Sunset Beach starred Lesley-Anne Down, Laura Harring, Kelly Hu, Barbara Mandrell, Kathleen Noone, Susan Ward, Tracy Melchior, Shawn Batten and Christina Chambers. Cast members world health organization were nominated for various laundry soap opera awards involved Hank Cheyne, Margarita Cordova, Priscilla Garita, Jason Winston George, Sherri Saum, Clive Robertson, Eddie Cibrian, Sam Behrens, Dominique Jennings and Sarah Buxton.

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Storylines

Plot line within its about 3 season dog ranged from either a traditional to the supernatural. One of a number 1 plot line caring an cyberspace romance. Kansas domestic girl Meg Cummings, played by Susan Ward, discovered her groom-to-be, Tim Truman, cheating in her in their wedding day. 1000000 got been talking on the internet by owning SB, the human world health organization sleep within Sunset Beach, California, & fallowing getting Tim by owning her bridesmaid, 1000000 fled to Sunset Beach in lookup of SB, world health organization turned dead set exist as loaded, widowed man of affairs Ben Evans, played by Clive Robertson. A 1st season of the indicate revolved as much as 1000000's pursuit of Ben (including her briefly breaking into his home, stealing the journal she incurred there & dressing higher inside his late married woman's material), world health organization was ab initio non interested around her, & the gradual development of a romance between the children. a side plot showed the atagonistic relationship between One thous& thousand and Annie Douglas, Ben's longtime right friend. One thous& thousand despised Annie for existence more or less Ben and wanted to cut her away from his life; Annie despised Million away from jealousy for her getting romance by using Ben. Their problems reached the head by having the physical fight around the hottub. 1000000's ex-fiance Tim Truman followed her to Sunset Beach to win her back, & ended higher becoming Annie's ally & about love interest. Another time 1000000 & Annie got overcome their differences, 1000000 before long got a freshly condition whilst she began to suspect Ben was the liquidator, although this plotline was developed to initiate to the Terror Isl& plot line, and contained a bit of continuity errors. Fallowing a Terror Island/Derek plot line (view following) none of the items raised were ever mentioned over again.

Million & Ben became one of a indicate's 1st couples, along by having reformed jewel stealer Cole Deschanel & local inheritrix Caitlin Richards. Cole jazz & impregnated two Caitlin & Caitlin's unhappily married, alcohol-dependent mother Olivia. Olivia & her diabolical married man, Gregory, planned to steal Caitlin's little ones & pass it dispatch when Olivia's. Caitlaround misused a tots within a car accident while she uncovered out all about her parents atrocious project, & planned to fake the rest of her gestation & adopt a baby to pass off when her keep around, when she was caring her inability to have toddlers (from either the accident) would stimulator problems in her marriage to Cole. She enlisted Annie Douglas -- secretly trying to decompose Olivithe & Gregory, due to a term around her father's may stating she would merely become her inheritance whenever she wed Gregory (her father's way of breaking higher his marriage to Olivia, world health organization he got been getting an affair by using). Annie drugged Olivia & stole her binky user, telling her a tot experienced been stillborn. Caitlin unwittingly raised her binky user half-stepbrother (world health organization was likewise her stepson, getting been fathered by her hubby), until a grief-grieving Olivia found the truth. Olivia was one of these days reunited by using her boy.

Whilst a indicate began it was a single a good soap on a air featuring Asian Our contries characters, though it were written off prior to the prevent of the number 1 month. A indicate besides got daytime television's single African U.s. villainess, Virginia Harrison, world health organization plotted & schemed to decompose lifeguard Michael and newsperson Vanessa therefore she stand Michael for herself. Within one of the virtually all outrageous plot line on the indicate, Virginia drugged Vanessa &, utilizing a turkey baster and some purloined spermatozoon from either the sperm bank, impregnated her with a little one of Dr. Tyus Robinson, to produce it come out Vanessa experienced been unfaithful to Michael, world health organization was sterile.

A indicate was known for more outrageous plot line, such 'Terror Island' where many of the indicate's independent characters were stranded in an island by using the cloaked serial killer bent killing the two, especially Million. The handful of characters were flushed per maniac, mostly minor characters introduced when serial murderer-fodder, however of these lead character, immature runaway processed proficient Mark Wolper. Around his death moments Mark pulled off a killer's mask & audiences in which stunned to understand Ben's face behind it. When it turned out, Ben experienced an evil twin, Derek, world health organization plagued his & One thousand thousand's shacks on and off for the rest of the rerun of the indicate. Derek was flushed fallowing existence shot around a struggle by using Ben in the period of the indicate's final weeks, resulting an extended plot line in which Derek kidnapped & impersonated his twin for months, lie with Ben's married woman Maria (with antecedently as well jazz One thousand thousand).

Maria Torres Evans, world health organization got wed Ben while she was however the stripling & he was barely inside his twenties, experienced disappeared & been presumed drowned fallowing a yachting accident that took place occasionally years before the run of the indicate. Ben wwhile haunted per terrible secret that he got caught her within bed sustaining Derek (it was late revealed that Derek -- world health organization experienced impersonated Ben to Marithe, world health organization was unaware Ben experienced a twin -- & non have it away Maria, as she got stabbed him by using scissors when he tried to rape her). Ben's guilt & grief on top Maria driven a shadow all over his relationship using 1000000 from either either a beginning, which worsened whenever an amnesic Maria come back from the dead at Ben & Million's October 1998 wedding. Ben & Maria grew nigher when he helped her to regain her memory, & when he did, Ben flip flopped between them women for lot of the rest of the indicate's do. In a period of the indicate's previous month the unknown woman, Tess, turned higher in his threshold by using the boy she claimed was Ben & Maria's. Fallowing a caring paternity line 2 text it raised the little one together, inducing possibly other problems for 1000000, world health organization left Ben & briefly began dating her sister's swain, Casey. Derek (world health organization was as well wrongfully presumed dead) returned to kidnap Ben once more, & it was revealed he & Tess were Benjy's parents.

A second outrageous plot line was a earthquake/tsunami story, in which Sunset Bboth was stricken by the massive earthquake, trapping several characters - virtually all of the children each more's rival - together inside life & dying situations. When half the cast battled the disaster onto land, the rest of the cast get on a pleasure sail aboard a ship that was upset - a la The Poseidon Adventure - by a tsunami created per earthquake. This plot line was about the carbon of the Poseidon Adventure.

the indicate took the supernatural turn for for a while sustaining a few unredeemed jewels stolen from either a religious icon, that turned people world health organization'd touched the children into shriveled mummies. A story culminated in Christmas Eve sustaining a go to of a jewels to the Madonna in the nick of time to end the deaths of many key characters.

A indicate besides featured ii execution mysteries within its rerun, a slaying of Annie's father Del Douglas (by Cole's mother, Elaine - Del got kidnaped Cole as a tot & convinced Elaine a tike was dead) & a execution of seductress Francesca Vargas, world health organization about everyone within town wanted dead. A surprise twist in the That Shot Francesca plot line was that it was independent character Gregory Richards.

A indicate went within for stunt casting guest appearances - Jerry Springer played talk show host Jerry Feller, Marla Maples played socialite Barbarthe Birch, Judge Wapner played himself - and featured a ripped from either the newspaper headline story all about a Wash. houseman, 1000000's sister Sara, world health organization'd experienced an affair by having the married politician. Her affair was studied by her supposed friend - Melindthe Fall, a require hit in Linda Tripp. Sara went in to respond using a relationship sustaining local lifesaver Casey Mitchum, & their relationship & her sib contention by using her sister (world health organization at one point began an affair with Casey) processed higher the bulk of Sara's plot line, although she was too noted for her TV indicate-inspired fantasy sequences.

A indicate was cancelled good prior to a Third day of remembrance of its original air date. Virtually all of the independent characters incline happy endings. Ben & Million & Michael & Vanessthe married around a double wedding. Casey & Sara had engaged, Cole & Caitlin were happy in their marriage, & Olivia was successfully raising her toddlers alone. Marithe gave Ben the divorcement thus he may marry 1000000 & met a recently human, Ross English. Maria adopted Benjy, a little son she experienced esteem her have, & she experienced Ben planned to raise him together. A 'baddies' 100% had their merely deserts. Derek wwhen inadvertently shot & flushed by Ben, his confederate Tess attend clink, as did Gregory Richards. Tim Truman, world health organization though non the villain spent virtually all of the ternion years inducing problems for Ben & One thousand thousand, was murdered by Derek. Virginithe remained languishing within the mental hospital, when reformed bad girl Annie besides had a happy ending, choosing love sustaining comparatively fresh character Jude.

Withwitharound a twist ending, One thous& thous& appeared to waken inside Kansas & understand that a entire trio years in Sunset Beach experienced been a dream - and the characters from either the indicate were actually her friends and personal in Kansas. Yet, at a eleventh hour, 1000000 woke higher from either her dream-inside-a-dream & was within bed by using Ben, the day after their wedding.

Connection to The Bold and the Beautiful
Sarah Buxton (Annie) went in to play Morgan DeWitt on B&B from 2000-2001 and again briefly in 2005. Lesley-Anne Down (Olivia) plays Jacqueline Payne Marone on B&B since 2003. Sean Kanan (Jude) played Deacon Sharpe on B&B from 2000-2005. Tracy Melchoir (Tess) played the Tertiary Kristen Forrester in B&B from 2001-2003 . Adrianne Frantz(Tiffany #1) played Amber Moore on B&B from 1997-2005. Sindey Penny, who substituted for Susan Ward as Meg Cummings, played Samantha Kelly on B&B 2004-2005.

Connection To Passions
John Reilly (Del Douglas) plays Alistair Crane on Passions since 2005. Kathleen Noone (Bette) played Edna Wallace from 2002-2005. Leigh Taylor-Young (Elaine) plays Katherine Crane since 2004. Note: Elaine shot Del in Sunset Beach, & Katherine shot Alistair in Passions, though he was so played by David Bailey. Tracy Melchoir (Tess) appeared as the woman Luis meets in a plane to Paris on Passions. Christi Ellen Harris (Emily) was Alistair's assistant in Passions around early 2005. Priscilla Garita(Gabi) substituted for Lindsay Korman as Teresa. Nick Stabile(Mark) substituted for Justin Hartley as Fox