Irna Philips a Emmons Carlson. Seriál.
Osoby a obsazení: Rose Kransky (Ruth Bailey), Torchy Reynolds (Gladys Heene), Mrs. Kransky (Mignon Schreiber), Fredericka Lang (Muriel Bremner), Iris Marsh (Betty Arnold), Charles Cunningham (Bill Bouchey), Jack Felzer (Paul Barnes), Ellis Smith (Phil Dakin), Jacob Kransky (Seymour Young) a další.
Premiéra 1. dílu 25. 1. 1937 (NBC Radio).
Pozn.: Dne 2. června 1947 byl seriál přesunut na CBS Radio. Dne 30. června 1952 se bylo zahájeno televizní vysílání seriálu na stanici CBS. I po svém televizním debutu pokračovalo rozhlasové vysílání souběžně s televizním, a to až do 29. června 1956.
V roce 1968 došlo k prodloužení jednotlivých epizod seriálu z 15 na 20 minut, v roce 1977 byly díly na 40 minut. Dne 6. září 2006 byla odvysílána 15 000. televizní epizoda.
Dne 1. dubna 2009 stanice CBS oznámila, vzhledem k nízké sledovanosti, zrušení seriálu U nás ve Springfieldu. Poslední díl byl odvysílán 18. září 2009, tedy 72 let od zahájení vysílání v rozhlasu a 57 let od započetí televizního vysílání. (anotace)
Lit.: anonym: First soap opera. In web Guinness World Records, b. d. (článek). – Cit.:Soap operas began life on American radio in the 1930’s and the name alluded to the soap manufacturers that most often sponsored these continuing dramas that captivated many of the at-home female audience. The mother of the soap opera was Irna Phillips (USA) who created the first radio soap Painted Dreams and would later go on to create three giants in the field The Guiding Light (USA, NBC Radio from 1937-1956, CBS TV from 1952-present) As the World Turns (USA, CBS TV 1956-present) and Another World (USA, NBC TV 1964-present).
Lit.: anonym: June 30,1952…’The Guiding Light’ Debuted. In web Eyes Of A Generation, 1. 7. 2014 (článek). – Cit.: June 30, 1952 is the day ‘The Guiding Light’ came to CBS television. It’s first TV home was in CBS Studio 56 at Liederkranz Hall on East 58th street, where two of the four studios there had Dumont cameras. After the consolidation of production into the CBS Broadcast Center and colorizing in the mid 60s, Liederkrantz was closed, but ‘TGL’ was a big show so CBS moved it to a facility of it’s own…Studio 65, The High Brown Theater on 26th Street, which had upstairs and downstairs studio floors.
The black and white photo is from September of ’52 in Studio 56. The two color photos are from Studio 65. The studio shot was taken in the basement and the control room and bigger studio were on the first floor. Occasionally, actors would have to race from one floor to the other to make appearances in the same scene.
‘The Guiding Light’ was created by Irna Phillips and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25, 1937. On June 2, 1947, the series was moved to CBS Radio. Even after its television debut, the show would continue to be broadcast concomitantly on radio until June 29, 1956. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour in early 1968, which is probably when the move from 56 to 65 occurred. The show expanded to a full hour on November 7, 1977. The series broadcast its 15,000th televised episode on September 6, 2006.
On April 1, 2009, it was announced that CBS had cancelled ‘Guiding Light’ after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final scenes for CBS on August 11, 2009, and its final episode on the network aired on September 18, 2009. On October 5, 2009, CBS replaced Guiding Light with an hour-long revival of ‘Let’s Make a Deal’, hosted by Wayne Brady. ‘Guiding Light’ stands as the fourth longest-running program in all of broadcast history. (…)