Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47273 in DVD
• Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2007-02-06
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Formats: Box set, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 5
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 990 minutes

Studio description
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 4: Race Against Time part 1, Race Against Time part 2, Lover’s Cove, Blindside, Skyrider, Tentacles part 1, Tentacles part 2, Submersion, Ironman Buchannon, Tower of Power, The Child Inside, Second Time Around, Red Knights, Coronado del Soul part 1, Coronado del Soul part 2, Mirror Mirror, The Falcon Manifesto, Rescue Bay, Western Exposure, The Life You Save, Trading Places, Guys and Dolls. Two bonus episodes from the 1989-1990 season: Second Wave, Message in a Bottle.

Amazon.com
The fourth season of Baywatch marks the first appearance of another of the series' iconic, er, figures: Yasmine Bleeth, whose Caroline Holden character (the sister of Alexandra Paul's Stephanie Holden character) became one of Baywatch's most famous babes. The cast also included Pamela Anderson (C.J. Parker), Nicole Eggert (Summer Quinn), Susan Anton (Summer's mother, Jackie), and Wendie Malick (Gayle Buchannon, the ex-wife of team leader Mitch, played by star David Hasselhoff). Combining the usual water rescues and crime-fighting, plus a fair amount of personal melodrama, the fourth season included a romantic triangle among Summer, Matt (David Charvet), and surfer Jimmy Slade (Kelly Slater), a haunted hotel, the Special Olympics (guest-starring Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton), and a proposal to turn the team's adventures into a network series called Rescue Bay.

Yep, we said "fourth season." The set is entitled "season 3," but its count begins with the series' first season in syndication--season 2--so this "season 3" is actually the fourth season, broadcast in 1993-94. Included as a bonus, however, are two more episodes from the first season on NBC, "Second Wave" and "Message in a Bottle." The idea is that by the time seasons 2-11 of Baywatch are on DVD, the bonus episodes will form a completed season 1. In a 13-minute featurette, "Picking Up the Pieces," co-creators and executive producers Greg Bonann, Doug Schwartz, and Michael Berk discuss the challenges of shooting the show on a syndicated show's budget and early auditionees such as Leonardo DiCaprio. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

I LOVED IT
i bought season 1,2 and 3 and loved them all.. all you people bitching about the music being all bad.. well what do you expect its from the late 80's and early 90's? season 3 is my favorite out of the 3 seasons out so far, but if your buying them it would help if you buy and watch them in order. I cant wait until all 11 seasons are on dvd. This was definaly worth the money!

Pretty good!
I have to say that I like being able to get Baywatch on dvd now!! I loved the show! The only problem I had with the dvds is the fact that you have to purchase all the seasons in order to get season 1. This is why it only gets 4 stars instead of 5. Other than that, I loved it. As far as the music, I really didn't care for it when the show was on tv, much less on dvd. I watched it for the plots and the dvd captured those!

Best of the Seasons
By the third season, the series had better scripts and improved from the first season. Only flaw is that some of the best cast comes in later during the series. Erin Gray, for example, doesn't appear until season 8. Remember Erin Gray? Buck Rogers and the 25th Century? (Though I cannot see her until season 8 is released, I do get to see her at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Maryland this September.) Still, the scripts improved as the series continued and season 3 is a great starting point if you don't want to watch them in chronological order. Amazon's price is cheaper than Best Buy.