While repairing the wreckage of his life, a recovering addict beach bar owner allies with his oddball customers to save their beloved Ocean Boulevard from murderous drug dealers hell-bent on soulless gentrification to wash their dirty money.

SYNOPSIS:

“Saving Hampton Beach””—Synopsis

To clear himself of a bogus murder charge an oceanfront bar owner, recovering from addiction and self-inflicted personal loses, must join forces with a group of zany barflies who are battling the same drug money laundering developers who framed him and are intent on turning their beloved Ocean Boulevard into an exorbitant, high-rise condo infested yuppie Ville.

A proposed one-hour television series by Jed Power.

Adapted from the eight-book Dan Marlowe/Hampton Beach, NH

Crime series by Jed Power.

Genre: Drama, crime, dark comedy.

It’s “Cheers” meets “The Sopranos” with Sam Malone an Amateur Detective.

Pilot Synopsis

Dan Marlowe, an oceanfront bar owner, is doing his damndest to stay away from cocaine, the drug that cost him everything important in his life. But when a boat crashes into Hampton’s jetty with two bullet-riddled bodies and a rumored missing cargo of two-hundred pounds of cocaine, Dan’s checkered past comes back to haunt him, as he is suspected as the perpetrator of the crime by his nemesis—a Hampton police lieutenant who assumes Dan is behind any criminal activity of significance on the beach. As Dan attempts to clear his name, he joins forces with an eclectic and zany cast of barflies and co-workers who are attempting to thwart the same criminals who framed Dan. They are ruthless, drug smuggling, money-laundering developers who are intent on turning iconic Ocean Boulevard into a chintzy, miniature Miami Beach At the same time, Dan also must confront an even larger danger—his inner demons and hope that, ironically, the drug that stole everything, short of his life, may be the one thing that can help him get it all back.

Episode 2

Dan is asked to help a local immigrant businessman who is being subjected to everything from harassment to arson in an attempt to get him to sell his valuable Ocean Boulevard property

Episode 3 Dan is offered a fistful of quarters by a young local skateboarder to help him find the killer of the boy’s mother.

Episode 4

Dan is asked to help a local immigrant businessman who is being subjected to everything from harassment to arson in an attempt to get him to sell his valuable Ocean Boulevard property.

Episode 5

Dan is asked by an acquaintance to help get his daughter away from a low-life drug dealer who the girl is staying with at the run-down and infamous Honeymoon Hotel.

Future Episodes and Seasons

There is no end to possible plot ideas, many of which I already have myself, for further episodes and future seasons.

Main Character Descriptions

Dan Marlowe

Beach, “Dan Marlowe’s High Tide Restaurant & Saloon.” The almost everything else dear to him, including what was once a addiction. The Tide was only saved from being acquired by and on-and-off again girlfriend, Dianne Dennison, who bought the Tide at auction and kept Dan on as a bartender.

Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

century-long character and charm, now being threatened by

Michael “Shamrock” Kelly

handyman at the Tide. His face is like the map of Ireland. Very slight, light brogue.

Dianne Dennison

over by condo developers at foreclosure. She kept Dan on as bartender. Very attractive.

Recurring Characters

Steve Moore

Dan’s friend and a Hampton Police Detective.

Eddie Hoar and Derwood Doller

caused Dan trouble more than once by dragging him unwillingly into their schemes and scams.

Lt. Richard Gant

every crime of significance on Hampton Beach.

9. and 10. Eli and Paulie

Regular characters at the Tide.

Ruthie

Waitress at the Tide and Dianne’s best friend.

Main Locations

Dan Marlowe’s High Tide Restaurant & Saloon

with tourists and day trippers in the summer season, the Tide is Beach their home in the off-season, too, even though some of nothing as dark, depressing and desolate as a summer resort in anyone. Half of the establishment contains a casual dining often be found building drinks, pouring beers and holding court There is a long, polished mahogany bar with stools scattered large picture window that looks out on Ocean Boulevard, a beyond the Atlantic Ocean. The bar and dining area are length of the top of the partition is an aquarium with all kinds of swinging doors which lead to the kitchen with its shiny metal commercial dishwasher, which, more than likely, Shamrock is stacked with beer and beside that a small office for Dianne, was nicknamed “Boss.” Now Dianne spends her time there kitchen or dining room.

the Atlantic. The business name runs the length of the building nautical bric-a-brac—lobster traps, plastic seagulls, and even a harpoon seated inside. Fish netting covers the front of the near the front door. The large amount of various coins visible at patrons lined up and waiting to be seated on busy evenings.

The “Strip”

districts in New Hampshire. The century-old main boulevard is arcades, fast-food joints, and some buildings in need of serious Developers are now moving in, trying to get hold of businesses, acquiring the old ocean-front buildings any way condo buildings. Hampton Beach’s long-time residents have this way—some are happy to see the tawdry businesses done Others though hate to see the heart and soul of their beloved stores replacing the iconic businesses they remember, some as split between the local population and continuing animosity

Secondary Locations

Dan’s cottage located on the southern end of Hampton Beach, in what is known as the “Island” section of the beach. A fifty-year-old summer cottage in the old, shingled sides beach style. A porch with a door that enters into the front room where the walls and bookcase are covered with beach-themed knick knacks , a ship’s clock, seashells retrieved from the ocean only a short distance away by Dan’s children through the years. A small kitchen and bathroom and three small bedrooms complete the cottage.

Antagonist

Antagonist will sometimes be the same in each episode but will

often be a new character, as Dan is presented with a new crisis at the start of most episodes by a different beach dweller.

My motivation for writing this series is a life-long love of Hampton Beach, beginning as a child going every summer with my parents, and later being fortunate enough to take my own family for the summer.

Contact: jedpower@verizon.net

Phone: (978) 979-2371

ONE-HOUR SERIES--"SAVING HAMPTON BEACH. "PILOT--"THE BOSS OF HAMPTON BEACH."