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Mitch Buchannon has just been promoted to lieutenant. Mitch and his ex-wife Gayle have an argument about what's best for their son Hobie. Eddie Kramer is the top rookie in the rookie class of '89, and Shauni McClain is one of the last ones to qualify. Shauni starts off as a terrible lifeguard, but the experienced Jill Riley teaches her how to become a good lifeguard.

Panic at Malibu Pier

Instead of attending summer school, Hobie decides to go power skiing with two friends, whose recklessness leads to a tragic accident. Eddie's lack of financial resources is revealed when Craig finds him sleeping in one of the lifeguard towers.

In Deep

Los Angeles is having a heat wave and it's going to be a busy day for the lifeguards.

Heat Wave

An old acquaintance of Eddie's comes to L.A. but it quickly becomes apparent that Eddie does not welcome this visit. Trevor dates a rich woman that is a handful for him to deal with and Mitch worries about upcoming mandatory tests that all lieutenants, including him, must take.

Second Wave

Mitch's former wife is planning to move to Ohio and wants to take Hobie with her. Upset over the squabbling that ensues, Hobie takes off with a friend and runs into pirates on a nearby island. Eddie and Shauni squabble after Shauni accidentally hurts Eddie.

Message in a Bottle

Gayle and Mitch continue to fight over Gayle's plan to take Hobie with her. She ultimately changes her mind after Hobie risks his life to save a drowning young girl. A plane crashes into the water near the beach with the occupants, after they are rescued, looking to recover a suitcase of stolen money that they had with them. Captain Thorpe decides to join Eddie and Shauni on their tower in order to teach them.

The Sky is Falling

A man is found drowned off the beach and Jill suspects foul play is the reason. She begins seeing the son of the victim and during the investigation discovers the man's cousin was responsible for his father's death. A man who helped Jill bring the victim ashore decides he wants to be a lifeguard as well even though he is not qualified.

The Drowning Pool

A woman steals a book from a powerful man and hides out from him with the help of Eddie. Craig and Gina contemplate having children when they are married but have second thoughts after meeting a couple while on a romantic weekend. Trevor discovers that his hardest competitor among the rookies is doped.

Rookie School

Eddie does not like Shauni's new boyfriend or the way he treats her when things do not go the way he wants. Also Hobie gets in trouble with a girl who likes him.

Cruise Ship

A new hotel opens near the beach and a string of murders occur around the same time which convinces Craig the two may be connected.

The Cretin of the Shallows

An approaching tropical storm has the Baywatch lifeguards preparing for its effects but the presence of two wanted criminals cause unforeseen events. Eddie and Shauni rest. Hobie and a girl have storm parties.

Shelter Me

Mitch attends his high school reunion and meets a classmate that stirs up old feelings. Eddie, frustrated at having no car, buys one at an extremely low price from a buddy but quickly discovers the reason why the cost was so low.

The Reunion

A pro-am beach volleyball tournament is being held and Trevor tries to convince Jill to be his partner for the competition. Their main rival in the competition is Jill's ex-partner which cements Jill's resolve to compete.

Armored Car

A new lifeguard arrives at Baywatch and stirs up different emotions for the current staff. Jill and Shauni go into business selling sandwiches but find competition to be stiffer than expected.

Home Cort

Craig joins Cort and Eddie on a trip to Mexico for a long overdue vacation but things turn out very differently from their expectations.

We Need a Vacation

Cort and Eddie go to a local water theme park to teach teenagers about lifeguard duties but one of them quickly resents Eddie's presence. At Baywatch, Hobie finds out that parents of his fellow students at school have a dim view of the occupation of lifeguarding and Shauni gets into trouble over her pinup magazine pictures.

Muddy Waters

An illegal offshore casino causes problems for Cort and some of his fellow lifeguards. Hobie thinks his English class is going to be a breeze when Mitch starts dating his teacher but soon learns otherwise.

Snake Eyes

Eddie believes he sees a ghost by the water and the others believe that he is losing his mind. Hobie learns that a friend's pet is going to be euthanized for an alleged attack and resolves to help both of them.

Eclipse

A local business owner organizes a shark derby but the event quickly spirals out of control and leads Jill to run into the water to save a little boy but then is attacked by the shark.

Shark Derby

Cort enters a race to win the prize money and fulfil a pledge he makes on a yearly basis.

The Big Race

Mitch, Craig and Garner go on a hang gliding trip that results in a series of accidents for all three.

Old Friends

An earthquake shakes Baywatch headquarters and causes many problems for the lifeguards and for one, a life altering decision is made.

The End?

An underwater photographer is attacked and more than a few people believe a sea monster is responsible. With the hysteria over the 'sea monster', Mitch and his fellow lifeguards are determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Shauni's work as a lifeguard leads to conflict with a bunch of locals and her father but her father has a change of heart after he learns more about what she does.

Nightmare Bay (1)

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.

Nightmare Bay (2)

A fisherman tricks new lifeguard Megan into rescuing him in order to attack her. When he continues to stalk her, Mitch has to find a way to stop him. Meanwhile, when Shauni suffers from lifeguard burnout, Eddie takes her on a romantic weekend getaway, which quickly turns passionate.

The One That Got Away

Mitch is offered the lead role in an action movie when the star is injured, but risks losing his role when he rejects the amorous advances of the film's producer.

Money, Honey

Mitch's brother Buzzy comes to visit with his estranged son Kyle, who proves to be a bad influence on Hobie. When Kyle illegally surfs near the condemned San Dimas Pier, he collides with a submerged piling, and is sent underwater, unconscious.

The Fabulous Buchannon Boys

Cort returns to Baywatch, helping Eddie in an aquatics program designed for inner-city youths. When Eddie takes a gang leader under his wing, he finds himself in conflict with the boy's father, who has encouraged his son's gang activity.

Point of Attack

Hobie becomes enamored with a homeless girl whose mother has disappeared.

Sandcastles

Eddie teaches an overweight girl who has loved him from afar the importance of self-esteem, while Mitch and Hobie adopt a dog that is the only witness to the owner's kidnapping.

Thin or Die

Eddie's life is torn apart by the accusation of statutory rape from the overprotective father of a lonely teenager trying to make friends lied to a group of other teenage girls about her encounter with Eddie. Mitch deals with the anger of a paraplegic former lifeguard.

The Trophy (1)

Facing rape charges, Eddie is suspended from Baywatch, but when Shauni confronts the teenager to ask her to tell the truth to exonerate Eddie, the teenager, tired of feeling like an outcast, attempts to kill herself. Mitch saves a paraplegic's life in a daring glider rescue.

The Trophy (2)

Mitch falls for a beautiful woman he has rescued, never dreaming she is actually a murderess.

If Looks Could Kill

Mitch attends his high school reunion, rekindling an old flame with former wife Gail, while Eddie plays father for the day.

Reunion

Ex-con and martial arts master Mason Sato terrorizes Mitch, Kaye, and Hobie.

War of Nerves

Kaye Morgan introduces a deaf girl to sign language, while Mitch confronts a terrifying childhood memory and Hobie a fear of waves.

Big Monday

The Baywatch crew crack a seaborne drug ring, and Ben finds love with an aging movie star.

Sea of Flames

A routine rescue sends Eddie on a madcap adventure to "Gilligan's Island."

Now, Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale

Mitch rescues a diver trapped 90 feet below the ocean surface, but almost dies while experiencing the effects of decompression sickness.

The Chamber

A beautiful Olympic hopeful disappears after a savage shark attack and Eddie's brother Bobby arrives for a weekend visit.

Sharks Cove

Two thieves lose their loot under a lifeguard tower and Shauni is swept off her feet by an eccentric beach poet.

The Lost Treasure of Tower 12

Toxic waste, corporate greed, and a determined environmental spell trouble for the Baywatch lifeguards.

The Big Spill

Harvey and Mitch pursue and capture a disgruntled gambler turned high-seas pirate. Meanwhile, Eddie struggles with the disapproval of Shauni's father. While Eddie is walking away from Shauni's sisters engagement party, Kim gets her hand stuck in the pool pump and luckily Eddie saves her.

Game of Chance

After seven years, Eddie's first love appears in Los Angeles, complicating his life with Shauni and entangling him in a web of lies and an unsolved murder.

The Summer of '85

Mitch receives news of his uncle's death. He recruits Hobie, Eddie and Shauni to trek to northern California's rugged gold country where he learns his uncle may have found the golden boot. Eddie and Shauni are having problems in their relationship when Eddie is accepted into a year-long lifeguard exchange program in Australia.

River of No Return (1)

Drew shoots at the raft. Shauni is taken hostage, and pushed off the cliff. After Eddie and Mitch save her, she finds out that she's not pregnant. Eddie proposes to her. Mitch climbs down with the help of a rope and finds the golden boot; Jed arrives at the trailer. Eddie marries Shauni and they move to Australia.

River of No Return (2)

A woman from Mitch's past becomes one of his fellow lifeguards and stirs up memories for Mitch; Matt must contend with surfers wanting to take over part of the beach.

Tequila Bay

The lifeguards compete against each other to determine who is the best; Stephanie and CJ move in together but things get complicated for both of them.

Rookie of the Year

Hobie weaves a web of lies to impress a girl; Summer is humiliated when she mistakes an offhand invitation from Jimmy Slade for a date.

Pier Pressure

The love strings between Courtney, Slade and Summer are pulled tight; C.J. accepts a position at Malibu Beach High; Garner tires of work.

Showdown at Malibu Beach High

Matt drives his motorcycle on the cliffs above Malibu and challenges Hudson; Mitch trains to beat Stephanie with Garner as his coach.

Point Doom

C.J. is almost run over in a race, causing Mitch and Newmie to finish; Lewiston is engaged to a princess; Catherine's bodyguard Roland kidnaps her.

Princess of Tides

Mitch and Stephanie go undercover as two wealthy individuals to stop murderous pirates from taking over Baywatch.

Masquerade

Mitch and Stephanie discover a dead man on some rocks; C.J. meets a couple on their honeymoon named Dennis and Arlene; unfortunately Dennis falls in love with C.J. and ends up deceiving both her and his wife.

Lifeguards Can't Jump

The governor holds a speech on the pier; three bad guys plan to blow the pier into pieces with a boat. Garner meets his sister's old friend Wendi again.

Dead of Summer

Mitch's parents come to visit; Al, Mitch's father, wants him to take over his architectural firm; Summer must tell Jackie about her horrible nightmares.

A Matter of Life and Death

C.J. and Stephanie go to Catalina for their women's weekend, but the trip does not go according to plan; Hobie and Mitch agree to hire a housekeeper.

Island of Romance

A diamond smuggler looks for loot he has hidden in one of Slade's surfboards; a group searching for extra-terrestrials drives the lifeguards crazy.

Strangers Among Us

Guido tells Mitch that he has started a new business called Windows by Guido; a Captain named Rolf Angstrom visits headquarters; a drug dealer escapes.

Vacation (1)

Stephanie is shot off the cruise boat by a drug dealing women and Mitch jumps in to save her. They struggle to stay afloat in the water; Matt and C.J. win big in the casino; Summer gets worried when she can not find Mitch.

Vacation (2)

A murderer escapes from prison; Kilmer and Stephanie drive to Summer's tower where Kilmer takes them hostage; Hobie makes a periscope for his science class.

The Tower

An actress, who is running from two crooks, is saved by Mitch. He decides to help her capture them; Guido attempts to convince his visiting mother that he is a lifeguard.

Stakeout at Surfrider Beach

Three teens are trapped on some cliffs with massive waves surrounding them; Mitch is soon paralyzed from the cliffs; Riddick is sent to L.A. to kill Jason.

Shattered (1)

Mitch must contend with gangsters while going through rehabilitation.

Shattered (2)

Matt competes in kickboxing with Mitch as his coach; Mitch meets Michael Branson again; C.J. has the opportunity to become a model.

Kicks

Strange occurrences take place at Baywatch after the arrival of a new lifeguard.

Fatal Exchange

Hobie, a cold-hearted Gayle and Ken, Gayle's fiance, get trapped inside Ken's plane when it crashes in the ocean.

Race Against Time (1)

Hobie, Gayle, and Ken get rescued from the crashed plane; Matt's father takes back Matt's motorcycle; Jackie has problems with the renovation of her Summer Place.

Race Against Time (2)

Hobie falls in love with a girl in junior lifeguards; Mitch and Jackie have a number of interrupted dates; Matt and Summer discover that they love each other. Thinking he is romantic, Hobie takes the girl on jet ski to a cove near a seaside monastery to kiss her as the bells toll, but they get caught in a dangerous current.

Lover's Cove

Cort returns to Baywatch, but C.J. is worried there is something wrong with his eyes as evidenced when he bungles a simple rescue by bumping into many beach goers. A beach side attraction where a very tall man works as a "feral man" scares customers is seen by Hobie, who finds the man is a depressed immigrant with no family. Hobie befriends the man, but when he falls in the water by accident his extra large size is a challenge for the Baywatch crew.

Blindside

Matt and Slade have a confrontation on the waves over Summer and decide to have a huge bungee-jumping contest; Garner and Mitch chase pickpockets.

Sky Rider

Matt and Slade compete for Summer's affections by surfing. Mitch encounters a desperate woman who needs help for her boyfriend.

Tentacles (1)

Stephanie's sister, Caroline, arrives at Baywatch with exciting news, but her joy is shattered by a cataclysmic event. Mitch finds himself at the mercy of a wounded but dangerous adversary.

Tentacles (2)

Mitch must make a difficult decision when he must choose which boy to rescue from the ocean, and the boy he does not save first ends up in a coma.

Submersion

Mitch tries to show he can still compete with younger men by taking part in the Ironman competition; Matt's late hours make Summer suspicious. Standing in for a tired Matt, Summer Quinn is knocked unconscious attempting a rescue.

Ironman Buchannon

While Mitch, Garner and the rest of the Baywatch team deals with a street gang that have been hanging around at the beach and harassing swimmers, Stephanie falls for Carlos, the new lifeguard trying to get away from the gang he was once in and tries to rescue his sister from the gang's leader.

Tower of Power

Olympic champion Mary Lou Retton comes to Baywatch to stage a Special Olympics competition for the mentally disabled. At Mary Lou's urging, Mitch takes under his wing a mentally disabled teen, named Darnell, who tries too hard at winning than on the ethics of the competition. Stephanie befriends Sammy, a shy young girl with Down syndrome who doesn't try at all to believe in herself.

The Child Inside

Matt is surprised when his former motorcycle girlfriend Jesse, who is now an aspiring model, arrives to shoot a video for an wave-runner advertisement. At Jesse's urging, Matt helps her discourage the video director's advances towards her and he soon becomes the target for murder by the jealous director, while Summer is struck with jealousy herself after learning of the past Matt had with Jesse.

Second Time Around

Ben Edwards doesn't look forward to a lifeguard reunion of his friends, called the Red Knights, over his walking disability when the rest of them are still fit and active. During a night on the town, Mitch, Ben and the other lifeguard trigger a barroom brawl between the retired lifeguards and a old rival team.

The Red Knights

Stephanie, C.J., Matt and Summer take a weekend vacation to San Diego to demonstrate water rescue procedures while staying at the famed Hotel Del Coronado. Summer correctly begins to think that her hotel room is haunted, when she's a haunted by the ghost of a wealthy businessman who mistakes Summer for his lost love from a doomed love affair back in 1943.

Coronado Del Sol (1)

C.J. thinks about her future as she spends more time with Keith and helps to rescue a stranded dolphin. The ghost who haunts Summer's hotel room takes her to be the love of his life who betrayed him and plots to reenact the tragedy that drove him to suicide 50 years ago.

Coronado Del Sol (2)

An attractive wild young woman, named Mattie, and her plain twin sister, Gwen, arrive at the beach and vie for Mitch's affections. But Mitch is unaware that Mattie and Gwen are the same person, a woman with split personalities which soon lands Mitch in danger when Gwen's other personality, Mattie, means him physical harm.

Mirror, Mirror

Matt has a shot at cheaply buying a small yacht and insists Summer should chip and move in. Mitch falls instantly in love with strangely aloof and secretive Kate McCoy. Only after her sudden death is diagnosed poisoning he learns from his cop mate Garner that Kate was an undercover alias of D.C. investigative reporter Catherine Larsen, who found out about secret arms deals.

The Falcon Manifesto

After witnessing a rescue, a bumbling, ambitious TV producer, named Don Brand, decides to make a pilot movie, titled 'Rescue Bay', based on the life of the Baywatch team which results in chaos from everyone after observing their own "characters" in the show, including Garner's look-alike character, C.J. playing Stephanie's role, and Mitch caught in the middle of it all in playing himself.

Rescue Bay

A country-western singer, named Jessie Lee Harris, arrives at Baywatch and after C.J. rescues him from a horde of his fans, he asks her to help him find his estranged wife and son living in the area. C.J.'s newest friend, Sadie, hopes to impress Jessie Lee at an amateur night at the local western club in hopes of wining a spot with his band.

Western Exposure

After all the beaches are closed down by Los Angeles budget commissioners looking to cut back on funding for the lifeguard squads of Baywatch. Mitch and the team organises a meeting on the beach with the three budget commissioners and some of the people rescued by the Baywatch lifeguards, they try to convince the city budget official not to stop funding for the lifeguards.

The Life You Save

Stephanie goes to work with the Coast Guard to help crack an arms-smuggling ring in the area, and becomes attracted to a warrant officer, Scott Daniels, who tries to persuade her to overcome her fear of helicopters after she begins having nightmares of her father being killed in action in a helicopter crash in Vietnam over 25 years ago.

Trading Places

Matt rescues a shady teenage girl, calling herself Rachel, who turns out to be a con artist hiding from her mentor and ex-partner in crime who as come after a diamond stuffed doll that is being shipped in from Hong Kong.

Guys & Dolls

Matt is openly unamused by Aussie exchange program lifeguard Logan Fowler's hero complex, nearly running over a drowning man on his way to snatch a female from Matt. Mitch is hitting the breaks on Hobie's maternally sanctioned determination to commit to music. Stephanie has the hots for seismologist Riley Ferguson, but her sister returns homeless after a breakup. C.J. keeps turning up, panicking over a a mild tremor Mitch laughed away.

Livin' on the Fault Line (1)

After Mitch rescues Hobie, he helps Matt commandeer a news helicopter to rescue Jackie from her trailer on the cliff. Hobie also breaks out of his shaken state long enough to help C.J. save the homeless man trapped under wreckage of the pier.

Livin' on the Fault Line (2)

Three months after the trauma of the massive earthquake, Hobie arrives back home after spending the summer in Ohio with his mother, Gayle, who asks Mitch marry her again in a formal ceremony on the beach. Everyone is delighted, except for Stephanie who still has feelings for Mitch.

Aftershock

Former Baywatch lifeguard John D. Cort once again arrives back at Baywatch and asks Mitch to enter with him in a dune buggy race in Mexico. But Mitch is unaware that Cort wants to use the race to smuggle rare artifacts into the U.S.

Baja Run

Mitch and Stephanie are partnered for a 24-hour shift on a busy day where they help out each other with accident victims and even try to rekindle their lost romance once again. With his father away, Hobie falls for a new girl from his school and throws an ill-advised party at the house just to impress her. The next day, disaster narrowly avoids Hobie when he tries to stop two of his wild friends, J.B. and Connor, from flying Mitch's hand glider off a cliff.

Air Buchannon

During junior lifeguard training sessions, Matt deals with Hobie's newest friend, Carter, who is ashamed of his father, Simon, who happens to be a dwarf.

Short Sighted

Mitch works with an FBI agent, posing as a lifeguard, stake-out a dangerous criminal.  After Matt rescues a Dutch woman, she intends to repay him with her servitude, which evokes jealous in C.J.

Someone to Baywatch Over You

A radio DJ leads a contest for hidden treasure on the beach, which brings a flood of treasure hunters to the beach- including Matt and C.J. who are swept up in the frenzy.

K-GAS The Groove Yard of Solid Gold

The Santa Ana Winds usher in some strange times for the lifeguards as Caroline helps an insane man who swears his daughter drowned in the ocean, while Mitch is tormented by a meek man, whose fiance remains infatuated with Mitch from a years-ago rescue.

Red Wind

Matt considers fulfilling his dreams of playing professional volleyball when he's given the chance to partner with a pro.  Mitch meets the beautiful Tracy, who tries to sell Baywatch a hovercraft.  Garner literally chokes when he tries to sing in public.  C.J. protests oil drilling in the bay and the lifeguards must rescue the drillers become trapped underwater.

I Spike

As Christmas nears, Mitch and Tracy fall in love.  Mitch and Hobie let a lost boy stay with them during the holidays, only to discover he's a con artist.  C.J. believes a priest has developed romantic feelings for her.  Matt suspects that a group of vacationing little people are really Santa's elves.

Silent Night, Baywatch Night (1)

At Christmas, Mitch tries to reunite Joey with her mother; C.J. worries that a priest is leaving the church for her and Matt investigates whether Santa's elves are really vacationing at Baywatch.

The Best Seasons of Baywatch

The Best Seasons of Baywatch

Season 1

Season 3

Season 10

Season 2

Season 4

Season 8

Season 5

Season 6

Season 9

Season 7

Season 11