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timeless. iconic. nightline. >> i'm just gonna let it all hang out now. >> everyone tuned in to watch the show because you knew you were going to see someone sexy. >> they had to wear next to nothing and it was hot wild time and i was a wild chic. >> i'm really proud of everything i've done. almost >> baywatch. it was a show that took the 1990s by storm. >> 1.2 billion people weekly. that was the highest volume of viewers of any show ever in the history of television. baywatch >> every week, viewers tuned in to see daring rescues carried out by buff lifeguards. take my hand. and blond bombshells. >> you know, we took a lot of crap for those bathing suits running in slow motion, but everybody watched. >> everybody on the show had to

be beautiful. i mean, everybody was pretty. the show becoming a cultural juggernaut. >> there was a reference to baywatch in almost everything. that was a hit, the simpsons. i heard it on baywatch. >> american dad, why were you keeping the exciting world of lifeguards from me? friends. hey they're running! >> see, this is the brilliance of the show. i say always keep them running. >> chandler on friends. i think, had a crush on yasmine. run yasmine! run like the wind. and that's the kind of thing that helped baywatch become even more iconic. >> now one of television's hottest shows is the subject of the abc news studios docu serie. after baywatch, moment in the sun that looks beyond the beach. but the cast says what's really going on behind the scenes? >> you're going up for a leading role. there are certain expectations about the way you have to look and that is it. and that goes today. >> baywatch star nicole eggert, who played summer quinn,

co-produced the four part series. >> these are not just pretty faces with great bodies in red bathing suits. these are human beings with a lot of depth and, you know, a lot of personality that didn't really get its time. >> the show tracked down more than 35 cast members to reflect on their baywatch days, like david hasselhoff. >> we're going to see a beautiful boat, a beautiful day. beautiful women semi-good looking guys, and carmen electra. >> i was doing things i never imagined i would do, like tandem surfing. i remember going up in the air and just said, make yourself look like a ballerina. and then, with perfect form, i looked to the camera and waved, and that is one of my proudest moments out there in the water. >> electra perfecting the baywatch slow motion run. >> i still run in slow motion for people. it's become this worldwide thing. >> carmen electra would actually show people how to do the slow motion run. on shows like

bravo's watch what happens, you run and you breathe and you kind of make it serious. >> and i'm game. i love it, and i teach people how to do it. there's a technique to it. >> it's fun. but it was pamela anderson who rode the baywatch wave to superstardom. >> pamela anderson had the ligh. we saw the light shining from her eyes, shining from the smile. >> she moved to los angeles and started appearing on the cover of playboy magazine before auditioning for baywatch. >> i was supposed to go to baywatch auditions many, many times, but i thought marina del rey was really far away. >> i'm not a very good driver, and so i never went. and so i was famous before i got there because i never showed up. >> so she finally comes in and she was just wonderful. she was bubbly and she was beautiful and charismatic and sexy. >> anderson landed the part of c.j. parker. >> he was fantastic, bringing my dog to work every day. i couldn't believe that people paid me to go to work. >> we caught more attention

because of pam. our ratings went from 2.33 rating all the way up to a ten rating. so we tripled our ratings and we realized that we had something going here. >> people watched her. we all watched her. >> i was never really an ambitious person, and i didn't strive to be an actress or to be famous. it all just seemed so surreal. it just seemed like one thing after another. no matter where i went, it just seemed like that's what i was meant to do. >> anderson's fame only burned brighter when she met motley crue drummer tommy lee. >> this was a time where people were obsessed with pam and tommy. >> first she was pamela anderson, then, after a four day romance and a white bikini wedding, she was pamela lee. pamela. >> these two were meant to be together. pamela anderson and tommy lee. and that was just the beginning of a tumultuous and headline filled relationship filled with ups and downs. >> my marriage was hard on everybody. on baywatch and that

was kind of difficult on the set, with the testarossa spinning out in the driveway and punching out cabinets in the makeup trailer and i think it was just hard on everybody. >> we always had issues with tommy lee being jealous of pam's relationship with other actors on the show. >> the tinderbox only became more explosive when the couple's private sex tape was stolen, and released publicly. >> it was a total invasion of our privacy. this is like sacred. you know what this is? this is not meant to be on the shelves of tower video right now. you know. how is this happening? >> pamela and tommy were not the only source of controversy for the show. nicole eggert says the pressure to stay thin and beautiful was immense. >> i was 19, 20 years old. i was much younger than the rest of the cast. when you're 19, 20 years old. like i didn't have to try. i didn't work out. you kno, it just was, like, natural. and i show up on set and they've got

this red bathing suit and i've never worked out a day in my life. and i panicked. i couldn't believe that that's what i was going to be doing, you know? it made me so insecure and just so uncomfortable. i was considered curvy back then and there wasn't anything i could do about it. i just had a behind on me and everybody else was these like teeny tiny, skinny things. there was a clause of couldn't gain, couldn't lose 5 pounds. you had to stay within your weight. >> you know, we had to stay fit. we couldn't really get cellulite because it's going to show on camera. so it's a lot of pressure. it was a lot of pressure. >> the men on the show under the same spotlight. >> i figured out early on in the show, like, wow, the more fit you are, the more episodes they're going to write for you. the more fans you have, the more money you're going to make. it was like a self-fulfilling thing. so i just embraced it. i wanted to be super, super fit. i made sure i was. >> men can be sexualized just as

much as women, and chokachi is a perfect example of that. in the opening credits, he's coming out of the water. his muscles are popping out. >> i think he puts his head back like this. >> it was hot. >> action, action. >> when we were filming on the beach, we had a thing called the rolling six pack. i say rolling, everybody hold it in. and then we do the scene and they get cut, and then they let it out. >> i'm the guy with no biceps. >> shut up. >> okay, next. next. >> baywatch created a situation which maybe was good or wasn't good, that everybody's body was so ideal that it actually pushed the fitness craze because you wanted to be like these people or you didn't fit anymore. >> eggert, who is currently battling breast cancer, says the show was more than just those

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yorkers looked up and saw a tiny speck between the world trade center towers, a death defying stunt that captured the world's attention. high wire artist philippe petit is as fearless now as he was that day. here's nightline co-anchor juju chang with another look. >> all of a sudden, the density of the air is no longer the same. >> with the grace of a dancer, philippe petit floats 20ft above the ground, across a high wire at 74 years old. a mesmerizing display of balance and defiance. you remember me? with his good friend sting serenading his feet on the fields of barley. it's been 50 years since petit's death defying walk between the twin towers, a dot appearing in the sky, capturing the world's imagination. here at saint john's cathedral in new york city, surrounded by hundreds of adoring fans, he's celebrating his place in history.

>> it's a lifetime. 50 years. and yet it's nothing. i look, i see all the detail of my work then, as if it were yesterday. >> petit is one of the world's most renowned performance artists, known for his daring walks on wires hundreds of feet above the ground without any safety net. what's your relationship with the wire? >> i spent a lifetime trying to create work in which my whole mind and body almost secretly communicate with the cable, so it's a very intimate, personal relationship that i created with the apparent inanimate piece of steel. >> but to me, it's really vibrant, full of life. >> the frenchman burst onto the scene in 1971, shocking the crowds in paris by walking between the spires of the notre dame cathedral. two years later, he reappeared, this time on a wire strung between two pylons at the sydney harbor bridge. but

it was his breathtaking walk between the twin towers. in 1974 that sealed his celebrity, chronicled in the oscar winning documentary man on wire. >> there is somebody out there on a tightrope walk between the two towers of the world trade center, right at the tippy top. >> and the feature film the walk, starring joseph gordon-levitt. the renegade artist boasting of the illegal nature of his walks. how many times do you think you've been arrested? >> actually, i know, because i was counting. i have been arrested more than 500 times in my life, but not for a bad thing. for artistic crimes. we going? good. >> nightline got rare behind the scenes access as the artists prepared to commemorate his most infamous walk. what's the elevation again? the height. >> 20ft. 20ft. >> most people will not risk their lives on a wire. but they wonder. where do you put the

fear? >> there is no fear. >> there is a certain childlike impatience. i start the performance and i am solid. i am in control. there is no fear >> we visited petit on a hot summer's day at his home in upstate new york, just in time for his daily regimen to the music of henry purcell. petit glides across the wire, unbothered by gravity or the effects of aging. >> i have no respect for age. i don't recognize age. i feel i am in complete control of my art, and i am more solid on the wire. i'm probably more majestic than when i was a rebellious 18 years old, trying to prove things. >> what was the first spark as the young, rebellious teenager that drew you into it? >> i'm glad you used the word rebellion, because it's really what characterized the beginning of my young life. i remember that i started climbing, many

kids like to climb, and i think climbing is a way to separate yourself from the world below. and it's an act of rebellion. so i spent my childhood climbing the act of rebellion, driving his desire to reach new heights, spending months meticulously planning his most famous caper. >> he became comfortable enough to cross back and forth eight times while balancing 1950ft above the ground. >> so it was for the sake of beauty or art. >> it was for no reason, because i just feel it. i say one day, oh, that would be fantastic right there. >> you know, when you stepped off the wire 50 years ago, you were once again arrested. >> yes. >> it was illegal. yes. but i became instantly a new york celebrity. the 24 year old was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct, but the charges were dismissed. >> and what i want to do is to feel like a bird all my life, to go above the ground on the condition that petit put on a

free performance in central par. >> the legacy of the towers and his iconic walk front and center in his anniversary performance. >> when you lose a loved one, of course tears come in and you have to grieve, but also sometimes smile and joy and laughter come in because you remember the departed in the glory of their life. so i think it is the same. >> a hush falls over the packed crowd as the show begins comprised of 19 distinct scenes, the performance, named towering, embodies petit's journey to his historic walk reenacted by dancers and musicians. >> this is a wind, as well as the main star. >> his feelings of victory, sir, come here! and the moment he was

confronted by nypd ranks. don't you do that, sir. as the show is about to close, a special surprise the premiere of sting's new song let the great world spin. see the way the stars they call him. >> the choir is singing in the name. >> to me, a good performance is one where you give yourself 100% and you get a response from the audience, and to me, it happened tonight. but what do you think? >> exactly what he said, i agree, it's clear that this show is far from the end of petit's high flying career. >> you said that you will never retire my age is old, but my mind is very young and aggressive and rebellious like i was three years old. >> i hope to continue to tour the world with my art. this is my wish. >> our thanks to juju when we return. caitlin clark and angel

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