Guiding Light

The Guiding Light (known as Guiding Light since 1975) is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest soap opera ever told, as well as the longest running drama in broadcast history (its 15,000th televised episode is slated to air in the autumn of 2005). The program began as an NBC radio serial on January 25, 1937 before moving to CBS on June 30, 1952, as a televised serial.

Cast

Current cast members

• Scott Bailey (Sandy Foster)
• Rob Bogue (A.C. Mallet)
• Mandy Bruno (Marina Cooper)
• Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer Lewis)
• Bradley Cole (Jeffrey O'Neill)
• Justin Deas (Buzz Cooper)
• Frank Dicopoulos (Frank Cooper)
• John Driscoll (Henry Cooper "Coop" Bradshaw)
• Beth Ehlers (Harley Cooper Aitoro)
• Stephanie Gatschet (Tammy Winslow)
• Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus Aitoro)
• Crystal Hunt (Lizzie Spaulding)
• Robert Newman (Joshua "Josh" Lewis)
• Tom Pelphrey (Jonathan Randall)
• Ron Raines (Alan Spaulding)
• Michelle Ray Smith (Ava Peralta)
• Gina Tognoni (Dinah Marler)
• Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne Lewis)

Recurring cast members

• George Alvarez (Father Ray Santos)
• Beth Chamberlin (Beth Raines Spaulding)
• Jordan Clarke (Billy Lewis)
• Marj Dusay (Alexandra Spaulding)
• Maureen Garrett (Holly Norris Reade)
• Elizabeth Keifer (Blake Thorpe Marler)
• Yvonna Kopacz (Melissande "Mel" Boudreau Bauer, esq.)
• Michael O'Leary (Dr. Rick Bauer, M.D.)
• Tina Sloan (Lillian Raines, R.N.)

Coming and going cast members

• Daniel Cosgrove (Bill Lewis) (until October 18)
• Michael Dempsey (Alan-Michael Spaulding) (starting September 2005)
• Nicole Forester (Cassie Winslow) (starting fall 2005)
• Maeve Kinkead (Vanessa Chamberlain Reardon) (starting fall 2005)
• David Andrew Macdonald (Edmund Winslow) (until fall 2005)
• Nancy St. Alban (Michelle Bauer Santos) (until fall 2005)
• Paul Anthony Stewart (Danny Santos) (until fall 2005)
• Jerry verDorn (Ross Marler) (until October 2005)
• Laura Wright (Cassie Layne Winslow) (until October 2005)