The Best Episodes Written By David Braff

Every TV Episode Written by David Braff Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 14 - Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death
    8.3/10(6 votes)

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

    S1:E14

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

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Just My Bill
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #2 - Just My Bill

    S1:E5

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

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 21 - Game of Chance
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #3 - Game of Chance

    S2:E21

    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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  4. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - Tequila Bay
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Tequila Bay

    S3:E3

    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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  5. undefined Season 2 Episode 19 - The Lost Treasure of Tower 12
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #5 - The Lost Treasure of Tower 12

    S2:E19

    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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  6. undefined Season 4 Episode 10 - Tower of Power
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Tower of Power

    S4:E10

    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. undefined Season 3 Episode 15 - Vacation (1)
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #7 - Vacation (1)

    S3:E15

    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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  8. undefined Season 3 Episode 18 - Stakeout at Surfrider Beach
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #8 - Stakeout at Surfrider Beach

    S3:E18

    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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  9. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - The Fabulous Buchannon Boys
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #9 - The Fabulous Buchannon Boys

    S2:E5

    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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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 20 - Nobody Does It Better
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Nobody Does It Better

    S1:E20

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

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  11. undefined Season 9 Episode 8 - Swept Away
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Swept Away

    S9:E8

    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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  12. undefined Season 7 Episode 9 - Buried
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Buried

    S7:E9

    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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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 10 - The Trophy (2)
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #13 - The Trophy (2)

    S2:E10

    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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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 20 - The Big Spill
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #14 - The Big Spill

    S2:E20

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

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  15. undefined Season 2 Episode 19 - A Family Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - A Family Affair

    S2:E19

    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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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - Lucky Stiff
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Lucky Stiff

    S2:E6

    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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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 20 - Dust To Dust
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Dust To Dust

    S2:E20

    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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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Visitor's Choice
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #18 - Visitor's Choice

    S1:E5

    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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  19. undefined Season 4 Episode 9 - Ironman Buchannon
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #19 - Ironman Buchannon

    S4:E9

    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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  20. undefined Season 3 Episode 16 - Vacation (2)
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Vacation (2)

    S3:E16

    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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  21. undefined Season 9 Episode 2 - Crash (2)
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Crash (2)

    S9:E2

    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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  22. undefined Season 9 Episode 13 - Come Fly with Me
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Come Fly with Me

    S9:E13

    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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  23. undefined Season 4 Episode 14 - Coronado Del Sol (1)
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Coronado Del Sol (1)

    S4:E14

    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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  24. undefined Season 7 Episode 4 - Windswept
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Windswept

    S7:E4

    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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  25. undefined Season 7 Episode 21 - Golden Girls
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Golden Girls

    S7:E21

    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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David Braff Ratings Summary

"Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death" is the best rated episode written by David Braff. It scored 8.3/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 1/21/1983 and is rated 0.7 points higher than their second-best episode, "Just My Bill".