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Sunset Beach

83 replies

ReneBumsWombats · 22/06/2022 08:50

Come and reminisce on the land of the mundane, where every plot happens daily in real life and couldn't be more plausible. From the guy who spent years tied to a chair behind a two-way mirror watching his evil twin seduce his wife who never noticed a thing until they shagged, while down the road a bitter ex broke into a hospital to tamper with skin samples to make her love rival believe she had a disfiguring illness. Where plots take three weeks to advance five minutes in story time and the blonde woman with the stolen baby got replaced by a completely different actress halfway through, but the whole narrative was so disjointed anyway that nobody even noticed. And more!

You know you loved it. Come and let's talk!

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ellebelli · 22/06/2022 10:43

All I have to say is "Marcus!"
That name and the way she said it sticks in my brain all these years later...

Cotherstone · 22/06/2022 10:50

Derek!

The pillow up the dress fake pregnancy before stealing her mother’s baby (fathered by the same man, of course) was a distinct favourite.

Didn’t they change the bitch blonde actress over night? Victoria maybe?

What. A. Show.

HandShoe · 22/06/2022 10:53

The cheekbones and tans.. the 'smell the fart' acting.. I could really have done with it being on during Covid for some escapism!

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 22/06/2022 10:53

Aaahhh them were the days! Used to watch the omnibus on a Saturday afternoon wishing my hangover away so I could be back out that night 😊

Ha! Yes, Evil Derek!

AdamRyan · 22/06/2022 10:54

You forgot the dog talking 😂
I loved that show. The story line where the crazy woman drugged her rival for Michael's affections then turkey basted her with someone else's sperm!! 😮

ReneBumsWombats · 22/06/2022 11:11

How did it get pitched? How did it get made? Why did we enjoy it? Did they realise how utterly fucking ridiculous it was, even by soap opera standards?

Love the opening credits too. A load of beautiful people turning towards you, women pouting, men folding their arms.

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UpToonGirl · 22/06/2022 11:27

I'm so jealous everyone can remember the story lines! I just remember the beautiful but heavily made up women and the buff men and of course the evil twin.

Supersee · 22/06/2022 12:57

I loved it so much! I'm sure it was on at 5.20pm every day on C5. Couldn't wait to watch it when I got in from school.

Did a wife not come back from the dead and kibosh things for Meg?

ReneBumsWombats · 22/06/2022 13:58

I'd forgotten about the "impregnating a drugged woman with a baster to make her husband think she'd been unfaithful" plot. Or the woman who stole her grandchild and pretended it was her own baby, or did the daughter steal her mother's baby and pretend it was hers? I can't remember.

And didn't they all get stuck on a desert island with a serial killer and then hid in an air pocket or something?

How did they come up with this stuff? What were they on? It's astronomically daft.

Kudos to the cast. I don't think I could have acted any of this crap out with a straight face, even with 50 takes.

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TinaYouFatLard · 22/06/2022 14:05

OMG I’ve found my people!!

Gorgeous Cole, the jewel thief who shagged his wife’s mother. Saintly Smeg who fell in love with Ben but didn’t realise when Ben’s evil twin kidnapped him and took his place. Ben’s dead wife returning. Gregory who faked his own death and returned as “Uncle Tobias” who was basically Gregory with a beard.

God I could go on. Loved the guy who did the voice over during the credits!

lookleft · 22/06/2022 14:17

Ben and Meg making love in the cave! And then talking incessantly about when they made love in the cave!

Channel 5's Teletext had a very sarcastic section dedicated to Sunset Beach. They had nicknames for all the characters.

crj123 · 22/06/2022 14:19

I loved it too. Weren't there cursed jewels at some point?

VenusStarr · 22/06/2022 14:23

I used to love this! But all I can remember is when they changed the actor who played Cole and they did a voice over to introduce him! 😅

lentiIsoup · 22/06/2022 14:23

I was still a teenager when I saw this!

Ben and Meg were nauseating iirc. Didn't he buy her a necklace and a jewel a day for it, she simpered a lot and was irritating.

I remember the nicknames. Someone called 'piggy' which wasn't the character's name, and dumbo was Ben's ex wife.

I think I stopped watching around the serial killer on the island. What did I miss ? 😅

lentiIsoup · 22/06/2022 14:27

Lesley Ann Down was one of the best characters, and Cole Deschanel.

chipsandpeas · 22/06/2022 14:27

i loved this, reminds me of uni im sure it used to be on in the morning as well as the afternoon

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 22/06/2022 14:32

TinaYouFatLard · 22/06/2022 14:05

OMG I’ve found my people!!

Gorgeous Cole, the jewel thief who shagged his wife’s mother. Saintly Smeg who fell in love with Ben but didn’t realise when Ben’s evil twin kidnapped him and took his place. Ben’s dead wife returning. Gregory who faked his own death and returned as “Uncle Tobias” who was basically Gregory with a beard.

God I could go on. Loved the guy who did the voice over during the credits!

Ooh Cole yes he was yum. Isn't he married to Leanne Rhimes?
Swoon

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 22/06/2022 14:33

As in the actor Grin

TinaYouFatLard · 22/06/2022 14:35

chipsandpeas · 22/06/2022 14:27

i loved this, reminds me of uni im sure it used to be on in the morning as well as the afternoon

Yes I’m sure it was twice a day and omnibus at the weekend ensuring lectures never got in the way too much.

Another storyline: Gabby and Father Fit got caught on video making love during an earthquake (thought they were going to die). They survived but Gabby’s fiancée Ricardo saw the video and was so devastated he had some kind of stroke and couldn’t speak. He spent the rest of the time glaring evilly at Gabby and Father Fit (his brother) and plotting his revenge.

UpToonGirl · 22/06/2022 15:00

We should start a petition to have the reruns on Netflix! I would watch it again.

Polly99 · 22/06/2022 15:04

All I have to say is "Marcus!"
That name and the way she said it sticks in my brain all these years later...

Who? Wasn't that Eldorado?

I loved SB, but missed the very last episode. A tragedy!

JemimaPuddlegoose · 22/06/2022 15:33

Yaaaaayy!!

I was completely, utterly obsessed with Sunset Beach as a teen (even ran a Sunset Beach fansite on Geocities) and am currently re-watching the entire thing on YouTube.

I've just reached the end of Terror Island. Audiences think Ben is the killer (Derek hasn't been revealed yet), Caitlin is still pretending to be pregnant while desperately trying to find a baby, and Annie just found out that Gregory and Olivia tried to steal Caitlin's baby and tell her it died. Oh and Virginia is pretending to be a nurse to find out the secret of Vanessa's mum's illness. And Sean is... around.

The scene where Annie dresses up as a hippie so she can try to coerce a doctor into giving her drugs to induce labour by pretending she needs her baby to born under a certain star sign is hilarious!

MintyGreenDreams · 22/06/2022 15:40

I loved sunset beach!

ReneBumsWombats · 22/06/2022 15:43

a Sunset Beach fansite on Geocities)

Is that the most 90s thing ever?

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JemimaPuddlegoose · 22/06/2022 15:46

Or the woman who stole her grandchild and pretended it was her own baby, or did the daughter steal her mother's baby and pretend it was hers? I can't remember.

Okay:

Caitlin (spoiled but sweet and naïve daughter of Sunset Beach's wealthiest and most powerful couple) met and fell in love with reformed jewel thief Cole, got engaged and pregnant.

Cole had a one-night stand with Caitlin's mother Olivia right before he met Caitlin, without knowing who she was, which resulted in Olivia also becoming pregnant. So mother and daughter were pregnant by the same man at the same time.

Olivia and her evil husband Gregory didn't want Caitlin marrying a jewel thief so Gregory came up with an idea that Olivia would pretend she was pregnant (he didn't know then that she really was pregnant and maybe by Cole!), wait for Caitlin to go into labour, drug her, then when she woke up they'd tell her that her baby died, and pretend her baby was Olivia's baby. Later Olivia reveale

Caitlin found out about the plan and drove off in despair, crashing her car and miscarrying, and was later told the crash had rendered her infertile. She continued to pretend to be pregnant while desperately trying to illegally adopt a baby to pass off as her own, because she thought Cole would dump her for being infertile.

She asked Annie (who wanted to break up Olivia and Gregory's marriage because her dad's will said she'd only receive her inheritance if she could get Gregory to marry her by a certain date) to help her get a baby. Annie finds out about Gregory and Olivia's plot and is so horrified she decides to do to them, what they'd planned to do to their own daughter - with the added benefit that losing a child will break them up (Olivia and Gregory broke up once before because Olivia's alcoholism caused her to miscarry, so Annie thinks a second miscarriage/stillbirth will break them up again).

Annie steals Olivia's baby and gives it to Caitlin, pretending it's the child of a young unmarried friend of hers who gave the baby up for adoption. So Caitlin believes she's raising some random teen mum's kid that was consensually adopted and passes off her "adopted" child as her own, without knowing the baby she adopted was actually her own presumed dead half-brother/stepson.

This is all from memory, btw!