Baywatch: Season 1
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Actor: David Hasselhoff, Jeremy Jackson, Michael NewmanDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 963 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Force Music
DVD Reviews of Baywatch: Season 1
DVD Review: The REAL First Season Finally Comes to DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this show from the second episode on when it aired on NBC. I'd missed the pilot for a reason I can't recall, but I enjoyed the show. It was fun with a pretty good cast. Then, because it had ranked 50th in the Nielsen ratings, NBC pulled the plug. Almost two years later, it was finally announced that the show was picked up by another network. It was never the same after that. Only Mitch, Eddie, Shaunie, and Garner came back from the original cast. You could tell immediately that the show just didn't have a quality feel to it that it had in its pilot season. I watched the show on and off until I'd given up. After that, the show went "playmate crazy."
To me, this is the only season of Baywatch that is worth watching. The
acting and stories are much better than what you'd find in the subsequent seasons. While it's true, that the show flaunted female parts, it did focus, to some degree, on the lives and jobs of lifeguards of L.A. County. Granted, they took some liberties with these roles, as you often found Mitch and his friend, Craig Pomeroy (Parker Stevenson) employing themselves as crime-stoppers as well as lifeguards, but you generally gave for a bit of leeway there, because the show was entertaining. You also have to remember that back then, dramas were not going for a lot of realism.
Another advantage this season had were veteran actors such as Monte Markham playing the authoritarian Captain Don Thorpe, who always took his job as a lifeguard captain very seriously, and usually at the expense of all junior lifeguards around him.
I think in some regards, the reason the show was so much better, was that they had a bigger budget to work with, being initially with NBC. NBC was also interested in making sure that along with the "extra skin" that the show might be used to inspire saftey-consciousness as well.
First season sees Mitch battling his ex-wife for custody of Hobe (who was then played by Brandon Call). Call was brilliant in the role, and I felt that Jeremy Jackson wasn't as good in the seasons that followed.
Also, Mitch was NOT revealed to be an ex-Navy Seal. While buddy, Cort (John Allen Nelson) was later added to the cast, he was the only one who was considered a former SEAL. As the personal history suggests from this season, Mitch has been a lifeguard for a long time, perhaps going back to high school, along-side best friend, Craig Pomeroy.
Eddie Kramer (Billy Warlock) was a rookie lifeguard, alongside Shaunie McClane (Erika Eleniak). Eddie was the hot-headed kid from the wrong side of Philadelphia who loved to spend his free hours boxing. The writers of the show quickly saw that the "meat" of their storyline was the relationship between Eddie and Shaunie. Several episodes had storylines surrounding the romance. Warlock and Eleniak eventually became engaged in real life.
The cast also included Peter Phelps (Trevor) who played a rogue, Australian lifeguard. He left the show halfway in. Parker Stevenson played Craig Pomeroy, a veteran lifeguard who is torn between being a lifeguard and being a lawyer. His wife, Gina, was played by Holly Gagnier. Finally, there was also Shawn Weatherly (Jill Riley) who was another veteran lifeguard who was famously killed off by a shark attack in the middle of the season.
NBC cancelled the show after the first season. The final episode included a marriage proposal by Eddie to Shaunie. Obviously after the show was given the "go ahead" by a new network, many of the storylines and origins were either removed altogether or altered in some way.
For example, Mitch's budding teenage son, Hobe, was reverted back to a young boy of about 10 or 11. Eddie's propsal to Shaunie was pretty much ditched. Eddie would propose at the end of the next season.
Craig Pomeroy would be written out of the show altogether. One can assume that he quit.
For me, Baywatch began and ended after its first season, and this is the only season worth owning.
Note* The original theme song (sung by Peter Cetera "Save Me") is not used before each episode. Also, some of the songs used during the episodes have also been changed unfortunately. It's too bad because the original music and songs were good and went well with the show.
Description of Baywatch: Season 1
Australia released, NTSC/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Collectors Edition, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Baywatch premiered in April 1989 and enjoyed a successful run throughout the 90s before coming to an end in 2001. The show took the role of the lifeguard and completely transformed it, adding adventure, excitement and sex appeal to an occupation that seemed an unlikely basis for a TV show. David Hasselhoff filled the lead role of Lt. Mitch Bucannon and while a bevy of curvaceous beauties stood by his side, including Pamela Anderson, who played CJ Parker for five seasons (debuting in Season Three), other notable names such as Erika Eleniak, Billy Warlock, John Allen Nelson and Australia's own Peter Phelps donned the infamous red swimsuit.Season 1
PANIC AT MAILIBU PIER Parts 1&2, IN DEEP, HEAT WAVE, SECOND WAVE, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, THE SKY IS FALLING, DROWNING POOL, ROOKIE SCHOOL, CRUISE SHIP, CRETIN OF THE SHALLOWS, SHELTER ME, THE REUNION, ARMORED CAR, HOME CORT, WE NEED A VACATION, MUDDY WATERS, SNAKE EYES, ECLIPSE, SHARK DERBY, THE BIG RACE, OLD FRIENDS
...Baywatch - Season One (1989-1990) - 6-DVD Box Set ( Baywatch - Entire Season 1 )
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