BAYWATCH HAWAII-STAFFELN - MOV [DVD]

Season 2 goes paranormal and and central story line is disjointed. This is a great purchase because it is the first complete series package with season 1 available with an english sound track. I docked the rating by 1-star because of season 2 lack of consistent story line. If you want season 1 which is hard to come by with english audio, this box set is for you! NOTE: Although in PAL format, there is no region encoding. The discs will play in your N American BD player.

Need an ENGLISH version!

Baywatch Nights was the first series to be spun off from the massively popular syndicated series, Baywatch. The series aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997. The first season was a pretty standard procedural crime drama. The premise was that Elerbee (played by Gregory Alan Williams) got sick of being a beach cop and bought a private detective agency in which Mitch (David Hasselhoff) was going to be an investor. Mitch ends up joining him as a private detective, along with Angie Harmon's character, Ryan McBride.In the first season, Lisa Stahl, who had a small recurring role on the main show reprised her character Destiny as a series regular for about half the season, and Lou Rawls played a completely new character named Lou Raymond, the owner of a club above which Mitch, Ryan, and Elerbee had their office. About halfway through the season, Stahl left and Donna D'Errico and Eddie Cribrian joined the cast.In the second season, the show took a weird, and frankly kind of stupid, turn, basically turning into a paranormal thriller. Rawls left the show entirely, Williams left save for a role in the series finale, and D'Errico (who had moved over to the main series) and Cribrian's roles were largely reduced (to the point of being non-existent). Dorian Gregory joined the cast playing Diamont Teague, a paranormal expert who helped Mitch and Ryan with their cases.The DVD set is a German Import. They are Region Free discs, however, so you can play them on a US blu-ray or DVD player. There are 12 discs (6 per season) all in a big keep case. Unfortunately, it is the kind of case in which two discs have to be stacked on top of each other and some discs fall off of the tabs very easily while others are very hard to get off the tabs. The DVD menus are in German and the audio defaults to German, but you can switch to the English audio track. There are no captions, however. On discs 6 and 12 there are bonus features. Most of the bonus material specific to the show, including behind-the-scenes featurettes and trailers for each of the season 1 episodes are on disc 6. On disc 12, there are a couple of trailers for the second season of the show and a photo gallery. Then, on both discs 6 and 12, there are trailers for other movies and TV shows. The bonus features specific to Baywatch Nights are in English and the other trailers are in German. Also of note, the episodes are not remastered, so the A/V quality is pretty low.Overall, the show alternates between bad and horrible. The first season is cheesy and the second season is just awful. This is absolutely not a must-watch, even if you are a fan of the main Baywatch series, but it is interesting in a morbid curiosity kind of way.