The Bertha Nags Bill To Drink

Guiding Light is an American daytime soap opera. It aired for 57 years on television between June 30, 1952, and September 18, 2009, but it began even earlier as a radio serial on January 25, 1937. With 72 years of radio and television runs, it is the longest-running American soap opera, ahead of General Hospital.

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“The Bertha Nags Bill To Drink.” The Guiding Light. Radio broadcast, October 18, 1950.