10 Most Insane TV Show Storylines Ever

3. Baywatch Nights Becomes Kolchak The Night Stalker

In 1995, David Hasslehoff produced a spin-off of his hit series about hot lifeguards in tight red swimming costumes, intending it to be a detective series along the lines of Magnum, PI. That's exactly what the first season was about, with his lifeguard Mitch Buchanan starting a detective agency with a cop character from the main show. They would follow basic police and detective drama plots involving unsolved murders, kidnapped damsels in distress and amusing undercover work.

The oddest story involved Buchanan dressing up in drag. With series ratings plummeting (possibly after viewers saw David Hasslehoff dressed as a woman and panicked), the Hoff decided to go for broke in season two and capitalise on the recent runaway success of The X-Files. Season two, with no explanation, premiered as a science-fiction and supernatural investigation show, the pop rock theme tune replaced by one of Hasslehoff's own songs, the credits full of candles, skulls, screams and immense, immense amounts of cheese. Storylines suddenly included aliens, demonic possession, mummies, ghosts, holographic Dungeons & Dragons games, vampires€ the kitchen sink probably made an appearance as well.

The sea change in the show didn't help ratings, and season two would see Baywatch Nights axed.

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