The BEST episodes of Baywatch season 4
Every episode of Baywatch season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Baywatch season 4!
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 - The Red Knights
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1994
Some old lifeguards known as the Red Knights are having a reunion at Baywatch. Among the lifeguards are the legendary Bud Gates who was the first lifeguard ever to swim to Catalina and back in the nude. But after a couple of years he mysteriously disappeared from the beach. Later it's revealed that he is convinced he saw Marilyn Monroe on the beach one day. When he was about to make a move on her, he got a call that someone had seen sharks at Topanga Beach. Later when he got back, she was nowhere to be seen. When Marilyn Monroe died, he retired as a lifeguard and went back to Omaha and opened a hardware store. Meanwhile, Ben isn't to pleased about the reunion. All the other Knights are still in good shape, but Ben isn't because of his broken hip. Bud asks Mitch how Ben got injured and he tells Bud that a couple of years ago, Ben was hang-gliding and saw a surfer in trouble. Ben was the only one who could rescue him and then he jumped from 30 feet and rescued the surfer. But during the
#2 - Rescue Bay
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1994
When TV-producer Don Brand visits the beach, he is delighted to discover that the actions that take place on the beach are perfect for a TV-series. He calls the TV-series ""Rescue Bay"". He gets inspired when he witness Stephanie, Matt and Summer rescue two men on a boat, and when Garner catches a bad guy with the help of a kid's kite. Brand is convinced that he has a number one show in his hand. Brand follows the lifeguards around interviewing them about their jobs and personal lives. Stephanie reveals her and Mitch's relationship to him. Matt and Summer are played by two network-deal ingenues. Stephanie wants to play herself but when C.J. returns from Hawaii unaware of the shooting of a TV-series, she rescues the victims not knowing they are only acting. Brand is immediately smitten and offers Stephanie's part to C.J. and Stephanie becomes real upset. When the two roommates argue over who is best suited to play the role, Mitch agrees to help them with a kissing scene, but that doesn't
#3 - Western Exposure
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1994
Famous country-singer Jesse Lee Harris is at the top of his career and because he tours constantly, his wife Crystal left him with their son Jackson. The problem is that she didn't tell him where they went. But one day, Jesse receives a Venice Beach postcard from Jackson and he is determined to find them. Therefore he takes a detour to Los Angeles on his way to Las Vegas and hopes to find his family there and get the marriage back together again. When Jesse walks around on the beach, showing people a picture of Jackson, two girls recognize him and then he is surrounded by 20 girls. When they all end up in the water, C.J. and some other lifeguards have to rescue him. C.J.'s friend Sadie who was on the beach next to C.J.'s tower is a country singer herself, and she recognizes Jesse. When C.J. finds out about it, she escorts him to headquarters. She also convinces him to come to the Denim & Diamonds Dance Hall to hear Sadie sing. Jessie accepts the invitation, and is so impressed by Sadie
#4 - Guys & Dolls
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1994
When Matt is out water-skiing, he sees a young woman being swept into the ocean. When he has rescued her, she tells him she lost all her money in the water and that she needed the money for her audition. She wants to become an actress. She introduces herself as Rachel Henderson, and Matt feels sorry for her and loans her $ 100. Meanwhile, when Mitch is running on the beach, he sees a man sleeping in the sand. Then he realizes that the man is about to be run over by a beach tractor. He rescues the man just in time and the man introduces himself as Henry Krebbs. He tells Mitch that he is looking for his runaway daughter Nancy. His description matches Rachel's exactly. Henry tells Mitch that he is dying of cancer and wants to meet his daughter before he dies. The next day when Rachel doesn't return to give Matt his money back, Matt finds a receipt in the dryer. The note leads him to the marina where he finds Rachel. She runs away and when he captures her and tells her that her father is d
#5 - Race Against Time (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1993
A dramatic plane crash finds Hobie and his mother trapped in the rapidly flooding fuselage beneath the sea while Mitch and the Baywatch lifeguards mount a massive rescue effort to save the trapped passengers and crew.
#6 - Race Against Time (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1993
When Hobie flies to Acapulco for his mother's wedding, the pilot loses both of the engines in the air and the plane crashes into the sea.
#7 - Coronado Del Sol (1)
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/1994
The gang stays at the Hotel Del Coronado where strange things start to happen to Summer in her hotel room.
#8 - Blindside
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1993
When a maniac on a motorcycle is terrorizing everybody on the beach, including C.J, John D. Cort comes to the rescue on his new horse Apache Warrior. He tells C.J. he is back for good and they fall in love again. But both Mitch and C.J. notice that something is wrong with Cort. He doesn't shake people's hands and he almost runs over people on his motorcycle. The problem is that he passed Mitch's eye-test. He had a perfect vision. But when Mitch hits him with a rescue can and he falls down without seeing it, he knows something is wrong with him and Cort agrees to go to a doctor. Dr. Corey tells him that he has a rare eye disease that causes tunnel vision. Dr. Corey tells him to wear very dark glasses all the time, because the sun makes him blind a lot faster than he has to be. He ends up leaving Baywatch and C.J. for good. Meanwhile, Hobie meets a giant man on the pier. He makes a living by scaring children in a cage. His boss is named Valdez and he is very mean to him. Later when Hobie
#9 - Tower of Power
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1993
Some gang-members have sprayed their symbol on headquarters. The same gang also robs Hobie when he has sold some A & W soda on the beach. Meanwhile, Stephanie is upset because Mitch hasn't told her about the hiring of a new substitute lifeguard while Newmie is on vacation. But Mitch tells her she will like him. The substitute is named Carlos and he and Stephanie immediately fall for each other. They see the gang robbing Hobie and go there to help him. Carlos runs after them and Stephanie gets the impression that he knows the girl in the gang. Later Garner sees Carlos on the pier talking to the gang. Then it's revealed that his sister Adelsa is a member of the gang. Later Carlos tells Stephanie about it. When a big gang fight takes place on the beach, everyone is arrested and Adelsa is sent back home to live with her and Carlos's parents again. When Luis, the gang-leader gets out of prison, he goes after Carlos. He steals Barnett's truck and drives to Carlos's tower. Outside the tower,
#10 - Coronado Del Sol (2)
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1994
Adrift in the ocean with his semi-conscious brother, Mitch struggles to keep himself and Buzzy alive through the long, cold night.
#11 - Tentacles (1)
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1993
A prison break gone awry finds Mitch held hostage by a beautiful woman and forced to perform surgery on her escaped convict husband. Meanwhile, Matt and Slade decide to settle their mutual affection for Summer in a daring surfing contest.
#12 - Mirror, Mirror
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/1994
When a woman named Gwen arrives at Mitch's tower, he hardly notices her. But Gwen spends her afternoon at his tower and makes an awkward conversation. She tells Mitch that she and her sister is visiting the beach in their trailer. When Mitch doesn't pay any attention to her anymore because he finds two beautiful girls more fun to be with it, Gwen decides to leave. When Mitch is about to close his tower, Mattie, Gwen's sister arrives. Mitch starts to like Mattie and accepts her invitation to dinner the next night in their trailer without knowing her secret. It turns out that Gwen and Mattie is actually the same person. Before Mitch arrives, Mattie put some pills in Mitch's wine. When Mitch arrives, Mattie tells him that Gwen couldn't join them. When Mitch has had some wine, he passes out on the couch. When Mitch awakens, he finds himself chained to the wall of a basement that is rapidly flooding with water. Suddenly he hears Gwen's voice from upstairs and screams her name. But only Matt
#13 - Tentacles (2)
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1993
Stephanie's younger sister arrives in town for a visit with her fiancé, an environmental investigator, who has a near-fatal accident while out diving.
#14 - Lover's Cove
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1993
Hobie meets a beautiful girl named Lauren Taylor in junior lifeguards. But unfortunately for him, she has a disease called aplastic anemia and has less than a year left to live. Her biggest dream is to save someone's live. Therefore the Make-A-Wish Foundation placed her at Baywatch. Hobie falls in love with her without knowing about her disease. During an exercise, Lauren almost drowns and Hobie has to rescue her. Then her mom Mary decides that it's time for her to go back to Portland again. When Hobie hears about this, he decides to take her to a place called Lover's Cove. It's said that if you kiss someone as long as the bells are ringing, your love will last eternally. He overhears C.J. telling Jackie about it. Hobie and Lauren go to Lover's Cove on a wave-runner, but when they are about to leave, Hobie is attacked by a Portuguese man-of-war, and Lauren have to rescue him for the second time. Later when Mitch, C.J. and Matt have found them, Mitch tells Hobie the truth. He gets re
#15 - Ironman Buchannon
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1993
Mitch is training for the annual Ironman competition and Garner documents everything on a videotape. Everyone tells Mitch to join the senior league, because he is old enough to qualify for it. But he wants to prove that he is still as good as he used to be and tortures himself during his training. It's obvious that he is going through a mid-life crisis. Later Mitch rescues a girl named Destiny. She got into trouble while she was using her dad's wetsuit, which of course was too heavy for her. Destiny makes Mitch feel like he is twenty-five years old again. Then he wins the Ironman competition, beating his rival Craig Hummer. After the competition everyone throw him a surprise birthday party at headquarters. When everyone have left the party, Mitch and Jackie continue with a party of their own, dancing to some music. Meanwhile, Matt is working late during the evenings so that he can afford a new motorcycle. A girl named Rebecka can give him one for $ 3 000. Because Matt is never home, Su
#16 - Trading Places
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1994
When a man is seen drifting in the ocean, Matt and Stephanie are called in to rescue him. But as they are approaching the victim, a Coast Guard helicopter waves them away from the victim, and they rescue him instead. Later Stephanie and Matt confront one of the Coast Guard members Scott Daniels about calling the scarab off. Scott explains to them that they couldn't see it, but the scarab was about to travel across a fish net, which would have folded the scarab propellers. At first Stephanie doesn't like Scott, and she is less than thrilled when she discovers that she will work with him on the beach for a day because Chief Thorpe thinks it will be a good thing for the Coast Guard to see what a lifeguard does and the other way around. Scott is convinced that life-guarding is all about working on your tan, but when Stephanie is forced to make a rescue and Scott doesn't have a clue who the victims are, he agrees that life-guarding is a very serious job and that you have to be on your guard
#17 - The Life You Save
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1994
When the Baywatch gang find out that their jobs are in jeopardy due to budget cuts, everyone decide to volunteer as civilian lifeguards. At the same time on the beach, a couple named David and Julia is having a romantic time. When David proposes to Julia, the engagement ring falls into the water. David dives in after the ring, but the onrushing tide forces a rock to fall down on his hand and he is trapped. Meanwhile Matt and Summer are going to have a picnic on the beach when they see Julia on some cliffs. They dive in after David and bring him to safety just in time. When David and Julia arrive to headquarters with Matt and Summer, Mitch gets an idea. Instead of showing the county commissioners just some statistics, they bring some victims to the beach whom they have rescued during the years. Among the victims are Charlie Dupree (Episode 29: ""Sandcastles"") who was rescued by Mitch and the Baywatch gang when she lived on the street with her mom. Memo Urueta (Episode 28: ""Point of Attac
#18 - Second Time Around
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1994
During the filming of a commercial out at sea, a woman falls of her jet ski and Matt has to rescue her. The woman turns out to be Jessie, the biker Matt met a year earlier (Episode 51: ""Point Doom""). Mitch wants a lifeguard to be present during the filming and Matt is selected to go. Summer immediately becomes jealous because she knows about Matt and Jessie's previous meeting. The producer Victor has been harassing Jessie ever since they broke up a couple of weeks earlier. Therefore she convinces Matt to act as her fiance in order to get rid of Victor. When Summer sees them kissing passionately in the marina, Matt finds himself going through a hard time trying to convince Summer that they are only acting. The same night, Jessie arrives to Matt's apartment. She asks him if she can spend the night there, because Victor has been following her the whole evening. The next morning, Matt goes out on his bike. When he is riding his bike in the mountains, a man on a motorcycle arrives and pushe
#19 - The Falcon Manifesto
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/1994
An investigative reporter named Catherine Larsen is working on a story she has named ""The Falcon Manifesto"". The story details the sale of U.S. military technology to foreign governments by Edward Falcon. Because of her story, Falcon has put a contract on her life and the NBI wants to put her into their protective custody. But Catherine trusts no one and heads of to Catalina where she hides the manifesto in an old sofa. While in Catalina, she takes a fishing trip on a boat. When the boat hits a dumpster that is floating in the ocean, the boat is in danger of sinking and Mitch, Summer and Matt in the scarab are the first ones who arrive to the scene. At the boat, Mitch finds Catherine bravely working in the ship's hold trying to patch the hole with something. Together with Mitch she manages to patch the hole using Mitch's wetsuit. While filling in the incident report, Catherine tells Mitch her name is Kate McCoy because she is not willing to tell him her real name. She also accepts Mitc
#20 - Submersion
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1993
Mitch meets two boys named Chuck and Bobby on the beach while they are sleeping in a tent. They have come from Kansas for Bobby's 10th birthday. Later the same day, Mitch meets the two boys again and teaches them how to throw a Frisbee. Later Bobby throws the frisbee into the ocean, and while they go out to get it, they end up in trouble. Mitch has to do the rescue all by himself because C.J. is on the bike-path taking care of an injured man. Mitch comes to Chuck first and gives him the rescue can. Then he swims towards Bobby, but Chuck loses the rescue can and Mitch has to choose which one of them, he will rescue first. He chooses Chuck and when he returns for Bobby, he is nowhere to be seen. Newmie locates him from the scarab and Bobby is taken to the hospital, where he is in a coma. Bobby's mom Dana blames Mitch for the accident and Mitch blames himself as well. Then an investigation takes place and it's proved that Mitch did everything he possibly could, but he is still mad at hims
#21 - Sky Rider
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1993
Slade has returned to Los Angeles and Summer doesn't know anything about it, until her friend Ethan tells her about it. Later when Matt sees Summer and Slade together, he gets jealous. But Summer tells him that she will tell Slade about them. Then before Summer gets the chance to tell him, Ethan tells Slade about Matt and Summer's relationship. Slade confronts Summer and she tells him the truth. Later Slade goes surfing where Matt is surfing, and he steals his wave and they soon end up in a fight. When Slade gets hurt, they sit down and talk, and they decide to solve the problem with a competition where the winner gets Summer. Meanwhile, a man named Simon who owns an air balloon wants C.J. to fly around the world with him. He also scares her by bungee jumping out of his balloon. Matt and Slade see this and decide that their competition will be bungee jumping with the one closest to the water wins. But something goes wrong and Slade, who jumps first, hit the water and become unconscious
#22 - The Child Inside
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1993
The episode starts with Stephanie and Barnett rescuing a diver in trouble. Baywatch hosts the Special Olympics for the first time. The Olympics is held by Mitch's old friend and elite gymnast Mary Lou Retton, who won 5 gold medals in the 1984 Olympics. She asks Mitch to take care of a troubled kid named Darnel while Stephanie to take care of a girl named Sammy. Darnel's father abandoned him when he was a little kid, and Mary Lou has managed to track him down. During a race, Darnel pushes his opponent in order to win and the coach for that team wants Darnel disqualified. But Mitch talks to Darnel and Mary Lou talks to the other boy's coach and they agree to let him stay in the Olympics if Darnel improves his sportsmanship. Meanwhile, Stephanie befriends Sammy who wants to be a gymnast. But she doesn't think that she's good enough. However Stephanie teaches her to believe in herself and during the final race Mr. Shepard shows up to watch his son compete. During the race, Sammy falls and