Baywatch Nights
In this Baywatch spin-off, Mitch Buchannon, the always reliable Los Angeles county lifeguard, moonlights as a private detective alongside his beach cop buddy Garner and a female N.Y. private dick named Ryan McBride. They investigate and solve crimes together, often in some way related to Mitch's beloved beach. Luckily, they're usually not alone in this fight, as their frequent associates include cute psychic, Destiny Desimone, Mitch's lifeguard colleague, Donna Marco, and Lou Raymond, a legendary musician who owns the nightclub called 'Nights' where the trio's detective agency is located. However, in season 2, the show gets a serious overhaul as Mitch's cases suddenly start to exclusively involve supernatural horror and his enemies become actual demons, ghosts, monsters and other supernatural phenomena. He faces these otherworldly foes together with Ryan, as their relationship becomes more platonic in nature (mimicking that of Mulder and Scully), and Diamont Teague, Garner's replacement for this season.
- 1995-1997
- 2 seasons
- All American Television
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- TV-PG
In this Baywatch spin-off, Mitch Buchannon, the always reliable Los Angeles county lifeguard, moonlights as a private detective alongside his beach cop buddy Garner and a female N.Y. private dick named Ryan McBride. They investigate and solve crimes together, often in some way related to Mitch's beloved beach. Luckily, they're usually not alone in this fight, as their frequent associates include cute psychic, Destiny Desimone, Mitch's lifeguard colleague, Donna Marco, and Lou Raymond, a legendary musician who owns the nightclub called 'Nights' where the trio's detective agency is located. However, in season 2, the show gets a serious overhaul as Mitch's cases suddenly start to exclusively involve supernatural horror and his enemies become actual demons, ghosts, monsters and other supernatural phenomena. He faces these otherworldly foes together with Ryan, as their relationship becomes more platonic in nature (mimicking that of Mulder and Scully), and Diamont Teague, Garner's replacement for this season.
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1996 - 1997
Episode 1
Terror of the Deep
Sun, Sep 29, 1996
In the second season opener, the series develops a more supernatural/weird tone as Mitch and Griff investigate a sunken freighter where they fight for their lives against an unknown force and realize that the freighter might have been sunk by a New Guinea sea monster according to a woman they found floating in the ocean near sunken wreckage of her sailboat.
Episode 2
The Creature
Sun, Oct 6, 1996
Mitch, Griff and Ryan investigate a series of vicious murders which were committed by a half-human, half-fish woman, known as Silver Eyes, who is looking to procreate with a man.
Episode 3
The Rig
Sun, Oct 13, 1996
Mitch and Ryan head out in the ocean to a oil rig abandoned after a strange accident and find a drifting yacht with a terrified young woman aboard who says that her yacht captain was pulled off the ship by a gelatinous green sea monster, which in fact was the result of the oil rig accident.
Episode 4
The Strike
Sun, Oct 20, 1996
During a normal day at Baywatch, Mitch rescues a young man, named Jake, from drowning, and he soon gets involved in a complex X-Files-type plot line where Jake has a connection with the Roswell UFO incident in the 1940's
Episode 5
Circle of Fear
Sun, Oct 27, 1996
After a report of a possible black arts event in the nearby woods, Mitch and Ryan investigate and find a half-burned book containing strange incantations. Their search leads them to a specialty occult book shop where they find a duplicate of the book where the incantations are shown for calling evil spirits.
Episode 6
The Cabin
Sun, Nov 3, 1996
Investigating strange events at a nearby campsite, Mitch and Ryan enter a cabin and find themselves transported back in time to a 1890's brothel in New York with an ax/knife wielding killer planning to murder everyone involved.
Episode 7
Curse of the Mirrored Box
Sun, Nov 10, 1996
Mitch is alarmed when a child that he saved from drowning six years ago is now a part of a Haitian voodoo cult. When Mitch and Ryan investigate, they turn to a voodoo priestess, Madam Trudor, to help them.
Episode 8
Last Breath
Sun, Nov 17, 1996
Mitch investigates the disappearance of two Baywatch lifeguards without a trace in the water going after cries of drowning. When Donna also goes missing, Mitch investigates an old auto accident with one survivor who may hold a clue to the disappearances.
Episode 9
Night Whispers
Sun, Nov 24, 1996
Mitch and Ryan witness a murder committed by a stark, staring, mad woman, called Francesca. Ryan does some investigating and becomes more and more convinced that Francesca is a very real vampire who has chosen Mitch as her next victim.
Episode 10
Space Spores
Sun, Jan 19, 1997
A space shuttle accidentally drops a load of radio active dust which lands in a farmer's field. Mitch and Griff have to handle the work of cleaning up the strange matter when Ryan is infected by the stuff.
Episode 11
Possessed
Sun, Feb 2, 1997
At the scene of an accident, several people become possessed by a homicidal spirit, which each of them preparing to make a demonic sacrifice. While Donna helps Mitch investigate, she comes in contact with the blood of a dead serial killer which happens to be the cause of the troubles, and becomes possessed by the killer's spirit out to get anyone around her.
Episode 12
Frozen Out of Time
Sun, Feb 9, 1997
Mitch, Ryan and Griff investigate strange incidents in which two frozen 900-year-old Vikings arrive in Los Angeles from Iceland for thawing, and they immediately come to life and restart their feud.
Episode 13
Nights to Dragon One
Sun, Feb 16, 1997
Mitch and Ryan play a computer-generated D&D type game to rescue a man and his daughter being held hostage by the game master which the rules are: you either win or you die.
Episode 14
Ascension
Sun, Feb 23, 1997
Teague asks Mitch and Ryan for help of the Knights Templar when they are faced with torture devices which are controlled with modern electronics by an Asian woman.
Episode 15
The Mobius
Sun, Mar 2, 1997
Ryan's old school friend, Ashley, arrives and takes her and Mitch to a research lab where she and her husband work on developing an inanimate laser. After Mitch, Ryan and Ashley accidentally step into the laser, they "slide" in time to a parallel universe where they must fight for their lives against the creatures inhabiting the world.
Episode 16
Zargtha
Sat, Apr 5, 1997
A monster resembling a wolf is attacking and killing teenage runaways who live in an abandoned building, which is condemned after being demolished by a series of earthquakes. Mitch and Ryan investigate and discover from hair samples from the monster that resemble a mythical wolf man from Yugoslavia named "Zargtha."
Episode 17
The Servant
Sat, Apr 12, 1997
A mummy comes to life and stalks the employees of a museum warehouse, where Ryan takes the events seriously, but Mitch doesn't for he surprisingly does not believe in mummies or curses.
Episode 18
Symbol of Death
Sat, Apr 19, 1997 60 mins
Mitch and Ryan investigate the disappearance of Teague with the help of a man who claims to have been tracking aliens for several years and knows that they are here on Earth, planning world domination.
Episode 19
The Eighth Seal
Sat, Apr 26, 1997 60 mins
After Mitch saves a young girl from drowning, he discovers her to be possessed by a demon who then possesses him for the demon needs a sacrifice to solidify its base of power on Earth. Aware that time is running out for him, Mitch must venture into the netherworld to find help from the only one who can battle the demon: the recently deceased Stephanie Holden.
Episode 20
Hot Winds
Sat, May 3, 1997 60 mins
A mysterious desert wind drives into Baywatch which make several people go insane from an evil force. Mitch, Ryan and Teague must venture into the Santa Ana desert in a attempt to find the source of the evil which the winds carry and discover it to be caused by a "Bruja", a disturbed evil spirit that was imprisoned by the native people.
Episode 21
The Vortex
Fri, May 9, 1997 60 mins
On a day off, Ryan drags Mitch to a fortune-telling booth at the Malibu pier, where an Indian guide sends them into an eerie tunnel from which Mitch and Ryan emerge 20 years in the future to watch helplessly at their future lives.
Episode 22
A Thousand Words
Fri, May 16, 1997 60 mins
Teague leads Mitch and Ryan to a haunted restaurant where several women have been killed and a man left in a coma after a mysterious going on. When Ryan herself disappears, Mitch enlists the help of a psychic to search for her.