Orange You Glad You Dove Into This Photo Album?
In it, we’ll delve into the NBC soap opera that was brought to fruition by primetime legend Aaron Spelling. Although, let’s be real, this did not add to his legacy a whole lot.
Surf’s Up: Welcome Back to Sunset Beach [PHOTOS]
-
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection -
Great Expectations
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The show thought that it had in George Hamilton’s son, Ashley, a gem to play jewel thief Cole Deschanel. Erm, not so much. So he was soon replaced by someone who’d look right at home getting…
-
Wet and Wild
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Eddie Cibrian, already a soap MVP thanks to his run as the villainous Matt on The Young and the Restless, realized Cole’s potential. Turned out, all they had to do was add water. Boom, just like that, they were…
-
Making a Splash!
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection OK, technically, this was Cole being rescued from a tsunami by his father (soap legend Gordon Thomson). What? It could happen.
-
Ladies’ Night
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection More like ladies’ mid-afternoon, but whatever. The fate of Sunset Beach rested largely on the shoulders of Laura Harring (as Paula Stevens), Susan Ward (as Meg Cummings), Sarah Buxton (as Annie Douglas) and Sherri Saum (as Vanessa Hart).
-
This Also Happened
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Boss Spelling tried to make a soap heartthrob of son Randy as Sean Richards. Alas, he was no Tori.
-
‘… But I’m Bold and Beautiful… ’
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection On her way to her iconic Bold & Beautiful role of Jackie Marone, Lesley-Anne Down paid a few extra dues as rich bitch Olivia Richards.
-
Chest in Show
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Former Another World heartthrob Hank Cheyne and Harring provided ample eye candy. But the thing about a sugar rush is that it passes.
-
Act Two
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection General Hospital vet Harring eventually went on to be a David Lynch muse, starring in his 2001 cult classic Mulholland Drive.
-
The Kids Are…
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection … eh, all right. But Sunset Beach failed to see the potential in Adrienne Frantz, recasting the future Emmy winner as Tiffany Thorne. #fail
-
Salt in the Wound
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Did we mention that Frantz went on to dazzle on both The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless? Because she did. Here, she demonstrates the expression we try to wear when we’re really, really meaning to not rub it in.
-
Hair Ye, Hair Ye
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection After playing Sunset Beach bad girl Annie Douglas for the show’s entire short run, Sarah Buxton went on to make trouble on The Bold and the Beautiful as psycho Morgan DeWitt.
-
Love, Exciting and New
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection How could Sunset Beach possibly turn loose a tsunami without Big Kahuna Spelling bringing in Love Boat doc Bernie Kopell to “diagnose” Kathleen Noone’s Bette?
-
Well Done, Sir
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Somehow, Jason George managed to emerge from the other side of Sunset Beach’s infamous turkey-baster storyline with his dignity intact. He also managed to emerge from it with a future that included frontburner roles on Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19.
-
Well Done, Ma’am
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection George’s leading lady, Sherri Saum, Vanessa Hart to his Michael Bourne, also wound up on Grey’s Anatomy. Though she’s probably even better known for The Fosters.
-
Th-Th-That’s All, Folks
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In the end, Ward’s Meg awakened in Kansas in bed with Clive Robertson’s Ben Evans to the stunning realization that the past three years had all been a dream — a la The Wizard of Oz. Tin Man not included.
