The entire series was remastered and released in 2019, bouncing between Amazon Prime and Hulu. She's currently covering season 6, with Baywatch Nights crossing over alongside this and season 7.
While most parodies were one-shots in other series, one series was a dedicated parody: Son of the Beach.Īllison Pregler has taken on the, in her own words, "Largely thankless task" of recapping and riffing on every episode of the show with her series Baywatching. Most of its parodies boiled down to the slow motion scenes, the bounce, and the inconsistent acting. Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson have Remake Cameos.Īlthough some people may argue that the show was already a parody of itself, Baywatch has been parodied quite a lot.
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In 2003, a Made-for-TV Movie, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding was released which was essentially a Reunion Movie with many former cast alumni returning as their characters.Īn action-comedy movie adaptation was released in 2017 starring Dwayne Johnson as Mitch Buchannon, Alexandra Daddario as Summer Quinn, Kelly Rohrbach as C.J. The series was also renamed Baywatch: Hawaii.
By the ninth season, as Baywatch had begun to wane in popularity, the show moved to Hawai'i, much due to lower costs and favorable tax breaks for the production company. In 1995, at the height of its popularity, it got a far less successful spinoff, Baywatch Nights. Parker from the start of the third season to the end of the seventh season. The most notable cast alumnus (apart from Hasselhoff) is Pamela Anderson, who starred as lifeguard C.J. The show's amazing international popularity led Entertainment Weekly to proclaim Baywatch as "The Most Popular Television Series in the History of the Planet" in an October 1993 cover story.Īnd to count the number of Playboy Playmates of the Month it either launched or had cast would take more time than it's worth. Independently financed, the show went into its second season (1991-92) in first-run syndication and proved to be insanely popular, particularly overseas: and as America's top television export in the 1990s, Baywatch was seen in 140 countries by over one billion viewers each week, as estimated by Guinness Book of World Records. The show's setting also provided ample opportunity for Product Placement of swimwear, sportswear and motor vehicles. Hasselhoffs stardom in Germany at the time (due to Knight Rider, as well as his singing career) brought the producers $300,000 in advance for every episode. The co-creators and lead actor David Hasselhoff bought back the rights to make more episodes for a mere $100. However, Baywatch was cancelled by NBC after its initial season (1989-90) on network television. On 23 April 1989, the Pilot Movie Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier aired on NBC.