Santa Barbara

[Hawkee]

Santa Barbara was a good soap opera that should've lasted longer on NBC but the main reason I think Santa Barbara got cancelled in 1993 was because NBC probably wanted to expand their daytime lineup to include more soap operas and show game shows and talk shows but when the decision was made NBC cancelled Santa Barbara. My mom and I watched Santa Barbara sometimes because we liked the storyline and the storylines were great but also had lots of action and adventure that made Santa Barbara a fan favorite. It really is sad that NBC doesn't have any other daytime soap operas besides the lone survivor Days Of Our Lives and NBC should add more soap operas to their daytime lineup. Because I think after Santa Barbara's debut in 1984 NBC had hoped that Another World and Days Of Our Lives would still be successful when Santa Barbara joined the NBC daytime lineup it fit like a glove but I think even with Santa Barbara still a hit NBC's treatment of soap operas was starting to go downhill. Because when Generations became the new kid on the block when it debuted in 1989 NBC was hoping just like Santa Barbara Generations would be just as successful and garner new viewers. But as soon as The Gulf War began and news coverage started airing about The Gulf War Generations got cancelled in 1991. But if NBC could start releasing DVD sets of their classic soap operas I bet fans would be pleased to see Santa Barbara from beginning to end on a proper DVD release
Bestie

[DadTheKing]

Hi, Bestie! I always wondered why they cancelled S.B. myself. It had goo actors and good writing. I thought maybe it was too expensive.
DTK

[Hawkee]

Do you remember an episode of Santa Barbara where a church caught on fire? That was an episode that had a lot of adventure and I thought it was weird that the church exploded at the end of the fire. It's a shame today's soap operas don't have many adventure and action scenes today because they were thrilling to watch
Bestie

[80sTrivia]

Long gone are the days of the big budget "disasters" on soaps, where virtually the entire cast was on set and in peril, giving the audience a cliff hanger as to which character would live or die. Gone also are the glamorous on-location shoots from around the world the soaps used to do, in cities such as Paris or Venice. There is simply no money in the budget for these scenarios these days, with the revenue from advertising all but dried-up and gone.

The soaps today are boring to me, as the casts are very limited, the writing is just terrible and the scenes are much shorter. Many of the highest paid and most popular actors are brought out less frequently to keep the cost of production low. I prefer to watch old episodes from the soap heydays of the early-to-mid 80s and early 90s on YouTube than to watch a current soap on-the-air today...