Romance is in the air at Baywatch as Mitch and Jackie's friendship grows more intense, Summer and Matt begin a relationship, and Hobie falls in love with Lauren, a junior lifeguard with a devastating secret.
A dramatic plane crash finds Hobie and his mother trapped in the rapidly flooding fuselage beneath the sea while Mitch and the Baywatch lifeguards mount a massive rescue effort to save the trapped passengers and crew.
Mitch's ex-wife flies in for a weekend visit. She introduces her new fiancé Ken and informs Mitch she is taking Hobie back to Ohio with her. When Ken's private jet crashes in the ocean on takeoff, the Baywatch team have to rescue them!
Mitch contends with an unorthodox, risk-taking Australian lifeguard, and rekindles his love affair with beautiful journalist, Kaye Morgan.
Mitch coaches Matt in an amateur kickboxing tournament, but the competition turns deadly when an enemy from Mitch's past gets him into the ring. Meanwhile, CJ, seduced by a fashion photographer, considers leaving Baywatch for a modeling career.
Paralyzed during a heroic rescue, Mitch undergoes a vigorous rehabilitation regimen. Meanwhile, Jason, a ten-year old paraplegic, is pursued by a hit man trying to keep him from testifying against gangsters.
When he risks his life to save three teenagers, Mitch fractures his spine and is paralyzed. Hobie, Stephanie, and Sophie, his physical therapist, rally to repair his shattered life.
Mitch finds himself falling for an Italian actress who is being stalked by ruthless robbers. Meanwhile, CJ and Stephanie help Guido pretend to be a lifeguard in order to impress his visiting mother.
A rock concert and political rally are the backdrop for a chilling assassination plot that finds CJ unconscious on an explosive-laden Scarab heading for the crowded pier.
Mitch and Garner go undercover as a two-on-two street basketball team to solve a young athlete's murder. CJ becomes involved with an amorous, honeymooning Midwestern tourist.
Mitch and Stephanie board a yacht disguised as wealthy southern honeymooners to capture a group of modern-day pirates and find themselves oddly attracted to each other's undercover character.
A thrilling muscle boat competition is the backdrop for a whirlwind romance between Mitch and a beautiful woman he doesn't know is both a princess and the target of an assassination plot.
Matt's tempestuous affair with a gorgeous motorcycle racer takes him to the brink, while Mitch and Stephanie go head-to-head in a spirited battle of the sexes.
Malibu Beach High students square off against the administration's plans to sell sacred Chumash Indian lands. And Garner quits the beach to work as a street cop again, only to be stuck in an office job by his vindictive captain.
Hobie and Summer each find themselves torn between doing the right thing and giving in to dangerous social pressures.
Summer and Matt face grueling personal and physical challenges in Rookie School, the "boot camp” of lifeguarding, while unusual circumstances force female odd couple CJ and Stephanie to share an apartment.
A bohemian poet flirts with Shauni, and with danger, when he uses his metal detector to find the buried stash of two jewel thieves.
Shauni is suspicious when a swimmer training for the Olympics disappears in "Shark's Cove.” Eddie's world is turned upside-down when he is reunited with his schizophrenic half-brother.
Mitch has an out-of-body experience when his attempt to save a trapped diver without scuba gear leaves him with the bends, dangerously close to death and in desperate need of a decompression chamber.
A drugged-out drifter torches Eddie's lifeguard tower which leads the team to discover an illegal, lab distributing a new drug. Mitch and Thorpe try to convince the city board to buy wave runners in order to optimize their ability to save lives.