Series synopsis
Baywatch is an American action & adventure drama crime television series that premiered on NBC on April 23, 1989. It ended on May 14, 2001. It was created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, Gregory J. Bonann. It stars David Hasselhoff, Jason Momoa, Gena Lee Nolin and Brande Roderick.
Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.
Premise
Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.
Premise: Cause I'm always ready, I won't let you out of my sight
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- David Hasselhoff as Mitch Buchannon
- Jason Momoa as Jason Ioane
- Gena Lee Nolin as Neely Capshaw
- Brande Roderick as Leigh Dyer
- Mitzi Kapture as Alex Ryker
- David Chokachi as Cody Madison
- Michael Bergin as J.D. Darius
- Nicole Eggert as Summer Quinn
Supporting cast
- David Charvet as Matt Brody
- Stacy Kamano as Kekoa Tanaka
- Parker Stevenson as Craig Pomeroy
- Krista Allen as Jenna Avid
- Brooke Burns as Jessie Owens
- Billy Warlock as Eddie Kramer
- Michael Newman as Michael 'Newmie' Newman
- Charlie Brumbly as Zack McEwan
- Pamela Anderson as C. J. Parker
- Shawn Weatherly as Jill Riley
- Erika Eleniak as Shauni McClain
- Alexandra Paul as Stephanie Holden
Guest cast
- Kelly Packard as April Giminski
- Jaason Simmons as Logan Fowler
- Jason Brooks as Sean Monroe
- Richard Jaeckel as Ben Edwards
- Kelly Slater as Jimmy Slade
- Simmone Mackinnon as Allie Reese
- Nancy Valen as Samantha Thomas
- Spencer Rochfort as Zack
- Ricky Van Shelton
- Andrew Keegan
- Belinda Balaski as Worried Mother
- Kona Carmack
Episodes
This series spans 12 seasons with 244 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 2 | February 28, 2003 | February 28, 2003 |
| Season 1 | 22 | April 23, 1989 | April 6, 1990 |
| Season 2 | 22 | September 23, 1991 | May 18, 1992 |
| Season 3 | 22 | September 14, 1992 | May 10, 1993 |
| Season 4 | 22 | September 20, 1993 | May 16, 1994 |
| Season 5 | 22 | September 26, 1994 | May 22, 1995 |
| Season 6 | 22 | September 25, 1995 | May 13, 1996 |
| Season 7 | 22 | September 23, 1996 | May 12, 1997 |
| Season 8 | 22 | September 22, 1997 | May 18, 1998 |
| Season 9 | 22 | September 21, 1998 | May 17, 1999 |
| Season 10 | 22 | September 20, 1999 | February 14, 2001 |
| Season 11 | 22 | October 2, 2000 | May 14, 2001 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Hawaiian Wedding Mitch Buchannon didn't die in a boat explosion in the 10th season but has been recovering from amnesia in Los Angeles. Mitch returns to Hawaii to get married again! His new fiancée Allison looks a lot like Lt. Stephanie Holden, a past love. Little does he know, Allison is cooperating with Mason Sato who appeared in the show's 2nd season and now returns for revenge. The Baywatchers are invited to Hawaii by CJ. She's opening CJ's Bar & Grill at the Turtle Bay Resort. Coincidentally, Caroline Holden is already there filming a soap opera. Neely Capshaw (ex-Mrs. Buchannon) comes to Hawaii to stop the wedding. She wants Mitch back! |
February 28, 2003 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | April 23, 1989 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Panic at Malibu Pier 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. |
April 23, 1989 |
| 2 |
In Deep 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. |
September 22, 1989 |
| 3 |
Heat Wave Los Angeles is having a heat wave and it's going to be a busy day for the lifeguards. |
September 29, 1989 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Nightmare Bay (1) 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. |
September 23, 1991 |
| 2 |
Nightmare Bay (2) 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. |
September 23, 1991 |
| 3 |
The One That Got Away 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. |
September 30, 1991 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
River of No Return (1) 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. |
September 14, 1992 |
| 2 |
River of No Return (2) 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. |
September 21, 1992 |
| 3 |
Tequila Bay 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. |
September 28, 1992 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Race Against Time (1) Hobie, a cold-hearted Gayle and Ken, Gayle's fiance, get trapped inside Ken's plane when it crashes in the ocean. |
September 20, 1993 |
| 2 |
Race Against Time (2) 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. |
September 20, 1993 |
| 3 |
Lover's Cove 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. |
September 27, 1993 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Livin' on the Fault Line (1) 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. |
September 26, 1994 |
| 2 |
Livin' on the Fault Line (2) 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. |
October 3, 1994 |
| 3 |
Aftershock 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. |
October 10, 1994 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Trapped Beneath the Sea (1) Neely Capshaw, the unwholesome, psycho lifeguard who tried to frame Matt for sexual harassment, arrives back at Baywatch for a job as the switchboard operator and is greeted with a hostile reception from everyone, especially C.J. who personally holds Neely responsible for Matt's departure from Baywatch. |
September 25, 1995 |
| 2 |
Trapped Beneath the Sea (2) Neely and Cody try to keep the four people alive on the sunken oil rig until help arrives when Mitch, Stephanie and Logan must find away to get into the structure to rescue them before the air supply runs out. At the end, despite Neely's heroic attempts and proving herself to be a very good lifeguard during the rescue, the Baywatch team still resents her presence and plans to give her a hard time. Logan finally gives into Gator's demands for the credit of the swim wear, and Mitch finally decides to join a detective agency. |
October 2, 1995 |
| 3 |
Hot Stuff During a long, hot, drought-ridden summer day, Logan becomes jealous when Cody begins to flirt with Caroline during and after rescues. Also, Neely wants to break away from manning the switchboard and become a tower lifeguard, in which Stephanie seeks to prevent. Kaye asks Hobie to help volunteer a group of four young blind children she is looking after at a blind school. But things take another turn when a huge brush fire, fuelled by toxic chemicals, traps Hobie and his young blind charges in the hills and Mitch is the only one who can save them. |
October 9, 1995 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Shark Fever Logan, wanting a new course in life than being a lifeguard, decides to write and direct a low-budget action flick at the beach using a drugged shark as the villain, with Caroline as the star. But things take a unexpected turn when a very great white shark appears and attacks Cody and a number of other swimmers in the area as Mitch and the rest of the squad try to hunt it down... 'Jaws' style, while Logan sees an opportunity to grab for his movie. |
September 23, 1996 |
| 2 |
The Contest Mitch judges a beachside beauty contest, but is tempted by two of the contestants, who both vie for his vote. Caroline's acting teacher puts her relationship with Logan in jeopardy. Logan designs a new rescue vehicle. Donna is blackmailed by a secret from her past. |
September 30, 1996 |
| 3 |
Liquid Assets C.J. befriends a homeless man, who then dies and leaves her a fortune in his will. Hobie helps aspiring lifeguard Manny make the Junior Lifeguard. |
October 7, 1996 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Rookie Summer A flood of new recruits arrive at Baywatch to try out for rookie school, who include Hobie, Manny, and newcomers; Lani McKensie, a part-Hawaiian, part-Caucasian wanting to be a professional dancer, April Giminski, a naive, design major college student unfamiliar with swimming in the ocean, and Skylar Bergman, April's roommate who wants to become a paramedic. |
September 22, 1997 |
| 2 |
Next Generation During the second week of rookie school, April is injured by a bump on the head caused by a mysterious wave runner rider which harasses her, Lani and Skylar and nearly causes her to be thrown out of rookie school. After visiting his home neighborhood, Manny becomes more determined to become a lifeguard than anything else. |
September 27, 1997 |
| 3 |
The Choice Veteran lifeguard John "J.D." Darius arrives at Bayside and competes with Taylor Walsh, an attractive newcomer, for Mitch's old job as lieutenant and Mitch must make his own decision as to which one will be the most eligible one for his former job. Although J.D. has more experience as a lifeguard than Taylor, he is plagued by haunting memory of failing in a rescue at Daytona Beach where he worked some years ago. |
October 6, 1997 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Crash (1) During the first week of autumn at Baywatch with Hobie gone away to college and heavy rainfall in the area, Mitch discovers that his shipboard marriage to Neely is invalid, which worsens things then Neely's ex-husband suddenly shows up with no knowledge of Neely's baby or anything else making Mitch realise that Neely lied to him all this time and she has fully reverted back to her conniving and devious true self. |
September 21, 1998 |
| 2 |
Crash (2) Mitch, Craig, Neely, J.D. and Newman co-operate with the Coast Guard in rescuing as many people as possible from the waters of the plane crash and fending off shark attacks as well. |
September 28, 1998 |
| 3 |
Sharks, Lies & Videotape Mitch deals with Captain Alexis "Alex" Ryker, the conniving CEO of a private lifeguard company called Bayguard, who wants to take over the Baywatch lifeguard company to expand her company. When Mitch suspects Alex of setting up rescues to appease Chief Johnson, he resorts to having Cody spy on the Bayguard team to uncover any underhandedness. |
October 5, 1998 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Aloha, Baywatch Mitch Bucannon, on leave in Oahu, Hawaii while he sorts out his thoughts during a mid-life crisis (his failed romance with Neely, his mother's recent death, and Hobie living on the East Coast), decides to form an international team of lifeguards in Hawaii called 'Baywatch Hawaii' for saving lives after a rescue of a family on a remote beach in which a little girl is put in a coma after being submerged. |
September 20, 1999 |
| 2 |
Mahalo, Hawaii During the first week of training for the new lifeguard team of Baywatch Hawaii, competition between Jessie and Kekoa, as well as Jason and J.D. threaten to turn the tryouts into an all-out war. Jason, at Kekoa's advice, visits an old Hawaiian native to look into his true Hawaiian roots, and Allie takes a job as a helicopter tour pilot to make some extra money for herself. |
September 27, 1999 |
| 3 |
Weak Link Dawn Masterson, a lifeguard from Florida and a travelling archaeologist, joins the team and proves almost irresistible to the male lifeguards while she squares off against Sean who tries to find her weakness, while also Dawn seeks her own personal agenda with J.D. whom she used to know. |
October 4, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Soul Survivor During the training sessions for new Baywatch Hawaii lifeguards, Sean deals with Jena and other Hawaiian officials who don't see the training center as a profit making enterprise. During a drive, Sean accidentally hits into Zack McEwen, a new recruit and surfer from Michigan who joins the training team while Jason becomes acquainted with Carrie Sharp, one of the rookies from San Diego who finds him irresistible. |
October 2, 2000 |
| 2 |
A Knife in the Heart A typical day begins when Kekoa deals with three rescues simultaneously one of which involve a brash and spoiled teenage wave runner who causes accidents in the area in which his equally spoiled and arrogant father threatens to sue the team for not coming to his aid in time. |
October 9, 2000 |
| 3 |
Bad Boyz Sean has his hands full in dealing with Jena who wants to close down the training center to make room for a group of crooked investors looking to turn the Oahu North Shore into a hotel chain. So, Leigh tries getting Erica, a British entrepreneur to be the Baywatch Hawaii sponsor in order to keep the training center open, but with complications whom she makes advances to Sean. |
October 16, 2000 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | NBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 23, 1989 |
| Last aired | May 14, 2001 |
| Runtime | 42 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Monday |