Personally I think they should have written Eddie having a love triangle with Pamela Anderson, who joined the cast as C.J. Parker in the second season. It's kind of a tough call here — Shauni McClain or C.J. Parker? Innocent and sweet Shauni, or Pam's body?
Sorry Erika, you'd lose that battle — and I don't even like Anderson.
The Hoff displays a surfer-dude style playing Mitch, who is something of the leader of the lifeguards on Baywatch Beach. He's a divorced dad trying to save hot babes while parenting Hobie (Jeremy Jackson), who is the least annoying child character I've seen yet. He has a good episode in the first syndicated season set in which he befriends a young homeless girl (played by Nikki Cox of Unhappily Ever After) who is trying to find her mother. Funny that the adults act childish and the kid came off as the most mature.
Apparently there is an actual lifeguard in the cast in the form of Michael Neumann, who is a friend of Greg Bonann, who was one of the creators of the series. He must have had some fights with The Hoff (who also was a producer and invested his own money into the show) over the realism of the series. I imagine the conversation went something like this:
"So you're saying you wanna get rid of the ladies?" said The Hoff.
"Yes, I think it's totally against reality. Bodyguards don't just save supermodels," said Neumann.
The Hoff stares at a promo picture from his days on Knight Rider. "You know, I started to think I was gay when I had only one babe a week and was left with the same damn talking car to keep me company. Now I have several babes in front of me, Mike — why would you as a man be so blind to this obvious good fortune?"
Neumann slams the door and cell phones his agent. "See if Bochco is doing a series — maybe he needs a lifeguard on NYPD Blue."
Hey, it wouldn't be far-fetched considering he almost got a futuristic NYPD series started.
The first and second syndicated seasons on DVD come with no "play all" feature. There's also a stupid little segue scene in which a big wave comes crashing down when you switch between some of the selections. As someone who never notices cover art, the quality of the promo shots seem very bootleg — not to mention they're inaccurate. First of all because this is the first two seasons, each should come with the promotional cast photo for that season. Some of the cast included in the photos on the box sets don't represent the actual cast of that particular season (although you get Erika on the upper-left corner for S1 and S2 with Pamela).
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