Baywatch Nights

- Season 1

(1995)

Never aired pitch pilot for the show. Mitch breaks the fourth wall to narrate how he and Garner opened a detective agency in a nightclub called 'Nights'. They help a girl on the run from goons who want the mysterious artifact she has.

Baywatch lifeguard Mitch Bucannon and L.A. policeman Sgt. Garner Ellerbee begin moonlighting as private investigators for a small detective agency owned by Ryan McBride, which is located above a nightclub called "Nights" owned by Lou Raymond. Mitch and Garner's first job comes when they are hired as bodyguards for Cassidy, a fashion model, who claims that she is being stalked by a madman.

Frances Sandreen, a cosmetic mogul, hires Mitch, Garner and Ryan to investigate her son Todd's involvement with a band of roller-skating burglars that have been robbing people's apartments and slipping away at night.

A strange woman asks Mitch and Garner to help to seek out her daughter who has accidentally becomes the only witness to a murder. Meanwhile, Mitch's zen girlfriend, Destiny, has some complications throughout the night after her bag is switched at the LA airport, and Ryan gets ripped off on ocean view property she plans to buy.

Destiny annoys Mitch and Garner by relating her visions of a series of murders they are investigating until she "sees" that Ryan is the next victim.

Mitch and Ryan go undercover as a gigolo and a wealthy widow to entrap a group of robbers. But they enjoy their roles so much that they almost forget the reason for it, until it's too late.

To catch a killer of a phone-sex operator, Ryan has to work undercover as one in spite of her personal abhorrence of the job.

Mitch and Garner go undercover at a chicken fast-food outlet called California Roasters (dressed in outrageously silly chicken costumes) to arrest a drug dealer. But later, a hostage situation develops at the Nights club when Mitch, Garner, Ryan, Lou and other patrons are held hostage by the two drug dealer's brothers demanding that he be released from prison.

Investigating the murder of the agency's previous owner, Mitch, Garner and Ryan get involved with jewel smugglers, a mysterious speedboat that is always speeding around Baywatch, and a body that won't stay dead.

A young boy, named Lyle Logan, asks Mitch and Garner for help thinking that he's in danger when his Uncle Willie's partners leave prison and hunt for him, thinking he knows where his uncle stashed money that he stole from the murdered boy's father seven years ago, and Lyle witnessed the murder.

Mitch goes undercover as a female impersonator when the agency investigates a series of assaults on a drag-show company.

Mitch and Ryan investigate the people who would benefit from the hostile takeover of a company that includes the murder of certain key employees. Meanwhile, an attractive young lady, named Donna Marco, buys the Nights bistro from Lou, and she hires Griff Walker, an beach surfer, to help her out and with Mitch's work.

Ryan's younger sister, Charlie, arrives in town for a visit, but who is unknowingly followed by some gangsters who claim she made off with their cash. The mob leader, Miles Harrington, then holds Ryan hostage as collateral.

Mitch's former rival Albert Romero (from the Baywatch episode 'Red Wind') suddenly shows up and asks Mitch and Garner to help him search for his wife, Bobbie, who he believes was kidnapped by the Mafia.

Former Baywatch lifeguard Eddie Kramer arrives and appeals to Mitch to investigate a rescue that resulted in a death on the beach, for with he has been blamed. Meanwhile, Garner and Ryan go on a stakeout to watch an alleged thief.

Mitch takes a liking to Nina Cutter, a beautiful woman who turns out to be a cat burglar responsible for a series of thefts at the yacht club.

A deranged man, named Garth Youngblood, takes a fancy to Baywatch lifeguard Caroline Holden and makes many advances toward her. When Caroline resists, Garth captures her and locks her in a cage furnished like her apartment, while Mitch teams with fellow Baywatch lifeguards, Newman and Barnett, to help him and Garner look for Caroline.

A young geisha woman is kidnapped and her small daughter is sought by the kidnappers. Mitch and the child's grandfather, Matsuo Sumaro, must find a way to protect her and attempt to rescue her mother.

Johnny Larkin, a brutal convict, escapes from prison and vows to kill everyone associated with his arrest and conviction, including Garner.

Rene and R.J. O'Gill, two step-children of a recently widowed man, hire Mitch to protect them for they suspect that their step-father, Robert Houston, murdered their mother for her money. Both Rene and R.J. will inherit a trust fund on Rene's 25th birthday which is only a week away.

Mitch, Garner and Ryan investigate a family dispute which results in a wife accusing her husband of corporate embezzlement and giving him the reason to "erase her." The detectives have to find the man before he can carry out his plan.

Dewey Morgan, an old friend of Mitch's, begs him to investigate his estranged wife, Mackenna, who doesn't seem to be her old self and Dewey suspects that she is an impostor.

Several members of a 1970's surfing rock band die during a reunion at the beach, and Mitch investigates. Meanwhile, Donna is tricked into jumping off a bridge and spends the night in the water, where she is rescued by two men carrying out a mysterious mission.