A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

Short-lived 1993 CBS-TV sitcom about three 30-something friends from Chicago who abandon their urban lives, fly to Hawaii, and open a surf shop on the North Shore of Oahu. 

 aired Mondays at 9:30, and starred David Morse (

). The two showrunners, Ken Levine and David Isaacs, had just finished working the hugely popular 

-like feel, with a surf shop taking the place of a barroom.

CBS—America's top-rated network at the time—gave 

 a good mid-summer-replacement time slot, just after the popular 

, but critics mostly ripped it apart in reviews that often featured "Wipe Out" in the headline. "We can think of Big Wave Dave's as not only a bad TV show," Pultizer Prize-winner columnist Tom Shales wrote in his 

 review, "but as a harbinger of greater disappointments to come. In that way, it's the 'wave' of the future." Shows of this ilk, Shales continued, "march in step, recycle each other's jokes, and featured interchangeable characters and settings; they are triumphs of vacuous anonymity. [Alan Arkin] fans can take solace in the fact that 

 is very unlikely to live beyond the six trial episodes."

Showrunner Levine, years later, remained unhappy about not getting a second season. "We kept 100% of our 

 lead-in audience. And STILL we were canceled," he wrote in 2008.

Big Wave Dave's (TV series)

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