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

    S1:E14

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 21 - Game of Chance
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  3. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - Tequila Bay
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  4. undefined Season 2 Episode 19 - The Lost Treasure of Tower 12
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    S2:E19

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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

    S1:E5

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  6. undefined Season 4 Episode 10 - Tower of Power
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  7. undefined Season 3 Episode 15 - Vacation (1)
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    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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    Writer:David Braff

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  8. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - The Fabulous Buchannon Boys
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    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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    Writer:David Braff

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  9. undefined Season 4 Episode 14 - Coronado Del Sol (1)
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    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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    Writer:David Braff

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  10. undefined Season 7 Episode 9 - Buried
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  11. undefined Season 6 Episode 4 - Surf's Up
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    S6:E4

    After a number of unusual circumstances occur around the beaches, including Cody and Neely rescuing two surfer boys that come down with a fever, an environmentalist group comes to Baywatch to protest the dumping of chemicals from the storm drains, and Mitch enlists the Beach Boys for a benefit concert to help out raise money for repairing the storm drains.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 18 - Stakeout at Surfrider Beach
    7.3/10(6 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 10 - The Trophy (2)
    7.3/10(8 votes)

    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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    Writer:David Braff

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  14. undefined Season 9 Episode 8 - Swept Away
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    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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    Writer:David Braff

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  15. undefined Season 7 Episode 1 - Shark Fever
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    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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    Writer:David Braff

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  16. undefined Season 6 Episode 17 - Sail Away
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    S6:E17

    Stephanie is recruiting lifeguards for the annual Lifeguard Sailing Regatta where they will compete with the lifeguards of South Bay. Stephanie, Caroline, Cody, Newman and Barnett sign on, including Neely who reveals that she has a personal grudge against the lifeguard in charge of the South Bay team, Kurt Daniels, who was her former boyfriend and Neely is determined to win the race to get back at him at any cost.

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    Writer:David Braff

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  17. undefined Season 8 Episode 10 - Missing
    7.2/10(6 votes)

    S8:E10

    Cody becomes consumed with guilt when his actions of leaving his post before the end of his shift to go on a date with Lani result in the disappearance of a young Latino woman swimming in the ocean, and the incident results in a hyped media circus that comes to the beach to cover the story.

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    Writer:David Braff

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  18. undefined Season 8 Episode 21 - White Thunder at Glacier Bay (1)
    7.2/10(6 votes)

    S8:E21

    On the Dawn Princess, Mitch and Cody surprise Neely and Lani by showing up where Cody tries to stay close to Lani during her photo shoot aboard the ship.

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    Writer:David Braff

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  19. undefined Season 8 Episode 20 - Bon Voyage
    7.2/10(6 votes)

    S8:E20

    In this three-part season final, Neely, Donna and Lani are chosen by the sports magazine 'Inside Sports' for a week-long trip to Alaska on the cruise ship Dawn Princess, where Neely tells Mitch she is thinking about visiting her ex-husband who lives in Juneau to reconcile with him. But things change when Hobie wins a contest for the same Alaskan cruise for him, Mitch and Cody to travel to Alaska as well.

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    Writer:David Braff

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  20. undefined Season 5 Episode 21 - The Runaways
    7.2/10(6 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  21. undefined Season 5 Episode 20 - Promised Land
    7.2/10(6 votes)

    S5:E20

    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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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 20 - The Big Spill
    7.2/10(6 votes)

    S2:E20

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  23. undefined Season 3 Episode 16 - Vacation (2)
    7.1/10(7 votes)

    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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    Writer:David Braff

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

    S1:E20

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Braff

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  25. undefined Season 9 Episode 2 - Crash (2)
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    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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    Writer:David Braff

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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 0.6 points higher than their second-best episode, "Game of Chance".