Season 3 • Episode 255
LatestSunset Beach is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. The show follows the loves and lives of the people living in the Orange County coastal area named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California. Although there is a town in California called Sunset Beach, the show's beach scenes were shot on nearby Seal Beach. The show was co-produced by NBC and Spelling Television. Sunset Beach won two Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated another eleven times. The show also received twenty-two nominations for various other awards.
Writing
The infamous 'shockwave' earthquake episode—soap history, unhinged.
Production
Actual Seal Beach standing in for fictional Sunset Beach, obviously.
Eddie Cibrian
Cole Deschanel
Kathleen Noone
Bette Katzenkazrahi
Nick Kiriazis
Father Antonio Torres
Lesley-Anne Down
Olivia Richards
Sarah Buxton
Annie Douglas Richards
Susan Ward
Meg Cummings
Priscilla Garita
Gabi Martinez
Timothy Adams
Casey Mitchum
Dax Griffin
Tim Truman
Jason George
Michael Bourne
Clive Robertson
Ben Evans
Sherri Saum
Vanessa Hart
Leigh Taylor-Young
Elaine Stevens
Hank Cheyne
Ricardo Torres
Sam Behrens
Gregory Richards
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sunset Beach was Aaron Spelling's only daytime soap, and he gave it primetime-level production budgets—hence the absurd location shoots and disaster episodes.
The show's 1999 cancellation after three seasons made it the shortest-running American network soap of the 1990s, but its cult following still campaigns for streaming rights.
US
