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Guiding Light Headwriters When Who Storylines Until 1958 Irna Phillips Created the show including the Bauer family. 1958 to 1966 Agnes Nixon At one point worked on Another World and GL simultaneously, created the Hope and Mike Bauer crossover story; created the storyline of Bert's uterine cancer 1966 David Lesan and Julian Funt between 1966 to 1968 Theodore and Mathilde Ferro between 1966 to 1968 John Boruff between 1966 to 1968 James Lipton between 1966 to 1968 Gabrielle Upton between 1966 to 1968 Jane and Ira Avery late 1960s Irna Phillips 1969 to mid 1970s Robert Soderberg and Edith Sommer Created the Norris family. mid 1970s James Gentile mid 1970s Robert Cenedella mid 1970s James Lipton 1975 to 1980 Bridget and Jerome Dobson created Roger Thorpe; wrote storyline of Roger's raping Rita and Holly; created the Spaulding family; brought Bill Bauer back from the presumed dead 1980 to 1982 Douglas Marland Introduced Nola and Bea Reardon; created the Morgan/Nola/Kelly triangle; wrote Nola's fantasies few months in 1982 Pat Falken Smith 1982 to 1983 L. Virginia Browne and Gene Palumbo aged Phillip Spaulding and Rick Bauer to teenagers briefly in 1983 Carolyn DeMoney Culliton 1983 to 1984 Richard Culliton and Pamela K. Long 1984 to 1986 Pamela K. Long and Jeff Ryder few months in 1986 Jeff Ryder few months in 1986 Mary Ryan Munisteri and Ellen Barrett approximately one month in 1986 Jospeh D. Manetta 1986 to 1987 co-headwriters Jospeh D. Manetta and Sheri Anderson 1987 to 1990 Pamela K. Long 1990 to 1993 Nancy Curlee, Stephen Demorest and James Reilly, Lorraine Broderick, Stephen Demorest and James Reilly 1994 Patrick Mulcahey, Nancy Williams Watt, Stephen Demorest, Millee Taggart, Sheri Anderson, Peggy Sloan 1994 to 1995 Douglas Anderson Fifth Street fire storyline 1995 to 1996 Megan McTavish created the Brent/Marian storyline; brought on Zachary the angel 1996 Victor Miller and Michael Conforti 1997 to Nov. 1998 Barbara Esenstein and James Harmon-Brown cloned Reva; paired Phillip and Harley; created Nursery Rhyme stalker story Nov. 1998 to Present Barbara Esenstein, James Harmon-Brown and Michael Conforti Guiding Light Executive Producers When Who Decisions 1952 to 1976 Lucy Ferri Rittenberg 1976 to 1983 Allen Potter fired Jane Elliot as Carrie Marler 1983 to 1987 Gail Kobe 1987 to 1989 Joe Willmore 1989 to 1991 Robert Calhoun 1991 to 1995 Jill Farren Phelps 1995 to 1996 Michael Laibson 1996 to Present Paul Rauch brought back Beth Ehlers (Harley)

GL News & Previews Main Page Message Central TPTB stands for The Powers That Be and means the people in charge (writers, producers). This page last updated 3/4/99.