This was my soap, back in the 70s -86, when I stopped watching, as I folded the clothes. I turned it on, occasionally, after being an every day viewer. I love the commercials!
I know nothing about the stories, but I love these old soap clips. The cardboard sets, the claustrophobic camera work, the foreboding organ music...it's such a departure from 21st century TV. The actors really had to perform, because there was less to distract the viewer.
Only 3 channels on tv in 1960 (ABC, NBC, CBS). No cable. Color TV was existent but in only a few programs, the majority were still B&W. GL didn’t go color until 1967
Thank you for the Guiding Light episode from August, 1960 on CBS-TV. With commercials of the day, no less😁. Love original ads from television's Golden Age. It makes me feel as though I'm watching a live telecast, although this is in kinescope versus video tape (which was in its infancy back then). Not many television stations had the capacity to have videotape machines in those days, but more stations made the switch by the late sixties.
What a gem - thank you for sharing! Robin was a brat back then and morally guilty for the death of Karl. She caused many troubles through the years but I don't understand why they killed her character off in 1966 because she spiced things up and had a lot more potential cause of the history of her ties to the others. Also great to see bert and meta, love all scenes of them together!
Thank you so much for these continued rare soap gems and in such high quality too. I still miss GL. With P&G possibly getting back into soaps I wish they could revive it or at least put out as many old episodes as they have.
You're welcome. It would be interesting to see if any of the episodes were retained by the producers, but to my knowledge none were archived, at least in the early days.
@@MoviecraftInc Yes most were wiped (and some rumors say even those from much later decades are gone). Usually when they had flashbacks in later years they would just have a few clips from the '60s. That's why these finds are such a delight.
I wasn't aware that the folks at Procter & Gamble were considering getting back into soaps. Personally, I😢 believe that soap operas are becoming as extinct as dinosaurs.
@@AllenJones-w3p That has been the case for a long while now, sadly, but they do have some ties to The Gates, which has been picked up by CBS and will debut in January. Hopefully the show will do well enough to last a while and maybe cause other daytime soaps to be created.
I used to watch GL (from mid 70's to about 1982) since my mother followed it. This was great, thank you! For a kinescope copy the quality in this video is really good.
Instead of cancelling soaps, GL & ATWT should've continued on Paramount Plus (had it existed in 2009/2010), that way people who still watch soaps can still watch them (even if the ratings are lower). NBC's Days Of Our Lives switched from Broadcast TV to Peacock Streaming Service in 2022 1:337:52 Back in 1960, you could smoke anywhere. Even in a courtroom - although its a soap opera set
This is when the setting is in California, the doctor says he works at Cedars in Los Angeles. Around 1965/66 the Bauers moved to Springfield. Weren't they lucky to find a Cedars Hospital there also ........ ;)
Is that Norm Taubman on the organ? He also did the organ for the Edge of Night, was the keyboardist for almost every game show in the 50s and 60s, and also owned his own nightclub in Manhattan, featuring.......himself!
To the best of my knowledge, the organist was John Gart. Gart gave my father a piano version of the Guiding Light theme in his own handwriting and signed by him, which my father gave to me sometime in the early to mid 1960s. I still have it.
8:53 Can Mr Clean still be used in laundry today? I looked up uses for Mr Clean on the Mr Clean website and it mentioned every use in this ad except for laundry.
@@MoviecraftIncKind of like how when Pampers Disposable Diapers were introduced the next year in 1961, the first ads mentioned you could flush the diapers (dip, dunk and flush as mentioned in the ads) down the toilet. Now you can’t do that with diapers because of the chemicals in the diapers that can clog the toilets if you try to flush them.
Identifying the names: Meta Bauer (Ellen Demming), Bruce Banning (Les Damon), Bill Bauer (Ed Bryce), Bert Bauer (Charita Bauer), Robin Lang (Abigail Kellogg - I think) Paul Fletcher (Bernard Grant). I think the lawyer may be Philip Sterling but I'm not 100%.
@@markngrant9510 Thanks for the confirmation! I wish more of your father's soap work was available but everything from him I have seen has been first-rate.
Yes, I watched these daily with my mother - Papa Bower, Meta, Bert - Bert was later to become a rather sympathetic character. They were like my own family. Thank you!
Move them to paramount plus instead of cancelling. NBC did that with Days of our lives moving it from tv to peacock. Abc tried it with AMC & OLTL (not to Hulu but another service) with no success
That's mercurochome. This was a red liquid in a very small bottle containing mercury that I used to put on a few sores when I was a kid. Now I find out that it was banned in the US in 1998 because of the mercury content.
I love the commercials. "Jimmy said he loves me so I beat him up!" 😂
I think Beulah Bondi is playing the grandma in the Oxydol commerical.
Sure is...thanks for your help in identifying her. An actress with phenomenal credits to her name.
Beulah Bondi was a legendary character actress. I chiefly remember her as Ma Bailey in "It's A Wonderful Life".
Mother please... I'd rather do it myself!
This was my soap, back in the 70s -86, when I stopped watching, as I folded the clothes. I turned it on, occasionally, after being an every day viewer. I love the commercials!
I know nothing about the stories, but I love these old soap clips. The cardboard sets, the claustrophobic camera work, the foreboding organ music...it's such a departure from 21st century TV. The actors really had to perform, because there was less to distract the viewer.
Only 3 channels on tv in 1960 (ABC, NBC, CBS). No cable. Color TV was existent but in only a few programs, the majority were still B&W. GL didn’t go color until 1967
Thank you for the Guiding Light episode from August, 1960 on CBS-TV. With commercials of the day, no less😁. Love original ads from television's Golden Age. It makes me feel as though I'm watching a live telecast, although this is in kinescope versus video tape (which was in its infancy back then). Not many television stations had the capacity to have videotape machines in those days, but more stations made the switch by the late sixties.
Our pleasure!
What a gem - thank you for sharing! Robin was a brat back then and morally guilty for the death of Karl. She caused many troubles through the years but I don't understand why they killed her character off in 1966 because she spiced things up and had a lot more potential cause of the history of her ties to the others.
Also great to see bert and meta, love all scenes of them together!
You're more than welcome...
Robin died in 1967.
@@itsalongstory1024she threw herself in front of a truck
My mom was probably watching this when she was pregnant with me! 😭
Thank you so much for these continued rare soap gems and in such high quality too. I still miss GL. With P&G possibly getting back into soaps I wish they could revive it or at least put out as many old episodes as they have.
You're welcome. It would be interesting to see if any of the episodes were retained by the producers, but to my knowledge none were archived, at least in the early days.
@@MoviecraftInc Yes most were wiped (and some rumors say even those from much later decades are gone). Usually when they had flashbacks in later years they would just have a few clips from the '60s. That's why these finds are such a delight.
I wasn't aware that the folks at Procter & Gamble were considering getting back into soaps. Personally, I😢 believe that soap operas are becoming as extinct as dinosaurs.
@@AllenJones-w3p That has been the case for a long while now, sadly, but they do have some ties to The Gates, which has been picked up by CBS and will debut in January. Hopefully the show will do well enough to last a while and maybe cause other daytime soaps to be created.
@@kengeorgejones6855Is “The Gates” gonna be a P&G production?
I remember that Oxydol commercial. It played for a couple of years. That original Mr. Clean was always the best!
I used to watch GL (from mid 70's to about 1982) since my mother followed it. This was great, thank you! For a kinescope copy the quality in this video is really good.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great picture and sound quality for a vintage kinescope.
Thanks for noticing. A direct from film transfer.
@@MoviecraftIncAlmost like High definition in a way
I was born in 52, I remember my mom watching this and another that I can't remember right now
I remember these shows, along with the commercials.
did you ever buy any of their stuff?
I loved the commercials back then
I loved the commercials back then. 7:36
Just 3 commercials instead of 2-3 dozen today with multiple cbs promos and local ads.
Awesome, thank you so much
You're very welcome!
The guy at beginning smoking cigar is Milton Selzer, played on Twilight Zone episode The Masks(1959)
Instead of cancelling soaps, GL & ATWT should've continued on Paramount Plus (had it existed in 2009/2010), that way people who still watch soaps can still watch them (even if the ratings are lower). NBC's Days Of Our Lives switched from Broadcast TV to Peacock Streaming Service in 2022
1:33 7:52 Back in 1960, you could smoke anywhere. Even in a courtroom - although its a soap opera set
Wow. I barely recognized Charita Bauer.
This is when the setting is in California, the doctor says he works at Cedars in Los Angeles. Around 1965/66 the Bauers moved to Springfield. Weren't they lucky to find a Cedars Hospital there also ........ ;)
Cedars hospital is like the Cleveland Clinic branches everywhere 😂
@@colejx78interesting how GL centered around 2 towns: Springfield and LA back then.
Is that Norm Taubman on the organ? He also did the organ for the Edge of Night, was the keyboardist for almost every game show in the 50s and 60s, and also owned his own nightclub in Manhattan, featuring.......himself!
I meant PAUL Taubman. Sorry.
To the best of my knowledge, the organist was John Gart. Gart gave my father a piano version of the Guiding Light theme in his own handwriting and signed by him, which my father gave to me sometime in the early to mid 1960s. I still have it.
8:53 Can Mr Clean still be used in laundry today? I looked up uses for Mr Clean on the Mr Clean website and it mentioned every use in this ad except for laundry.
Maybe they found out it melts the clothes...😁😁
@@MoviecraftIncKind of like how when Pampers Disposable Diapers were introduced the next year in 1961, the first ads mentioned you could flush the diapers (dip, dunk and flush as mentioned in the ads) down the toilet. Now you can’t do that with diapers because of the chemicals in the diapers that can clog the toilets if you try to flush them.
Identifying the names:
Meta Bauer (Ellen Demming), Bruce Banning (Les Damon), Bill Bauer (Ed Bryce), Bert Bauer (Charita Bauer), Robin Lang (Abigail Kellogg - I think) Paul Fletcher (Bernard Grant). I think the lawyer may be Philip Sterling but I'm not 100%.
Someone also pointed out that the detective is played by Milton Seltzer.
I can confirm that the lawyer was Philip Sterling. My father was Paul Fletcher.
@@markngrant9510 Thanks for the confirmation! I wish more of your father's soap work was available but everything from him I have seen has been first-rate.
@@kengeorgejones6855 Thank you very much. He also appeared on One Life to Live: ua-cam.com/video/oEzC1oJ_wIM/v-deo.htmlsi=T_Ss_bCBUHzZHgdP
Yes, I watched these daily with my mother - Papa Bower, Meta, Bert - Bert was later to become a rather sympathetic character. They were like my own family. Thank you!
My mom watched Search for Tomorrow and The Guiding Light everyday at lunch when they were 15 minutes each
It must have been easier to follow the storylines at that time.
I miss GL and ATWT. Neither should have gone off the air. I miss Oxydol too.
Move them to paramount plus instead of cancelling. NBC did that with Days of our lives moving it from tv to peacock. Abc tried it with AMC & OLTL (not to Hulu but another service) with no success
I'd love to see Gillian Spencer playing Robin.
Odd they never thought of dish washing gloves to prevent this.
But now most Americans have dishwashers instead of washing dishes by hand
Mercerechrome???
That's mercurochome. This was a red liquid in a very small bottle containing mercury that I used to put on a few sores when I was a kid. Now I find out that it was banned in the US in 1998 because of the mercury content.