Summer has love problems when Slade returns from a world surfing tour to discover Matt and Summer are dating. CJ is persistently pursued by a bungee jumping balloonist. Meanwhile, Garner patrols the beach on horseback.
John D. Cort, Mitch's friend and a former lifeguard, returns to Baywatch where his life undergoes a devastating change. Meanwhile, Hobie meets a very "unique" new friend.
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.
CJ and Stephanie travel to Catalina Island for a "girls-only” weekend getaway, only to be distracted by two handsome men, leading to a life and death encounter. When Mitch and Hobie hire a gorgeous Swedish au pair, amorous complications ensue.
A dispute between Mitch's lifeguard career and his father's desire to have him take over the family architecture business becomes intensified by devastating news about the elder Buchannon.
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.
Shauni and Eddie visit a local fortune teller who predicts that Eddie will soon meet his first true love. Shauni thought he already had, and that it was her! But it's Lorna, an older woman Eddie had a "Summer of '42" affair with as a teenager.
Harvey and Mitch go to play poker on an offshore yacht where they are robbed by a masked man that drives an amphibious Jeep. Shauni invites Eddie over for dinner at her parents' house where her snobbish father strongly disapproves of him.
Mitch helps a former lifeguard, Lane Brody, investigate a corporation suspected of dumping deadly chemicals in the bay.
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.