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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. She is saved by Mitch but later dies from a blood embolism.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mitch must contend with gangsters while going through rehabilitation.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Logan and his friend Gator are determined to beat Matt and Barnett in a rubber ducky contest so that Logan can win the cash prize and not have to marry a rich widow to stay in the country. Mitch's new relationship with Tracy comes under the scrutiny of his disapproving mother but Tracy hides a secret from Mitch.

Stephanie returns to Baywatch only to become victim of an ultraradical eco-terrorist trying to destroy an offshore oil platform. Mitch makes waves in Garner's relationship with a new lifeguard.

After learning Tracy's dying, Mitch intends to make their last moments together count but tragedy cuts short their time together. Logan and Caroline try to stop a pair of reckless wave runners from cauing harm on the beach.

In an homage to the movie Sleepless in Seattle, Hobie tries helping his grieving father deal with Tracy's death by calling a radio station for advice, and a woman listener in another city decides to contact them. Caroline rescues a swimmer with AIDS, causing problems between her and Logan.

Logan is traumatized by a phobia from his past involving his late father and fire. Mitch discovers that his late father was actually proud of his career as a lifeguard.

Mitch's friend, a sheriff and part-time lifeguard, causes trouble when he uses strong-arm tactics on the beach. Logan annuls his marriage of convenience, putting his future at in the U.S. and Baywatch at risk.

John D. Cort, returns to Baywatch, homeless and depressed, but finds a purpose for living when the potential donor of a young leukemia victim is reported missing.

Caroline tries to help a Chinese immigrant woman stay in America after the woman escapes from an illegal refugee boat. Garner and Matt try to stop a beautiful con artist rip off beach goers when she exposes too much.

Kaye hires a an aspiring English pop singer as a waitress and discovers she's a runaway. A daredevil attempts to set a new world's record water skiing behind a blimp. Stephanie questions Caroline's ability as a lifeguard.

When a stunt show lead by Johnny Danger comes to Baywatch, Hobie and his friends are intrigued by Johnny and his motorcycle stunts. But Mitch and Garner are concerned after finding out that Johnny Danger encourages teen-age drinking. Meanwhile, Neely Capshaw, an attractive new lifeguard, arrives at Baywatch and is assisted by Matt. But when Matt discovers that Neely is a alcoholic who drinks while on the job, he reports her to Mitch.