Serial (radio and television) usually ran from Monday through Friday at exactly the same time every day. A show called The Smith Family which ran only one night a week on WENR in Chicago during the early 1930s was credited as the "great-granddaddy of the soap operas" by radio historian Francis Chase, Jr. One of the other shows that helped pioneer the daytime soap opera/serial was "The Guiding Light", which debuted on NBC radio in 1937, and then switched to CBS Television in 1952. "The Guiding Light" final episode aired on September 18, 2009, having a total of 15,762 episodes air on CBS. Some
No soap radio pass the soap.' The hippo replied, 'No soap, radio.'" Since the short variety of joke is usually thought of beforehand, there are a few commonly used ones. They often involve animals in bathtubs. The joke has become widely known and entered popular culture in other forms, including a shower radio named "No Soap-Radio!" It has been used as the name for rock bands, as well as a short-lived TV sketch comedy show ("No Soap, Radio") starring Steve Guttenberg that aired on ABC in the spring of 1982. No Soap Radio was also the name of a radio commercial production company