Guiding Light - July 8, 1991

[@MrJawstherevenge87]

Beverlee was out of this world a phenomenal actress

[@aphillyate1]

Alexandra's roasting of Roger and his 20-year history in Springfield in front of all high society is still one of the best moments in TV history.

[@EdwynNSanchez]

Hehehe. I get it.

[@Enrique-cs8id]

I watched GL every day from 90-95. It wasn’t as dramatic as Y&R or AMC but I just loved this era. Michael Zaslow has to be one of my all time favorite actors.

[@derekdestep40]

I loved watching Michael Zaslow

[@DitalianCole]

They could at least give Beverlee McKinsey an honorary Emmy and let her director-son accept it on her behalf! She's as worthy as every past recipient, if not more. I mean, BM contributed SO MUCH to AW and GL!

[@LuisRodriguez-bo4xg]

Vincent irrizarry (Lujack)was working on that,but I sense the Emmy honchos want a star to be at the show to honor. Totally messed up! She should have won 1 of those nominations.

[@mysky]

Beverlee McKinsey was giving Emmy-worthy performances every day and didn’t even get any nominations for her work on “Guiding Light.” Pitiful!!!

[@adamunc]

Most years, she actually didn't submit her name for consideration while on GL. The one year she did, the Academy shamefully failed to nominate her.

[@1JCPromotions]

I said the same thing for 5yrs knew she should’ve had that Emmy before Susan Lucci!

[@lilysowner]

she probably didnt submit herself

[@christophermaulden733]

Did Donna Love on Another World ever get nominated for a Daytime Emmy or ever win one ? I think Linda Dano won an award or two for her portrayal of Felicia Gallant , am I wrong or correct ? My favorites are Beverlee MacKenzie as Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light , Elizabeth Hubbard as Lucinda Walsh on As The World Turns , and Anna Stuart as Donna Love and Linda Dano as Felicia Gallant on Another World , and Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children , and Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital ( my least favorite daytime drama ) . Louise Sorrel as Augusta Lockridge on Santa Barbara and as Vivian Alamain on DOOL is among the very best . Brenda Benet as Lee Dumonde on DOOL was among the best as well . I must include Jane Windsor as Emma Donovan Marshall on DOOL , albeit an unfortunately brief stint .

[@herb1912]

One of her best performances on the show

[@LujackLvr]

Thank you for posting this GL episode. I watched GUIDING LIGHT from late 1981 until GL's cancellation in Sept. 2009. GL had seen me through scholastic snafus; employment debacles and neurosurgeries too numerous to mention here [along with eye/orthopedic operations]. I have had the amazing opportunity to meet some of my favorite GL actors at various events over the years. I was honored to meet Michael Zaslow in Sept. 1998 and I have met Bradley Cole, Robert Newman & Vincent Irizarry at various GL meet-and-greets years ago. Everyone was so kind to me and I miss GUIDING LIGHT and its actors terribly. Thank you so much for posting this episode in its entirety. xoxo Love, Ali xoxo

[@benjaminautieri9606]

Fabulous fabulous Segment of the phenomenal guiding light❤❤❤😊

[@trewestbrook7404]

My soul needed to see this again today. Guiding Light is still my favorite show ever. Vanessa and Alex are my favorite soap characters along with Ms. Drusilla Winters from Y&R. Didnt understand why mom loved it so until I grew up and kept watching to keep a part of our routine going. GL characters and cast just have this rich way of leaving life long impressions. Only show I’ve ever felt this way about. There were a few on ATWT/AW but not like the core characters of GL did. Bert, Mike & Jennifer Richards, Rodger, Ed( sometimes), Papa & Meta Bauer, Holly, Jackie Marler, Hampton, Billy, Henry, Maureen, Blake, Harley, Coop, Buzz, Jenna, and many many more. I miss them all so.

[@danielboonenc1829]

And don’t forget the amazing Nurse Rita Stapleton Bauer!

[@ryanwolff4058]

AW had the Corys, the Loves/Hudsons, the Frames, the McKinnons, the Harrisons, the Winthrops, Cecil, Felicia Galant Carl Hutchens... AW/ATWT/GL were amazing shows.

[@trewestbrook7404]

@@ryanwolff4058 even the remaining shows that are #1 and #2 have never seen half the numbers and level of talent those shows saw at their peak.

[@LuisRodriguez-bo4xg]

OMG- This is soap Opera Classic. Thx u! Beverly Mckenzie deserves a lifetime achievement award from the emmys. This performance can rival any big star of film.

[@roxannesantoro7503]

Vincent irazarry (Lujack) is trying to get a sign petition to the Emmy academy of sciences to get his television mother Beverlee an honorary award.

[@LuisRodriguez-bo4xg]

i signed a petition for that last year. They totally should give her lifetime achievement award.@@roxannesantoro7503

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

​@@roxannesantoro7503The producers of The Guiding Light treated Beverlee McKinsey pretty badly. Beverlee also said that the working conditions were awful. After she was done with The Guiding Light, Beverlee McKinsey was fed up with appearing on soaps.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

​@@roxannesantoro7503Beverlee McKinsey passed away in 2008.

[@Brad23J]

​@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc she was fine until JFP joined it later that year

[@swolfe9668]

When Beverlee left the character of Alexandra was never the same

[@paulbarnhart210]

@Draper Scott I have to agree with you on that

[@lillianlyons3395]

@@draperscott7698 totally agree. I never accepted her as Alex. Beverlee was the one and only and Beverlee had the most amazing chemistry with Vincent Irizarry

[@roxannesantoro7503]

@@lillianlyons3395 Vincent adored her.

[@Brad23J]

​@roxannesantoro7503 yeah, Beverlee was also close to the actors who played Rick, Fletcher and Phillip. She loved her fellas, like fellow diva (and GL fan) Jeanne Cooper that played Katherine on Y&R

[@kathleenherschbach6822]

I miss this show

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

I miss The Guiding Light along with All My Children and One Life to Live.

[@booberry349]

We need the LIGHT TODAY

[@SB-px8oc]

4 words cost guiding light millions of viewers: John Conboy Executive Producer

[@a.b.s_productions]

He was better for Y&R and Capitol but not GL.

[@Brad23J]

Should've swept the 1992 Emmys (including Best Daytime Drama) with the country club scenes.

[@marcelparker6755]

This was 30 years ago! Thanks dude!

[@erikandrus4387]

Frank and Blake (as played by Sheri) were good together.

[@ryanwolff4058]

And they ended up together at the end of GL

[@aphillyate1]

Sherry was fantastic at everything she did and with everyone. Her departure couldn't be stopped and was a devastating blow. Blake was never the same.

[@a.b.s_productions]

@@aphillyate1I like her as Blake more.

[@beebsbubbles]

So I have a (much worse) copy of this episode, it's July 8, 1991. Thanks for uploading in such good quality!

[@EdwynNSanchez]

Thank you for the information! I first thought it was from July 12th but now I see I was wrong. The title and the description has been updated. And you’re welcome.

[@DitalianCole]

My favorite Mindy! My favorite Blake! My favorite Alex! My favorite Maureen! And my favorite Roger, of course!

[@Brad23J]

Same!)

[@rick0e295]

Watched GL from a kid with Mom and on and off until final episodes. An American Institution. When Soaps ruled daytime and eventually prime time. Now only a few survive, replaced by so called reality, game and insipid talk shows! Alexandra brilliantly portrayed by both Beverlee and later Marj Dusay and Alan were my favorite loving disfunctional siblings! Unfortunately most of the cast, like Guiding Light, are now beautiful memories.

[@jamesoertli9184]

She was incredible

[@cacky9661]

The future Dr. Susan Lewis

[@baconbap]

What a star studded cast.

[@rick0e295]

Don't Mess with ALEXANDRA! 👑

[@EdwynNSanchez]

Yep, If you know you know. Queen Alex in her prime.

[@a.b.s_productions]

I think this is the first time that someone really truly put Roger Thorpe in his place like he really truly deserved. In a nutshell never mess with a Spaulding. Lol

[@ErickGainesSanders]

Ahh yes! The Takedown Of Roger Thorpe. The continuing saga from when Billy Lewis got the Towers and the land underneath it from Roger and the Spauldings in the prior summer--and which led to November 1991 (The Wrath Of The Baroness) when Alexandra revealed his affair with Mindy to the world.

[@JimmieJamOfTheDay]

Dylan and Eleni definitely did not belong together. Frank was a good one for Eleni. Maureen was another Bert Bauer to me. She (Maureen) should have never been let go from the show.

[@erikandrus4387]

May I just ask, and not to show any meanness towards Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman, because I know how instrumental they were to the show's success, but once they left were the stories more allocated around the rest of the cast? It seems like it, but I didn't watch during Reva and Josh.

[@marcelparker6755]

I agree with this statement 100%. As a Josh and Reva fan, this was actually one of my favorite eras of the show. This and 1979. When you had grade-A actors like McKinsey and Zaslow, you couldn't go wrong. It's a shame how both of their tenures on the show ended.

[@Brad23J]

It was the Reva show until she left a year before this episode. Once Reva, Josh and their family left the show was perfection. Sadly only for a couple of years.

[@gloryfavorforeverwchristje9343]

LOVED GL HAVE ELENI AND ALAN MICHAEL VHS ?

[@finnskywalker3624]

Do you have the Episodes of Lillian Breast Cancer Journey from her Breast Exam and Mammogram

[@EdwynNSanchez]

I don’t have any of the GL episodes with Lillian and her breast cancer journey. Sorry. : - (

[@suesullivan790]

Blake and Frank kissing.

[@baconbap]

How in the world did she ever learn all those lines?

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

Beverlee McKinsey was a gifted actress.

[@marcelparker6755]

​@shallotpeel1022 And she learned them in a short amount of time! She was a rare breed. A true professional... and what today's entertainment lacks.

[@Brad23J]

Jay Hammer that played Fletcher said that Beverlee McKinsey learned her lines backwards, starting with Friday's lines to Monday's lines. Plus she knew everyone else's lines also.

[@Brad23J]

​@shallotpeel1022I was surprised to learn that Jordan Clarke that played Billy had a photographic memory, that he knew his and other's lines just flipping through the script. Think it was Maeve Kinkead (Vanessa) who said that on The Locher Room.

[@michaelmaloney3584]

at 20:11 does Timmy go in for an unscripted kiss with Eleni? :)