Santa Barbara is an American award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show covered the exciting, eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Around the Capwells there are several other families, from the rival Lockridge family to the more modest Andrade and Perkins families, whose lives know the same torments.
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Santa Barbara is an American award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show covered the exciting, eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Around the Capwells there are several other families, from the rival Lockridge family to the more modest Andrade and Perkins families, whose lives know the same torments.
It was co-produced by NBC and Dobson Productions (in February 1985, New World Pictures joined NBC and Dobson as a production partner and served as the distributor for the show, through their newly created New World Television division), and co-created by Bridget and Jerome Dobson. It aired at 3:00 PM ET/2:00 PM C on NBC the same time as General Hospital on ABC and Guiding Light on CBS and right after Another World.
It aired in over 40 countries around the world. The show's popularity continued to rise, and it even had fans in the White House. In 1985, when...
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