GUIDING LIGHT {THE SPAULDING LAB EXPLOSION} (TV)
Summary
One in this long-running daytime serial about the residents of the midwestern town of Springfield. As the episode begins, Blake is in the hospital claiming that she cannot remember anything about the rape -- and paralyzed by Ross's accidentally shooting her in an effort to save her from Ben. Ross is arrested for attempted murder, and Rick offers to care for their children, much to Hart's dismay. Dinah suspects that Blake willingly submitted to Ben's advances and warns her to implicate Ben in the rape in order to get Ross released from jail. Much of the episode revolves around the explosion at Spaulding Labs. Michael Burke, distraught over the fact that Vicky stole his cloning research to foster Alan's evil plans, plants a bomb in the lab in order to destroy his work. His plan succeeds, but fatal consequences ensue. Meanwhile, Sean is hiding out in Cassie's home after breaking out of prison. He needs to prove that his ex-wife and partner ran off together and staged her murder in order to get Sean arrested. Cassie is worried that things will not work out between Hart and her, and that he might really be the father of Dinah's baby. Commercials deleted.
(The title of this series was "The Guiding Light" on radio from 1937 to 1956 and on television from 1952 to 1977; in 1977 the title was changed to "Guiding Light.")
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Procter & Gamble Productions, 1999.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: July 27, 1998 10:00 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:39:36
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:57876
- GENRE: Drama, daytime serial
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, daytime serial
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1952-2009
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Paul Rauch … Executive Producer
- Alexandra Johnson … Coordinating Producer
- Robert D. Kochman … Senior Producer
- Jan Conklin … Associate Producer
- Mary Alice Dwyer-Dobbin … Production (Misc.), Executive in Charge of Production
- Bruce S. Barry … Director
- Irna Phillips … Created by
- Barbara Esenstein … Writer
- James Harmon Brown … Writer
- Nancy Williams Watt … Writer
- Michael Conforti … Writer
- Kathleen Kennedy … Writer
- Frederick Johnson … Writer
- Donna Swajeski … Writer
- Tita Bell … Writer
- Tony Lang … Writer
- Roger Newman … Writer
- Pete T. Rich … Writer
- Loren Segan … Writer
- Hunt Block … Cast, Ben Warren
- Beth Chamberlain … Cast, Beth Raines Spaulding
- Frank Dicopoulos … Cast, Frank Cooper
- Maureen Garrett … Cast, Holly Lindsey-Reade
- Frank Grillo … Cast, Hart Jessup
- Peter Hermann … Cast, Michael Burke
- Elizabeth Keifer … Cast, C. Blake Thorpe Marler
- Maeve Kinkeas … Cast, Vanessa Chamberlain Reardon
- Wendy Moniz … Cast, Dinah Marler Thorpe
- Robert Newman … Cast, Joshua Lewis
- Michael O'Leary … Cast, Rick Bauer
- Ron Raines … Cast, Alan Spaulding
- Jerry verDorn … Cast, Ross Marler
- Laura Wright … Cast, Cassie Layne