Santa Barbara Season 1 Episode 1 Episode 1 ( Air Date 1984-07-30 ) Genre Soap category. Overview "This great soap opera begins with a flashback to a party in honor of Channing Capwell Jr. in Santa Barbara, California in 1979. Channing and his older brother, Mason, are entertaining the guests until the butler, Phillip, gives Channing a note. Channing asks the maid, Santana Andrade, if he'll see her tonight. He then follows instructions to go to the Capwell study. When Channing enters the study, it's clear that someone was waiting behind the desk. The person points a gun and pulls the trigger. Seconds later, Channing is lying dead on the floor. ""Santa Barbara"" then cuts five years ahead in time to the San Quentin prison on July 30, 1984.".
Santa Barbara Season 1 Episode 1 Episode 1
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- Stars: Jed Allan, Robin Mattson, Nancy Lee Grahn, Nicolas Coster, Judith McConnell, Gordon Thomson, Jack Wagner, Eileen Davidson, Michael Brainard, Paula Irvine, Nina Arvesen, Sydney Penny, Kim Zimmer, Eric Close, Robert Fontaine, Thaao Penghlis
- Director: Linda Hamner, Lynda Myles, John Conboy, Charles Pratt, Jr., Jill Farren Phelps, Leonard Friedlander, Julie Hanan Carruthers, Courtney Simon, Patrick Mulcahey, Paul Rauch, Mary-Ellis Bunim, Charlotte Savitz, Anne Howard Bailey, Steven Kent, Frank Salisbury, Gary Tomlin
