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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Baywatch Season 7 Episode 5 - Scorcher
    4.7/10(6 votes)

    #1 - Scorcher

    S7:E5

    A heatwave precedes a visit to the beach by the President of the United States, as Mitch encounters a bumbling Secret Service Agent. Cody faces an audit by the IRS. Caroline thinks no one has remembered her birthday.

    Director:Gregory J. Bonann
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Baywatch Season 7 Episode 17 - Rendezvous
    4.7/10(6 votes)

    #2 - Rendezvous

    S7:E17

    Two teens form a suicide pact to be together when their disapproving parents try to keep them apart.

    Director:Gus Trikonis
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Baywatch Season 5 Episode 13 - Rubber Ducky
    4.8/10(6 votes)

    #3 - Rubber Ducky

    S5:E13

    Logan and his friend Gator are determined to beat Matt and Barnett in a rubber ducky contest so that Logan can win the cash prize and not have to marry a rich widow to stay in the country. Mitch's new relationship with Tracy comes under the scrutiny of his disapproving mother but Tracy hides a secret from Mitch.

    Director:Gregory J. Bonann
    Writer:David Braff

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  4. Baywatch Season 1 Episode 3 - Heat Wave
    4.9/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Heat Wave

    S1:E3

    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

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  5. Baywatch Season 9 Episode 22 - Castles in the Sand
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Castles in the Sand

    S9:E22

    A frantic weekend begins for Alex when she begins tracking down the builder of several elaborate sand castles that appear every day at the beach, while she gets stuck entertaining her life-long childhood friend Sam's fiance, Diana, who falls for Mitch, which prompts Mitch to asks Alex to pose as his girlfriend to keep Diana away.

    Director:Parker Stevenson
    Writer:David Braff

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  6. Baywatch Season 10 Episode 10 - Gold from the Deep
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #6 - Gold from the Deep

    S10:E10

    During a girls swim out in the ocean, Allie discovers a rare gold coin dating back to a ship that was lost in 1941 during World War II which allegedly contains un-circulated gold coins and rare artifacts somewhere off the Hawaiian coast.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  7. Baywatch Season 10 Episode 16 - Thunder Tide
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Thunder Tide

    S10:E16

    Another long day begins with Sean, Jessie, and Kekola trying to save a woman trapped in an air pocket beneath a coral reef and trying to escape from the dangerous sulphur fumes within the cave. After a rescue of three skydivers whose parachutes open late, Dawn find a number of similarities between one named Jerome, and her ex boyfriend Ryan whom she discovers that they are both the same person.

    Director:Gregory J. Bonann
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  8. Baywatch Season 11 Episode 1 - Soul Survivor
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #8 - Soul Survivor

    S11:E1

    During the training sessions for new Baywatch Hawaii lifeguards, Sean deals with Jena and other Hawaiian officials who don't see the training center as a profit making enterprise. During a drive, Sean accidentally hits into Zack McEwen, a new recruit and surfer from Michigan who joins the training team while Jason becomes acquainted with Carrie Sharp, one of the rookies from San Diego who finds him irresistible.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Baywatch Season 11 Episode 4 - Dangerous Games
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #9 - Dangerous Games

    S11:E4

    Sean becomes concerned over Leigh's new boyfriend Sam Parks, an air plane pilot who thrives on living dangerously, and whom takes her out on a hand gliding trip headed for disaster.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Baywatch Season 11 Episode 5 - Stone Cold
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Stone Cold

    S11:E5

    Jason becomes smitten with Maya Morgan, a young volleyball player and an old childhood friend of Carrie's and thinks that he's found the girl of his dreams, never imagining that Maya is dying from a heart disorder unless he gets a heart transplant.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Baywatch Season 11 Episode 10 - Ties That Bind
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Ties That Bind

    S11:E10

    Zack becomes devastated when Sean refuses to promote him to a full-time lifeguard due to his brash and reckless attitude after rashly trying to capture a purse snatcher on the beach, in which Sean gives the promotion to Carrie instead.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Baywatch Season 11 Episode 14 - Father Faust
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Father Faust

    S11:E14

    A bad week begins once again for Sean when two frivolous lawsuits, one by Kekoa's father over nearly drowning at the beach, and another by an equally wealthy man thinking that he lost his gold Rolex wristwatch. The local city council, now with Jenna on the staff, seeks another chance to try to close down the training center, in which an attractive special investigator, named Jackie Love, arrives to check up on Sean's work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Baywatch Season 11 Episode 21 - Makapu'u Lighthouse
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - Makapu'u Lighthouse

    S11:E21

    Sean rescues a local TV celebrity who is in trouble with his kayak. This brings the team a lot of media attention, and because Sean turns down the offer of a TV interview, he is offered a week at the Hilton Hotel. Sean, though, does not like to take freebies either so he declines. But Zack gets an idea of his own: he will take advantage of the freebie vacation Sean was offered at the Hilton Hawaiian Village by pretending to be Sean!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Baywatch Season 4 Episode 12 - Second Time Around
    5.2/10(6 votes)

    #14 - Second Time Around

    S4:E12

    Matt is surprised when his former motorcycle girlfriend Jesse, who is now an aspiring model, arrives to shoot a video for an wave-runner advertisement. At Jesse's urging, Matt helps her discourage the video director's advances towards her and he soon becomes the target for murder by the jealous director, while Summer is struck with jealousy herself after learning of the past Matt had with Jesse.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Baywatch Season 5 Episode 14 - Homecoming
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Homecoming

    S5:E14

    Stephanie returns to Baywatch only to become victim of an ultraradical eco-terrorist trying to destroy an offshore oil platform. Mitch makes waves in Garner's relationship with a new lifeguard.

    Director:Gus Trikonis
    Writer:Steven Barnes

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  16. Baywatch Season 9 Episode 15 - Baywatch Grand Prix
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Baywatch Grand Prix

    S9:E15

    Mitch gets the need for speed when Tanner's cousin Damon Lusk, a race car driver, visits for a race car competition, and who also has a meeting of the minds with Alex. But when Damon falls ill due to food poisoning, he asks Mitch to take his place for a major grand prix race, where Mitch comes up against an old rival from his own former race car days.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:David Braff

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  17. Baywatch Season 9 Episode 16 - Baywatch Down Under (1)
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Baywatch Down Under (1)

    S9:E16

    Mitch's Zuma Beach lifeguard friend, Jake Barnes, learns that his Australian ex-wife has suddenly died. So he, Mitch, Alex, April, Cody, and Jessie go on a trip to Australia where Jake is to meet the eight-year-old son, Terry, that he never knew. Upon arrival, Jake with Jessie in tow, travel to the Avalon Beach Resort Club where Jake meets with Terry and his ex-wife's friend Allie Reese, a helicopter pilot and lifeguard at the beach club, where Jake and Terry seem to hit it off.

    Director:Gregory J. Bonann
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  18. Baywatch Season 9 Episode 18 - Water Dance
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Water Dance

    S9:E18

    Having received a Dear John-type letter from Lani saying that she has moved on and is now romantically involved with someone else in New York, Cody gets a lesson in love when he and Mitch help out a brilliant, but troubled, violinist named Ariana to get away from Lena, her dangerous and overbearing trainer with a secret agenda.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Baywatch Season 9 Episode 19 - Double Jeopardy
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Double Jeopardy

    S9:E19

    While on her way to her grandmother's birthday party, Alex's day gets sidetracked when she tries to save a diamond runner, named Ben, whose partners, Lisa and Jason, want to silence him for good which leads to a standoff in an underwater cave with Alex and Ben trying to avoid the rising tide and the smugglers circling above in their motorboat.

    Director:Parker Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Baywatch Season 9 Episode 21 - Galaxy Girls
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Galaxy Girls

    S9:E21

    April and Jessie search for the perfect celebrity host the Miss Galaxy Beauty contest Baywatch is sponsoring, when they stumble across and get duped by a con artist impersonator, called Earl, who claims to be the real George Hamilton.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Baywatch Season 10 Episode 3 - Weak Link
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Weak Link

    S10:E3

    Dawn Masterson, a lifeguard from Florida and a travelling archaeologist, joins the team and proves almost irresistible to the male lifeguards while she squares off against Sean who tries to find her weakness, while also Dawn seeks her own personal agenda with J.D. whom she used to know.

    Director:Gregory J. Bonann
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Baywatch Season 10 Episode 6 - Sunday in Kauai
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Sunday in Kauai

    S10:E6

    The abrasive Sean tries to get the team, on a week-long holiday in Kauai, from giving into the island's sun-and-fun atmosphere and concentrate on a return to training.

    Directors:Georg Fenady, Gregory J. Bonann
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  23. Baywatch Season 10 Episode 7 - Risk to Death
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Risk to Death

    S10:E7

    After Jason risks his life in a rash attempt to save two scuba divers trapped on a reef, Sean threatens to throw Jason off the team if he doesn't change the way he thinks about the risks and lives of people in need of a rescue in which Jason is confined to a beach for the whole day to learn what the people that are there are confronted, with Sean keeping a close eye on him.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  24. Baywatch Season 10 Episode 8 - Father of the Groom
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Father of the Groom

    S10:E8

    Mitch struggles to prevent Hobie from marrying his new girlfriend, Sarah, at a local hotel during a visit, while Mitch also deals with Sarah's overbearing and obnoxious parents seeking to create the perfect wedding.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Baywatch Season 10 Episode 11 - Bent
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Bent

    S10:E11

    Allie's relationship with Nick begins to heat up, especially after he suggests a commitment between them. Then things take a turn when Allie, Nick and the rest of the team must cooperate with the Coast Guard to rescue two people trapped on a disabled submarine 200 feet on the ocean floor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Scorcher" is the worst rated episode of "Baywatch". It scored 4.7/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Gregory J. Bonann and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/21/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Rendezvous".