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.
CreatorsJerome Dobson, Bridget Dobson
ProducersJohn Conboy, Leonard Friedlander, Julie Hanan Carruthers, Charlotte Savitz, Steven Kent
WritersLinda Hamner, Lynda Myles, Charles Pratt, Jr., Courtney Simon, Patrick Mulcahey, Anne Howard Bailey, Frank Salisbury, Gary Tomlin
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First air date1984-07-30
Last air date1993-01-15
LanguageEnglish
Production companiesNew World Television, Dobson Productions
