Santa Barbara Discussion Thread

[tonymidnight]

Anyone who's interested ... I found it interesting that a family tree shown in the Feb 5 1987 issue of Soap Opera Digest listed Sophia's second husband as "Armand Armonti."  Had no clue they ever named the Count.   

[DRW50]

Thanks. That seems like a parody name...or someone who would have conspired with Angela Channing for about 3 weeks in 1986.

[DemetriKane]

I am planning to jump back into this show since I never watched it from the beginning. Can someone give me a reasonable episode to restart with? I dropped it just a few weeks after Marcy Walker joined, it is so deadly boring. When does it get better??

[Jdee43]

It gets better in January 1985 with the start of the serial killer storyline. It starts out of nowhere with episode 114.

If you go back a week though, to 109, you can see the start of Cruz and Eden as an official couple, with Cruz manhandling Eden, tackling her to the floor, treating her like crap --  that time period's way of showing how much chemistry they would have..

The storyline from 109 that Cruz and Eden are in about a sunken ship gets dropped as Cruz eventually becomes the chief cop investigating the serial killer. From the start, Cruz is laughably terrible at his job, letting the killer easily escape, inadvertently giving the killer the heads up as to where his victim will be, etc.

Edited Friday at 05:19 AM by Jdee43

[DemetriKane]

Thank you! I will jump to Episode, 100. 

[tonymidnight]

In the Nov 27, 1990 issue of SOD, James DePaiva (best known as Max Holden on OLTL) reveals he was in talks with SB to replace Justin Deas as Keith Timmons.  Negotiations fell through because DePaiva and producers couldn't agree on scheduling issues.    

Speaking of scheduling issues, did you know Justin Deas was originally supposed to play the character of Kelly Capwell's saxophone-playing neighbour Dr. Justin Moore, a role written specifically for him.  Deas "had become unavailable at the last moment" and the role went to Larry Poindexter after a rush-audition.  When Deas became free again, he was offered the role of Keith Timmons - and the character of Justin Moore was phased out to make room for Timmons.      

http://santabarbara-online.com/InterviewLPoindexter2.htm

 

 

 

[DRW50]

Thanks. It's a shame things didn't work out better for Larry. I've always had a soft spot for him, and he really did have to do just about everything in the acting business to get through, including softcore.