TV’s longest-running soap has shot its final scene.
The cast and crew of “Guiding Light” gathered at Peapack Reformed Church — which has served as the site for weddings and funerals in the soap’s fictional town of Springfield — for a service to remember the show after shooting the last scenes in a northern New Jersey town.
“Now, unbelievably, the Guiding Light will be extinguished,” Rev. Kathryn Henry, who led the service, said of the “guiding light” from the lamp put in the church window by the fictional Rev. Rutledge to welcome parishioners seeking guidance.
CBS recently canceled the program after a 72-year run and will air the series finale Sept. 18.