The BEST episodes of Baywatch
Every episode of Baywatch ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Baywatch!
This long-running series follows the adventures of a team of lifeguards on the crowded beaches of Los Angeles County. Veteran lifeguard Mitch Buchannon watches over the younger lifeguards that come and go with each passing season as they keep the beaches safe for vacationers. Frequently he must take action to save them from the raging seas and from the raging tempers that sometimes flare up between the young guards in this stressful job.
#1 - Breath of Life
Season 10 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/2000
Jason, at the request of a young woman, goes to visit her father and reluctantly learns a craft from him. Sean's feelings about Jenna change abruptly when he finds out her plans for the future and how they will impact him directly.
#2 - The Edge
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1998
Cody has started swimming again. But he is clearly frustrated with his times. They aren't half as good as his times during the qualification races for the Atlanta Olympics back in 1996. Cody couldn't go to Atlanta because of a diving accident (6.22 Go for the Gold). After a race, Cody meets Liz Brooks, a beautiful woman. She turns out to know everything about Cody's past. She wants him to become her spokesperson for a new line of nutritional supplements called ""The Edge 4000"". Cody accepts the offer. When Liz is mixing up an Edge drink for Cody at headquarters, Mitch and Alex start asking questions about ""The Edge 4000"". They are very sceptical. Soon, Cody's training starts to interfere with his lifeguard hours. Mitch tells him to prioritize. He can't do both things. Cody will think about it. Another day, Cody is very cold due to the fact that he has lowered his body fat with 3 %. Therefore, he doesn't have the strength to complete a rescue. When Mitch and Newmie arrive to the scene, t
#3 - The Big Blue
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/1999
Some spectacular stunts are performed by a group of skydivers outside headquarters. Mitch, Cody, Jessie and J.D. look at them in amazement. When they have landed on the beach, Mitch goes down to greet an old military buddy named Ben Frazier. They catch up on each other's lives and then Mitch meets Tracy McCabe again. Tracy is his old Commander's daughter. She has grown up know and since she joined the military, her relationship with her father has been strained. Jessie introduces herself to Ben and Tracy and asks them if they can teach her some of the stuff they can do in the air. The promise to do that. During a picnic on the beach, Mitch asks Tracy why she doesn't want to attend the ceremony of her dad accepting the Navy Cross. Tracy tells him that her father Commander McCabe always ran his home like it was his own platoon. So when Tracy left, she swore that she would never return. Mitch also tells Tracy about the time her father saved his life. Eight years earlier, Mitch was called
#4 - Come Fly with Me
Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/1999
While Alex and Mitch are walking down the beach, they get a distress call. When they arrrive to the scene, a lot of people are coming out of the water holding their stomachs. Mitch thinks that the water has been polluted and immediately closes the beach. But the water is not polluted. It was just a hot dog vendor who sold bad hot dogs. At headquarters when they are taking care of the victims, Newmie answers the phone and when Mitch picks up the phone he is surprised to hear Tanner's voice. But the phone call is cut off. Later Tanner calls again and asks Mitch to pick him up. He gives him the address. Mitch arrive to the trailer and finds Blake on the floor and Tanner tied up on the bed. Also in the trailer are some mice and some snakes. Mitch takes Tanner with him, but before they leave, Blake wakes up for a little moment. He is awake long enough to see Mitch. Later during the evening when Tanner has cleaned himself up, Alex arrives and tells Mitch that he might have gotten himself int
#5 - Water Dance
Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/22/1999
When Mitch and Cody are out paddling on their surfboards, Cody tells Mitch that his relationship with Lani is over. She is engaged to someone else. He tells Mitch that he is having a really bad luck when it comes to women, first C.J. and now Lani. He decides to stay away from women a while. Then they see a beautiful violin-player on a yacht. She plays really good and Cody falls in love with her immediately. Suddenly a woman comes out on the deck and forces her to quit. Later on, the violin-player named Ariana tries to escape from the yacht. When she is alone in her room, she puts on a tape so that her bodyguards, Troy and Erik believe she is still practicing. But just when she has started swimming, Erik enters the room and notices that Ariana is gone. But Ariana hasn't gone far and Troy and Erik are able to pick her up in a zodiac. Later Mitch and Cody decide to go back to the yacht. It's illegal to spend the night out at sea. When they come onboard the yacht, they meet the owner of th
#6 - Galaxy Girls
Season 9 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/1999
Newmie and Alex are spending a lot of time together riding SeaDoos, go scuba diving and stuff like that. Newmie is convinced that Alex's got the hots for him and plans to make a move on her. He tells Mitch about it, but Mitch tells him that it can't be true. When Newmie invites Alex to join him for dinner on the beach, Mitch tells her what Newmie is really after. Alex can't believe it when Mitch tells her about Newmie's intentions. Alex tries to talk some sense into Newmie but he keeps interrupting her all the time. When Newmie finally goes to check on the food that is being prepared by Armond, Alex calls Mitch and tells him to come to the beach and join them for dinner. Later Newmie returns and Alex can not believe her eyes when she finds out that Newmie is wearing a toupee. Finally, Alex spots Mitch fishing by the water. Alex wants him to join them for dinner while Newmie wants him to leave. Mitch ends up staying on the beach and Alex has to tell Newmie about her feelings. She tells
#7 - Castles in the Sand
Season 9 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/1999
Alex asks Mitch if he wants to escort her to her best friend Sam's wedding. Sam later calls her from New York and tells her that Diane will arrive the next day, but he can't make it until Friday. He asks Alex if she can take care of Diane until he gets there and she agrees to do it. When Diane arrives, she meets Mitch and falls in love with him. In order to get Diane to stay away from Mitch, Alex tells her that she and Mitch is a couple. She also invites herself and Diane over to Mitch's place for dinner. Mitch doesn't like the idea but he and Alex play along to fool Diane. Suddenly Newmie arrives and wonders if Mitch has forgotten their date with the Zimmerman twins. Then Mitch leaves with Newmie and Alex is left alone with Diane. The next day, Sam arrives and tells Alex that Diane has called off the wedding. Meanwhile, Diane tells Mitch that she will give her wedding another try and she and Sam are reunited again. After the wedding, Mitch wonders if Alex just acted while they kissed
#8 - Shark Island
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1999
Baywatch and the Coast Guard mount a joint rescue operation, but mistakes are made by J.D. and Sean. To learn from their mistakes, Sean has the team train with the Cost Guards, during which Allie is smitten with Coast Guard Nick. Later, a training exercise becames a real rescue when Jason must come to Sean's aid. Jessie jumps to conclusions after finding JD in a compromising position with Kekoa and Dawn fans the flames. Jessie decides she and J.D. should ""cool off"" their relationship. After leanring of a Polynesian cleansing ritual from Sean, Jessie goes skinnydipping, but must come to the rescue of a swimmer. Sean comes to her aid by boat and gives the naked Jessie a swimswuit. Mitch and Tanner travel to Shark Island and learn about the Hawaiian legend of Mano, a man eternally seeking his lost son. At night, Tanner encounters Mano, who finally finds peace. Mitch and Tanner discuss Tanner's gang problems on the mainland and Mitch resolves they will face the problems together.
#9 - Sunday in Kauai
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1999
Jessie and Kekoa face-off during a paddle boat trip of a local river in which they must co-operate with each other to rescue and transport a man to safety after his canoe falls down a waterfall. J.D. tries to get Jason to shed his Texan image in order to learn how to flirt with some attractive-looking ladies on the marina. Also, Sean accompanies Allie on a quest into an underwater cave in search of some Hawaiian archaeology.
#10 - Risk to Death
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1999
Sean considers dismissing Jason from Baywatch unless he changes his attitude. A man and his pregnant wife need to be rescued from the ocean after falling overboard from their yacht.
#11 - Father of the Groom
Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1999
Mitch is shocked when he finds out that Hobie is getting married to a woman he only met recently. The Baywatch lifeguards must undertake a dangerous rescue of a woman trapped in an underwater cave.
#12 - Bent
Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1999
An experimental submarine and its passengers ends up in a devastating tragedy for Allie, who finds & loses love all too quickly. She finally learns to trust Nick, a rescue swimmer working at the U.S. Coast Guard; a man she's been into for two weeks. Nick takes some huge risks when trying to save the passengers in the submarine, which unfortunately leads to him getting a severe case of the bends. He never wakes up, and Allie is devastated. Mitch arranges a lifeguard memorial service for Nick. Mitch tells her "Nick wasn't a lifeguard, but he died being one."
#13 - Liquid Visions
Season 10 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2000
The amazing recovery of a man rescued after being submerged for a very long time inspires Dawn. Kekoa debates getting involved in another relationship as she thinks she dooms her chances for happiness with self doubt.
#14 - Friends Forever
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1998
The Baywatch gang is preparing some kids for the Special Olympics. One of the kids, twelve year old Kayla is deaf. Her father Gavin has been a friend of Alex's for years. When his job forces him to go to San Diego, Alex convinces him to let Kayla stay with her. Meanwhile on the boardwalk, a man named Herbert Crane is berating a dangerous monkey named Mighty Moe. But the dangerous monkey turns out to be a loveable orangutan named Morton. When Morton doesn't scare any people, Herbert wants to get rid of him. While Herbert is driving drunk and loses control over the car, Morton escapes. Herbert follows him towards the ocean and a while later, Herbert is knocked down by a wave and almost drowns. He is rescued by Mitch and Alex. Kayla follows them there and she finds Morton hiding behind some cliffs. But she doesn't tell Alex and Mitch about Morton. So when Herbert keeps wondering where his monkey is, no one believes him. Not until, Cody and Jessie tell them that they meet Herbert and Morto
#15 - Big Island Heat
Season 10 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/2000
As his trust in Jenna deepens, Sean decides to take a huge risk by sharing his most dark and emotional secret with her. He can only hope that Jenna will not betray his trust. Meanwhile, Allie struggles to keep up with a challenging day of rescues.
#16 - Maui Xterra
Season 10 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/24/2000
Jessie accepts an offer from her sister Dawn, who claims that she wants to help Jessie regain confidence by competing in a challenging triathlon. Sean and Allie worry about Jessie's health and wonder if Dawn might have darker motives behind her offer.
#17 - The Last Rescue
Season 10 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/2000
When Sean learns that a young man Jamal has dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer, he decides to do whatever he can to help Jamal realize his goals. Meanwhile, Mitch has his hands full as he aids Jessie in overcoming a family crisis.
#18 - The Killing Machine
Season 10 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2000
Mitch faces off against an eco-terrorist, and as the dust settles, Baywatchs' finest will never be the same.
#19 - A Knife in the Heart
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2000
Axel, a young teenager riding a Jet Ski, blows past J.D., Zack and Leigh. J.D. yells at Axel to take it easy. Both Zack and Leigh see that something is disturbing J.D.: he never acts this way. Meanwhile, Kekoa is having one of the most nightmarish experiences a lifeguard can have: a grandfather suffers a heart attack. Moments later, Axel wipes out on his jet ski-the jet ski careening towards a young married couple. Kekoa calls for back up, but must contend with the man having the heart attack and Greer, Axel's father, who wants her to rescue his son first. Kekoa finally has to hit him with a rescue can to get him out of her face. J.D. and Zack arrive at the scene of the accident. JD tells Zack to stay with Axel while he tends to the couple. By the time he gets back to Zack, he sees that Zack has disobeyed his orders and has tried to bring Axel in, getting pummeled by the waves and nearly killing both himself and Axel in the process. This only sets off J.D. more. For Sean, the morning h
#20 - Broken Promises
Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2000
Continuing her assault on Sean's team, Jenna calmly announces that she hopes to bring Leigh back to the North Shore Lifeguards. Sean keeps saying this won't happen, but Leigh knows how Jenna is when she gets her mind on something. Meanwhile, the Snowden family (Jim, his wife Gwen and young son Jamie) are having a good time on the beach. Unbeknownst to them, Danny and another of his nefarious buds, Vin, are planning on scamming them and robbing them. They go into their routine and are about to steal the Snowden's things when Gwen hears Jamie calling out: he's gotten into trouble in the water. Not wasting any time, Danny jumps into action and saves the boy. Later, because Jamie was saved, the Snowdens decide not to press charges. Sean offers Danny a chance to reform: join the training team and start a new life. Danny enthusiastically agrees. Leigh thinks Sean's making a big mistake. Kekoa and her father have hit a new low. Under the impression that he was trying to make a reconciliation,
#21 - Dream Girl
Season 11 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2000
It's been a terrible day for Sean. Jenna is continuing her all-out assault on him by trying to take more of his equipment (this time, the scarab and two jet skis); the beach is overrun with belligerent tourists (including a Drunk), and Congressman McKenna is demanding a meeting to discuss finances. In the midst of all this, Sean gets a call from J.D., who has just rescued an island woman who might have a back injury. J.D. is running out of energy, and needs back up in order to bring the woman in to shore without damaging her spinal chord. Not being able to leave himself, Sean sends Kekoa and Zack. Zack, as usual, is so fired up by excitement, is so in his zone because of his skills, and is so intent on saving J.D. and the victim that he ignores Kekoa's warning about riding the jet ski over the waves. He wipes out. The jet ski goes careening towards J.D. and the victim. J.D. is able to pull the victim out of harm's way, but the jet ski rams into him. He is able to muscle his way back to
#22 - The Cage
Season 11 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2000
While watching over the Ironman Triathlon, J.D. and Sean must perform a rescue of two divers who have come face to face with a tiger shark. The reason the shark is so close in land is that Blake, a nefarious ""shark tour"" provider, had been dumping chum in the water. Sean, of course, is livid and becomes even more so when locals tell him not to interfere. Sean confronts Blake face to face, but Blake is not intimidated by Sean and even threatens him back. Unbeknownst to Sean, Kekoa and J.D. have continued their affair. They have, in fact, ramped it up to the next level, even though both know that what they are doing is dangerous and not in the best interests of the team. Meanwhile, Jason is having problems with tourist Al Raymond. Raymond is a good enough guy, but he wants so desperately to impress his son Noah that he keeps getting in Jason's way. To make things worse for Al, all of his attempts end in embarrassing failure. Al at first irritates Jason, but Max tells him how he misses hi
#23 - A Good Man in a Storm
Season 11 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2001
Hurricane Honu is headed towards the islands and everyone is on stage one alert. Zack is trying to save his precious computer discs, but Sean warns him that all available shelter space must be saved for food and supplies. In the midst of the chaos, Sean gets a call from Jenna: she's stuck at Kaena Point because of a landslide and she's in danger of being wind-swept over a cliff. Sean goes to rescue her, only to discover that she's not in danger at all-she just needed a ride on the scarab to bypass traffic to go to a city council meeting in Kaneohe. She feels that all the panic over the hurricane is over-stated and that the islands stand to lose money because of the hysteria. Just then, the storm starts to hit. She tries to help Sean, but steers the boat into a reef, shearing off its propellers. Then, while trying to make up for her mistake, she winds up getting her foot caught in the anchor line and goes hurtling over the edge of the boat. Sean must brave the choppy waters to save her
#24 - Dead Reckoning
Season 11 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/2001
Sean, Jason and Zack are headed to the Big Island to participate in the Showdown 2001, a 12 mile course of natural obstacles. Leigh will be taking over supervisory duties while Sean is away. J.D. is tending to Kekoa, who has come down with the flu. Fortunately, J.D. has an iron constitution, despite the fact that he didn't have his annual flu shot. Jason has always wanted to participate in the Showdown 2001, and this looks to be his big chance. However, as part of their sponsorship by Trail Tracker magazine, they need to take along a reporter who will participate. It turns out to be none other than Jessie. This is her big chance to change her career and make something of herself. Sean reminds her that the team will still be playing by all the rules, and there will be no exceptions made to help sell her story. Jessie is agreeable to these terms. She, though, has already chosen who her partner will be: Jason. He is not happy with this, since he still holds a grudge based on the way she b
#25 - Rookie School
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1989
Howard Ganza's girlfriend Amy has stolen a book that belongs to him. She is chased by Vincent, Ganza's helper. When Amy arrives to the beach, she ends up in the middle of the rookie competition. Without knowing it, she becomes one of the first to enter the finish line, and by doing so, she becomes a member of rookie school. Eddie becomes interested in her and lets her stay with him in Craig and Gina's apartment, while they are away for a romantic weekend. She tells Eddie that she has been robbed. A couple of days later, when they are in the apartment, Ganza and Vincent arrive and bring Eddie and Amy to a warehouse. Meanwhile, Garner shows Mitch a picture of Amy and tells him that her name is Catherine Baker and that she is involved with Ganza. Mitch knowing that Eddie and Amy haven't shown up, becomes suspicious. When Trevor receives a phone call from Amy, Mitch decides to tag along. Trevor is supposed to return the stolen book to Ganza. Amy's sister has sent the book to headquarters.