Big Wave Dave's was a sitcom that aired from August until September 1993 on CBS.
Dave, Marshall, and Richie ( David Morse, Adam Arkin, Patrick Breen)were 3 buddies who decided to give up their traditional lifestyles in Chicago ( and the frigid weather), and move to the north shore of sunny Oahu to run a Hawaiian surf shop. Dave, the free spirit after whom the shop " Big Wave Dave's" was named was a stockbroker whose wife had just left him; Marshall was a neurotic attorney who had just been squeezed out of the law firm his father had founded; and Richie was an insecure high school typing teacher desperately in search of a more possitive self-image. Marshall's wife Karen ( Jane Kaczmarek), who had more common sense then the 3 of them combined , agreed to do most of the administrative and creative work to keep the fledgling business afloat. Also seen were an eccentric, freeloading local resident who claimed his name was Jack Lord ( of Hawaii Five-0 fame. He was played by Kurtwood Smith, later of That 70's Show), and Danny ( Ray Bumatai), the owner of the rival surf shop, who had seen many mainlanders try unsuccessfully, to compete with him.
A Review from Entertainment Weekly
TV Review
SURFIN' SAFARI
ADAM ARKIN RIDES HIS BLUES TO HAWAII IN 'BIG WAVE DAVE'S'
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B-By Lisa Schwarzbaum
August 6, 1993
With his solid, chino-clad body, his head of thick, graying hair, and his familiar, friendly scowl, Adam Arkin (Northern Exposure) was built to play men mature enough to accept responsibility yet sardonic enough to be amusing about the chores of adulthood. In the premiere of CBS' summer series BIG WAVE DAVE'S (Aug. 9, 9:30-10 p.m.), Arkin gets to chuck all that: He plays Marshall, a | baby-boomer lawyer in Chicago recently booted from his job who, along with two male bondees, leaves the urban grind behind to fulfill a dream of running a surf shop in Hawaii. David Morse (St. Elsewhere), similarly sprung from his usual role as a Thoughtful Guy, is the Dave of the title, a stockbroker with a broken marriage; he and Marshall bring along Patrick Breen (Sunday Dinner) as Richie, the official Nerd Bachelor Buddy, for comic ballast. The three amigos wouldn't make it across the street, however, if it weren't for the ministrations of Marshall's wife, Karen, played by Jane Kaczmarek (Equal Justice). As set up by crea-tors-executive producers Ken Levine and David Isaacs (Cheers, M*A*S*H), who should know better than to rely on this dated claptrap of sitcom sociology, these three theoretically grown-up men are in fact big, goofy boys who need mothering, organizing, and witty pep talks. And Karen is the superwoman who knows how to get things done efficiently. In a chic miniskirt, jacket, and heels. During a rainstorm. On Oahu. The result of this regressive premise: Big Wave Dave's has a musty feeling of arrested development. Like it's the 1960s, and a terrible tsunami has hit Hawaii, leaving good actors and funny lines stranded on an out-of-date sitcom island. B-
A Review From The New York Times
Review/Television; For Nostalgia Buffs, Yesterday's Hollywood
By WALTER GOODMAN
Published: August 16, 1993
'Big Wave Dave's' CBS, tonight at 9:30 P.M.
The first episode of this summer series, which washed up on the screen last week like a foundered flounder, introduced three midlife adolescents as they move from blizzard-beleaguered Chicago to surf-sappy Hawaii. The prospect is for more jokes having to do with their neuroses and the attendant difficulties of adapting to paradise. Adam Arkin, Patrick Breen, David Morse and Jane Kaczmarek (as the take-charge wife of one of these nitwits) work perspiringly to wring some laughs out of their predicament. Back to the surfboard, everybody.
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