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The Guiding Light
The Guiding Light
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Radio

The Guiding Light

NBC / CBS

NBC / CBS · 1950–1950

Broadcasts

196

Cadence

Seasonal

Rated

PG

Since

1950

The run

Network
NBC / CBS
Years active
1950–1950
Surviving broadcasts
196
Genre
soap

The Guiding Light began on NBC in January 1937, created and largely written by Irna Phillips, and moved to CBS in 1947 before transferring to television in 1952 while continuing on radio until 1956. The surviving quarter-hour episodes in this collection are public-domain transfers held by the Internet Archive.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: 1950-11-24-886-bill-gloria-talk

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

5 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

JFMAMJJASOND
1950
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. 791) Talk About Meta · 18 Jul 1950
  2. 2. Episode 799 · 28 Jul 1950
  3. 3. Guiding Light 808 · 10 Aug 1950
  • 01

    791) Talk About Meta

    18 Jul 1950 · 14 min

  • 02

    Episode 799

    28 Jul 1950 · 14 min

  • 03

    Guiding Light 808

    10 Aug 1950 · 14 min

  • 04

    Guiding Light 816

    22 Aug 1950 · 13 min

  • 05

    Guiding Light 826

    1 Sep 1950 · 13 min

  • 06

    Guiding Light 834

    13 Sep 1950 · 13 min

  • 07

    Guiding Light 842

    25 Sep 1950 · 15 min

  • 08

    Guiding Light 850

    5 Oct 1950 · 14 min

Same night on the air

28 Jul 1950

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 28 Jul 1950.

Transmission

28 July

1950

Dimension X

Potters Of Firsk

Network

NBC

Slot

Friday

Running time

27 min

Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 July 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_Dimension_X_SinglesClean transfer · 128 kbps

Transmission

28 July

1950

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe The Glass Donkey

Network

CBS

Slot

Friday

Running time

29 min

Broadcast 28 July 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_Philip_Marlowe_SinglesListenable · 80 kbps

Transmission

28 July

1950

Backstage Wife

Backstage Wife 50-07-28 (3957) episode 3957

Network

Mutual / NBC / CBS

Slot

Friday

Running time

9 min

Broadcast on Syndicated.

Internet Archivebackstage-wife-1944-10-20-xx-tom-makes-plans-to-speak-with-philip-farnsworthCondition unmeasured

Also on NBC / CBS

NBC / CBS in 1950–1950

Other series the network carried while The Guiding Light was on the air.

Same seasons

soap on the air then

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