 Made for TV movie pilot of the popular syndicated series which introduces a close-knit group of lifeguards at Baywatch, a Los Angeles beach, who protect the lives of people that come to the beach everyday. They include the team leader Mitch Buchannon, whose devotion to his job has cost him his marriage; the officious head of lifeguards Captain Don Thorp; the veteran lifeguards Jill and Craig who gets more than he bargained for when Laurie, a teenage girl Craig saved from drowning, becomes obsessed with him; as well as the rookie newcomers Shauni and Eddie.