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Baywatch Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1989 - 1990
Episode 1
In Deep
Fri, Sep 22, 198945 mins
Two reckless teenage friends of Hobie are involved in power-ski hit and run accident that leaves a windjammer rider dead. When Hobie discovers that they are responsible, he is torn between protecting his friends identity and leaving the case unsolved to the local beach patrol officer, Sgt. Garner Ellerbee, or telling Mitch and risk facing his anger since he has repeatedly warned Hobie over the dangers of water skiing. Meanwhile, Craig discovers that Eddie is in fact homeless after catching him sleeping in his lifeguard tower in which he and Gina offer their storage closet for him to crash until he finds a place of his own. Also, Trevor continues to stir up more trouble for the Baywatch lifeguards in which Jill is both drawn to and repulsed by his arrogance and disregard for the local county regulations.
Episode 2
Heat Wave
Fri, Sep 29, 198946 mins
During the hottest day of the summer, Mitch's old friend, Steve, and his young son, Mike, show up for a surprise visit. But when Mike is trapped with a local boy in a storm drain and is in danger of drowning, Steve is forced to admit to Mitch that he kidnapped his son because he is in a custody battle with his ex-wife. Meanwhile, Craig is forced to decide by his demanding law firm boss between being a lifeguard, or staying at the law firm. But Gina suggests to him a third option: open up his own law firm.
Episode 3
Second Wave
Fri, Oct 13, 198946 mins
Eddie is haunted by his bitter past when a former friend of his, named Jimmy, arrives from his home in Philadelphia and immediately causes friction over personal issues they had while they were in a foster home. Then, Eddie gets suspended for getting into a fight with Jimmy at the beach, and Craig has to bail him out of jail for fighting on the streets with Jimmy and his gang. When Eddie comes clean and decide to turn Jimmy in, the thug slips away and decides to get even with Eddie once and for all by setting his lifeguard tower afire, with Eddie and Shauni still inside. Meanwhile, Mitch stresses over his upcoming lifeguard re-check with Captain Thorpe, which turns out to be quite different than he expected. Also, Trevor begins to re-think his lifeguard career at the beach club after he rescues his current girlfriend, Lisa Peters, and she later nearly dies from secondary drowning.
Episode 4
Message in a Bottle
Fri, Oct 20, 198947 mins
Hobie is once again caught in the middle of Mitch and Gayle's custody battle when Gayle gets a new job at a law firm in Ohio, and Mitch tells her that he will not give up Hobie without a fight. However, both Mitch and Gayle must put aside their personal differences to help the rest of the Baywatch squad find Hobie and two of his friends when they get stranded on a channel island that is the hideout of a pair of modern day pirates. Meanwhile, Eddie and Shauni squabble with each other again after they're reluctantly paired for a 24-hour shift, where they encounter an naive and obnoxious tourist couple stranded on the beach and are forced to take them along with them on their beach patrol
Episode 5
The Sky Is Falling
Fri, Oct 27, 198948 mins
When Gayle's job transfers her to Ohio sooner than expected, she makes plans to take Hobie with her. But Mitch is determined not to let go of Hobie and the two of them fight it out in the courtroom. Meanwhile, two robbers attempt to retrieve a suitcase full of cash left floating in the ocean after their plane crashes. Also, Captain Thorpe assigns himself to Eddie and Shauni's tower to help watch the beach.
Episode 6
The Drowning Pool
Fri, Nov 3, 198948 mins
When a middle-aged man drowns in front of Jill's tower, the incident report lists the cause of death as a heart attack. But when certain things don't add up, Jill investigates herself and soon becomes involved with the man's son, whom she begins to suspect that he murdered his father to inherit the family business. But all of the evidence against the son is circumstantial at best.
Episode 7
Rookie School
Fri, Nov 10, 198948 mins
Trevor rivals healthily with the only fellow rookie who is his athletic better, Jeff Dalander, but soon regrets failing to report Jeff is on steroids from his mentor, Mitch's trusted swim coach Coglin. Hearing a rookie is a fellow East coast migrant, Eddie offers to take her in (while Craig and Gina are on frustrated romantic weekend trip now they want a baby), ignoring she's an accomplice on the run from drug gang murderer Howard Ganza.
Episode 8
Cruise Ship
Fri, Nov 24, 198947 mins
Eddie becomes suspicious of Andrew, Shauni's new boyfriend, over his sudden change in attitudes. But Shauni ignores Eddie's suspicious thinking he's just jealous, until Andrews shows his true colors when he gets increasingly demanding and physically violent with her. Meanwhile, a charted boat catering to drunken revels looks like trouble to Craig, who proves correct when he and Mitch must make a daring rescue after the boat heads out of control and straight for the crowded Santa Monica pier.
Episode 9
The Cretin of the Shallows
Fri, Dec 1, 198947 mins
A rash of murders committed by a fiendish looking man coincides with the opening of a new beach front hotel. Craig does some investigating and discovers that a local senator who will speak at the opening ceremony, knew all of the murder victims. Meanwhile, Gina plays mother to Eddie after he gets his wisdom teeth pulled leading to him having romance-minded fantasies about her.
Episode 10
Shelter Me
Fri, Dec 8, 198948 mins
As the Baywatch team prepares themselves for the arrival of a violent tropical storm, a pair of escaped convicts shoot Garner, leaving him under the Malibu pier while they take shelter at the Baywatch headquarters. Meanwhile, Eddie and Shauni become more close as the tropical storm draws near, and Captain Thorp additions for a job as a radio surf reporter.
Episode 11
The Reunion
Fri, Dec 15, 198948 mins
Mitch rekindles a romance with a former girlfriend of his, which sparks hostility with Craig whom she used to date a few years ago. Meanwhile, after much frustration, Eddie manages to purchase his new car for a few thousand dollars, a bargain for he soon finds himself arrested after learning that it has been stolen.
Episode 12
Armored Car
Fri, Jan 5, 199048 mins
Trevor hopes to win enough for an Australia trip, easily, by tempting colleague and former volleyball pro Jill to team up against her former (also romantic) ex, Chris Barron, but finds her an obsessive slave-driver. Edie planned to turn a major team sport game into a boys weekend, but paranoid-jealous Shauni makes him stay home and drags him to the childish beach carnival, only to complain he listens to the game. That puts them in place to try heroically rescuing a child trapped in the overloaded armored car containing the cash prize in the save the pier benefit, only to get trapped themselves.
Episode 13
Home Cort
Fri, Jan 12, 199048 mins
John D. Cort, a charming rogue and old friend of Mitch's, returns to Baywatch and recruits a friend of his during his days in the Navy to help carry out a shady deal. Meanwhile, Shauni and Jill decide to go into business together by selling sandwiches on the beach to try and put another vendor, who sells questionable sandwiches, out of business.
Episode 14
We Need a Vacation
Fri, Jan 26, 199047 mins
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.
Episode 15
Muddy Waters
Fri, Feb 2, 199047 mins
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.
Episode 16
Snake Eyes
Fri, Feb 9, 199046 mins
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.
Episode 17
Eclipse
Fri, Feb 23, 199047 mins
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.
Episode 18
Shark Derby
Fri, Mar 2, 199047 mins
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.
Episode 19
The Big Race
Fri, Mar 16, 199047 mins
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.
Episode 20
Old Friends
Fri, Mar 30, 199047 mins
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.
Episode 21
The End?
Fri, Apr 6, 199047 mins
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.
