the show's opening and closing visuals from The Guiding Light to Guiding Light in an attempt to modernize the show's image, and, at the same time, the show adopted the harp-and-string-laced "Ritournelle," by Charles Paul, as its theme song, accompanied by a somewhat abstracted visual of sunlight filtering through leaves on a tree. The serial was still called The Guiding Light by CBS (and the show's staff announcers, most notably Alan Berns who began his tenure with the program in 1969 and would last as show announcer until the spring of 1997) until fall 1981, when "The" was completely dropped from references and a more upbeat musical theme was adopted. On November 7, 1977, the show expanded to a full hour. Although there had been one remote location shooting on The Guiding Light both in the summer of 1969 and the summer of 1970 in the English countryside of Great Britain, remote location shooting picked up speed in the last two years of the 1970s on Guiding Light starting with shooting of a pair of story lines, one that took place in Nassau, Bahamas in June 1978 and then Santo Domingo in July to September 1978. This was also another pressure that CBS and Procter & Gamble put the Guiding Light under in the last two years of the 1970s due to the other more popular soaps doing the same. (Prior to 1975, when the last two soaps, As the World Turns and The Edge of Night went from airing live to tape, remote location shooting was considered rare in soaps and also too expensive for their budgets.) In the fall of 1978, the show would have some of the cast shoot outside the studios in New York City and also shoot in upstate New York at the same time. (Ed Bauer's mansion house and the Spaulding mansion house, had some of the location shooting done in upstate New York at the time, and that would be seen, again, in the 1980s and 1990s.) In 1979, there would be further remote location shooting for the show done in Saint Lucia, Puerto Rico, Florida and other parts of the Caribbean. The pioneering new wave band Television paid tribute to the show in 1977 by including a song entitled "Guiding Light" on their debut album Marquee Moon. Major characters The Bauers Papa Bauer (Theo Goetz), until December 29, 1972 Meta Bauer Banning