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The Worst Episodes of Baywatch

Every episode of Baywatch ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Baywatch!

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Baywatch Angels" is the worst rated episode of "Baywatch". It scored 5/10 based on 162 votes. Directed by Georg Fenady and written by N/A, it aired on 2/12/1996. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Good Man in a Storm".

  • Baywatch Angels
    5.0/10162 votes
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    #1 - Baywatch Angels

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/12/1996

    When Logan is terrorized by a mad man, Caroline dreams that the detectives from TV show, Charlie's Angels, arrive at Baywatch to help him. In her dream, Caroline is Kelly Garrett, C.J. is Jill Munroe and Stephanie is Sabrina.

    Director: Georg Fenady

    Writer: N/A

  • A Good Man in a Storm
    5.1/1087 votes
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    #2 - A Good Man in a Storm

    Season 11 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2001

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Now, Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale
    5.2/10239 votes
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    #3 - Now, Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1992

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Desperate Encounter
    5.3/10191 votes
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    #4 - Desperate Encounter

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/1996

    While vacationing in Mexico, Mitch and his new girlfriend witness an attempted murder and are then hunted by the killers. Country and Western singer Jesse Lee Harris helps Logan and the Baywatch lifeguards raise money to save a ranch that rescues endangered horses.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Stone Cold
    5.3/10101 votes
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    #5 - Stone Cold

    Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2000

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dream Girl
    5.3/1097 votes
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    #6 - Dream Girl

    Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2000

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ties That Bind
    5.3/1094 votes
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    #7 - Ties That Bind

    Season 11 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/2000

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Father's Day
    5.4/10148 votes
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    #8 - Father's Day

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1995

    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.

    Director: Gregory J. Bonann

    Writer: Michael Berk

  • The Runaways
    5.4/10145 votes
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    #9 - The Runaways

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/1995

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: David Braff

  • Free Fall
    5.4/10150 votes
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    #10 - Free Fall

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/1996

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

    Director: Michael Berk

    Writer: Michael Berk

  • Rendezvous
    5.4/10136 votes
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    #11 - Rendezvous

    Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 4/7/1997

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

    Director: Gus Trikonis

    Writer: N/A

  • Diabolique
    5.4/10125 votes
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    #12 - Diabolique

    Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/1998

    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.

    Director: Parker Stevenson

    Writer: N/A

  • Maui Xterra
    5.4/1093 votes
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    #13 - Maui Xterra

    Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 4/24/2000

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Makapu'u Lighthouse
    5.4/1096 votes
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    #14 - Makapu'u Lighthouse

    Season 11 Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/2001

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Coronado Del Sol (2)
    5.5/10158 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Western Exposure
    5.5/10170 votes
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    #16 - Western Exposure

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1994

    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.

    Director: Gregory J. Bonann

    Writer: N/A

  • The Life You Save
    5.5/10163 votes
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    #17 - The Life You Save

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1994

    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.

    Director: Michael Berk

    Writer: Michael Berk

  • Shark Fever
    5.5/10144 votes
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    #18 - Shark Fever

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1996

    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.

    Director: Gregory J. Bonann

    Writer: David Braff

  • To the Max
    5.5/10122 votes
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    #19 - To the Max

    Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1998

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Swimmer
    5.5/10115 votes
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    #20 - The Swimmer

    Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1998

    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.

    Director: Gregory J. Bonann

    Writer: N/A

  • Friends Forever
    5.5/10114 votes
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    #21 - Friends Forever

    Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1998

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Water Dance
    5.5/10118 votes
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    #22 - Water Dance

    Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 3/22/1999

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Double Jeopardy
    5.5/10105 votes
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    #23 - Double Jeopardy

    Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/1999

    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: N/A

  • Wave Rage
    5.5/10111 votes
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    #24 - Wave Rage

    Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1999

    April tries to save Manny from himself after he suffers a life-altering back injury during a rescue. April then decides to take Manny's place with Hobie in a boat race with the other lifeguards from Baywatch.

    Director: Parker Stevenson

    Writer: N/A

  • The Stalker
    5.5/10102 votes
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    #25 - The Stalker

    Season 11 Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/2001

    Carrie's life turns upside down when after she and Leigh save two spear fishermen from drowning, after which one of them asks her out on a date in which he begins stalking her and wanting to control her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A