📺 'Baywatch' Saturday 06 January 1990 ~ ITV: 18:50 'Baywatch' premieres on British television A much-vaunted (but one suspects never fully proven) “most popular TV series in the world", providing ITV with six years of decent ratings. A sort of like "Flipper" without the dolphin, the plots were as skimpy as a string bikini. The show was probably best summed up by this newspaper listing: “Baywatch: Eddie and Shauni are trapped in a submerged armoured car; Jill and Trevor play volleyball". #baywat