7.5/103 votesLoading...#1 - The End?
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/6/1990
An earthquake shakes Baywatch headquarters and causes many problems for the lifeguards and for one, a life altering decision is made.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: William Rabkin, Lee Goldberg
7.2/10301 votesLoading...#2 - Eclipse
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/1990
Eddie believes he sees a ghost by the water and the others believe that he is losing his mind. Hobie learns that a friend's pet is going to be euthanized for an alleged attack and resolves to help both of them.
Director: Paul Schneider
Writer: Claire Whitaker
6.6/10261 votesLoading...#3 - 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, Lee Goldberg
6.6/10241 votesLoading...#4 - Old Friends
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/30/1990
Mitch, Craig and Garner go on a hang gliding trip that results in a series of accidents for all three.
Director: Douglas Schwartz
Writer: William A. Schwartz
6.5/10386 votesLoading...#5 - Panic at Malibu Pier
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/1989
Mitch Buchannon has just been promoted to lieutenant. Mitch and his ex-wife Gayle have an argument about what's best for their son Hobie. Eddie Kramer is the top rookie in the rookie class of '89, and Shauni McClain is one of the last ones to qualify. Shauni starts off as a terrible lifeguard, but the experienced Jill Riley teaches her how to become a good lifeguard.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
6.5/10283 votesLoading...#6 - The Sky is Falling
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1989
Gayle and Mitch continue to fight over Gayle's plan to take Hobie with her. She ultimately changes her mind after Hobie risks his life to save a drowning young girl. A plane crashes into the water near the beach with the occupants, after they are rescued, looking to recover a suitcase of stolen money that they had with them. Captain Thorpe decides to join Eddie and Shauni on their tower in order to teach them.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: William Rabkin, Lee Goldberg
6.5/10271 votesLoading...#7 - The Cretin of the Shallows
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1989
A new hotel opens near the beach and a string of murders occur around the same time which convinces Craig the two may be connected.
Director: Vern Gillum
Writer: Ernie Wallengren, William A. Schwartz
6.5/10229 votesLoading...#8 - The Trophy (1)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1991
Eddie's life is torn apart by the accusation of statutory rape from the overprotective father of a lonely teenager trying to make friends lied to a group of other teenage girls about her encounter with Eddie. Mitch deals with the anger of a paraplegic former lifeguard.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Braff
6.5/10219 votesLoading...#9 - River of No Return (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1992
Drew shoots at the raft. Shauni is taken hostage, and pushed off the cliff. After Eddie and Mitch save her, she finds out that she's not pregnant. Eddie proposes to her. Mitch climbs down with the help of a rope and finds the golden boot; Jed arrives at the trailer. Eddie marries Shauni and they move to Australia.
Director: Douglas Schwartz
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
6.5/10178 votesLoading...#10 - Short Sighted
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1994
During junior lifeguard training sessions, Matt deals with Hobie's newest friend, Carter, who is ashamed of his father, Simon, who happens to be a dwarf.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10149 votesLoading...#11 - Chance of a Lifetime
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1997
Stephanie and Tom go on their honeymoon on a two-sail schooner with a group of six troubled teenagers. Mitch and Neely also tag along to help keep an eye on the kids and lend a hand on the ship. But hardly when the ship is out of port the radio breaks, leaving them with no warning when a massive hurricane strikes. When the ship begins sinking, Stephanie ends up losing her life after she is struck by a 20-foot section of the sail trying to save one of the kids.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10125 votesLoading...#12 - The Natural
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1998
A mysterious figure called "The Phantom Lifeguard," begins making rescues and disappears before being identified by anyone. While Mitch thinks the Phantom Lifeguard is an outsider, Cody and J.D. think the unseen hero of the day is getting his/her information from inside the department.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10312 votesLoading...#13 - Heat Wave
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1989
Los Angeles is having a heat wave and it's going to be a busy day for the lifeguards.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Ernie Wallengren
6.4/10248 votesLoading...#14 - 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
6.4/10222 votesLoading...#15 - If Looks Could Kill
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1991
Mitch falls for a beautiful woman he has rescued, never dreaming she is actually a murderess.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Berk
6.4/10215 votesLoading...#16 - 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
6.4/10178 votesLoading...#17 - 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
6.4/10192 votesLoading...#18 - 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
6.4/10145 votesLoading...#19 - Charlie
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1997
April's mother and her 12-year-old younger brother, Charlie, arrive for a visit where Mitch and Hobie try to make the best of the weekend with Charlie who is revealed to be dying from a rare form of cancer that April refuses to accept.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10126 votesLoading...#20 - Quarantine
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 4/20/1998
A long bad day begins when after Mitch rescues a struggling swimmer, the local Disease Control Center places the entire Baywatch Headquarters under quarantine after the swimmer shows symptoms of a deadly virus.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10108 votesLoading...#21 - Aloha, Baywatch
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1999
Mitch Bucannon, on leave in Oahu, Hawaii while he sorts out his thoughts during a mid-life crisis (his failed romance with Neely, his mother's recent death, and Hobie living on the East Coast), decides to form an international team of lifeguards in Hawaii called 'Baywatch Hawaii' for saving lives after a rescue of a family on a remote beach in which a little girl is put in a coma after being submerged.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Maurice Hurley
6.4/10110 votesLoading...#22 - Mahalo, Hawaii
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1999
During the first week of training for the new lifeguard team of Baywatch Hawaii, competition between Jessie and Kekoa, as well as Jason and J.D. threaten to turn the tryouts into an all-out war. Jason, at Kekoa's advice, visits an old Hawaiian native to look into his true Hawaiian roots, and Allie takes a job as a helicopter tour pilot to make some extra money for herself.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Maurice Hurley
6.3/10308 votesLoading...#23 - In Deep
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1989
Instead of attending summer school, Hobie decides to go power skiing with two friends, whose recklessness leads to a tragic accident. Eddie's lack of financial resources is revealed when Craig finds him sleeping in one of the lifeguard towers.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
6.3/10279 votesLoading...#24 - Message in a Bottle
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1989
Mitch's former wife is planning to move to Ohio and wants to take Hobie with her. Upset over the squabbling that ensues, Hobie takes off with a friend and runs into pirates on a nearby island. Eddie and Shauni squabble after Shauni accidentally hurts Eddie.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Terry Erwin
6.3/10274 votesLoading...#25 - The Drowning Pool
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1989
A man is found drowned off the beach and Jill suspects foul play is the reason. She begins seeing the son of the victim and during the investigation discovers the man's cousin was responsible for his father's death. A man who helped Jill bring the victim ashore decides he wants to be a lifeguard as well even though he is not qualified.
Director: Mario DiLeo
Writer: William A. Schwartz
The Best Episodes of Baywatch
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Best Episodes Summary
"The End?" is the best rated episode of "Baywatch". It scored 7.5/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Reza Badiyi and written by William Rabkin, Lee Goldberg, it aired on 4/6/1990. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Eclipse".