Kirpianuscus
a series like an endless holiday. hot bodies, drawing of acting, few slices of crime, brave men, attractive women, family dramas and drops of humor. lifeguards life "ad usum delphini". so, a form of entertainment. or delight. it is not easy to define Baywatch. because, season by season, it becomes more complex and the presence of David Hasselhoff as central axis of stories becomes credible. so, a nice series, first for the music, then for the running in the waves, and not the last, for the useful manner to save appearances for a beautiful longevity. Baywatch is the right mixture of soft adventure and eroticism who could define the entertainment of the "80's. and, decade by decade, this remains a virtue.
Maniac-9
Baywatch showed the exploits of a bunch of Los Angeles County Lifeguards. Granted most of them were super hot babes who just happened to be the lifeguards, but who's complaining? The main character throughout the course of the show was Mitch Buchanon who's a veteran Lifeguard and former Navy SEAL.Just about every episode they would do about a 10 minute montage of them driving around on jet skis, dunebuggies and whatever to kill time. With all the fluff of the show it still made an effort to show lifeguards in a positive life and what they do on a daily basis to save the lives of people on their stretch of the beach.One of the most popular lifeguards in the course of Baywatch was C.J. Parker played by Pamela Anderson.
Gunnar_Runar_Ingibjargarson
Baywatch, television's most-famous "jiggle series" and by some counts the most-watched show around the world, did more for slow-motion beach joggers than anything since Chariots of Fire--just replace the British Olympic athletes with young women in high-cut red swimsuits who look like Playboy models. The premise of Baywatch is straightforward: a Los Angeles-based team of lifeguards saves swimmers and occasionally fights crime, led by beefcake Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff). And those Playboy models? Erika Eleniak turned a 1989 magazine spread into a role as lifeguard Shauni McClain for two-plus seasons alongside Billy Warlock's Eddie Kramer character (the actors themselves had a brief engagement), and most of the season's action revolved around the lives and loves of Mitch, Shauni, and Eddie. (The most famous Baywatch babe, Pamela Anderson, would arrive the following season.) When they weren't saving people on the beach, they were involved in movie shoots ("Money, Honey"), gang wars ("Point of Attack"), homeless girls ("Sandcastles") and stray pets ("Thin or Die"), a serious charge against Eddie ("The Trophy"), a Gilligan's Island hallucination ("Now, Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale"), and chemical dumping ("The Big Spill"). Hasselhoff's real-life wife, Pamela Bach, appears in a recurring role as reporter Kaye Morgan, Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me, Dream On) has a small role as Mitch's ex-wife, Gayle, and Tom McTigue plays lifeguard Harvey Miller.
TVSeriesFTW
David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson's magnum opus from the late eighties is shameless exploitation, but the hot bodies are enough to make it worth watching, if miss-able. There's really nothing more to say other than the fact that this show seriously boosted Pam's career, and made it possible for her to prove her acting skills in the action epic "Barb Wire" seven years later. OK, so maybe that movie wasn't that good, but at least Pam got naked a lot in it, so it has to be worth something, right? Anyway, this show is to be taken at face value. Ignore all poor attempts at characterization and plot and just enjoy the hot beach people bouncing around.