[LETTERHEAD OF SULLIVAN & CROMWELL]




                                                               February 20, 2001



Travelers Series Fund Inc.,
       7 World Trade Center,
             New York, New York 10048

Dear Sirs:

     In connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the
"Act") of shares (the "Shares") of Common Stock, par value $.00001 per share, of
Travelers Series Fund Inc., a Maryland corporation (the "Company"), to be issued
in connection with the transaction contemplated by the Company's Plan of
Reorganization dated as of February 14, 2001 that is being filed today as an
Exhibit to the Company's Prospectus/Proxy Statement in its Registration
Statement on Form N-14 under the Act (the "Registration Statement"), we, as your
counsel, have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents,
and such questions of law, as we have considered necessary or appropriate for
the purposes of this opinion.

     Upon the basis of such examination, we advise you that, in our opinion,
when the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the
amendment to the Company's Charter (the "Charter Amendment") reclassifying
shares of the



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Company's Smith Barney Pacific Basin Portfolio into shares of the Company's
Smith Barney International Equity Portfolio (to be renamed "Smith Barney
International All Cap Growth Portfolio") has been approved by shareholders of
the Smith Barney Pacific Basin Portfolio and accepted for record by the Maryland
State Department of Assessments and Taxation and has become effective, and the
Shares are issued and sold as contemplated in the Registration Statement and the
Charter Amendment, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable.

     The foregoing opinion is limited to the General Corporation Law of the
State of Maryland, and we are expressing no opinion as to the effect of the laws
of any other jurisdiction. With respect to all matters of Maryland law, we have,
with your approval, relied upon the opinion dated February 20, 2001 of Venable,
Baetjer and Howard, LLP, and our opinion is subject to the same assumptions,
qualifications and limitations with respect to such matters as are contained in
such opinion of Venable, Baetjer, and Howard, LLP. We believe you and we are
justified in relying on such opinion for such matters.

     We have relied as to certain matters on information obtained from public
officials, officers of the Company and other sources believed by us to be
responsible.

     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Company's Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby
admit that





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we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of
the Securities Act of 1933.


                                                    Very truly yours,


                                                    /s/ Sullivan & Cromwell