2007-01-05 14:59:06 · 10 answers · asked by ? 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
The American soap opera The Guiding Light started as a radio drama in January 1937 and subsequently transferred to television. With the exception of several years in the late 1940s when Irna Phillips was in dispute with Procter & Gamble, The Guiding Light has been heard or seen nearly every weekday since it started, making it the longest story ever told. Other American soap operas that have been telecast for more than thirty years (and are still in rotation) include As the World Turns, General Hospital, Days of our Lives, One Life to Live, All My Children, and The Young and the Restless.
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2007-01-05 15:04:58 · answer #1 · answered by zah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guiding Light is the longest running soap opera, debuting on the radio in the year 1937 and then onto the black and white television set in the year of 1952 ...
It's been on for 69 yrs.
I think "Days of Our Lives" would be in 2nd place w/ 41 yrs.
2007-01-05 15:18:25 · answer #2 · answered by chocolateaddict88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guiding Light.
It was a radio soap even before television.
" The Guiding Light has been heard or seen every weekday since January 1937, making it the longest story ever told"
I'd heard this before I looked it up. The reference turned out to be a really nice article on soap operas. Check it out.
2007-01-05 15:10:35 · answer #3 · answered by hermionegrangerofnc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Guiding Light", known as "The Guiding Light" from 1937-1975. It is both the longest running soap currently in production and the longest running soap in history. It's also considered the longest running show of any kind.
2007-01-05 15:17:51 · answer #4 · answered by marcyjb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the UK,the Longest running TV Soap is "Coronation Street",I believe,(Begun December 1960)and the Longest running radio soap "The Archers".(serialised since January 1951,following a miniseries in 1950).
2007-01-05 15:05:20 · answer #5 · answered by Devmeister 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Guiding Light" began in 1937 on radio and made its TV debut in 1952.
The first soap opera straight to television was "Faraway Hill" and debuted in 1946.
The 2nd place soap opera is actually "As The World Turns", which debuted in 1956.
2007-01-05 15:22:50 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Guiding Light. It started on the radio.
2007-01-05 15:31:05 · answer #7 · answered by robee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guiding Light, My mother used to watch it in the early 50's, but was on radio for years before that.
2007-01-05 15:22:48 · answer #8 · answered by pixles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is Guiding Light which has been running for 69 years.It started as a radio show.
2007-01-05 15:59:13 · answer #9 · answered by maivas229 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is Guiding Light.
2007-01-05 15:06:40 · answer #10 · answered by ruth4526 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋