7.6/105 votes#1 - Shark Derby
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/2/1990
A local business owner organizes a shark derby but the event quickly spirals out of control and leads Jill to run into the water to save a little boy but then is attacked by the shark. She is saved by Mitch but later dies from a blood embolism.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Terry Erwin
7.5/104 votes#2 - The Chamber
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/1992
Mitch rescues a diver trapped 90 feet below the ocean surface, but almost dies while experiencing the effects of decompression sickness.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Alan Swyer
7.5/104 votes#3 - Point Doom
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1992
Matt drives his motorcycle on the cliffs above Malibu and challenges Hudson; Mitch trains to beat Stephanie with Garner as his coach.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: N/A
7.5/104 votes#4 - Race Against Time (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1993
Hobie, a cold-hearted Gayle and Ken, Gayle's fiance, get trapped inside Ken's plane when it crashes in the ocean.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.5/104 votes#5 - Race Against Time (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1993
Hobie, Gayle, and Ken get rescued from the crashed plane; Matt's father takes back Matt's motorcycle; Jackie has problems with the renovation of her Summer Place.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.2/104 votes#6 - The Tower
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1993
A murderer escapes from prison; Kilmer and Stephanie drive to Summer's tower where Kilmer takes them hostage; Hobie makes a periscope for his science class.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/104 votes#7 - Nightmare Bay (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1991
Harvey is feeding off the local panic, making a small fortune selling ""Creature in the bay"" T-shirts. Just when things start to calm down, the situation escalates when a fishing boat catches something huge in its net, and is pulled underwater by the mysterious entity below the surface.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/104 votes#8 - Sea of Flames
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1992
The Baywatch crew crack a seaborne drug ring, and Ben finds love with an aging movie star.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/104 votes#9 - Lifeguards Can't Jump
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1992
Mitch and Stephanie discover a dead man on some rocks; C.J. meets a couple on their honeymoon named Dennis and Arlene; unfortunately Dennis falls in love with C.J. and ends up deceiving both her and his wife.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: N/A
7.0/104 votes#10 - Island of Romance
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1993
C.J. and Stephanie go to Catalina for their women's weekend, but the trip does not go according to plan; Hobie and Mitch agree to hire a housekeeper.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/104 votes#11 - Submersion
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1993
Mitch must make a difficult decision when he must choose which boy to rescue from the ocean, and the boy he does not save first ends up in a coma.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.8/104 votes#12 - Tentacles (2)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1993
Stephanie's sister, Caroline, arrives at Baywatch with exciting news, but her joy is shattered by a cataclysmic event. Mitch finds himself at the mercy of a wounded but dangerous adversary.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/103 votes#13 - Western Exposure
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1994
A country-western singer, named Jessie Lee Harris, arrives at Baywatch and after C.J. rescues him from a horde of his fans, he asks her to help him find his estranged wife and son living in the area. C.J.'s newest friend, Sadie, hopes to impress Jessie Lee at an amateur night at the local western club in hopes of wining a spot with his band.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votes#14 - Livin' on the Fault Line (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1994
Matt is openly unamused by Aussie exchange program lifeguard Logan Fowler's hero complex, nearly running over a drowning man on his way to snatch a female from Matt. Mitch is hitting the breaks on Hobie's maternally sanctioned determination to commit to music. Stephanie has the hots for seismologist Riley Ferguson, but her sister returns homeless after a breakup. C.J. keeps turning up, panicking over a a mild tremor Mitch laughed away.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/103 votes#15 - Livin' on the Fault Line (2)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1994
After Mitch rescues Hobie, he helps Matt commandeer a news helicopter to rescue Jackie from her trailer on the cliff. Hobie also breaks out of his shaken state long enough to help C.J. save the homeless man trapped under wreckage of the pier.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/103 votes#16 - Trapped Beneath the Sea (1)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1995
Neely Capshaw, the unwholesome, psycho lifeguard who tried to frame Matt for sexual harassment, arrives back at Baywatch for a job as the switchboard operator and is greeted with a hostile reception from everyone, especially C.J. who personally holds Neely responsible for Matt's departure from Baywatch.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/103 votes#17 - Trapped Beneath the Sea (2)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1995
Neely and Cody try to keep the four people alive on the sunken oil rig until help arrives when Mitch, Stephanie and Logan must find away to get into the structure to rescue them before the air supply runs out. At the end, despite Neely's heroic attempts and proving herself to be a very good lifeguard during the rescue, the Baywatch team still resents her presence and plans to give her a hard time. Logan finally gives into Gator's demands for the credit of the swim wear, and Mitch finally decides to join a detective agency.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/103 votes#18 - Sweet Dreams
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1995
Logan's problems with Caroline begin when he finds an abandoned baby in his lifeguard tower and mistakenly thinks that it's his that one of his many former girlfriends left for him to care for, and Mitch and Hobie have their hands full after volunteering to watch the infant for a while.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votes#19 - The Incident
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/15/1996
Caroline blames herself after a victim drowns after a nighttime rescue. Spurred on by Neely, Caroline takes a walk on the wild side.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votes#20 - Shark Fever
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1996
Logan, wanting a new course in life than being a lifeguard, decides to write and direct a low-budget action flick at the beach using a drugged shark as the villain, with Caroline as the star. But things take a unexpected turn when a very great white shark appears and attacks Cody and a number of other swimmers in the area as Mitch and the rest of the squad try to hunt it down... 'Jaws' style, while Logan sees an opportunity to grab for his movie.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#21 - Let the Games Begin
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1996
The International Ironman Competition is held at Baywatch and Neely sets off a battle of the sexes when she decides to enter the competition.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votes#22 - Search & Rescue
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1997
After rescuing a group of fishermen and tourists from a huge pier fire, Samantha and L.A. fire chief Captain Huntingdon form a rescue firefighting team of six life guards and firefighters, called the Search and Rescue Unit, for such conditions and Cody, Neely, Jordan, and Newman try out for the unit and meet their firefighting counterparts. Their skills are put to the real test when the new group of Cody, Neely, Catalina lifeguard Rick Jenner, and firemen Jessica, Clay, and Terry are sent on their first mission to rescue two men in a partially submerged basement of a fire-ravaged building.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/103 votes#23 - Rookie Summer
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1997
A flood of new recruits arrive at Baywatch to try out for rookie school, who include Hobie, Manny, and newcomers; Lani McKensie, a part-Hawaiian, part-Caucasian wanting to be a professional dancer, April Giminski, a naive, design major college student unfamiliar with swimming in the ocean, and Skylar Bergman, April's roommate who wants to become a paramedic.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#24 - Next Generation
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1997
During the second week of rookie school, April is injured by a bump on the head caused by a mysterious wave runner rider which harasses her, Lani and Skylar and nearly causes her to be thrown out of rookie school. After visiting his home neighborhood, Manny becomes more determined to become a lifeguard than anything else.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#25 - The Choice
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1997
Veteran lifeguard John "J.D." Darius arrives at Bayside and competes with Taylor Walsh, an attractive newcomer, for Mitch's old job as lieutenant and Mitch must make his own decision as to which one will be the most eligible one for his former job. Although J.D. has more experience as a lifeguard than Taylor, he is plagued by haunting memory of failing in a rescue at Daytona Beach where he worked some years ago.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Gillian Horvath
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"Shark Derby" is the best rated episode directed by Gregory J. Bonann. It scored 7.6/10 based on 5 votes. It was written by Terry Erwin. It aired on 3/2/1990 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Chamber".