When a dangerous crime wave hits the beach, Lt. Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson) leads his elite squad of badass lifeguards, including hot-shot recruit Matt Brody (Zac Efron), on a mission to prove you don't have to wear a badge to save the bay.

At a Los Angeles beach, a team of lifeguards led by Lieutenant Mitch Buchannon save lives, deal with personal dramas, fight crime and participate in over the top adventures on a daily basis.

Paramount Pictures' library consists of more than 1,000 films, including such classics as the “Star Trek,” “Godfather,” and “Indiana Jones” franchises, Academy Award-winners “Braveheart,” “Forrest Gump,” and “Titanic,” and current favorites such as the “Mission: Impossible” and “Transformers” franchises.

The Baywatch film was shot chiefly at Deerfield Beach, Florida with some scenes in Boca Raton. Deerfield Beach is in Broward County, and the city is just south of the Palm Beach County line.

Once upon a time, 30 years today, Baywatch bounced into our consciousness. From the slow motion boring running and idyllic beach scenery to the glistening fake torsos and iconic blah red swimsuits, the soapy prime time drama had everything it took to both bore the masses and not be taken one bit seriously.

The original idea for Baywatch came from Greg Bonann, a real-life lifeguard who started doing his part to keep L.A. County beaches safe in 1970, when he was 17. One day he told fellow lifeguard Michael Newman, as Newman remembered it on a 2001 episode of E!

The famous beach drama wasn't always called Baywatch, which came from the name of the Santa Monica Bay rescue boats.

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It is based on the television series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Gregory J. Bonann. The film stars Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. The story follows lifeguard Mitch Buchannon and his team who must take down a drug lord in an effort to save their beach.

At its peak of popularity, Baywatch (NBC, then syndicated, USA) became the most widely viewed TV series in the world ever, with an estimated weekly audience of more than 1.1 billion in 142 countries in 1996.

Baywatch is the iconic series known for attractive lifeguards and slow motion running. On air from 1989 to 2001, it was extremely popular and led to David Hasselhoff earning a Guinness World Record for being the most watched man on television ever.

The title "Baywatch" refers to the rescue boats that have been patrolling Southern California beaches for decades.