The BEST episodes of Baywatch season 5
Every episode of Baywatch season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Baywatch season 5!
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 - Short Sighted
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1994
After Caroline and Logan complete rookie school, Logan is named ""Rookie of the Year"" and chooses to work at Baywatch. Caroline, still smarting from her break-up with Logan, tells Stephanie she won't be able to work with him. During her first shift, Caroline's distracted by Logan's presence. Despite Stephanie's warning to watch a little girl, Caroline can't keep her eyes off Logan and almost misses a rescue when the girl nearly drowns. After Steph comes to the girl's rescue, a guilty Caroline confesses she missed the rescue because of Logan. Stephanie then decides to transfer Logan to Zuma Beach. Caroline's upset by Stephanie's interference while Logan threatens to sue. Mitch advises Stephanie to not let her personal feelings about Logan interfere with his job ability. Stephanie reconsiders and apologizes to Caroline, saying she'll be her boss when she's on-duty, but her sister off-duty. Meanwhile, Hobie befriends a new junior lifeguard named Carter, who panics when he learns of an up
#2 - Red Wind
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1994
The Santa Ana Winds usher in some strange times for the lifeguards as Caroline helps an insane man who swears his daughter drowned in the ocean, while Mitch is tormented by a meek man, whose fiancée remains infatuated with Mitch from a years-ago rescue.
#3 - Seize the Day
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1995
After learning Tracy's dying, Mitch intends to make their last moments together count but tragedy cuts short their time together. Logan and Caroline try to stop a pair of reckless wave runners from cauing harm on the beach.
#4 - Homecoming
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1995
Stephanie returns to Baywatch only to become victim of an ultraradical eco-terrorist trying to destroy an offshore oil platform. Mitch makes waves in Garner's relationship with a new lifeguard.
#5 - Silent Night, Baywatch Night (2)
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1994
At Christmas, Mitch tries to reunite Joey with her mother; C.J. worries that a priest is leaving the church for her and Matt investigates whether Santa's elves are really vacationing at Baywatch.
#6 - Fire with Fire
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/1995
Andy, an old friend of Mitch, visits Baywatch to complete four days of lifeguard service in order to remain on the active roster. But Andy's strong-arm tactics do not sit well with the other lifeguards.
#7 - Baja Run
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1994
John D. Cort comes back to Baywatch and the episode starts with Cort hiding some stolen artifacts behind some rocks in Mexico. Then when the Mexican border police and a man named Jake arrive, they can't find the artifacts and Cort is free to go. Cort left Baywatch a year earlier when he found out he had a degenerative eye disease that causes gradual blindness (Episode #73, Blindside). When Mitch is talking to John at the switchboard, he is surprised to see Cort out on the balcony. When he goes out to say hello, he doesn't know if Cort is blind or not, but he becomes happy when he finds out he isn't. When they are walking on the beach, Cort tries to convince Mitch to enter the Baja run with him. He finally gives in and says yes. When they see a fight in the water, Mitch and C.J. have to stop it and afterwards Cort and C.J. share a kiss, but that's it. Later Mitch and Cort arrive in Baja to meet a friend of Cort's named Al who is providing them with a dune buggy. During the race Cort
#8 - A Little Help
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1995
In an homage to the movie Sleepless in Seattle, Hobie tries helping his grieving father deal with Tracy's death by calling a radio station for advice, and a woman listener in another city decides to contact them. Caroline rescues a swimmer with AIDS, causing problems between her and Logan.
#9 - Rubber Ducky
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1995
Logan and his friend Gator are determined to beat Matt and Barnett in a rubber ducky contest so that Logan can win the cash prize and not have to marry a rich widow to stay in the country. Mitch's new relationship with Tracy comes under the scrutiny of his disapproving mother but Tracy hides a secret from Mitch.
#10 - The Runaways
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/1995
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 waterskiing behind a blimp. Stephanie questions Caroline's ability as a lifeguard.
#11 - Father's Day
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/1995
Logan is traumatized by a phobia from his past involving his late father and fire. Mitch discovers that his late father was actually proud of his career as a lifeguard.
#12 - K-GAS, the Groove Yard of Solid Gold
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1994
The beach descends into chaos when DJ Larry "Loomin" Large announces a beach wide treasure hunt for a gold pirate doubloon worth $100,000. The Baywatch team is put on high alert when thousands of reckless treasure hunters storm the beach.
#13 - Deep Trouble
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/1995
John D. Cort, returns to Baywatch, homeless and depressed, but finds a purpose for living when the potential donor of a young leukemia victim is reported missing.
#14 - Wet and Wild
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/27/1995
Hobie is thrilled when the "Johnny Danger Stunt Show" comes to the beach, but Mitch finds Johnny has questionable morals and is worried Hobie may follow his example. Matt is accused of sexual harassment by bad girl lifeguard Neely.
#15 - Someone to Baywatch Over You
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1994
Mitch works with an FBI agent, posing as a lifeguard, stake-out a dangerous criminal. After Matt rescues a Dutch woman, she intends to repay him with her servitude, which evokes jealous in C.J.
#16 - I Spike
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1994
Matt considers fulfilling his dreams of playing professional volleyball when he's given the chance to partner with a pro. Mitch meets the beautiful Tracy, who tries to sell Baywatch a hovercraft. Garner literally chokes when he tries to sing in public. C.J. protests oil drilling in the bay and the lifeguards must rescue the drillers become trapped underwater.
#17 - Livin' on the Fault Line (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1994
Stephanie and the geological team are trapped underwater by a massive earthquake. Hobie's and Jackie's lives hang in the balance. It is up to the Baywatch team to save them before it's too late!
#18 - Aftershock
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1994
Hobie has returned from Ohio and Gayle has traveled with him back home. Gayle tells Mitch that their separation hasn't been good for Hobie and therefore she is willing to give their marriage another try. Hobie is very excited when he hears about the wedding-plans and the wedding will be held at the beach with Garner as Mitch's best man. Meanwhile, a fishing boat far out at sea gets an old mine in their fishing-net, and when the mine hits the boat, it explodes. When the lifeguards finds out about it, everyone leaves the wedding ceremony including Mitch. The rescue is successful but when Mitch comes back to the beach, Gayle is nowhere to be seen. He finds her on some rocks and she tells him that she has changed her mind. So the wedding is canceled making Hobie even sadder then he was before. Mitch does his best in order to comfort him. Meanwhile, when Caroline and Logan are out on a wave-runner, Logan is forced to make a rescue. Meanwhile, Caroline is waiting on the wave-runner that is k
#19 - Silent Night, Baywatch Night (1)
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1994
As Christmas nears, Mitch and Tracy fall in love. Mitch and Hobie let a lost boy stay with them during the holidays, only to discover he's a con artist. C.J. believes a priest has developed romantic feelings for her. Matt suspects that a group of vacationing little people are really Santa's elves.
#20 - Air Buchannon
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1994
Mitch and Stephanie ponder rekindling their romance during a 24-hour shift at the beach.
#21 - Promised Land
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/1995
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.
#22 - Livin' on the Fault Line (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1994
After a minor earthquake, a geological survey team arrives at Baywatch to place an underwater seismometer in the Malibu fault. Hobie has an argument with his father about his future.