Sunset Beach was a short-running American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California. The show was co-produced by NBC and Spelling Television. It aired in over 70 countries around the world. Sunset Beach won two Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated another 11 times. The show also received 22 nominations for various other awards.
The most successful soap of the 80s, created by mega-producer Aaron Spelling.
It began in 1980 with the wedding of wealthy oil mogul Blake Carrington to Krystal Grant, and escalated into a full-blown soap opera just a few month later when Alexis (Blake's ex-wife) comes back to town starting a chain of event that will propel the Carrington family from the drama of the 1980s the chaos of the 1990s.