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''Guiding Light'' (known as ''The Guiding Light'' before 1975) is an American television soap opera that is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952 until September 18, 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio.〔 ''Guiding Light'' is the longest running soap opera and the fifth longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program ''Grand Ole Opry'' (first broadcast in 1925), the BBC religious program ''The Daily Service'' (1928), the CBS religious program ''Music and the Spoken Word'' (1929), and the Norwegian children's radio program ''Lørdagsbarnetimen'' (first aired in 1924, cancelled in 2010) have been on the air longer. ''Guiding Light'' was created by Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25, 1937. On June 2, 1947, the series was transferred to CBS Radio,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CBS Cancels THE GUIDING LIGHT After 57 Years )〕 before starting on June 30, 1952, on CBS Television.〔 It continued to be broadcast concomitantly on radio until June 29, 1956. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour during 1968, and then to a full hour on November 7, 1977. The series broadcast its 15,000th CBS episode on September 6, 2006. On April 1, 2009, it was announced that CBS canceled ''Guiding Light'' after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final scenes on August 11, 2009, and its final episode on the network aired on September 18, 2009.〔Carter, Bill. ( "CBS Turns Out 'Guiding Light'." ) ''The New York Times''. April 2, 2009.〕 On October 5, 2009, CBS replaced ''Guiding Light'' with an hour-long revival of ''Let's Make a Deal'', hosted by Wayne Brady. On August 22, 2013, Grant Aleksander, who had portrayed Phillip Spaulding on ''Guiding Light'' from 1983 through the series finale in 2009, revealed in an interview with Carolyn Hinsey that former ''Guiding Light'' executive producer Paul Rauch had been working on a continuation of ''Guiding Light'' at the time of his death in December 2012.〔http://carolynhinsey.tainteddreamstheseries.com/2013/08/22/tainted-dreams-is-guiding-light-coming-back/〕 ==Origins, plot development, and cast== ''Guiding Light'' has had a number of plot sequences during the series' long history, on both radio and television. These plot sequences include complex storylines, and different writers and casting. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guiding Light」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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