It was on itv back in the days when richard and judy first went on air; 1987.

it started at 10am and only lasted about six months before itv pulled it and replaced it with a talk show.

it was a great soap, do you rember it?

Yes, I remember this one.

It had a really good theme tune!

If you go to www.wost.org they have an episode of Santa Barbara up to watch, i think its the premiere.

I remember - terrible acting, outrageous storylines and you could see the join the "beach"

Classic stuff

Yes it was a classic. This is the series where it seemed in every episode you had a different actor playing the father. Also the mystery skinny man turned out to be a sligghtly overweight woman. And also the series where the beach scene fell on top of the actors. It was originally shown on cable channel "Star Channel" back in the eighties.