• StatusEnded
  • Rating4.9
  • Created by:Jerome Dobson, Bridget Dobson
  • Production
    CompaniesNew World Television, Dobson Productions
  • GenreSoap
  • Episode
    Runtime60mins
  • First Air
    Date1984-07-30
  • NetworksNBC

Overview

Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolves around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Other prominent families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, and the more modest Andrade and Perkins families. Santa Barbara aired in over 40 countries around the world and is best remembered for its witty dialogue and sometimes tongue-in-cheek situations that often seemed like an affectionate parody of the genre. The show won 24 Daytime Emmy Awards and 18 Soap Opera Digest Awards among various other awards.

Casts

Jed Allan

Robin Mattson

Nancy Lee Grahn

Nicolas Coster

Judith McConnell

Gordon Thomson

Jack Wagner

Eileen Davidson

Michael Brainard

Paula Irvine

Sydney Penny

Nina Arvesen

Kim Zimmer

Eric Close

Robert Fontaine

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