8.0/103 votes#1 - Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1983
Someone is sabotaging the cars in an alternative-fuel race, so Michael joins the pack to flush out the saboteur.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: David Braff
7.5/104 votes#2 - The Fabulous Buchannon Boys
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1991
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.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
7.5/104 votes#3 - The Lost Treasure of Tower 12
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/1992
Two thieves lose their loot under a lifeguard tower and Shauni is swept off her feet by an eccentric beach poet.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: David Braff
7.5/104 votes#4 - The Big Spill
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1992
Toxic waste, corporate greed, and a determined environmental spell trouble for the Baywatch lifeguards.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: David Braff
7.5/104 votes#5 - Game of Chance
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/1992
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.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: David Braff
7.5/104 votes#6 - Tequila Bay
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1992
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.
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Writer: David Braff
7.2/104 votes#7 - Vacation (1)
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1993
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.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
7.2/104 votes#8 - Stakeout at Surfrider Beach
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1993
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.
Director: Parker Stevenson
Writer: David Braff
7.0/101 votes#9 - A Family Affair
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1990
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.
Director: Keith Samples
Writer: David Braff
7.0/104 votes#10 - Vacation (2)
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1993
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.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
7.0/104 votes#11 - Ironman Buchannon
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Braff
7.0/101 votes#12 - The Rich Get Richer
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/18/1981
The bounty keeps them on the run as he tries many places to sell the bonds he stole. Kay Faulkner is a recurring character as the insurance agent trying to recover the bonds.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: David Braff
7.0/101 votes#13 - Charlie
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/1982
In Las Vegas, Colt runs into an old partner and finds out she is involved in a fraudulent scheme. Jody is kidnapped to be a hostage and there is a stagecoach chase.
Director: Daniel Haller
Writer: David Braff
7.0/101 votes#14 - TKO
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1983
Colt tries to protect a fight manager from the mob.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Braff
6.8/105 votes#15 - The Trophy (2)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Braff
6.8/105 votes#16 - Fatal Exchange
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1993
Strange occurrences take place at Baywatch after the arrival of a new lifeguard.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#17 - Tower of Power
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1993
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.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#18 - Coronado Del Sol (1)
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/1994
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.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#19 - 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
6.7/103 votes#20 - Trading Places
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1994
Stephanie goes to work with the Coast Guard to help crack an arms-smuggling ring in the area, and becomes attracted to a warrant officer, Scott Daniels, who tries to persuade her to overcome her fear of helicopters after she begins having nightmares of her father being killed in action in a helicopter crash in Vietnam over 25 years ago.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#21 - Guys & Dolls
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1994
Matt rescues a shady teenage girl, calling herself Rachel, who turns out to be a con artist hiding from her mentor and ex-partner in crime who as come after a diamond stuffed doll that is being shipped in from Hong Kong.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#22 - Aftershock
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1994
Three months after the trauma of the massive earthquake, Hobie arrives back home after spending the summer in Ohio with his mother, Gayle, who asks Mitch marry her again in a formal ceremony on the beach. Everyone is delighted, except for Stephanie who still has feelings for Mitch.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#23 - Air Buchannon
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1994
Mitch and Stephanie are partnered for a 24-hour shift on a busy day where they help out each other with accident victims and even try to rekindle their lost romance once again. With his father away, Hobie falls for a new girl from his school and throws an ill-advised party at the house just to impress her. The next day, disaster narrowly avoids Hobie when he tries to stop two of his wild friends, J.B. and Connor, from flying Mitch's hand glider off a cliff.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#24 - Fire with Fire
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 4/24/1995
Mitch's friend, a sheriff and part-time lifeguard, causes trouble when he uses strong-arm tactics on the beach. Logan annuls his marriage of convenience, putting his future at in the U.S. and Baywatch at risk.
Director: Michael Preece
Writer: David Braff
6.7/103 votes#25 - Promised Land
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/1995
Caroline tries to help a Chinese immigrant woman stay in America after the woman escapes from an illegal refugee boat. Garner and Matt try to stop a beautiful con artist rip off beach goers when she exposes too much.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Braff
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"Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death" is the best rated episode written by David Braff. It scored 8/10 based on 3 votes. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. It aired on 1/21/1983 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Fabulous Buchannon Boys".