The WORST episodes of Baywatch Nights
Every episode of Baywatch Nights ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Baywatch Nights!
The beach is hotter at night! The original premise of the show was that, during a midlife crisis, Sgt. Garner Ellerbee (Gregory Alan Williams), who was the resident police officer of Baywatch since the beginning of the series, decides to quit his job as a police officer and form a detective agency. Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff), his friend from Baywatch, joins to support him and they are, in turn, joined by a detective named Ryan McBride (Angie Harmon). Singer Lou Rawls, who starred in the first season, performed the series theme song, "After the Sun Goes Down". During the second season, facing slipping ratings which were never as good as the original series, the producers decided to switch to a science fiction format (inspired by the success of The X-Files).
#1 - Hot Winds
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1997
The wind is driving the people insane--a man tries to rub his hands off on a wall, another douses himself with gas, and a mother tries to toss her infant off a roof. A mysterious figure appears in clouds of dust.
#2 - Zargtha
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/5/1997
A monster resembling a wolf is attacking and killing teen-age runaways who live in an abandoned building, which is being demolished by a series of earthquakes. The monster resembles a mythical wolfman monster from Yugoslavia.
#3 - Ascension
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/1997
Teague asks if they have ever heard of Knights Templar and then we see Ryan and Mitch confined in torture devices which are controlled with modern electronics by an Asian woman.
#4 - Nights to Dragon One
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/23/1997
Mitch and Ryan play a computer-generated D&D type game to rescue a man and his daughter. In this game, you win or you die. The game is somewhat like those on the Holodeck of ST-DS9.
#5 - Possessed
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/1997
Since they were at the scene of an accident, several people have become possessed by a homicidal spirit. They each prepare to make a demonic sacrifice.
#6 - The Servant
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/1997
A mummy stalks the museum warehouse. Mitch does not believe in mummies or curses, but Ryan is not so sure.
#7 - Space Spore
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/19/1997
A space shuttle craft drops a load of dust as it comes in for a landing. The dust settles on the Burton farm where a farmer and his young daughter live. The space staff is alarmed and sends a crew in protective suits to clean it up, but it is Mitch and Griff who have to handle the dirty work when Ryan is infected.
#8 - Night Whispers
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1996
Mitch and Ryan witness a murder and Ryan becomes more and more convinced that it was committed by a vampire.
#9 - The Strike
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1996
Mitch gets a close encounter of a shocking kind when he rescues a young man attempting to surf. Shades of the X-Files! It is suggested that the young man has a connection with the Roswell incident in the forties.
#10 - Curse of the Mirrored Box
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1996
Mitch is alarmed when a child he saved six years ago turns to Haitian voodoo now she is a teen-ager. He and Ryan investigate and need the help of a priestess, Madam Trudor, to save their lives.
#11 - The Cabin
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1996
In a wild ghost story, Mitch and Ryan enter an innocent cabin and find themselves in a Gay 90's brothel with a gorgeous blonde in a bathtub and a raving, axe and knife wielding killer.
#12 - The Mobius
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/2/1997
Ryan's old school chum arrives and breathlessly asks for help because her husband has become obsessed with their latest research. At the lab, after some demonstrations with inanimate objects, Mitch, Ryan and Ashley fall into the beam (somewhat like the 'Sliders') and fight for their lives.
#13 - The Rig
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1996
It was the wrong day for a picnic! Mitch and Ryan head for the oil rig abandoned after a strange accident and spot a drifting yacht. Searching it they find a terrified young woman who says her host was pulled off the yacht by a weird sea monster. They have to abandon the yacht and use a rubber life raft to reach the oil rig where the gelatinous green stuff catches them.
#14 - The Curator
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/9/1996
A deranged man takes a fancy to Baywatch lifeguard Caroline Holden and makes many advances. She resists, so he captures her and locks her in a cage furnished like her apartment.
#15 - Takeover
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/1996
Mitch and Ryan investigate the people who would benefit from the hostile takeover of a company that includes the murder of certain key employees. Nights bistro hasbeen purchased by Donna Marco.
#16 - Circle of Fear
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1996
After a report of a possible black arts event in the woods, Mitch and Ryan search. Ryan finds a burned book and a duplicate in a specialty book shop. She attempts one of the ceremonies with spectacular results. The shop owner helps them understand and counteract the evil invoked.
#17 - Rendezvous
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1996
A family dispute results in the wife accusing her husband of corporate embezzlement and giving him reason to erase her. The detectives have to find him before he can do it.
#18 - Heat Rays
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/1996
Several members of a 70's surfing rock band die during a reunion at the beach. Donna is tricked into jumping off a bridge and spends the night in the water, then is rescued by two men carrying out a mysterious mission
#19 - Kind of a Drag
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1995
Mitch becomes a delightful female impersonator when the agency investigates a series of assaults on a drag-show company.
#20 - A Closer Look
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/1996
An old friend begs Mitch to 'take a closer look' at his estranged wife who doesn't seem to be her old self.
#21 - Vengeance
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/20/1996
A prison escapee vows to kill everyone associated with his conviction. Garner was one of the arresting officers.
#22 - Backup
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/1996
Former Baywatch lifeguard Eddie Kramer appeals to Mitch to investigate a rescue that resulted in a death, for which he has been blamed. Meanwhile, Garner and Ryan go on a stakeout.
#23 - The Creature
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1996
A serial killer is a woman who is as much at home in the water as she is on the land; a mutant looking to procreate.
#24 - Terror of the Deep
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1996
Mitch and Griff fight for their lives in a sunken freighter which might have been sunk by a New Guinea sea monster according to a woman they found floating in the ocean near the sunken wreckage.
#25 - Pressure Cooker
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1995
A hostage situation develops at the night club when Mitch, Garner, Ryan and Lou are held by two hoods demanding their brother be released from prison. Mitch and Garner had been working undercover at a chicken fast-food outlet, California Roasters, in chicken costumes when they made the arrest.