THIS is why SOAPnet Should Do a Santa Barbara TV Movie! (VIDEO)
By Jamey Giddens on June 30, 2009
I got so excited reminiscing about Santa Barbara, television's best soap opera EVER, on Twitter that I decided to share these soaptastic clips here on DC. They are from SB's infamous Aqua Land remote, where the dastardly Kirk Cranston (Robert Newman) planned to finally do away with our starcrossed lovers Cruz Castillo (A Martinez) and Eden Capwell (Marcy Walker) once and for all! For fans who have only seen Newman as the heroic, straight-laced Josh Lewis on Guiding Light, seeing him as Eden's psychotic ex might be a bit of a shock. I say it's high time SOAPnet assembled 10-15 of Santa Barbara's key players, and produced a splashy two-part miniseries! Thanks Katieeee9999 for the MVIDs.
I got so excited reminiscing about Santa Barbara, television's best soap opera EVER, on Twitter that I decided to share these soaptastic clips here on DC. They are from SB's infamous Aqua Land remote, where the dastardly Kirk Cranston (Robert Newman) planned to finally do away with our starcrossed lovers Cruz Castillo (A Martinez) and Eden Capwell (Marcy Walker) once and for all! For fans who have only seen Newman as the heroic, straight-laced Josh Lewis on Guiding Light, seeing him as Eden's psychotic ex might be a bit of a shock. I say it's high time SOAPnet assembled 10-15 of Santa Barbara's key players, and produced a splashy two-part miniseries! Thanks Katieeee9999 for the MVIDs.
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15 May 2008
1 hour 33 min
Rescue Marcy Walker! Anyone that can hop a gate like she does in heels and a Valentino pants suit needs to be on a soap honey!
26 May 2009
3 years 18 weeks
Jamey,
I loved this so much, I ran home after school to watch it and taped GH which was on at the same time.
1 April 2009
2 weeks 1 day
I'm not trying to be funny, but Soapnot really doesn't do things revolving around soaps anymore. Movies from 1991?? YES. "Original Reality Shows" who's idea was stolen from Bravo?? YES. Showcasing TV shows that were cancelled 8-10 years ago in Prime Time Slots while current shows air at three in the morning?? YOUUUUU Betchya!!!
Any of the following networks are more apt to run a "Santa Barbara Movie" (GREAT idea by the way!)
VH1, WE TV, BET, CNN, The Food Network, Lifetime, The Learning Channel, MTV, QVC, Oxygen, A&E, TV Land, PBS and Nikalodean.
Seriously... How can "My Girl" be shown on Sunday Nights when OLTL can't? Brian Fronz has ruined ABC Daytime/Soapnot.
11 April 2009
17 hours 8 min
I read that Cruz married Kelly (Eileen Davidson; Eden (Marcy Walker) developed a split personality and then ran away.
18 February 2009
11 hours 15 min
Wow! I didn't even need to look at that first scene, I remember it so well (but I did anyway)! So great to hear Robin Mattson's voice! I heart her most of all.
Didn't Santa Barbara make great use of its incidental music! They knew how to ramp up the tension. Is there a soap on the air today that comes close? I don't think so. After this show was cancelled, I continued to watch reruns in French up here in Canuckistan, so all I can think to say is, "Ah, Santa Barbara...je t'aime!"
10 December 2008
23 hours 52 min
Gosh I still remember the first scene that Santa Barbara ever aired, and how my love for Louise Sorel has never faded
11 April 2009
17 hours 8 min
SoapNet? Given its lack of interest in soaps, it will probably get a new name soon.
10 November 2008
3 years 10 weeks
SB was the reason i got my first vcr in 84
when it premeired the LA olympics were on and other soaps were pre empted SB was only thing on
i got hooked in those 2 weeks
loved cruz eden the whole show was awesome
18 February 2009
11 hours 15 min
SoapNet? Given its lack of interest in soaps, it will probably get a new name soon.
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SoapNot?
18 February 2009
11 hours 15 min
Sorry.
That's probably been said a million times. :-/
2 April 2009
19 hours 23 min
Apparently SoapNet is to busy adding new reality shows to their list...sigh
28 April 2009
3 years 17 weeks
LOL. Wow, back when a soap had stunt people. lol U know Marcy and Robert did not jump that gate. lol And how soap is that? Ur on the run. . . go to the abandoned park. lol I loved 'santa barbara'. I hated the last few years though, but I loved Marcy and A. Oh, how I cried w/ them. lol Yes, that was a soap!!!
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28 April 2009
3 years 17 weeks
okay, that was too good. Robin Matson vs. Robert Newman vs. a bush. lol Love it! I think that bush won. lol U noticed when they cut back to her, Robin had moved off the bush. lol Oh, how I miss 'sb.' ahh. like an old lover i forgot i had. lol -)
18 August 2008
1 hour 26 min
AND unlike B&B and this week's Fauxawii vacation they really went on location and unlike in Peapack everyone looked good.
6 September 2008
46 weeks 1 day
DANG, Marcy Walker lookin' all gorgeous & action-y!
23 March 2009
1 year 15 weeks
Robert Newman was good here, but I liked Joseph Bottoms in the role of Kirk. Robert Newman was sure busy during his 3 yr break from GL ... playing Prescott Harrell in 1985 on GH and then Kirk in 1986
5 April 2009
3 years 35 weeks
i was just a kid watching this show, but its the only soap i've ever had to mourn (until Sept. when they will pry GL from my fingers).
i loved eden/cruz.
29 May 2008
8 weeks 3 days
Jamey, you did it again! Santa Barbara was my first love. I remember when these scenes aired. My grades were suffering in school and my Dad decided I couldn't watch my Santa Barbara after school. He put a parental code on the TV, but I was able to sneak to the garage and watch it on the tiny black and white TV until I persuaded my parents to let me watch again.
Don't bother with SoapNet, though. What you really need to do is write to my employer, Sony, and get them to put the series on DVD!!!! They own the rights and I don't know why they are sitting on this one.
14 June 2009
2 hours 27 min
CRUZ and Eden for me are the best couple that daytime ever produced. When they were gone, the show died. I agree that Joseph Bottoms was a better Kirk as well.
But there were many many characters on SB that were very special. Robert Barr, Mason and Julia, Kelly and Joe, CC, Bunny, Gina and Keith (loved Keith and Cruz when they argued!!!!) Lionel and Augusta to name a few.
I think a mini series would be better than a movie. Maybe re do the Channing murder mystery. They could give it a different ending perhaps. Say maybe Channing faked his own death to run off with his boyfriend!
I would love to relive the Cruz and Eden story too! But would hate to see someone else playing the characters.
14 December 2008
1 week 1 day
Wow, Marcy Walker looked so young there! And I remember her as Liza from the late '80's-early 90's. Santa Barbra looks like it was a great soap, definitly something I would enjoy watching.
20 June 2009
3 years 35 weeks
I SO agree! Santa Barbara will always be my favorite soap. I miss it still.
I wish Soapnet would show it from the beginning all the way through. They showed Another World, & Ryan's Hope, WHY can't they show SB?!
4 July 2009
3 years 46 weeks
I bought myself a VCR for my 16th birthday so I could watch this show. Best soap ever. Mason and Mary are what hooked me completely, but I also liked Cruz & Eden, Mason & Julia and Gina & Keith, whether the couples were together or apart.
You can find more clips at Lane Davies' site, lane-davies.com. They are Mason clips, but other characters are involved, too. They post a new one every weekday morning, and a full week's worth from some of the later stuff.