Baywatch Nights is a
spin-off from the popular television series,
Baywatch. Created by
Douglas Schwartz,
David Hasselhoff, and
Gregory J. Bonann, the show aired in
syndication and ran from
1995 to
1997.
Synopsis
The original premise of the show was that, during a
midlife crisis, Sgt. Garner Ellerbee, who was the resident
police officer of
Baywatch since the beginning of the series, decides to quit his job as a police officer and form a
detective agency. Mitch Buchannon, his friend from
Baywatch, joins to support him and they are in turn joined by a detective named Ryan McBride. Singer
Lou Rawls, who starred in the first season, performed the series theme song, "After the Sun Goes Down".