Even taken as nothing more than mindless action mixed with a healthy dose of jiggle, you still would have been better off at the time just watching reruns of “Acapulco H.E.A.T.” on the USA Network. The introduction of washboard abs and big boobs did not help the floundering ratings. You know a woman who is gorgeous until she begins to talk and then you’re completely turned off by her personality. This might also explain why, despite much flirting throughout the series, Eddie Cibrian’s “Griff” never appeared all that interested in her. It says something when you’re the worst actor on a show called “Baywatch Nights”. It fit her character, though, given that D’Errico frequently delivered her lines in a manner that sounded like a small child talking. It’s like they sat in their writers’ shack and decided that the character should be written as an eight-year-old child in the body of a Playboy Playmate.
It’s the only reason I can figure why they consistently saddled her with dialogue designed to make her sound like a total simpleton. D’Errico was such a Pam Anderson wannabe that not only was she a bubbly blonde with the same body type (i.e., big bazonkas), she also posed naked for Playboy and married a band member of Motley Crue.īased solely on my viewing of the second season episodes, I remain convinced to this day that the “Baywatch Nights” writers must have hated Donna D’Errico for some reason. Even Hasselhoff must have realized the storylines weren’t cutting it because midway into the season the show added two new cast members clearly brought in strictly to add some Baywatchian sex appeal.Įddie Cibrian fulfilled the shirtless young hunk quotient and Donna D’Errico was introduced in a desperate attempt to clone Pam Anderson. The show was truly terrible in every way a television show can be. Yeah, the storylines… That’s why nearly every single female cast member at one point did a Playboy spread. I once heard him in an interview try to claim it was the show’s storytelling that kept people coming back week after week and not because internet porn was still a few years away from being at everyone’s fingertips. The primary reason for the show’s global success was obvious to every red-blooded male except perhaps for producer/star David Hasselhoff. Pamela Anderson’s (ahem) buoyancy transcended language barriers worldwide. The results, as you are about to see, were pure trainwreck TV.īelieve it or not, there really was a time when “Baywatch” was the most watched television program in the entire world. The “Baywatch” spin-off with lifeguard David Hasselhoff moonlighting as a PI abruptly transformed into an “X-Files” wannabe with him battling the paranormal.
“Hasselhoff: The Night Stalker” I dubbed “Baywatch Nights” when it aired its fabulously misguided second (and final) season.