The BEST episodes of Baywatch season 7

Every episode of Baywatch season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Baywatch season 7!

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.

Last Updated: 9/13/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Chance of a Lifetime
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8.31
52 votes

#1 - Chance of a Lifetime

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1997

Stephanie and Tom decide to spend their honeymoon on a two masted sailing schooner named ""Chance of a Lifetime"" with Mitch, Neely and a bunch of teenagers. They think the trip will help the teenagers face their fears and problems, while teaching them some important life lessons. The teenagers are Benjamin who is very intelligent, Megan whose parents died when she was five, Trisha who has a sense of humor, Diana who has asthma and Randy and Terry who are stepbrothers. Randy and Terry fight all the time and during one fight, they break the only radio on board. This means they don't get the warning call about a storm heading their way from Baja. When the sail collapses and the ship starts sinking, they are forced to abandon the ship. Caroline, Cody and C.J. are back at headquarters worrying about them. When they head toward the lifeboat, Stephanie notices that Trisha is missing. She goes back in and finds her on the cabin floor. When Stephanie and Trisha are on the deck, lighting strikes

Directors: Douglas Schwartz
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Talk Show
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8.31
49 votes

#2 - Talk Show

Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/1997

Mitch rescues the life of a talk show host, who then invites him to appear on her show. C.J. is convinced that a stray dog found by her and Caroline posseses the reincarted soul of the late Stephanie.

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Liquid Assets
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8.19
53 votes

#3 - Liquid Assets

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1996

C.J. befriends a homeless man, who then dies and leaves her a fortune in his will. Hobie helps aspiring lifeguard Manny make the Junior Lifeguard.

Directors: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Michael Berk
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Rendezvous
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8.02
52 votes

#4 - Rendezvous

Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/7/1997

Cody encounters a mermaid during a rescue. Meanwhile, two teens form a suicide pact to be together when their disapproving parents try to keep them apart.

Directors: Gus Trikonis
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Matters of the Heart
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7.84
49 votes

#5 - Matters of the Heart

Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/1997

Manny tries to help a young boy from his old neighborhood escape gang life. Mitch and Samantha's are forced to reveal their secret romance to the rest of Baywatch, thanks to Neely's big mouth.

Directors: Michael Berk
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Buried
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7.79
47 votes

#6 - Buried

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1996

En route to a survival training weekend, Mitch and the junior lifeguards are trapped in a tunnel cave-in caused by an earthquake. Donna's Playboy past puts her future at Baywatch in jeopardy.

Directors: David W. Hagar
Writer: David Braff
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Search & Rescue
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7.69
48 votes

#7 - Search & Rescue

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1997

There's a huge fire on a pier. The fire place fishermen and tourists are in a deadly situation. But the lifeguards and the firemen who work together as a team can rescue them all. Everyone like how well they cooperate. Then Sam and Captain Huntington from the Fire Department put together an elite Search & Rescue. The Search & Rescue Unit will include three lifeguards and three firemen. Everybody have a chance to qualify for the unit. A rivalry develops during the training session and Newmie ends up injuring his knee. In the end, Neely, Cody and a lifeguard from Catalina named Rick Jenner, qualifies for the unit. From the firemen, Terry, Clay and Jess get to go. The unit will have to show their newly gained skills during a building fire. The building is about to collapse on trapped victims. They save two victims in the garage. In the end, Neely, Cody and Jenner have to decide if they want to be lifguards or firemen because they can't be both. Meanwhile, Mitch is having problems with

Writer: Michael Berk
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Let the Games Begin
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7.63
48 votes

#8 - Let the Games Begin

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1996

The International Ironman Competition is held at Baywatch and Neely sets off a battle of the sexes when she decides to enter the competition.

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Baywatch at Sea World
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7.62
21 votes

#9 - Baywatch at Sea World

Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1997

The gang travels to Sea World in San Diego for the opening of the Baywatch stunt show.

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Life Guardian
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7.60
50 votes

#10 - Life Guardian

Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/1997

While rescuing three inner city youths, Caroline receives help from a mysterious boy who mysteriously vanishes. Sparks fly when Neely is reunited with her ex-husband when she shows up unexpectedly at Baywatch.

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Hot Water
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7.52
21 votes

#11 - Hot Water

Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1997

Sam, Neely and Caroline witness a military jet crash into the ocean, then learn it contained a deadly virus. They must use a new deep-water scuba system to retrieve it. Cody, C.J. and Newmie try to shut down an illegal nude beach, which causes danger for its spectators.

Directors: L. Lewis Stout
Nevermore
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7.47
19 votes

#12 - Nevermore

Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1997

One morning when C.J. arrives at her tower, she finds a bouquet of flowers and a poem. She takes for granted that the flowers are from Cody, but it turns out she has a secret admirer. Later when a boy gets into trouble under the pier, a man in a mask rescues him. When he scares the children, he runs away again. One of the boys tells his brother Billy about it. Billy and his friend Brett become obsessed with trying to get this so-called monster on videotape. Therefore they rig a camera under the pier and hope to catch a glimpse of him and then earn money on him. Later in the locker room, Sam and C.J. discuss plans for the upcoming weekend. C.J. feels abandoned by Cody who is going out with the guys, while Sam tells her about the romantic weekend she has planned for her and Mitch in Carmel. When C.J.'s shift ends, she takes a walk under the pier, where she finds pieces of a bandage. Then one of the pilings breaks loose without C.J. noticing it and she is knocked unconscious but rescued b

Directors: Douglas Schwartz
Golden Girls
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7.40
20 votes

#13 - Golden Girls

Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1997

Neely and Mitch try to help a manic-depressive female bodybuilder. Newmie's potential romance with a beautiful woman hits a snag because she doesn't English.

Directors: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David Braff
Trial by Fire
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7.35
20 votes

#14 - Trial by Fire

Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/21/1997

Caroline finds herself being sued for negligence in civil court by the angry and bitter mother of a drowning victim. CJ babysits a neighbor's newborn and realizes she wants to be a mother. But is Cody ready to be a father?

Directors: L. Lewis Stout
Writer: David Braff
Shark Fever
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7.22
51 votes

#15 - Shark Fever

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1996

Logan wants to become a director, and he has written a script named Shark Fever. He makes a movie about it and Caroline stars in it. In the movie, Caroline is supposed to be attacked by a shark and the shark is driven by Newmie. But the shark won't work. Logan gets disappointed and asks a Captain on a boat if he can sedate a shark. The Captain agrees to sedate a tiny tiger shark and then hold it with a line. As a dangerous scene begins shooting, the tiger shark breaks loose and everybody have to jump out of the water. Then Caroline quits. When Cody is out in the water on a surfboard, a great white shark attacks him. Mitch is then forced to close the beach for everyone's safety. Despite the warnings, a couple of guys go out to surf. The rookie Donna has to make a daring rescue and rescue a little boy. Everyone blames Logan for the shark activity and Logan no longer has permission to make his movie anymore. When the shark attacks Mitch and Caroline in their boat, Logan films everything.

Writer: David Braff
The Contest
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7.16
49 votes

#16 - The Contest

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1996

Mitch judges a beachside bikini contest, but is tempted by two of the contestants, who both vie for his vote. Caroline's acting teacher puts her relationship with Logan in jeopardy. Cody designs a new rescue vehicle. Donna is blackmailed by a secret from her past.

Directors: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Michael Berk
Windswept
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7.06
52 votes

#17 - Windswept

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1996

Mitch is the prize in a bachelor auction, but things go awry when he and his date end up stranded on a deserted island. Cody competes with his roller hockey team to win a championship.

Directors: Georg Fenady
Writer: David Braff
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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7.00
21 votes

#18 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1996

C.J. gets a visit from her eccentric mother (played by guest star Connie Stevens), who's being pursued by criminals.

Directors: Douglas Schwartz
Scorcher
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6.98
52 votes

#19 - Scorcher

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1996

A heatwave precedes a visit to the beach by the President of the United States, as Mitch encounters a bumbling Secret Service Agent. Cody faces an audit by the IRS. Caroline thinks no one has remembered her birthday.

Heal the Bay
star
6.98
48 votes

#20 - Heal the Bay

Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/1997

Mitch unknowingly swims in polluted waters after Baywatch is contaminated by toxic waste. After he falls ill, Neely, C.J. and Cody must come to his rescue and discover the source of the illegal dumping and the nature of the poison.

Directors: Gus Trikonis
Beachblast
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6.94
52 votes

#21 - Beachblast

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1996

Mitch and the Baywatch gang compete against Jenny McCarthy and MTV VJ's in a charity games to raise money for the Special Olympics.

Bachelor of the Month
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6.92
48 votes

#22 - Bachelor of the Month

Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1997

Stephanie and Tom are planning a small and simple wedding. However, Caroline is convinced that a big wedding is the best thing to have. Tom tells Stephanie to tell Caroline how they feel, but Stephanie is afraid to hurt Caroline's feelings. She is still vulnerable after breaking off her engagement to Logan. In order to keep the wedding small, Stephanie and Tom decide to get married on the beach the same day. They have a small wedding on the beach and afterwards Stephanie throws her wedding bouquet, with Caroline catching it. Logan still loves Caroline, but they decide just to be friends. Meanwhile, a young editor from the Flash Magazine named Molly McCoy, approaches Mitch and tells him that he has been nominated to be the Flash Bachelor of the Month. It turns out that C.J. has nominated him. Meanwhile, a great Portuguese-Man-of-War is terrorizing the beach. When Molly doesn't get the video she wants for the Internet, she fakes a drowning. But then the Portuguese-Man-of-War comes and Mi

Directors: Reza Badiyi
Writer: David Braff