Guiding Light "Guiding Light" episodes on a two-disc DVD set. Also beginning in June 2012 the series was later released on DVD in Germany beginning with the 1979 episodes. Guiding Light Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera. It 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, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956. With its run of 72 years of radio and television, "Guiding Light" is the longest running
Soap opera July 2009, the schedules of these serials were changed again. On 23 July 2009, "Coronation Street" moved from the Wednesday slot it held for 49 years, to Thursday evenings. "Emmerdale" reverted to running just one 30-minute episode on Tuesday evenings and the other 30-minute installment was moved to Thursday evenings. "Coronation Street" has since returned to a Wednesday slot. It now airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 19:30 and 20:30. Emmerdale airs at 19:00 every weeknight, and 20:00 on Thursdays. UK soap operas are shot on videotape in the studio using a multi-camera setup. Since the 1980s, these programs routinely