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** Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Hogan decided not to sign on for it, as we wanted to go back to wrestling once he signed with WCW.

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** Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Hogan decided not to sign on for it, as we he wanted to go back to wrestling once he signed with WCW.
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* ActingForTwo: Chris Lemmon, who plays Bru, also played the villain Manuel Sanitago in the episode "Deadly Lessons". This becomes a vital plot point in the climax.

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* ActingForTwo: Chris Lemmon, who plays Bru, also played the villain Manuel Sanitago Santiago in the episode "Deadly Lessons". This becomes a vital plot point in the climax.



* CreatorKiller: Chris Lemmon credits his decision to work on this show as the reason casting directors stopped hiring him, effectively having his acting career grind to a halt. As of 2022, he's been doing some DVD movies and was cast in the movies Roe v. Wade and Blonde.

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* CreatorKiller: Chris Lemmon While he had been cast in prominent roles in films like ''Film/JustBeforeDawn'' and ''Film/{{Firehead}}'' beforehand, Creator/ChrisLemmon credits his decision to work on this show as the reason casting directors stopped hiring him, effectively having his acting career grind to a halt. As of 2022, he's been doing some DVD movies and was DirectToVideo movies, with his most notable theatrical role being getting cast in the movies Roe v. Wade and Blonde.a small role as his dad Creator/{{Jack|Lemmon}} in ''Film/{{Blonde}}''.
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* CreatorKiller: Chris Lemmon credits his decision to work on this show as the reason casting directors stopped hiring him, effectively having his acting career grind to a halt. As of 2022, he's been doing some DVD movies and was casted in the movies Roe v. Wade and Blonde.

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* CreatorKiller: Chris Lemmon credits his decision to work on this show as the reason casting directors stopped hiring him, effectively having his acting career grind to a halt. As of 2022, he's been doing some DVD movies and was casted cast in the movies Roe v. Wade and Blonde.
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** Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Hogan decided not to sign on for it, as we wanted to go back to wrestling.

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** Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Hogan decided not to sign on for it, as we wanted to go back to wrestling.wrestling once he signed with WCW.

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The Hungarian version of this show loosely translates to ''Lightning Spencer: The Caribbean's Guardian Angel''.



* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The only way to see this show is on Website/YouTube.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The only way to see this show in English is on Website/YouTube.Website/YouTube. The only official release the entire series got (outside of the TV movies which had a DVD release) was on a DVD set containing [[NoExportForYou the German dub.]]



** Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil.

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** Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Hogan decided not to sign on for it, as we wanted to go back to wrestling.
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* NamesTheSame: Out of universe. During co-star Carol Alt's appearance on ''Later with Greg Kinnear'' she mentioned that Sting was guest starring in an upcoming episode. Kinnear reacted as though she meant [[Music/ThePolice the musician Sting]] but she was referring to Wrestling/{{Sting}} the wrestler.
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* CreatorKiller: Chris Lemmon credits his decision to work on this show as the reason casting directors stopped hiring him, effectively ending his acting career.

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* CreatorKiller: Chris Lemmon credits his decision to work on this show as the reason casting directors stopped hiring him, effectively ending having his acting career.career grind to a halt. As of 2022, he's been doing some DVD movies and was casted in the movies Roe v. Wade and Blonde.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There's no way that one can watch the episodes since the show had a limited release outside of North America and they're not the three movies.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There's no The only way that one can watch the episodes since the to see this show had a limited release outside of North America and they're not the three movies.is on Website/YouTube.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There's no way that one can watch the episodes since the show had a limited release outside of North America and they're not the three movies.
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** George Foreman was originally offered the role of Bru, but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.



** Hogan thought about rebooting the show with himself, Sting, Mr. T, and a female martial artist as the main cast.

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** Hogan thought about rebooting the show with himself, Sting, Mr. T, and a female martial artist as the main cast.cast.
* WorkingTitle: ''Trouble in Paradise'' and ''Hurricane in Paradise''.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Also, Hogan thought about rebooting the show with himself, Sting, Mr. T, and a female martial artist as the main cast.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Also, evil.
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Hogan thought about rebooting the show with himself, Sting, Mr. T, and a female martial artist as the main cast.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Also, Hogan thought of either re-branding the show, or launching a new one starring himself, Sting, and Mr. T.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Also, Hogan thought of either re-branding about rebooting the show, or launching a new one starring show with himself, Sting, Mr. T, and Mr. T.a female martial artist as the main cast.
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* RecycledScript: The plot of the episode "Endangered Species" (a wolf child turns out to be the heir of a murdered co-owner of an aviation company, and the other co-owner wants to finish the job) was also featured in an episode of ''Series/TheWizard'' with the same title. Before ''that'', it was an episode of ''Series/{{Manimal}}'', "Female of the Species". The same writers - [[Series/{{Baywatch}} Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz]] - are credited for all three.

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* RecycledScript: The plot of the episode "Endangered Species" (a wolf child turns out to be the heir of a murdered co-owner of an aviation company, and the other co-owner wants to finish the job) was also featured in an episode of ''Series/TheWizard'' with the same title. Before ''that'', it was an episode of ''Series/{{Manimal}}'', "Female of the Species". The same writers - [[Series/{{Baywatch}} Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz]] - are credited for all three.three.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Prior to cancellation, there were plans for a second season and more TV movies, which would've involved Hammerhead joining Spencer and Bru in their fight against evil. Also, Hogan thought of either re-branding the show, or launching a new one starring himself, Sting, and Mr. T.
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* CreatorKiller: Chris Lemmon credits his decision to work on this show as the reason casting directors stopped hiring him, effectively ending his acting career.
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* ProductionPosse: Was made by the same production company that made ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' and as a result, used many of the same crew members.
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* ActingForTwo: Chris Lemmon, who plays Bru, also played the villain Manuel Sanitago in the episode "Deadly Lessons".

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* ActingForTwo: Chris Lemmon, who plays Bru, also played the villain Manuel Sanitago in the episode "Deadly Lessons". This becomes a vital plot point in the climax.
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* ActingForTwo: Chris Lemmon, who plays Bru, also played the villain Manuel Sanitago in the episode "Deadly Lessons".
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Despite episodes being set in various exotic countries, the entire series was filmed in Florida (mostly Disney World). Some scenes are convincing, making good use of EPCOT Center's World Showcase. Trying to pass off Cinderella Castle as London, on the other hand...
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* EditedForSyndication: Thunder in Paradise started life as a straight-to-video movie. The movie was cut into two parts and served as the first two episodes. (Some footage cut along the way was added to the episode "Eye For An Eye".) Inverted with the two-part episodes "Sealed With A Kismet" and "Deadly Lessons", which were edited together and sold in stores as Thunder in Paradise 2 and 3, respectively.
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* RecycledScript: The plot of the episode "Endangered Species" (a wolf child turns out to be the heir of a murdered co-owner of an aviation company, and the other co-owner wants to finish the job) was also featured in an episode of ''Series/TheWizard'' with the same title. Before ''that'', it was an episode of ''Manimal'', "Female of the Species". The same writers - [[Series/{{Baywatch}} Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz]] - are credited for all three.

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* RecycledScript: The plot of the episode "Endangered Species" (a wolf child turns out to be the heir of a murdered co-owner of an aviation company, and the other co-owner wants to finish the job) was also featured in an episode of ''Series/TheWizard'' with the same title. Before ''that'', it was an episode of ''Manimal'', ''Series/{{Manimal}}'', "Female of the Species". The same writers - [[Series/{{Baywatch}} Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz]] - are credited for all three.
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* NamesTheSame: Out of universe. During co-star Carol Alt's appearance on ''Later with Greg Kinnear'' she mentioned that Sting was guest starring in an upcoming episode. Kinnear reacted as though she meant [[Music/ThePolice the musician Sting]] but she was referring to Wrestling/{{Sting}} the wrestler.
* TheOtherDarrin: Spencer's daughter Jessica was played by Robin Weisman in the pilot movie, and by Ashley Gorrell for the rest of the show's run.
* RecycledScript: The plot of the episode "Endangered Species" (a wolf child turns out to be the heir of a murdered co-owner of an aviation company, and the other co-owner wants to finish the job) was also featured in an episode of ''Series/TheWizard'' with the same title. Before ''that'', it was an episode of ''Manimal'', "Female of the Species". The same writers - [[Series/{{Baywatch}} Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz]] - are credited for all three.

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