Santa Barbara
The daytime serial that won the writing Emmy five times and was cancelled anyway.
One opening sequence is catalogued for Santa Barbara, covering season 1.
It arrived on NBC in 1984, when Truth or Consequences, Another World and Search for Tomorrow were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip placed. The undated upload cannot be assigned against titles that were rebuilt across the run, the copy that does say 1984 is a phone filming a tablet with the case still in shot, and the remaining one is the Spanish broadcast for TVE1 rather than NBC's.
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