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Maybe the Dobsons would have brought Jackie, Elizabeth, Rita and Hope. They could have written better material for Robert Gentry when he returned as Ed.

In the above video a re-creation of the 1967-1971 opening was used. Did they use a lighthouse during that period ? Several comments stated they did not.

I remember seeing a photo of a Guiding Light opening in an old soap magazine I had back in the 90's that had the title words on the screen and the I"s were real burning candles. When was that used ? I wonder if the person who shot it ever got residuals or knew the footage was used for the show ?

That's interesting. It kind of looks like someone shooting outdoor footage and trying to test the camera zoom lens or something you would see on a 70's PBS show.

Jerome & Bridget Dobson writing for GL in the 1970's.

I like the theme beautiful tune, but the graphics have a melancholy vibe. Does anyone know who created that opening graphic ? It reminds me of when I was a kid and there would be a nature graphic for Station ID or when there would be technical difficulty and they would show a graphic place card of trees, a stream etc...

Rita Stapleton Bauer. That's a very good summary of her character.

Dobson is credited as creating one of soaps first antiheroine in Rita Bauer on GL. Rita was such a diverse complicated character.

A really bad rewrite of history. In season 1 Laura talks about how her Mom died when she was 12 and she had to be the one to take care of everyone. In another episode they show a flashback to her at her Mom's casket. When her Dad appears later in the season he thanks her for being there for him when she died and gives her money to bail Richard out of financial trouble.

Facts Of Life became one of those shows that NBC forgot to cancel after it ran out of steam. A network Exec in 1988 " You mean it's still on" ?

Charlotte sounded like she was half lit......then again she always acted half lit. " Blaaaaaaaaaaaaair !"

It is muddy looking. I guess they thought with the out of focus look it fit in with the 70's obsession with gritty dark film making. There also was an obsession with nature themes. They could have at least changed the leaves to fit the seasons. That one for Fall, Snow on branches for Winter, Buds for Spring, Green leaves for Summer. 🤣

Someone in the comments on youtube said when they were a little kid and heard that end theme they would run under the dining room table screaming because it scared them.

Here is an audio recording of the original 1975 closing with the voice chant.

🤣 So true. I remember seeing a Marcus Welby called " The Girl From Rainbow Beach" where a soon to be bride discovers during her blood test for marriage that she has leprosy. This episode was done in 1970. Her fiancée played by Don Galloway dumps her in the end. Most of time the girl in these stories will try to commit suicide after getting a grim diagnosis. It seems like Jessica Walter played those roles a lot. In the early days of that theme, they had a female soprano moaning along with it. They said after about a year they dropped it because viewers complained it was creepy. Charles Paul the music directors wife was the female singer. Imagine the conversation from the big wigs telling Paul his wife's voice was creeping people out.

LOL....that's true. Women were written as victims and helpless. Surprisingly Jennifer has the surgery and everything is OK . They plan to get married and move to another country for Peter's work. Gentry is very good in his role as Peter refusing to leave Jennifer's side and puts his career plans on the line. He also wears a lot of late 60's cool threads.

I recently was watching a season 1 episode of Medical Center from 1969 titled " Moment Of Decision". In the episode Tyne Daly (back when she was young with long hair) played Jennifer the daughter of Dr. Lochner(played by Tyne's real life father James Daly). Jennifer comes home for a visit and reveals she is engaged to be married to her boyfriend Peter. Peter is played by Robert Gentry (ex Ed). Jennifer also reveals she has a brain aneurysm and has to have surgery. This must have been right after Gentry left GL. When Dr. Lochner & Dr. Gannon (Chad Everett) keep explaining all the medical stuff to him, I kept thinking " You should know this, your a doctor ".....LOL I've seen bits and pieces of Gentry's first run as Ed. I wish some circa 1967-69 color episodes would surface to see more of his later run. That 1968 CBS promo where he and Bill get into a shoving match makes me want to see more, plus they do the heart transplant storyline.

I saw this photo of Actor Arthur Peterson as John Rutledge on Ebay.

Wow, we were just discussing her. R.I.P.

I have not watched that interview with him yet. I will have to go back and check it out when I have time. I would also guess with Rita gone, they wanted to re-invent Ed with different actor and pair him with Maureen.

Sad to say I saw that film when it first came out. But in my defense I was only about 10 or 11 at the time. 🤣

I forgot about Van Vleet replacing Simon for a period of time. I couldn't imagine someone like Tony Geary being considered " A Find" by the mid 80's. He was lucky he hit pay dirt at the end of the 70's. If it wasn't for the Luke & Laura hoopla (which he has pissed and moaned about for decades and resented), he would be forgotten by now, let alone brought back to GH in the 90's.

He was very dull from what I saw of him on ATWT. If you really look back at all the soaps during the 70's, most of those actors would not be considered or hired by the mid 1980's. By then soaps wanted to fill their casts with pretty people whether they could act or not.