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       Guiding Light (1983 - 2009)
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 12, 2012, 8:22 am
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       [center]Guiding Light
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       Re: Guiding Light (1983 - )
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 12, 2012, 8:37 am
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       Back when I was still in Junior High, my Mom ask me to start
       recording her Soap's while she was at work and one of them was
       Guiding Light. For the first month of taping the shows for her,
       I didn't care too much about what was going storywise. And then
       it happened. I got sucked into the show, most notably the
       Lukack/Beth arc as well as the Darcy and the Galahag's. And then
       there was the whole Tony/Annabelle/Susan Piper/Haunted House
       storyline. Can't forget about Josh/Reva either. It just
       snowballed from there. That first month ended up turning into 10
       years before I quit the show. But it was the first few years
       (83-86) that were epic.
       I've read a lot of comments and articles over the years to see
       what other people thought of those years and it's been viewed by
       many to be the best years ever for the series. After quitting
       the show, every 5 years or so I would tune in for an episode or
       two just to see what was going on. It never had the same magic
       or whatever you want to call it and I'd leave. I did tune in to
       watch the final episode to see how it would end. I wasn't
       surprise that Josh and Reva closed it out, as they should have.
       But as far as the rest of the episode...I was totally lost. Even
       some familiar faces couldn't make me get into it.
       Anyway, I came across bluerose's YouTube Channel and was shocked
       to see that it had not just some, but a lot of episodes from the
       best years and it's been a trip to watch these episodes that I
       have not seen since the day they aired. We are talking almost 30
       years time between then and now. I started watching this channel
       on September 1, 2012 and I'm knocking them out pretty fast.
       There are some huge gaps that are missing, episode-wise, so it
       makes it hard to really do any sort of episode reviews. I will
       probably see if I can find other YouTube Channels that might
       have episodes that can fill in the spaces. If they exist, I will
       for sure do episode reviews like I do with all the other shows
       on Penny Can.
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       Re: Guiding Light (1983 - 2009)
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 12, 2012, 8:52 am
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       I gotta point out after watching a few episodes now that Larry
       Gates as H.B. Lewis and Beverlee McKinsey as Alexandra Spaulding
       own it. They were the best things then and they are STILL the
       best things about the show now. Talk about actors that took
       everyone else to school. They made every other actor on the show
       look ridiculously out of their league.
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