Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Arthur Vasey This series was shown on ITV from the start, as part of a new network daytime package on ITV, as opposed to regionally shown films and Sesame Street (and schools programmes, during term time).It was shown daily (the first episode was repeated in the afternoon) at 10 am.It was quite unusual for any terrestrial channel to screen US daytime soaps - they were a mainstay of cable TV, which was still in its infancy - the best the BBC could manage at the time was re-runs of Dallas. ITV relied on Australia for most of its daytime soap output by the mid 80s - other than Take The High Road, all the daytime soaps were Australian (Emmerdale was now on in the evenings and other shows were no longer being made).Santa Barbara was networked (unusually for ITV - all imported programmes and even UK reruns tended to be shown round the regions) to begin with and shown five days a week (most soaps - UK or imported - were rarely on more than twice or three times a week).It was subsequently split around the regions - but ultimately discontinued and has never been shown subsequently - we never found out who killed Channing or how it progressed after a Christmas episode (not properly, anyway).There were so many cast changes - at least three (I've later learnt that it was four) actors have played CC Capwell - Peter Mark Richman (billed as such in Santa Barbara, but as Mark Richman in earlier roles), Paul Burke and Charles Bateman have played the Capwell patriarch - two actors have played Joe Perkins (Dane Witherspoon and Mark Arnold) and two actors - should it be "actresses", as he was later revealed to be a woman, and even later to have been the supposedly-deceased Sophia - that was the last episode I saw - when Lionel showed CC Sophia in that one way window, which they mistakenly called a "two-way mirror" - have played "Dominic" - Rosemary Forsyth (originally credited as "M Forsyth" - perhaps to hide the fact he was a woman) and, once "his" identity was discovered, Judith McConnell.The cast changes often occurred partway through an episode - an announcer would say "The part of CC Capwell is now being played by Paul Burke" and, in another episode, "The part of CC Capwell is now being played by Charles Bateman".# As for the Joe Perkins switcheroony, the announcer said "The part of Joe Perkins is now being played by Mark Arnold".

Syl Santa Barbara came on with the hopes of changing the daytime industry and it did to many respects. THe Dobsons should be applauded for their soap. Sadly, Santa Barbara was on NBC which does not care for it's daytime audience. As an Another WOrld fan, I can say that network does not show the respect of daytime drama audiences by canceling one of it's soaps. Santa Barbara tried to be like other soaps just when it came out but it didn't work. Then, they brought together Cruz and Eden played by A Martinez and Marcy Walker. They were very good together. The casting was beyond to describe. The cast included Dame Judith Anderson, Janis Paige, Nicolas Coaster (a soap vet to say the least), Sydney Penney, Nancy Lee Grahn, Louise Sorel, Jed Allan, Jane McConnell, and the list just goes on. When you are a favorite of Jill Farren Phelps, you become quite active on the show. Just to say that Grahn and Allan both joined General HOspital since Santa Barbara. The writing was witty and weird, brilliant and sometimes sloppy at the height of Santa Barbara's fame. But sadly, this show became a casualty of daytime's losing audience. Most people don't stay at home during the days like they used too. There are daytime audiences like me willing to tape while at work. I'll just wonder what it might have been if Santa Barbara had been allowed to grow old and gracefully. Santa Barbara won't be forgotten anytime soon. We still have a bit of it on General HOspital.

missvicky Hi readers! First of all I enjoy this site! I had thought years that I'm a crazy girl who love a soup-opera so much that I've learnt an other language (!)so that I could understand it! I'm from Hungary and I could it watch only on a German channel. And now I'm writing and listening in English! :-) I grew up with these "families" and I miss it very much. Some years ago I found some websites which deal with our stars, follow them and where we can discuss our feelings. It's fantastic! Thank you for everybody! In Hungary has never been aired that show. I don't know why? But I hope that one time hungarian people can also get to know SB. They don't know what they are out of.

p_yanna There were five reasons I watched this soap. Lane Davies, Nancy Lee Grahn, Justin Deas and Robin Mattson and its brilliant script. I used to tape it and fast forward all the bits that didn't involve the characters played by these four, fantastic actors. The script was so well-written that it was too good for a soap. Maybe that's why it wasn't as popular as it should have been. Even though I live in Greece and I used to watch it many years ago, I have very fond memories of these show and so do many other Greeks of my generation. I wish someone would show old episodes again. There's not much of a chance of this happening in Greece though.