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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian Kinney" data-source="post: 214663" data-attributes="member: 3219">The remastered format looks really good and it's in 16:9. Some of the music obviously is replaced for licensing rights I assume (they did that for the digital version of US Queer as Folk too, sadly some parts with very generic sounding themes, also 16:9 btw). But seeing Billy Warlock, David Charvet, David Chokachi or Michael Bergin in those montage clips running at the beach in speedos is my travel back into innocent times of my late youth. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />While the acting is sometimes bad (rookie lifeguard Manny probably the worst), some are decent (David Hasselhoff, John Allen Nelson and David Chokachi do their self-ironic style rather good) and some episodes have really excellent guest-stars: my highlight is Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa in S2E13 "War of Nerves" as villain Mason Soto. Tagawa is also brilliant in The Man in the High Castle. Rib Hillis delivers a good performance in the two-parter "Baywatch Down Under" filmed in Australia (S9E16+17), which supposedly was a set-up for the next season until they went for Hawaii instead (Baywatch Hawaii, S10+11, has a slight more modern feel and introduced an entertaining Jason Momoa)While the males are often seen obviously doing some of their stunts themselves the females are usually running at the beach, jumping in the water and next they're somewhere in the water saving people. It seems they had problems to swim a few metres (single exception: Alexandra Paul). One supporting player, Michael Newman, who was in all seasons of Baywatch as Newmie, was a real lifeguard and his stunts are visually the best. But it's just bizarre if you see Pamela Anderson saving someone with her long hair extensions and those superlong fingernails that would make it impossible in real life to perform what she does on-screen... There is an excellent parody by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders illustrating what I mean:[MEDIA=dailymotion]x38o82a[/MEDIA]While I don't understand the critic about the "body type" actors had for this show - it was about lifeguards and not farmers, secretaries or whatever - I've never read a compliment to the series for including that many older actors. Aside from many veteran actors as guests, Richard Jaeckel and Monte Markham (Clint Ogden in Dallas) appeared in it for a few seasons and Anne Jeffreys often guest starred as Hasselhoff's mother (The Colby's Joseph Campanella played his father). Baywatch also had surprisingly many episodes with handicapped people (mentally and physically disabled), more than I've seen in other TV shows during the show's era. To me that was more than a counter-balance to the fit and beautiful guys and girls. And frankly: who wants to see obese people in swimsuits?</blockquote>

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