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Happy Birthday Santa Barbara!!!!!

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22 years ago today Santa Barbara premiered on NBC.

I would like to wish Santa Barbara a very happy birthday!!!!!

Oh how i wish this show was still on!!!!!

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I loved that soap. LOVED Mason and Julia (and my edits! and YouTube!) and just the entire show. It was quirky but could also get down and dirty with the serious issues and still maintain its sense of humor.

And the writing was fabulous - references to Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, and just talking UP TO rather than DOWN TO the audience. The writers trusted the audience's intelligence.

(Thanks especially to Patrick Mulcahey and Anne Howard Bailey.)

I miss it. Sigh!

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Awww! Happy B-Day, SB!

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Happy Birthday Santa Barbara. OH How I miss you so..

Great show!

Patrick Mulcahey was great on this show. He wrote the best episodes. Classic shows.

I heard Patrick is writing for B&B now, is that true?

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Patrick Mulcahey was great on this show. He wrote the best episodes. Classic shows.

I heard Patrick is writing for B&B now, is that true?

I'm not the expert on specific script/breakdown writers or their tenure at specific shows, but Pat was indeed at B&B for about a year and turned Brad Bell's "Done that over and over again" storytelling into compelling gold. Every good streak that happened on B&B last year(especially Steph's faked heart-attack, which was written and plotted so well beat to beat) I attribute solely to him. Too bad Brad was too chickenshit to give him at least a Co-Headwriter slot.

Anyway, Happy 22nd Birthday SB!

(P.S. Always thought it was funny that I was two months old when SB premiered on NBC.)

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Happy Birthday Santa Barbara!!! though i was too young to see the original epsiodes the ones i have seen from wost and other places have kept my interest

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For a time, SB was not only the best soap on TV, it was one of the best programs in all of TV, period. Lots of spectacular scenes... dialogue that crackled with wit and spark...

God, I miss that show. Oh, SoapNet, care to add it to your schedule??

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22 Years, wow! cannot believe it's been that long. Words can't even express how much I miss this show. Just think, the ratings they had back then weren't so bad compared today, now were they?

Gina and Keith

Mason and Julia

Eden and Cruz

C.C. and Sophia

Lionel and Augusta

On and on....

You were the best. Happy Birthday Santa Barbara!

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Happy Birthday Santa Barbara. You will never be forgotten. I watched it from the beginning to the end and I still hold a deep resentment towards NBC for cancelling the show.

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Oh Happy BDAY My Beloved, Never-Forgotten, FAVE Soap of ALL-TIME!!! I remember waking up for school the day it was cancelled- heard about it one E! Entertainment News I was most definitely resentful toward Susan Lee & NBC Daytime - she had just before that made statements in SOW that lead most of the fans & the industry to believe the show would be renewed. I also harvest deep, deep resentment toward Paul Rauch & Pam Long, for showing no clips of the SB we once knew, Not even TRYING (!) too woo Marcy Walker & A Martinez back to wrap their characters up (their love story was the iconic love story of the show)- and neither Cruz nor Eden were even MENTIONED in the final weeks of the show. Nope. The only people who got closure were the pets of Rauch & Long :angry::angry::angry:

I'm actually thinking about doing a Santa Barbara fanfic log. I wrote one for many years, both during and after the show's run. Actually, when I got out of the habit, is when I was most excited about the stories I was telling. I'd probably start from there, and even include 1 or 2 I had written previously.

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The pinnacle of soap excellence, IMO -- at least between 1985-1990.

I loved it. I wish we still had soaps like that. I'm not talking about a Santa Barbara template -- rather, soaps witha wonderful ensemble cast, swoony romance, intrigue, murder, humor and wonderful writing. SB was one of those rare soaps that left me in a fit of agitation between Friday and Monday, wondering what on earth was going to happen next.

Some pics from SB's glory days. Enjoy!

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CC and Sophia Capwell

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Gina -- arguably one of the best !@#$%^&*]es ever.

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Keith

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Keith in Gina's lingerie

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Lane Davies as arguably the definitive Mason. Rowl. The name is Bond. James Bond.

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Nancy Lee Grahn as either Julia or GH's Alexis. Honestly, it's like she's barely even aged.

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M&J

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Sonny Sprockett

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Cruz & Eden

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Wedding Montage!

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Eden & Robert. Don't kill me, Cruz & Eden fans!

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Evil Elena. God, I loved that psycho.

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Ted Capwell doing his best Ken Doll pose.

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Sophia & Augusta trade barbs.

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Gordon Thompson (Mason #3) spanks Julia. :blink:

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Cruz & Eden reunited with Adriana during a location shoot in Paris.

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End Credits -- remember the theme tune? Doo Do-be-DOOOO! Doo Do-be-doo-DAAAH!

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Thanks for those kitty Cat!!! LOVE em. :D

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Oh Happy BDAY My Beloved, Never-Forgotten, FAVE Soap of ALL-TIME!!! I remember waking up for school the day it was cancelled- heard about it one E! Entertainment News I was most definitely resentful toward Susan Lee & NBC Daytime - she had just before that made statements in SOW that lead most of the fans & the industry to believe the show would be renewed.

I thought someone else was in charge of NBC Daytime during that period. Some guy who was formerly over the Sports Division.

I also harvest deep, deep resentment toward Paul Rauch & Pam Long, for showing no clips of the SB we once knew, Not even TRYING (!) too woo Marcy Walker & A Martinez back to wrap their characters up (their love story was the iconic love story of the show)- and neither Cruz nor Eden were even MENTIONED in the final weeks of the show. Nope. The only people who got closure were the pets of Rauch & Long :angry::angry::angry:

The cigarette [!@#$%^&*] at the final frames was BEYOND inappropriate!

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The last days of SB were horrendous. WHAT a slap in the face to longtime fans.

I prefer to remember the 1984-1991 period as showcasing all the best this show had to offer. :) No disrespect to Jack Wagner, Kim Zimmer, Sydney Penney et al, but for me it was all about Marcy Walker, A Martinez, Jed Allan, Judith McConnell, Todd McKee, Robin Wright, Dame Judith Anderson, Louise Sorel, Nicholas Coster, Nancy Lee Grahn, Lane Davies, Justin Deas and Robin Mattson.

Apologies if I've missed out others. I forget the names of those who played Elena (:wub:), Victoria (who was awesome), Santana (Gia somebody I think) and Kirk.

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Elena was Sherlyn Wolter (she was also Celia Quartermaine on GH)

Victoria "Tori" Lane was Kristen Meadows (also Mimi King on OLTL)

Santana Andrade was several actresses, most memorably Gina Gallego (she's the one who ran down Eden with her car) and lastly Wanda deJesus.

Kirk Cranston was mianly Joseph Bottoms and, briefly, Robert Newman (Josh, GL)

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