Sunset Beach is an American short-running television soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last aired 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. Although there is a town in California called Sunset Beach, the show's beach scenes were shot on nearby Seal Beach. The show was co-produced by NBC and Spelling Television.

It aired in over 70 countries around the world, and was especially popular in Australia, Ukraine, South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Ireland, United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Moldova, Sweden, New Zealand, Israel, Germany, Poland, Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Russia, Romania, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Venezuela and Bulgaria.