Baywatch - Season 1 (1989)

Mitch and his ex-wife Gayle must put aside their differences to find Hobie and his two friends who got stranded on a channel island where modern day pirates hide. Eddie and Shauni share a shift and deal with an annoying tourist couple.

Mitch takes Gayle to court to keep the custody of Hobie. After their plane crashes, two robbers attempt to retrieve their suitcase full of stolen money from the ocean. Captain Thorpe joins Eddie and Shauni on their shift.

Jill investigates a suspicious drowning and becomes involved with the drowned man's suspicious family.

Trevor enters rookie school to become a certified county lifeguard. One rookie uses steroids to beat him. Eddie helps a girl pursued by her abusive, murderous, drug dealing ex. Craig and Gina try to make a baby during a weekend getaway.

Eddie warns Shauni that her new boyfriend, Andrew, is not a good guy, but she ignores it until Andrew gives her a black eye. Craig and Mitch must stop a party boat out of control before it crashes into the crowded Santa Monica pier.

A scary masked serial killer (popularly called the Night Puncher) who roams the beach at night targets a local senator. Motherly Gina takes care of Eddie after he gets his wisdom teeth pulled, which makes him have an oedipal wet dream.

During a violent tropical storm, two escaped convicts shoot Garner and leave him to die. They then break into the Baywatch headquarters and take everyone there hostage. Captain Thorpe tries out for a radio surf reporter.

Mitch hooks up with his and Craig's old flame, which makes Craig jealous. Eddie buys a nice car cheaply and only realizes that he was swindled when he gets arrested for driving a stolen car.

Jill teams up with Trevor to win a beach volleyball tournament, but all she really wants is to beat her ex's team, no matter what. Eddie and Shauni try to rescue a child trapped in a crashed armored car that's about to fall into the sea.

Mitch's charismatic but roguish old buddy, John D. Cort, joins Baywatch. However, he's actually there to pull off a shady deal. Shauni and Jill start selling sandwiches on the beach to put a shady sandwich vendor out of business.

Craig, Cort and Eddie take a road trip to Mexico, but their vacation south of the border turns ugly when they tangle with an angry American tourist who won't leave them alone. At Baywatch, Mitch gets an uninvited house guest: Captain Thorp when his wife leaves him, and Hobie develops a crush on Shauni.

Cort and Eddie train junior lifeguards at a water slide park. But someone is vandalizing the slide's pumps. Meanwhile, Captain Thorpe wants Shauni fired for posing in a pinup calendar, but she claims she was duped into posing. Hobie gets into a fight at school which disqualifies him from a field trip to Baywatch, which requests a parent-teacher meeting between Mitch and Hobie's attractive teacher, Amanda Keller.

Eddie is drawn into gambling after Cort takes him to an illegal offshore casino and after a few nights of bad luck, Eddie finds himself $3,000 in debt. But when Cort discovers the place to be rigged with loaded dice and marked cards, he, Craig and Eddie conspire to beat the gamblers at their own game. Meanwhile, Hobie thinks he can slack off after his English teacher, Amanda Keller, and Mitch begin dating, but he finds out otherwise.

When a rookie lifeguard claims he saw an apparition of a young girl running through the surf in a white nightgown, everyone thinks he's crazy. But when the lifeguard turns up dead after being drowned, Eddie is haunted by the same apparition and it revives a painful memory of the drowning of his sister. Meanwhile, Hobie attempts to babysit for a friend's dog in his house without Mitch noticing.

After a couple of sharks are seen in the bay and just off of the beach, Mitch becomes even more concerned when the greedy owner of a restaurant sponsors a Shark Derby to help promote the restaurant with a prize of $25,000 to the one who kills the biggest shark. Lives are put at risk, especially for one Baywatch lifeguard who is attacked while saving some children, and Mitch becomes determined to find out why so many sharks are in the area and what connection Bucky, the restaurant owner, has with the unusually large number of sharks populating the bay.

Cort promises to come up with a load of cash for a nursing home, but he needs Mitch and Craig's help to compete with each other in a water skiing race with a big cash prize. Meanwhile, Shauni is still grief-stricken and afraid to go back in the water in the wake of Jill's death.

Craig, Mitch and Garner go for a weekend hang-gliding trip, but Mitch has an accident when he gets stuck in a tree and eventually falls. With Mitch unconscious, Craig and Garner have to wait for a rescue helicopter to come, which is delayed. Meanwhile, Cort reacquaints himself with a woman whose husband had drowned a year ago, but learns that the husband actually faked his death to collect an insurance. Now, Cort must decide whether or not to turn them both in.

A massive earthquake strikes Southern California causing extensive damage to headquarters. Mitch and Garner look for Craig and Cort who are trapped inside of an underwater cave where poisonous gas is emitting deadly fumes. Eddie is stuck inside of a lifeguard tower with a woman who is about to give birth.