About the Show

September 2008

GUIDING LIGHT

Now in its 56th season on the CBS Television Network

ON AIR:          Weekdays (10:00-10:57 AM, ET; 3:00-3:57 PM, PT, in most markets; check local listings)

ORIGINATION: New York (tape)

FORMAT:         The drama, set in the fictional Midwestern town of Springfield, centers on the complex lives of the close-knit Bauer, Spaulding, Lewis, Marler and Cooper families.

ORIGINALLY PREMIERED ON:     June 30, 1952 (series premiered in January 1937 on radio and entered its 70th broadcast year in January 2007)

CAST (alphabetically):

Murray Bartlett..........................Cyrus Foley

Robert Bogue................................ A. C. Mallet

E.J. Bonilla...............................Rafe Rivera

Mandy Bruno............................. Marina Cooper

Beth Chamberlin............................ Beth Raines

Crystal Chappell......................... Olivia Spencer

Orlagh Cassidy..........................Doris Wolfe

Jordan Clarke.................................. Billy Lewis

Bradley Cole.............................. Jeffrey O'Neill

Daniel Cosgrove...........................Bill Lewis

Justin Deas.................. Frank "Buzz" Cooper Sr.

Bonnie Dennison......................Daisy Lemay

Frank Dicopoulos......................... Frank Cooper

John Driscoll................ Henry "Coop" Bradshaw

Marj Dusay....................... Alexandra Spaulding

Nicole Forester.....Cassie Layne Winslow Lewis

Elizabeth Keifer............................ Blake Marler

Yvonna Kopacz-Wright..... Mel Boudreau-Bauer

Jessica Leccia........................Natalie Rivera

Kane Manera...........................Grady Foley

Kurt McKinney.......................Matt Reardon

Robert Newman.............................. Josh Lewis

Michael O'Leary....................... Dr. Rick Bauer

Ron Raines................................ Alan Spaulding

Marcy Rylan............................ Lizzie Spaulding

Lawrence Saint-Victor............. Remy Boudreau

Tina Sloan.................................... Lillian Raines

Gina Tognoni................................ Dinah Marler

Caitlin Van Zandt......................Ashlee Wolfe

Kim Zimmer.........Reva Shayne Lewis

PRODUCED BY:    Procter & Gamble Productions Inc.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:    Ellen Wheeler

PRODUCERS:        Jan Conklin, Christopher Cullen, Alexandra Johnson, Maria Macina, Janet Morrison

COORDINATING PRODUCER: David Brandon

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER:        Jennifer Weeks, Amanda Sallen

DIRECTORS:          Brian Mertes, Jo Anne Sedwick, Matt Lagle, Robert Scinto, Tracey Bryggman, Adam Reist

HEAD WRITERS:     Christopher Dunn, Lloyd Gold, Jill Lorie Hurst, David Kreizman

WRITERS:             Tita Bell, Kimberly Hamilton, Rebecca Hanover, David Rupel, Donna M. Swajeski.

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Press Contacts:

Meredith Tiger              212-975-3829 mftiger@cbs.com

Cindy Marshall              323-575-2019

cindy.marshall@tvc.cbs.com

Photo Contact: 

Susan Eyre                    212-975-1079                sceyre@cbs.com