Baywatch (Season 1/NBC) - Title Sequence (1989)
Copyright (c) 1989 National Broadcasting Company
Baywatch is an American drama TV series that revolves around the work of a team of lifeguards and their interpersonal relationships, with plots usually centering on dangers related to the beach and other activities pertinent to the California beach lifestyle. The series starred David Hasselhoff, along with an ensemble cast that includes Pamela Anderson, Alexandra Paul, Gregory Alan Williams, Parker Stevenson, Billy Warlock, Erika Eleniak, Yasmine Bleeth, and among others.
Baywatch debuted on NBC in 1989, but was cancelled after only one season as the production studio GTG (a joint venture of television station owner Gannett Company and Grant Tinker) went out of business due to high costs. But feeling that the series still had potential, Hasselhoff, along with creators and executive producers Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Gregory J. Bonann, revived it for the first-run syndication market in 1991.
It emerged to be a huge success, and the series later became the world's most-watched television series with a weekly audience of over 1.1 billion viewers, earning it a reputation as a pop cultural phenomenon. Baywatch then spawned a spin-off series entitled Baywatch Nights, which aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997, as well as a comedic film adaptation in 2017 that starred Dwyane "The Rock" Johnson, but it had received negative reviews from critics.