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The Best Episodes of Baywatch Season 8

Every episode of Baywatch Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Baywatch Season 8!

The Best Episodes of Baywatch Season 8

Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.
  1. Background image for Rookie Summer
    5.6/10(131 votes)

    #1 - Rookie Summer

    S8:E1

    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.

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  2. Background image for Next Generation
    6.0/10(121 votes)

    #2 - Next Generation

    S8:E2

    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.

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  3. Background image for The Choice
    5.7/10(118 votes)

    #3 - The Choice

    S8:E3

    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.

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  4. Background image for Memorial Day
    5.9/10(121 votes)

    #4 - Memorial Day

    S8:E4

    On Memorial Day weekend, Mitch, April, and Skylar find a lot of problems on their hands after discovering the dead body of an elderly Navy veteran whose two elderly Navy buddies of his want to give him a proper burial in the ocean.

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    6.5/10(147 votes)

    #5 - Charlie

    S8:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Lifeguard Confidential
    5.9/10(119 votes)

    #6 - Lifeguard Confidential

    S8:E6

    A sleazy TV reporter, called Roger Riptide who flies around the beach in a helicopter, starts dishing dirt on the private lives of the Baywatch lifeguards for his TV show much to the irritation of Mitch and Taylor, who suspect someone is leaking information to Riptide.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Out of the Blue
    6.0/10(123 votes)

    #7 - Out of the Blue

    S8:E7

    While strange earth tremors plague the area, Mitch tries to get Jordan to meet her real biological mother on a fishing outing, who turns out to be a white woman named Rene, who's dying from a brain disorder and thinks the problem is hereditary. But things take a turn after a massive rouge wave, triggered by an underwater tremor, capsizes the fishing boat and traps Rene below decks in a room with toxic fumes.

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  9. Background image for Eel Nino
    6.0/10(126 votes)

    #8 - Eel Nino

    S8:E8

    The hot Santa Ana desert winds stir up more troubles for the Baywatch lifeguards when a typical day begins with a large hole appearing on the beach, as well as an uncharted sand bar, the lifeguard trucks disappearing and then reappearing buried in the sand. Also, mysterious deaths of sea lions point to a giant electric eel living in the Zuma Beach caves.

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    Director:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Homecoming
    6.3/10(124 votes)

    #9 - Homecoming

    S8:E9

    Mitch is reunited with his old Baywatch lifeguard friend, Craig Pomeroy, now a full-time lawyer who's in town trying to honour a Native American's dying wish to die peacefully on sacred Indian grounds at the beach.

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  11. Background image for Missing
    6.0/10(124 votes)

    #10 - Missing

    S8:E10

    Cody becomes consumed with guilt when his actions of leaving his post before the end of his shift to go on a date with Lani result in the disappearance of a young Latino woman swimming in the ocean, and the incident results in a hyped media circus that comes to the beach to cover the story.

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  12. Background image for Hijacked
    6.0/10(125 votes)

    #11 - Hijacked

    S8:E11

    Caroline Holden returns to Baywatch during a break for her soap opera role in New York, which takes an unexpected turn when she is taken hostage by an armed robber which fills her with paranoia and fear for days after.

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  13. Background image for No Way Out
    5.9/10(124 votes)

    #12 - No Way Out

    S8:E12

    After learning of Manny's ethnic prejudices originating from the Latino street gang that he used to hang out with, as well as from his mother who also may be prejudice at her son dating a Caucasian girl, an irate April joins Craig on a diving expedition that takes a turn for the worse.

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  14. Background image for Countdown
    5.9/10(118 votes)

    #13 - Countdown

    S8:E13

    After Mitch saves a young girl on the beach from a live grenade, he and Cody investigate a sunken ship containing a cache of smuggled weapons where Cody is trapped in the hull of the ship 75 feet on the ocean floor after he and Mitch are taken hostage by a pair of arms smugglers looking to retrieve their arms shipment.

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  15. Background image for Surf City
    5.7/10(116 votes)

    #14 - Surf City

    S8:E14

    After breaking up with Manny, April sees romance on her mind with Craig, who is experiencing a mid-life crisis over leaving his wife. April asks a reluctant Craig to attend a formal dinner party with her prompting him to seek out advice from Mitch over the situation he is in.

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  16. Background image for To the Max
    5.6/10(124 votes)

    #15 - To the Max

    S8:E15

    Mitch meets Jenny Wade, a horseback riding instructor who rides on the Malibu beach everyday on her race horse, Max. Struck with love, Mitch engineers a picnic date with Jenny using a variety of circumstances, including encouraging Hobie to take one of Jenny's riding classes.

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  17. Background image for Night of the Dolphin
    5.7/10(123 votes)

    #16 - Night of the Dolphin

    S8:E16

    Mitch's old policeman friend, Garner Ellerbee, returns where he recruits Mitch's help him bust a drug smuggling ring after a lifeless dolphin washes up on shore, and they end up putting Neely in danger when she willing agrees to place a tracer on a yacht of a shady man from the beach club she is life guarding at.

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  18. Background image for Full Throttle
    5.5/10(116 votes)

    #17 - Full Throttle

    S8:E17

    After a grudge motorboat race between April and Jordan, against Cody and Newman, Cody gets trouble when he uses Mitch's boat as the ante in a bet with a pair of local rich snobs in a more powerful motorboat race. When Cody becomes incapacitated after spraining his knee, Mitch steps in and soon discovers the true nature of the game with the men he and Newman are playing with.

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  19. Background image for Quarantine
    6.4/10(128 votes)

    #18 - Quarantine

    S8:E18

    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.

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  20. Background image for Diabolique
    5.3/10(129 votes)

    #19 - Diabolique

    S8:E19

    Mitch rescues a troubled young woman, named Sara, from her boat after it catches afire after which she charms Mitch and gets his mother, Irene, to hire her as a nanny for Neely's baby, Ashley. But Mitch gets concerned when Sara quickly develops a dangerous obsession with him and tries to win his affections at any cost. When Mitch lets Sara down, she immediately shows her true colours and plots to make Mitch's life a nightmare.

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  21. Background image for Bon Voyage
    6.0/10(125 votes)

    #20 - Bon Voyage

    S8:E20

    In this three-part season final, Neely, Donna and Lani are chosen by the sports magazine 'Inside Sports' for a week-long trip to Alaska on the cruise ship Dawn Princess, where Neely tells Mitch she is thinking about visiting her ex-husband who lives in Juneau to reconcile with him. But things change when Hobie wins a contest for the same Alaskan cruise for him, Mitch and Cody to travel to Alaska as well.

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  22. Background image for White Thunder at Glacier Bay (1)
    6.1/10(140 votes)

    #21 - White Thunder at Glacier Bay (1)

    S8:E21

    On the Dawn Princess, Mitch and Cody surprise Neely and Lani by showing up where Cody tries to stay close to Lani during her photo shoot aboard the ship.

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  23. Background image for White Thunder at Glacier Bay (2)
    5.8/10(138 votes)

    #22 - White Thunder at Glacier Bay (2)

    S8:E22

    Gavin chases Leslie and Hobie up a mountain and through the skies in para-gliders right to a glacier where a standoff takes place with Leslie and Hobie trapped in a glacier gorge with Gavin above them, while Mitch and Cody follow close behind.

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Rookie Summer" is the best rated episode of "Baywatch" season 8. It scored 5.6/10 based on 131 votes. Directed by Gregory J. Bonann and written by David Braff, it aired on 9/22/1997. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Next Generation".