The Best Episodes Written By David Braff

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.3/10(6 votes)

   #1 - Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death

   S1:E141/21/1983

   Someone is sabotaging the cars in an alternative-fuel race, so Michael joins the pack to flush out the saboteur.

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   7.6/10(7 votes)

   #2 - Just My Bill

   S1:E510/29/1982

   Michael becomes the bodyguard for a crusading state senator who has stepped on one too many toes.

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   7.6/10(5 votes)

   #3 - Game of Chance

   S2:E215/11/1992

   Harvey and Mitch pursue and capture a disgruntled gambler turned high-seas pirate. Meanwhile, Eddie struggles with the disapproval of Shauni's father. While Eddie is walking away from Shauni's sisters engagement party, Kim gets her hand stuck in the pool pump and luckily Eddie saves her.

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   7.4/10(5 votes)

   #4 - Tequila Bay

   S3:E39/28/1992

   A woman from Mitch's past becomes one of his fellow lifeguards and stirs up memories for Mitch; Matt must contend with surfers wanting to take over part of the beach.

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   7.4/10(5 votes)

   #5 - The Lost Treasure of Tower 12

   S2:E194/27/1992

   Two thieves lose their loot under a lifeguard tower and Shauni is swept off her feet by an eccentric beach poet.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #6 - Tower of Power

   S4:E1011/15/1993

   While Mitch, Garner and the rest of the Baywatch team deals with a street gang that have been hanging around at the beach and harassing swimmers, Stephanie falls for Carlos, the new lifeguard trying to get away from the gang he was once in and tries to rescue his sister from the gang's leader.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #7 - Vacation (1)

   S3:E151/25/1993

   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.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #8 - Stakeout at Surfrider Beach

   S3:E182/15/1993

   An actress, who is running from two crooks, is saved by Mitch. He decides to help her capture them; Guido attempts to convince his visiting mother that he is a lifeguard.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #9 - The Fabulous Buchannon Boys

   S2:E510/14/1991

   Mitch's brother Buzzy comes to visit with his estranged son Kyle, who proves to be a bad influence on Hobie. When Kyle illegally surfs near the condemned San Dimas Pier, he collides with a submerged piling, and is sent underwater, unconscious.

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    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Nobody Does It Better

    S1:E204/29/1983

    Michael contends with interference from an overzealous private eye while he tries to discover who's stealing computer-software secrets.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Swept Away

    S9:E811/9/1998

    Mitch befriends Tanner, an abused nine-year old boy who tries out for the junior lifeguards in order to get away from his ill-tempered, alcoholic, divorced father, Blake. But Mitch feels helpless in helping Tanner when everyone tells Mitch not to get involved in the boy's troubled home life and to mind his own business. Things turn chaotic when a bus falls off a bridge and lands in 20 feet of water.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Buried

    S7:E911/18/1996

    En route to a survival training weekend, Mitch and the junior lifeguards are trapped in a tunnel cave-in caused by an earthquake. Donna's Playboy past puts her future at Baywatch in jeopardy.

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    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #13 - The Trophy (2)

    S2:E1011/18/1991

    Facing rape charges, Eddie is suspended from Baywatch, but when Shauni confronts the teenager to ask her to tell the truth to exonerate Eddie, the teenager, tired of feeling like an outcast, attempts to kill herself. Mitch saves a paraplegic's life in a daring glider rescue.

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    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #14 - The Big Spill

    S2:E205/4/1992

    Toxic waste, corporate greed, and a determined environmental spell trouble for the Baywatch lifeguards.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - A Family Affair

    S2:E192/18/1990

    Paul is cheating on his wife and when the woman he's having an affair with starts forcing her way into his life, he breaks off the relationship with her. Paul trying to patch things up with his son who's two year absence was triggered by the earlier events. This turns deadly because of his choices.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Lucky Stiff

    S2:E611/12/1989

    A man wins a lottery and he and his wife are in the money ... or so they think. Tragedy strikes, and after his death his lottery ticket turns up missing.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Dust To Dust

    S2:E202/25/1990

    This is a sequel to PrimeCut. Three former cannibals start up their eating habits again when an unknown man drops dead in their living room. After all three eat him, they find out that the man was an astronaut who escaped an underground lab in Springwood. The astronaut was infected with a virus, which has now infected the three cannibals. The government picks them up and puts them in their underground lab for testing. The second half of the episode is centered on ""Tracker"", the lone survivor of the virus. ""Tracker"" wants to escape and eventually lures an innocent scientist to help her.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #18 - Visitor's Choice

    S1:E511/23/1984

    The Resistance, led by Donovan, Julie, and Ham, stage a daring sabotage at a convention of Visitor commanders in a seaside estate where Diana intends to show off the ultimate device in processing humans for food.

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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #19 - Ironman Buchannon

    S4:E911/8/1993

    Mitch tries to show he can still compete with younger men by taking part in the Ironman competition; Matt's late hours make Summer suspicious. Standing in for a tired Matt, Summer Quinn is knocked unconscious attempting a rescue.

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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Vacation (2)

    S3:E162/1/1993

    Stephanie is shot off the cruise boat by a drug dealing women and Mitch jumps in to save her. They struggle to stay afloat in the water; Matt and C.J. win big in the casino; Summer gets worried when she can not find Mitch.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Crash (2)

    S9:E29/28/1998

    Mitch, Craig, Neely, J.D. and Newman co-operate with the Coast Guard in rescuing as many people as possible from the waters of the plane crash and fending off shark attacks as well.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Come Fly with Me

    S9:E131/18/1999

    Mitch finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he becomes reacquainted with Tanner, the abused nine-year-old boy, whom he snatches away from his abusive father, Blake, and lets the boy stay at his house while Alex becomes Mitch's co-conspirator in helping Tanner.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Coronado Del Sol (1)

    S4:E141/31/1994

    Stephanie, C.J., Matt and Summer take a weekend vacation to San Diego to demonstrate water rescue procedures while staying at the famed Hotel Del Coronado. Summer correctly begins to think that her hotel room is haunted, when she's a haunted by the ghost of a wealthy businessman who mistakes Summer for his lost love from a doomed love affair back in 1943.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Windswept

    S7:E410/14/1996

    Mitch is the prize in a bachelor auction, but things go awry when he and his date end up stranded on a deserted island. Cody competes with his roller hockey team to win a championship.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Golden Girls

    S7:E215/5/1997

    Neely and Mitch try to help a manic-depressive female bodybuilder. Newmie's potential romance with a beautiful woman hits a snag because she doesn't English.

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