• Air date: 23 Sep '91 22 episodes
      Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show was canceled after its first season on NBC, but survived and later became one of the most watched television shows in the world. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, except for the 1990–1991 season, during which it was not in production. From 1999 to 2001, with a setting change and large cast overhaul, it was known as Baywatch Hawaii. Baywatch premiered on NBC in 1989, but was canceled after only one season when it placed 73rd out of 103 shows in the seasonal ratings and also because the studio, GTG, went out of business. Feeling the series still had potential, Hasselhoff along with creators and Executive Producers Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz and Greg Bonann revived it for the first-run syndication market in 1991. Hasselhoff was given the title of Executive Producer for his work on...
  • List of Episodes (22)
    • 1. Nightmare Bay (1)

      23 Sep '91
      An underwater photographer named Linda is attacked inside a sea cave. Her boat is destroyed and her partner Walt is killed. Mitch rescues her. Because she doesn't know what attacked her, everyone think it's a sea monster. When Linda talks to Devon, another lifeguard, she can't give her any good information about what really happened down there. Kaye Morgan, a newspaper reporter from The Westside Press, writes in her paper that a sea monster attacked Linda. Because of Kaye's article, the lifegua
    • 2. Nightmare Bay (2)

      23 Sep '91
      Harvey is feeding off the local panic, making a small fortune selling ""Creature in the bay"" T-shirts. Just when things start to calm down, the situation escalates when a fishing boat catches something huge in its net, and is pulled underwater by the mysterious entity below the surface. When Baywatch finally receives a new rescue boat called a scarab, Mitch, Thorpe and Devon head out looking for the sea-monster. When they have located it, Mitch and Devon dive down and they are surprised to fin
    • 3. The One That Got Away

      30 Sep '91
      Lifeguard and marine biologist Megan is tricked into rescuing a fisherman who appears to have fallen off a rock jetty. When she finds out that she has been set up, it's too late. He pulls a knife and tries to rape her. Megan hits him in the crutch and manages to get away by swimming away from the beach. When Mitch arrives, the fisherman leaves. Megan just tells Mitch that she took an extra long work out. But Mitch is suspicious and when the same man attacks a French stewardess, he tells her she
    • 4. Money, Honey

      07 Oct '91
      Mitch is having financial problems, so he and Eddie moonlight, life-guarding at a private party for movie-people. After a daring rescue, the star Larry Brooks is injured. And impressed by Mitch's heroic skills during the rescue, Dita, the producer offers Mitch a part in her new movie. During the filming on the beach, Mitch can't remember his lines and the filming is not going very well. But that is only until a drug-crazed man starts attacking people on the nearby bike path. While Mitch is figh
    • 5. The Fabulous Buchannon Boys

      14 Oct '91
      Mitch convinces Kaye to write a piece about the San Dimas Pier in her new paper The Venice Voice. The structure is condemned and foolish surfers lie to challenge each other to ""shoot the pier"". However, no one wants to pay for the pier's demolition. But Kaye is persuaded by her father Ellis Morgan to hold off on the story. Her father's law firm is representing the owners of the pier. Meanwhile, Mitch and Hobie attend an annual ceremony that strives to invoke good waves of surfing. At the cere
    • 6. Point of Attack

      21 Oct '91
      When Eddie tries to break up a gang fight on the beach, he his hit unconscious by one of the gang-members. Then suddenly out of nowhere, John D. Cort arrives on his motorcycle. He knocks down the gang-members and help Eddie out of the water. Eddie is surprised to see him and so are Mitch, Shauni and Barnett. Instead of sending the gang-members to jail, they arrange for them to join the W.A.T.E.R. program. The W.A.T.E.R. program is a lifeguard organized program which introduces inner-city youth
    • 7. Sandcastles

      28 Nov '91
      When Eddie arrives to his tower one morning, he is surprised to find a homeless man there. When Eddie tries to get rid of him, the homeless man attacks Eddie with a shard of glass and steals a picture of Shauni. Mitch tells him that the homeless man is named Hector Clay, also known as Hector ""The Collector"". He was released from the mental hospital because of funding cuts. Meanwhile, Hobie meets a homeless girl named Charlie. When she loses her harmonica, Hobie gives it back to her. That nigh
    • 8. Thin or Die

      04 Nov '91
      After helping the firemen put out a fire, Mitch, Harvey and Brooke find a little dog in the water. Mitch rescues the dog and after that, the dog doesn't want to leave Mitch. He brings the dog home and Hobie gets all excited and names the dog Sandy. When Hobie goes to stay at a friend's house for the night, Mitch plans to have a romantic dinner with his girlfriend Kelly. But Sandy keeps disturbing them and Kelly ends up leaving. When Kelly has left the house, Mitch can't get any sleep so he goes
    • 9. The Trophy (1)

      11 Nov '91
      Eric Turner has returned to Baywatch. Turner used to be a lifeguard, but during the 1989 lifeguard competition, he got paralyzed from the waist down. During a dangerous rescue, a dory hit him in the back. Unable to deal with his newfound condition, Turner shut everyone out, including his girlfriend Megan. Now, Turner returns to L.A. to maybe accept an offer to work as a swim coach in San Diego. Turner still wants to prove that he has guts and goes boogie boarding with Hobie near some dangerous
    • 10. The Trophy (2)

      18 Nov '91
      Mitch is forced to suspend Eddie until the matter is resolved. Eddie feels abandoned and when Frank and Caroline arrive to headquarters, Eddie hits Frank in the stomach, after a confrontation between the two of them. Shauni wants Eddie back and is determined to clear his name. She confronts Caroline on the pier. Caroline tells Shauni how miserable her life is and that she doesn't want to live anymore. Caroline jumps from the pier and Shauni is forced to jump in after her and rescue her. Eddie s
    • 11. If Looks Could Kill

      25 Nov '91
      Allison Fowles, a beautiful seductive woman murders a man named Steve by handcuffing him to the bottom rung of a ladder in a pool. The next day, she leaves the house with a suitcase full of money and a dead Steve in the backseat. While on the road, she is spotted by Drew her ex-partner, who starts chasing her. Allison loses control over her car and ends up driving off the edge off a cliff. Mitch and Eddie are in the scarab and head for the rescue immediately after the car has hit the water. Alli
    • 12. Reunion

      27 Jan '92
      A calm day on the beach turns into chaos, when a two-ton bull starts chasing the people on the beach. Mitch is able to capture the bull with a lasso. When he returns the bull to its rightful owner, he finds out that the bull is the West Palisades High School mascot. The bull has been brought to the beach for the 20-year reunion of the class of 1972. Mitch is also invited to this party, but he doesn't want to go. He doesn't want to tell everyone about his and Gayle's divorce. But Gayle who has t
    • 13. War of Nerves

      03 Feb '92
      The episode start with Mitch, Newmie and Heinz rescuing a man that is trapped under a big rock with his leg. Mitch is being terrorised by a drug lord named Mason Sato, whom he helped imprison five years ago. Sato is now a free man and follows Mitch around everywhere he goes. At first, Mitch endures the intimidation, but when Sato goes surfing with Hobie, Mitch punches Sato and finds himself up on assault charges. Sato uses the opportunity to kidnap Kaye and Hobie. He takes them to an abandoned
    • 14. Big Monday

      10 Feb '92
      When a deaf girl named Lili, gets separated from her family on the beach, her mom Lili freaks out. Kaye helps her finding her. When they find Lili, she has been pulled out by an undercurrent and can't get back to shore. Mitch heads for the rescue, but a mysterious Hawaiian guy gets to her first. Lili is brought back to safety by Mitch. Mitch is determined to find this mysterious Hawaiian guy. He goes to visit an old Hawaiian friend of his. He tells him that it was Sonny Paalua, son of the recen
    • 15. Sea of Flames

      17 Feb '92
      Mitch is trying to convince Captain Thorpe that wave runners would be an invaluable lifesaving aid for Baywatch. Despite a demonstration by Mitch, Newmie and Barnett, the county bureaucrats think they're too expensive. Meanwhile, a man that is high on a drug called Spice is lose on the beach playing with fire. He torches Eddie's tower and then keeps saying Sumo all the time. When Lyle Connors finds out about the incident, he tells Eddie about the drug and that they have been trying to arrest th
    • 16. Now, Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale

      24 Feb '92
      Mitch is not pleased to find his Baywatch staff glued to re-runs of Gilligan's Island at headquarters. He shuts down the TV just as Captain Thorpe arrives. Mitch sends them off on their various assignments. While Eddie is making his way toward a couple of young lovers, he slips and hits his head on the tower ramp. Things begin to go very odd at this point. When Eddie and Shauni have helped a girl on a wave runner, the scarab won't start, and Eddie and Shauni find themselves stranded on an islan
    • 17. The Chamber

      02 Mar '92
      After receiving a letter from Craig about a great job with some sacrifices, Mitch goes out paddling to think it over. He comes across a boy named Cooper, whose father Hal is trapped 90 feet below the ocean, underneath a sunken wreck. Hal only has fifteen minutes of air left. Mitch calls it in and Shauni tells him that the Coast Guard along with Eddie and Newmie are on their way. But after waiting impatiently for 10 minutes, Mitch decides to go down without any scuba gear. It's a tremendous stru
    • 18. Sharks Cove

      20 Apr '92
      Debbie Kent, Shauni's swim partner, has a very demanding father. She has excellent times but according to her father, they aren't good enough. Therefore he grounds her and forbids her to see her boyfriend Zach. Without her father knowing it, she and Zach have a beach party at the beach. When they decide to go for a swim, a shark attacks Debbie and she disappears. Mitch and Ben recover Debbie's shredded bathing suit. The cove where Debbie disappeared is called Shark's Cove. The cove got that na
    • 19. The Lost Treasure of Tower 12

      27 Apr '92
      Two burglars named Beggs and Clark steal some jewelry. When they are going to escape on their motorcycles, Clark falls and is forced to leave the jewelry under tower 12. The next day, they return, only to find out that the jewellery is missing. After a walk down the beach, they find out that the towers are being moved sometimes. Meanwhile, a poet named Ian has a crush on Shauni. He writes her poems. He always carry around a metal detector, and one day he finds the stolen jewelry. He buys Shauni
    • 20. The Big Spill

      04 May '92
      Lane Brody, an environmentalist and former lifeguard has returned to Baywatch to investigate illegal chemical dumping. He suspects a company named Transicon Industries may be responsible and he wants Mitch's help breaking into the plant. Mitch refuses although he agrees with Lane. But Mitch doesn't want to break the law. When Hobie and his friend Brenda are out on their bikes, Brenda loses control over her bike and falls into a lagoon. Hobie has to rescue her. Later. when Hobie and Lane are dri
    • 21. Game of Chance

      11 May '92
      During a McClain gathering, Eddie is insulted by Shauni's father Robert. He doesn't approve of his daughter's choice of a boyfriend. Eddie ends up leaving upset. When Eddie returns for Shauni's sister Kim's engagement party, he guns down a man named Brown Goodman who bothers Shauni. Robert gets upset and asks Eddie to leave and take his present with him. When Eddie goes to the pool to get it, he spots Kim in the pool with her hand trapped in the pump. Her engagement ring is lying there. Eddie r
    • 22. The Summer of '85

      18 May '92
      Harvey has been seeing a fortune teller named Rosalind for quite some time. Almost everything she has told him, has happened. Therefore, Eddie and Shauni pay Rosalind a visit. Rosalind predicts that Eddie will meet his first true love. She assures him that it's not Shauni. Eddie doesn't believe this at first, until one day when he spots a woman on a sailing-boat drawing just like the woman he had a relationship with back in 1985. Her name is Lorna Cosgrove. Eddie tracks down the sailing boat, bu