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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Salesrank: 62344
Released: October 30, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After 11 successful seasons as one of the most watched programs in television history, Baywatch is now on DVD. Experience the syndicated series that launched the careers of Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra and Tracy Bingham. David Hasselhoff stars as Lt. Mitch Buchannon, supervisor of the world’s most beautiful lifeguard unit. Episodes in this set are from season 2: The One That Got Away, Money Honey, Fabulous Buchannon Boys, Point of Attack, Sandcastles, Thin or Die, The Trophy part 1, The Trophy part 2, If Looks Could Kill, Reunion, War of Nerves, Big Monday, Sea of Flames, Now Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale, The Chamber, Sharks Cove, Lost Treasure of Tower 12, The Big Spill, Game of Chance, Summer of '85. Bonus network episode: Panic at Malibu Pier (original series pilot).
Description of Baywatch - Season 1:
Baywatch, television's most-famous "jiggle series" and by some counts the most-watched show around the world, did more for slow-motion beach joggers than anything since Chariots of Fire--just replace the British Olympic athletes with young women in high-cut red swimsuits who look like Playboy models. The premise of Baywatch is straightforward: a Los Angeles-based team of lifeguards saves swimmers and occasionally fights crime, led by beefcake Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff). And those Playboy models? Erika Eleniak turned a 1989 magazine spread into a role as lifeguard Shauni McClain for two-plus seasons alongside Billy Warlock's Eddie Kramer character (the actors themselves had a brief engagement), and most of the season's action revolved around the lives and loves of Mitch, Shauni, and Eddie. (The most famous Baywatch babe, Pamela Anderson, would arrive the following season.) When they weren't saving people on the beach, they were involved in movie shoots ("Money, Honey"), gang wars ("Point of Attack"), homeless girls ("Sandcastles") and stray pets ("Thin or Die"), a serious charge against Eddie ("The Trophy"), a Gilligan's Island hallucination ("Now, Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale"), and chemical dumping ("The Big Spill"). Hasselhoff's real-life wife, Pamela Bach, appears in a recurring role as reporter Kaye Morgan, Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me, Dream On) has a small role as Mitch's ex-wife, Gayle, and Tom McTigue plays lifeguard Harvey Miller.
Calling this set "season 1" is a misnomer. It's really the final 20 episodes of the second season (1991-92), which was the first season the series was in syndication after being dropped by NBC. (The first two episodes, the two parts of "Nightmare Bay," were previously released on DVD by another studio and are not included here.) In this season, Jeremy Jackson had replaced Brandon Call as Mitch's son, Hobie, and regular cast members Parker Stevenson (as Mitch's friend, Craig Pomeroy) and Shawn Weatherly (as lifeguard Jill Riley) were gone as well. However, the series pilot of the real season 1, called "Panic at Malibu Pier," is included as a bonus. Also, co-creators and executive producers Greg Bonann, Doug Schwartz, and Michael Berk discuss their favorite episodes from the second season in a 16-minute segment. Another drawback, however, is that much of the original music has been replaced, including "I'm Always Here," Jimi Jamison's theme song. --David Horiuchi
Baywatch - Season 1 Reviews:
Baywatch-S1 
2009-10-01 - Good, BUT I don't remember that music! What happened to the original theme song I remember and start humming EVERTIME I see the intro.?
Overrated & not the actual 1st Season 
2009-08-09 - This 1991-92 Season was okay and probably the best season of the revived BAYWATCH series since this season at least had Shawni(Erika Elenaik) and Eddie(Billy Warlock)from DAYS OF OUR LIVES & GENERAL HOSPITAL, but when Eddie and Shawni departed in the 1992-93 Season, this show seemed to have gradually lost its touch and was starting to become less and less interesting and more and more overrated along with the fact that this season didn't even have Craig Pomeroy(Parker Stevenson)from THE HARDY BOYS either.
Therefore this First Season DVD was only the 1st Season from the resurrected series of BAYWATCH that had returned in syndication after NBC had cancelled this show all of the sudden when this show took a huge tumble in the ratings in the Spring of 1990 after Jill Reilly(Shawn Weatherly)had died off due to Shawn Weatherly getting laid off from the show in March of 1990.
Now I realize that BAYWATCH was actually overrated all along when it was shown in syndication throughout its whole 10-year run and that the only real reason that kept this show running for so long was the female co-stars in their bathing suits and the girls in bikinis which was making this show become more like a tit show afterwhile since numerous guys used to tune in to watch this show every week just to watch sexy women run around in their underwear on the beach and basically nothing more, which was another thing that kept the ratings on this show up for so long and another thing that made this show the so-called most popular TV show in the world back then, but now I cant even stand this show anymore since I now realize it was overrated and that this show seemed to have become phonier and phonier and more and more unrealistic every year, especially since this show was running out of steam in the last 3 seasons which prompted David Hasselhoff(Mitch)to leave BAYWATCH since this show was no longer going in the right direction since more and more co-stars kept dying off one by one in the last few seasons, including Mitch and Lt. Stephanie Holden(Alexandra Paul), plus everybody on BAYWATCH was obviously getting tired too since all the co-stars were getting burned out on this show, especially David Hasselhoff especially since BAYWATCH had lasted way too contributing to a big sink in ratings, especially after David Hasselhoff's departure from the show.
In addition; it seems like BAYWATCH has K.O.'d David Hasselhoff's acting career too since David Hasselhoff's showbiz career has gone downhill immensely since BAYWATCH cancelled for the 2nd time.
No wonder this BAYWATCH DVD season 1 box set has been discontinued and no wonder most of the BAYWATCH DVD seasons are being discontinued by its manufacturer.
BAYWATCH SEASON 1 
2009-06-25 - good film, with david hasselhoff and his team of lifeguard.
Buy this product, it's very godd and beautiful.
Baywatch ? 
2008-06-24 - So if i were to buy the german set of the Baywatch series how is the picture quality on the set? compared to the American verision anyone know?
Baywatch Season 1 
2008-01-31 - "Baywatch Season 1" had only one episode that was from season 1. The rest were made after season 1.
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