The Best Episodes Written By Michael Berk
Every TV Episode Written by Michael Berk Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Michael Berk Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Michael Berk is "Reunion", rated 7.5/10 from 4 user votes. It was "directed by Gus Trikonis". "Reunion" aired on 1/27/1992 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Princess of Tides".
7.5/10 4 votes#1 - Reunion
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1992
Mitch attends his high school reunion, rekindling an old flame with former wife Gail, while Eddie plays father for the day.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Michael Berk
7.5/10 4 votes#2 - Princess of Tides
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1992
C.J. is almost run over in a race, causing Mitch and Newmie to finish; Lewiston is engaged to a princess; Catherine's bodyguard Roland kidnaps her.
Director: Parker Stevenson
Writer: Michael Berk
7.5/10 4 votes#3 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1993
Mitch's parents come to visit; Al, Mitch's father, wants him to take over his architectural firm; Summer must tell Jackie about her horrible nightmares.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Michael Berk
7.5/10 4 votes#4 - Race Against Time (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1993
Hobie, a cold-hearted Gayle and Ken, Gayle's fiance, get trapped inside Ken's plane when it crashes in the ocean.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.5/10 4 votes#5 - Race Against Time (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1993
Hobie, Gayle, and Ken get rescued from the crashed plane; Matt's father takes back Matt's motorcycle; Jackie has problems with the renovation of her Summer Place.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.5/10 4 votes#6 - Sky Rider
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1993
Matt and Slade have a confrontation on the waves over Summer and decide to have a huge bungee-jumping contest; Garner and Mitch chase pickpockets.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Berk
7.2/10 4 votes#7 - Showdown at Malibu Beach High
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1992
The love strings between Courtney, Slade and Summer are pulled tight; C.J. accepts a position at Malibu Beach High; Garner tires of work.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Berk
7.2/10 4 votes#8 - The Tower
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1993
A murderer escapes from prison; Kilmer and Stephanie drive to Summer's tower where Kilmer takes them hostage; Hobie makes a periscope for his science class.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.1/10 8 votes#9 - Panic at Malibu Pier
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/1989
Mitch Buchannon has just been promoted to lieutenant. Mitch and his ex-wife Gayle have an argument about what's best for their son Hobie. Eddie Kramer is the top rookie in the rookie class of '89, and Shauni McClain is one of the last ones to qualify. Shauni starts off as a terrible lifeguard, but the experienced Jill Riley teaches her how to become a good lifeguard.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/10 5 votes#10 - In Deep
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1989
Instead of attending summer school, Hobie decides to go power skiing with two friends, whose recklessness leads to a tragic accident. Eddie's lack of financial resources is revealed when Craig finds him sleeping in one of the lifeguard towers.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/10 4 votes#11 - Nightmare Bay (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1991
Harvey is feeding off the local panic, making a small fortune selling ""Creature in the bay"" T-shirts. Just when things start to calm down, the situation escalates when a fishing boat catches something huge in its net, and is pulled underwater by the mysterious entity below the surface.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/10 4 votes#12 - Sea of Flames
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1992
The Baywatch crew crack a seaborne drug ring, and Ben finds love with an aging movie star.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/10 5 votes#13 - The Summer of '85
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/1992
After seven years, Eddie's first love appears in Los Angeles, complicating his life with Shauni and entangling him in a web of lies and an unsolved murder.
Director: Michael Berk
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/10 4 votes#14 - Island of Romance
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1993
C.J. and Stephanie go to Catalina for their women's weekend, but the trip does not go according to plan; Hobie and Mitch agree to hire a housekeeper.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/10 4 votes#15 - Tentacles (1)
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1993
Matt and Slade compete for Summer's affections by surfing. Mitch encounters a desperate woman who needs help for her boyfriend.
Director: Michael Berk
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/10 4 votes#16 - Submersion
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1993
Mitch must make a difficult decision when he must choose which boy to rescue from the ocean, and the boy he does not save first ends up in a coma.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.8/10 4 votes#17 - If Looks Could Kill
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1991
Mitch falls for a beautiful woman he has rescued, never dreaming she is actually a murderess.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Berk
6.8/10 4 votes#18 - Tentacles (2)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1993
Stephanie's sister, Caroline, arrives at Baywatch with exciting news, but her joy is shattered by a cataclysmic event. Mitch finds himself at the mercy of a wounded but dangerous adversary.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/10 6 votes#19 - River of No Return (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1992
Mitch receives news of his uncle's death. He recruits Hobie, Eddie and Shauni to trek to northern California's rugged gold country where he learns his uncle may have found the golden boot. Eddie and Shauni are having problems in their relationship when Eddie is accepted into a year-long lifeguard exchange program in Australia.
Director: Douglas Schwartz
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/10 6 votes#20 - River of No Return (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1992
Drew shoots at the raft. Shauni is taken hostage, and pushed off the cliff. After Eddie and Mitch save her, she finds out that she's not pregnant. Eddie proposes to her. Mitch climbs down with the help of a rope and finds the golden boot; Jed arrives at the trailer. Eddie marries Shauni and they move to Australia.
Director: Douglas Schwartz
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/10 3 votes#21 - 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
6.7/10 3 votes#22 - Livin' on the Fault Line (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1994
Matt is openly unamused by Aussie exchange program lifeguard Logan Fowler's hero complex, nearly running over a drowning man on his way to snatch a female from Matt. Mitch is hitting the breaks on Hobie's maternally sanctioned determination to commit to music. Stephanie has the hots for seismologist Riley Ferguson, but her sister returns homeless after a breakup. C.J. keeps turning up, panicking over a a mild tremor Mitch laughed away.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/10 3 votes#23 - Livin' on the Fault Line (2)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1994
After Mitch rescues Hobie, he helps Matt commandeer a news helicopter to rescue Jackie from her trailer on the cliff. Hobie also breaks out of his shaken state long enough to help C.J. save the homeless man trapped under wreckage of the pier.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/10 3 votes#24 - Trapped Beneath the Sea (1)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1995
Neely Capshaw, the unwholesome, psycho lifeguard who tried to frame Matt for sexual harassment, arrives back at Baywatch for a job as the switchboard operator and is greeted with a hostile reception from everyone, especially C.J. who personally holds Neely responsible for Matt's departure from Baywatch.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/10 3 votes#25 - Trapped Beneath the Sea (2)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1995
Neely and Cody try to keep the four people alive on the sunken oil rig until help arrives when Mitch, Stephanie and Logan must find away to get into the structure to rescue them before the air supply runs out. At the end, despite Neely's heroic attempts and proving herself to be a very good lifeguard during the rescue, the Baywatch team still resents her presence and plans to give her a hard time. Logan finally gives into Gator's demands for the credit of the swim wear, and Mitch finally decides to join a detective agency.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann
Writer: Michael Berk