A Martinez (Cruz Castillo)
The Capwell Mansion :
"This was the scene of so many memorable moments. Some wonderful early stuff from Joe and Kelly, C.C. and Sophia and Mason and Ted, and of course I recall the day that Eden first walked through the front door. She had floated down from out of the sky to land with her parachute all tangled up in the hedge of the adjacent Lockridge estate, where Warren was waiting to give her more attention than she ever wanted from him. Her Capwell homecoming was unforgettable, what with the whole family gathering to present itself for the first time. It is also to the door of the Capwell mansion that Cruz first came when he returned to Santa Barbara, having just squelched an oil rig fire for C.C.."

Kris Kringle's Cabin :
"I loved the scenes that Cruz and Eden got to play in this room, with the wonderful actor Chuck McCann, who played Kris. The way Santa Barbara dealt with fantasy was one of the show's great strengths. It delivered the storytelling far beyond the boundaries of what most serialized television shows of the day were designed to explore. The shows where the characters would step away from their troubles for a while and engage with the more dreamlike aspects of life were often wonderful to watch. And they were almost always a lot of fun to play."

Cruz's Boat :
"So many moments, two of which immediately stand out. Cruz had to do a scene in a storyline where he was trying to help Joe and Kelly, a scene where he had been shaving when suddenly interrupted by them. All day long, in rehearsals, I practiced the scene as if I had shaving cream on my face, but I never actually used any. At the end of the day, when we finally went to tape it for real, I finally put the real shaving cream on my face. The stuff had an amazingly intense fragrance to it. It smelled to me as if I was suddenly submerged into a giant tub of lime jelly. It was ridiculously intense, this stuff, and suddenly I couldn't remember my lines. At all.
Later, the boat would prove to be the scene of one of my happiest moments ever as an actor : it was on the boat that Marcy first pushed me into a moment of free and genuine bliss. She surprised and delighted me to the point that I just dissolved into laughter - with no sense of artifice. It was the first time in my life that had ever happened. And until it did, I wasn't quite sure if it was possible to do under the demands of "performing.""

Cruz and Eden's beach house :
"I remember Cruz, desperate and alone, drinking till horribly drunk, after Eden was lost in Utah. And Julia coming by to try to rescue him. The two of them were always the best of friends. That never wavered.
And I remember having to leave the house in a hurry one day, in the midst of a driving rainstorm, and being unable to accomplish my exit. Cruz was wearing a long overcoat to face the bad weather. There was a wind machine just off the set, blowing the rain water into his face. Take after take, that wind machine would blow that coat so sideways that it would get stuck in the door. Cruz would throw open the door, lean heroically into the crazy rain, and slam the door behind him as he ran off into the night. Except that every time he ran, he traveled exactly one step before his coat, stuck in the slamming door, yanked him back against the house. The cameras kept rolling, as we'd try it again after we all got done laughing (which took longer each time), and eventually the footage of those repeated, pathetic, and fruitless attempts was played on a "Bloopers" television show that got a lot of attention in the U.S.. I'd like to think that those moments helped to bring a new and larger audience to the show, but that may not be true."

Nicolas Coster (Lionel Lockridge)
"As to the Lockridge mansion... Capwells was bigger ! Yup, they had the largest standing set in television. Ours was richly furnished, if somewhat dowdy... All our sets had a real flair though... some very talented people there as well. I don't really remember much about them (either one). I suppose the scenes with Louise (Augusta) when she was blind and we were doing the paraphrase of Cyrano De Bergerac (with the milkman reading my letters, while I watched the blind Augusta react) were the most fun. The other sets were of course mostly beautifully constructed sets. All the art on the show was so good ! We had the finest staff of Art directors, Set designers, Set decorators, lighting and music in the business !  How nice to see THEIR work remembered."