who had the affair with Rita , Eve had finally given herself sexually with Greg . I could never understand why Rita didn't warn her baby sister about that sleezy guy. I'm sure he didn't get that promotion he so desperately wanted.

[@mthivier]

@@darnellanders8768 That always baffled me too, that Rita would have just let Evie walk into Greg's arms (and his bed), knowing first-hand what a smarmy bottom-feeder he was. All I can think of is that she'd made a mess of her own life by that point (estranged from Ed, pregnant and not sure who the father was), and so maybe she didn't feel like she was in a place to advise anyone else on their life choices. I honestly can't remember the specifics of Eve finding out the truth about Greg, or of Greg leaving Springfield (I also missed lots of episodes at the time). I imagine there was a very emotional phone conversation between Rita and Eve though, since Rita was still in West Virginia, I guess it would have happened off-camera.

[@MrCraigblaze]

​@@mthivierWe could only Hope !!

[@mthivier]

Barbara said that she thought of Ed just like her sons Ken and Andy. Gee, thanks Barbara; one's an attempted murderer and the other is an extortionist. LOL

[@laminage]

I've watched alot of these Ladies hanging out and talking, and sometimes I see "Lesbian" overtures. Rita and Eve, then Jackie & Elizabeth even on The Doctors when Elizabeth Hubbard was having lunch with a friend at her Apartment there's this running joke about "Having Lunch". Also in The UK there was a Soap Opera called Doctors.

[@PrimateEnrichment]

I love these episodes! I got into Guiding Light with Susan Piper and did not know all these people. Hope is the worst!

[@tom-ks6hz]

Man you sure missed out when GL was great and classy.