"Guiding Light" Signs Off Photos
Paging Dr. Bauer
In 1967, the show had its first broadcast in color; the following year, the show's length was expanded to 30 minutes. It became one of the first soaps to feature African-American actors when James Earl Jones and Ruby Dee joined the cast as a doctor and nurse.
Robert Gentry as Ed Bauer in a scene from a 1965 epsiode of "The Guiding Light."
(Photo: Procter & Gamble)
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