Mary-Ellis Bunim (Executive Producer, Santa Barbara)
"It's so difficult to choose one moment from more than 260 episodes and identify it as the finest, as I've been blessed with a wonderfully talented cast and creative staff who deliver consistently terrific work. If I must be pinned down, two events where production, performance and lighting melded to achieve outstanding results were: 1) the Cruz and Eden proposal scene, shot on location, which was a beautifully directed, warm, funny, sexy sequence between A Martinez and Marcy Walker and 2) our recent Christmas show, where Mason dreamed he was Scrooge and vowed to mend his ways. The concept, script (by Chuck Pratt, Jr.), performance (by Lane Davies), and technical execution, produced one of our finest hours yet."