Baywatch was never a good television show, but it was definitively sultry. The iconic opening credits featured pneumatic castmembers, culled from many a centrefold, running across sand and diving through water in excruciatingly slow motion. The show was about a team of lifeguards unwisely (and titillatingly) playing detective with all manner of random seaside intrigue. David Hasselhoff, who we already hated from Knight Rider because he got the talking car every boy wanted, was in it, surrounded by statuesque women with fun-to-pronounce names, like Erika Eleniak. It also starred Pamela Anderson, Playboy's most repeated covergirl of all time
