7.5/104 votes#1 - We Need a Vacation
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1990
Craig joins Cort and Eddie on a trip to Mexico for a long overdue vacation but things turn out very differently from their expectations.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: William Rabkin
7.5/104 votes#2 - The One That Got Away
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1991
A fisherman tricks new lifeguard Megan into rescuing him in order to attack her. When he continues to stalk her, Mitch has to find a way to stop him. Meanwhile, when Shauni suffers from lifeguard burnout, Eddie takes her on a romantic weekend getaway, which quickly turns passionate.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: N/A
7.5/104 votes#3 - The Fabulous Buchannon Boys
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1991
Mitch's brother Buzzy comes to visit with his estranged son Kyle, who proves to be a bad influence on Hobie. When Kyle illegally surfs near the condemned San Dimas Pier, he collides with a submerged piling, and is sent underwater, unconscious.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
7.5/104 votes#4 - Reunion
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1992
Mitch attends his high school reunion, rekindling an old flame with former wife Gail, while Eddie plays father for the day.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Michael Berk
7.5/104 votes#5 - Rookie of the Year
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1992
The lifeguards compete against each other to determine who is the best; Stephanie and CJ move in together but things get complicated for both of them.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: N/A
7.5/104 votes#6 - Pier Pressure
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1992
Hobie weaves a web of lies to impress a girl; Summer is humiliated when she mistakes an offhand invitation from Jimmy Slade for a date.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Douglas Schwartz
7.2/104 votes#7 - The Beast Within
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1993
November 6, 1972: Sam leaps into Henry Adams, one of a trio of friends who fought in Vietnam and came home each with their own personal scars and the memory of a lost buddy. He has to save the life of a friend, Roy, as well as of a young boy, Daniel, who ventures into the woods of Washington looking for proof of Bigfoot.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: John D'Aquino
7.2/104 votes#8 - Vacation (1)
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1993
Guido tells Mitch that he has started a new business called Windows by Guido; a Captain named Rolf Angstrom visits headquarters; a drug dealer escapes.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
7.2/104 votes#9 - Lover's Cove
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1993
Hobie falls in love with a girl in junior lifeguards; Mitch and Jackie have a number of interrupted dates; Matt and Summer discover that they love each other. Thinking he is romantic, Hobie takes the girl on jet ski to a cove near a seaside monastery to kiss her as the bells toll, but they get caught in a dangerous current.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Steven Barnes
7.0/101 votes#10 - Watching the Detectives
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1990
The corrupt District Attorney Thomas Castillo hires a private eye named Megan Lockhart to find out the Flash's identity. He then blackmails Barry to work for him, or he'll expose his secret.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Howard Chaykin
7.0/101 votes#11 - Fast Forward
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/1991
Jay's killer, Nicholus Pike, is released from jail and blames the Flash for Jay's death. He sets the Flash up by using a heat seeking bomb on him, but something goes awry. Instead of killing the Flash, it sends him into the future where Pike is in charge and outlaws anyone from mentioning the Flash.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
7.0/104 votes#12 - Vacation (2)
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1993
Stephanie is shot off the cruise boat by a drug dealing women and Mitch jumps in to save her. They struggle to stay afloat in the water; Matt and C.J. win big in the casino; Summer gets worried when she can not find Mitch.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
7.0/102 votes#13 - Judgment Day (3)
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1997
Waking from a nightmare, Hercules finds Serena dead and himself accused of murder.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Robert Bielak
6.7/103 votes#14 - Tower of Power
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1993
While Mitch, Garner and the rest of the Baywatch team deals with a street gang that have been hanging around at the beach and harassing swimmers, Stephanie falls for Carlos, the new lifeguard trying to get away from the gang he was once in and tries to rescue his sister from the gang's leader.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#15 - Coronado Del Sol (1)
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/1994
Stephanie, C.J., Matt and Summer take a weekend vacation to San Diego to demonstrate water rescue procedures while staying at the famed Hotel Del Coronado. Summer correctly begins to think that her hotel room is haunted, when she's a haunted by the ghost of a wealthy businessman who mistakes Summer for his lost love from a doomed love affair back in 1943.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#16 - Coronado Del Sol (2)
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1994
C.J. thinks about her future as she spends more time with Keith and helps to rescue a stranded dolphin. The ghost who haunts Summer's hotel room takes her to be the love of his life who betrayed him and plots to reenact the tragedy that drove him to suicide 50 years ago.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#17 - Aftershock
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1994
Three months after the trauma of the massive earthquake, Hobie arrives back home after spending the summer in Ohio with his mother, Gayle, who asks Mitch marry her again in a formal ceremony on the beach. Everyone is delighted, except for Stephanie who still has feelings for Mitch.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#18 - Deep Trouble
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/1995
John D. Cort, returns to Baywatch, homeless and depressed, but finds a purpose for living when the potential donor of a young leukemia victim is reported missing.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votes#19 - Surf's Up
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1995
After a number of unusual circumstances occur around the beaches, including Cody and Neely rescuing two surfer boys that come down with a fever, an environmentalist group comes to Baywatch to protest the dumping of chemicals from the storm drains, and Mitch enlists the Beach Boys for a benefit concert to help out raise money for repairing the storm drains.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#20 - Heal the Bay
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/1997
Mitch unknowingly swims in polluted waters after Baywatch is contaminated by toxic waste. After he falls ill, Neely, C.J. and Cody must come to his rescue and discover the source of the illegal dumping and the nature of the poison.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votes#21 - Golden Girls
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1997
Neely and Mitch try to help a manic-depressive female bodybuilder. Newmie's potential romance with a beautiful woman hits a snag because she doesn't English.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.2/104 votes#22 - Snake Eyes
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1990
An illegal offshore casino causes problems for Cort and some of his fellow lifeguards. Hobie thinks his English class is going to be a breeze when Mitch starts dating his teacher but soon learns otherwise.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Kate Boutilier
6.0/101 votes#23 - Take My Life...Please!
Season 1 Episode 53 - Aired 3/28/1986
A mainstream comedian is killed by the one from whom he stole his work from. When he comes to, he is in one strange stage show, but there is something extremely wrong...
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: N/A
5.8/104 votes#24 - Hit and Run
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1995
Logan takes Cody's car without his permission to get to a business dinner, gets into an accident, and claims a hit and run driver was responsible.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
5.5/102 votes#25 - Special Delivery
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1994
Dagwood maintains his innocence after being found guilty of murdering the genetic engineer who created him, despite having apparently been caught in the act on video.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
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"We Need a Vacation" is the best rated episode directed by Gus Trikonis. It scored 7.5/10 based on 4 votes. It was written by William Rabkin. It aired on 1/26/1990 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The One That Got Away".