This is one of my favorite episodes of all the ones David and I wrote. It was only shown once, never to air again. It was the final episode (we didn't know it at the time) of BIG WAVE DAVE'S, a series we created for CBS in 1993. You can see the pilot here.
The premise: Three middle aged guys in the throes of a midlife crisis move to Hawaii to run a surf shop. It starred Adam Arkin as Marshall (a disgruntled lawyer fired by his own father's firm), David Morse as Dave (a stockbroker who dreams of being an adventurer), Patrick Breen at Richie (going along because he has no other friends), Jane Kaczmarek as Marshall's wife Karen (Wendy to the Lost Boys), and Kurtwood Smith as expatriot Jack Lord.
Karen is pregnant. Marshall is nervous about being there for the delivery. We were looking for a novel way to get him on board. This is what we came up with.
A couple of notes: The captain was played brilliantly by Brad Sullivan. Andy Ackerman, later of SEINFELD directed. And we shot this entire episode on the stage in front of a studio audience.
So here, for the first time since eight people saw it in September, 1993 is our favorite BIG WAVE DAVE'S episode. Aloha.
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