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The Worst Episodes of Baywatch

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The Worst Episodes of Baywatch

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  1. Background image for Free Fall
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #1 - Free Fall

    S6:E16

    Mitch's life flashes before him when his parachute fails while sky-surfing. Tabloids follow CJ's relationship with a football player.

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    Director:Michael Berk
  2. Background image for A Good Man in a Storm
    5.1/10(88 votes)

    #2 - A Good Man in a Storm

    S11:E15

    A major hurricane hits the Hawaiian islands in which Sean is trapped with Jenna in a underground bunker which rising flood waters threaten to drown both of them unless they put aside their personal conflicts and hatred of each other to survive the day and night.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Heat Wave
    5.2/10(5 votes)

    #3 - Heat Wave

    S1:E3

    Los Angeles is having a heat wave and it's going to be a busy day for the lifeguards.

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  4. Background image for Now, Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale
    5.2/10(245 votes)

    #4 - Now, Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale

    S2:E16

    A routine rescue sends Eddie on a madcap adventure to "Gilligan's Island."

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Diabolique
    5.2/10(128 votes)

    #5 - 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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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Stone Cold
    5.3/10(102 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Dream Girl
    5.3/10(98 votes)

    #7 - Dream Girl

    S11:E7

    Jenna intensifies her personal war against Sean by confiscating some of the team's equipment, including a Scarab, and trying to get her boss McKenna, a ruthless and greedy local councilman, to close down the Baywatch Hawaii training center.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Ties That Bind
    5.3/10(95 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Father's Day
    5.4/10(152 votes)

    #9 - Father's Day

    S5:E17

    Logan is traumatized by a phobia from his past involving his late father and fire. Mitch discovers that his late father was actually proud of his career as a lifeguard.

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  11. Background image for The Runaways
    5.4/10(149 votes)

    #10 - The Runaways

    S5:E21

    Kaye hires a an aspiring English pop singer as a waitress and discovers she's a runaway. A daredevil attempts to set a new world's record water skiing behind a blimp. Stephanie questions Caroline's ability as a lifeguard.

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    Director:Unknown
  12. Background image for Rendezvous
    5.4/10(138 votes)

    #11 - Rendezvous

    S7:E17

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

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    Director:Gus Trikonis
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Friends Forever
    5.4/10(116 votes)

    #12 - Friends Forever

    S9:E10

    Mitch takes in an orangutan, named Morton, that escapes from it's abusive dwarf owner which complicates Mitch's and Alex's plans for Baywatch's annual Special Olympics program, while Cody and Jessie deal with Morton's owner, Herbert Green. One of the Special Olympics participators, a hearing-impaired girl named Kara, takes a liking to Morton and when she tries to hide Morton from Herbert, they end up trapped in a cave with a rising tide that threatens to drown her and the orangutan.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Maui Xterra
    5.4/10(95 votes)

    #13 - Maui Xterra

    S10:E19

    Jessie tries to overcome her physical condition, and Sean's objections, to compete in a Maui triathlon with Dawn as her personal coach while Allie suspects an agenda behind Dawn's motives to train Jessie.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Makapu'u Lighthouse
    5.4/10(97 votes)

    #14 - 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!

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Old Friends
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Old Friends

    S1:E21

    Mitch, Craig and Garner go on a hang gliding trip that results in a series of accidents for all three.

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  17. Background image for Coronado Del Sol (2)
    5.5/10(163 votes)

    #16 - Coronado Del Sol (2)

    S4:E15

    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.

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    Director:Gus Trikonis
  18. Background image for Western Exposure
    5.5/10(174 votes)

    #17 - Western Exposure

    S4:E19

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Life You Save
    5.5/10(167 votes)

    #18 - The Life You Save

    S4:E20

    After all the beaches are closed down by Los Angeles budget commissioners looking to cut back on funding for the lifeguard squads of Baywatch. Mitch and the team organises a meeting on the beach with the three budget commissioners and some of the people rescued by the Baywatch lifeguards, they try to convince the city budget official not to stop funding for the lifeguards.

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    Director:Michael Berk
  20. Background image for Shark Fever
    5.5/10(148 votes)

    #19 - Shark Fever

    S7:E1

    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.

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

    #20 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Crash (1)
    5.5/10(127 votes)

    #21 - Crash (1)

    S9:E1

    During the first week of autumn at Baywatch with Hobie gone away to college and heavy rainfall in the area, Mitch discovers that his shipboard marriage to Neely is invalid, which worsens things then Neely's ex-husband suddenly shows up with no knowledge of Neely's baby or anything else making Mitch realise that Neely lied to him all this time and she has fully reverted back to her conniving and devious true self.

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  23. Background image for The Swimmer
    5.5/10(117 votes)

    #22 - The Swimmer

    S9:E9

    Mitch, feeling that his life has reached a midpoint from his failed marriage to the absent Neely, goes for a day-long tower swim along the beach and encounters various other problems which include, April and Craig's growing attraction for one another, and reluctant heroes Cody and J.D. refusing to take the credit for saving two girls and a pair of policemen after falling off a pier.

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Baywatch Grand Prix
    5.5/10(112 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
  25. Background image for Water Dance
    5.5/10(119 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Double Jeopardy
    5.5/10(106 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Free Fall" is the worst rated episode of "Baywatch". It scored 5/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Michael Berk and written by Michael Berk, it aired on 2/26/1996. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Good Man in a Storm".