Mitch and Stephanie cope with an odd assembly of UFO enthusiasts camping on the beach in anticipation of an extraterrestrial visitation. Smugglers threaten Summer to recover diamonds they hid inside a surfboard Slade gave her.
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.
Jimmy Slade and Matt Brody tangle with a violent surf gang, while Mitch's life is thrown into turmoil when former lover Stephanie Holden assumes co-command of Baywatch headquarters.
A whitewater rafting trip turns deadly when Mitch, Hobie, Eddie, Shauni and CJ are pursued by the murderous miners that killed Mitch's uncle to get his map leading to the "Golden Boot" that Mitch and the others are now searching for.
The mysterious death of Mitch's uncle, and the cryptic will he left, finds Mitch, Hobie, Eddie, and Shauni on a whitewater rafting adventure. Meanwhile, rookie lifeguard hopefuls participate in the annual qualifying swim.
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.
Reports of a coming storm and enormous waves bring painful memories for Mitch. Meanwhile, Kaye tries to persuade the parents of a deaf girl to send her to sign-language school.
Drug lord Mason Sato is released from prison and determined to seek revenge Mitch Buchannon, who helped send him away. When Sato kidnaps Hobie and Kaye, Mitch and Sato end up in a samurai-style fight to the death.
Eddie slips on sand and hits his head on the tower ramp. When he regains consciousness, Eddie finds himself on an island with Gilligan, Mary Ann and the rest of the castaways.
Mitch and his ex-wife Gayle reconnect at their twenty-year high school reunion with unforeseen results. Eddie discovers an abandoned baby under his tower with a note imploring him to take care of it for 24 hours.
Mitch falls for the beautiful woman he saved from drowning after she drove her car off a cliff, unaware that she's a cold-blooded murderer and con artist who was attempting to dispose of the murder victim of her latest scam when Mitch rescued her.
Eddie is suspended from Baywatch over the statutory rape charge. He feels abandoned when no one believes his innocence pleas. Meanwhile, the reckless, paraplegic Turner, wanting to win Megan back, tries to impress her by hang-gliding off a cliff.
Eddie is arrested for statutory rape after a teenage girl lies about seducing him in his tower. Meanwhile, Eric Turner, bitter about the paralyzing accident he suffered as a lifeguard, returns to Baywatch to reconcile his relationship with Megan.
When a fishing trawler mysteriously sinks, the “Creature in the Bay” is thought responsible! Mitch, Devon and Captain Thorpe set out to prove there is more than meets the eye behind this Creature's mysterious attacks.
'Nightmare Bay, Part 1'' - Mitch rescues an underwater photographer that appears to have been attacked by a Sea Creature in an underwater cave, resulting in a media frenzy. Shauni rescues a young girl in the ocean then has to rescue her family from drowning.
A massive earthquake destroys Baywatch headquarters and leaves Gina's life hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, Cort and Craig are trapped in the ocean. And Eddie is the only one left who can help a pregnant woman going into labor.
Craig, Mitch and Garner go for a weekend hang-gliding trip, but Mitch has a serious accident, and ends up facing death before the fangs of a rattlesnake! Cort reacquaints himself with a woman who has a shocking secret.