CBS has cancelled “Guiding Light”–which has aired, in one medium or another, for 72 years. The veteran soap’s last episode will air Friday, Sept. 18. The cancellation of &#8… ...

The cast of Guiding Light poses with thousands of scripts in honor of their 15,000th episode in 2006. After 72 years on air, the beloved soap opera will end its run on Friday.

CBS is canceling the longest-running drama on TV, the daytime soap “Guiding Light.” The network is ending the show after 72 years and more than 15,700 episodes on television and radio.

“Guiding Light” began on radio in 1937, then moved to TV in 1952. In recent decades it was set in the midwestern town of Springfield, where it focused on the Spaulding, Lewis and Cooper clans.

The Guiding Light cast has enamored viewers since it's very first episode back in 1952. This much-loved soap opera was set in the fictional Midwestern town of Springfield and originally centered ...

Renauld White, who starred on the soap opera then known as “The Guiding Light” for two years and broke racial barriers as only the second Black model to appear on the cover of GQ, died on June 26.