Santa Barbara (TV series)
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Created by |
Bridget Dobson Jerome Dobson |
| Starring | Series cast |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 2137 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | See here |
| Location(s) |
NBC Studios Burbank, California |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Dobson Productions New World Television |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | July 30, 1984 – January 15, 1993 |
Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from July 30, 1984 to 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.
The serial was produced by Dobson Productions and New World Television, which also served as distributor for the show in international markets. Santa Barbara was New World Television's first series. Due to the buyout of New World by (old) News Corporation in 1997, current rights to the series reside with the old News Corp's successor, 21st Century Fox, and its syndication arm, 20th Television.
Santa Barbara aired in the United States at 3:00 PM Eastern (2:00 PM Central) on NBC in the same time slot as General Hospital on ABC and Guiding Light on CBS and right after Another World. Santa Barbara aired in over 40 countries around the world. It became the longest-running television series in Russia, being aired there from 1992 to 2002.Santa Barbara won 24 Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated 30 times for the same award. The show also won 18 Soap Opera Digest Awards, and won various other awards.
In 1993, NBC replaced Santa Barbara with game shows Scrabble and Scattergories. Shortly before the program was canceled by NBC, New World Television tried to shop Santa Barbara to other broadcast and cable networks, but failed to find one that would air the show.
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