Santa Barbara, California - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The Loud family, subjects of the very first "reality TV" series, PBS's An American Family, called Santa Barbara home since the early 1960s (moving there from Eugene, Oregon) and throughout the series, all the family members save for Lance (who lived in New York City at the time) were filmed going about their daily lives in Santa Barbara. Bill's foundry supply company was headquartered in downtown Santa Barbara.

In the ABC television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the fictional privately-owned nuclear-powered submarine Seaview was based at the equally fictional Nelson Institute of Marine Research located in Santa Barbara.

Several scenes in the 1966 film "Batman", starring Adam West and Burt Ward, were filmed on Stearns Wharf.

The final scene of the 1967 film The Graduate is set in Santa Barbara.

The 1980s soap opera Santa Barbara is set within its namesake city.

Santa Teresa is a fictional version of Santa Barbara used in the mystery novels of Ross Macdonald and Sue Grafton.

The 1996 film My Favorite Martian was filmed on location in Santa Barbara. While the opening shot shows fictional TV station KGSC Channel 10, KEYT Channel 3 was actually used for the filming location.

Several city vistas were used to represent Sunnydale in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The USA Network television show Psych features a fake psychic working for the Santa Barbara Police Department. The show, however, is not filmed on location. It is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Hollywood couples including Fergie and Josh Duhamel, Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli and Martin Sheen's daughter, Casandra Estevez all celebrated their weddings at the Bacara Resort in Goleta, adjacent to Santa Barbara.

The 2009 film It's Complicated is set in Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara is the hometown of Grammy nominated popstar, Katy Perry who filmed her music video "Teenage Dream" in the city.

Santa Barbara was the setting of Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict's wedding in 2008 on April 20.

Pictures and Video of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, looking towards the harbor from the top of the County Courthouse, showing the distinctive red-tiled roofs
The first Motel 6, in Santa Barbara
A view of Santa Barbara from the Santa Ynez Mountain Range
Sunrise, looking across the Pacific from the hills of Santa Barbara, toward the Santa Monica Mountains.
A view of a Santa Barbara sunset looking over the ocean.
Santa Barbara, looking east from above Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara Public Library
Santa Barbara, looking west-northwest from the County Courthouse tower, with Mission Santa Barbara and San Marcos Pass in the distance
Video of the Mission in Santa Barbara (1 minute, 29 sec.)
Surfers in Santa Barbara

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