Hawaiian Son

Like his father before him, Blue Makua has devoted his life to preserving the ancient Hawaiian culture and traditions. Now the time has come to groom the next leader of the family. Blue's oldest son, 30-year old Jason, possesses the necessary ruthlessness, but his reckless ways have caused a great deal of friction with his father. His ambitious younger son, 26-year old Nick, has a great sense of loyalty to the Hawaiian culture, but his plans to marry a mainland girl are upsetting to Blue, who is fiercely proud of his family's Hawaiian bloodline and pure lineage. A tragic event forces the Makua family to face a number of truths, and leaves Blue to determine which son will assume the mantle for future generations. Will he choose Jason or Nick as the next Hawaiian Son?

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Baywatch is an American television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California. The show ran from 1989 to 1999 (and 1999-2001 as Baywatch Hawaii). According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Baywatch is the most watched TV show in the world of all time, with over 1.1 billion viewers.

The show starred David Hasselhoff, of Knight Rider fame, as Mitch Buchannon, who was the only mainstay on the show, besides Michael Newman, for 10 of the 11 seasons. Baywatch was centered around the work of a team of lifeguards and their interpersonal relationships, with plots usually centering on dangers related to beach and other activities pertinent to the California (later Hawaii) beach lifestyle. Everything from earthquakes to shark attacks to serial killers, and even nuclear bombs, served as plot conflicts on the show. Saving people from drowning tended to be one of the most typical situations used in the shows. Thus a trademark of the show was slow motion shots of the lifeguards running, most notably done by Erika Eleniak, Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Alexandra Paul, and David Charvet along with Hasselhoff during the height of the show.

Baywatch premiered on NBC in 1989, but was cancelled after only one season because of the high production costs and low ratings. Feeling the series still had potential, David Hasselhoff revived it for the first-run syndication market in 1991, investing his own money and additionally functioning as executive producer. The show was hugely successful, especially internationally. The show led to a spin-off: Baywatch Nights, and a reunion movie, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.

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