Streaming wasn't a thing yet. If you wanted to watch, you had to choose from what was on at the time on the few channels you had. A lot of syndicated shows like Baywatch would run at odd times like say Sunday afternoon. When it was a wasteland.

So you'd be flipping through the channels. Infomercial. Infomercial. Star Trek rerun, I've seen this episode like 50 times. Golf. Bowling. Infomercial. Brady Bunch, oh it's the Marcia Marcia Marcia one.

Hmmm. Some show about hot lifeguards. At least I haven't seen this before . . . .