Baywatch: Season 4

1993 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 4 of Baywatch

Season four opens with Hobie, Gayle, and Ken trapped on a plane that crashes into the water. From there, the California lifeguard team patrols the beaches, watches over swimmers, and responds to ocean rescues, while each character deals with their own problems. Mitch, leading the team, faces emergencies that force him to make difficult decisions. Summer, C.J., and Matt are in relationships that affect how they work together, and Hobie, preparing to become a lifeguard, meets Lauren. Every story starts with a coastal danger, but the personal conflicts weigh just as heavily as the work.

22episodes

Sep 20, 1993premiered

May 16, 1994latest episode

15 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Race Against Time (1)
Sep 20, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.5
Hobie, a cold-hearted Gayle and Ken, Gayle's fiance, get trapped inside Ken's plane when it crashes in the ocean.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann · Writer: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman, Michelle Williams, Sam J. Jones, Wendie Malick
4x02 Race Against Time (2)
Sep 20, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.7
Hobie, Gayle, and Ken get rescued from the crashed plane; Matt's father takes back Matt's motorcycle; Jackie has problems with the renovation of her Summer Place.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann · Writer: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman, Jim McMullan, Wendie Malick
4x03 Lover's Cove
Sep 27, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.5
Hobie falls in love with a girl in junior lifeguards; Mitch and Jackie have a number of interrupted dates; Matt and Summer discover that they love each other. Thinking he is romantic, Hobie takes the girl on jet ski to a cove near a seaside monastery to kiss her as the bells toll, but they get caught in a dangerous current.
Director: Gus Trikonis · Writer: Steven Barnes · Starring: Anndi McAfee
4x04 Blindside
Oct 4, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 8.0
Cort returns to Baywatch, but C.J. is worried there is something wrong with his eyes as evidenced when he bungles a simple rescue by bumping into many beach goers. A beach side attraction where a very tall man works as a "feral man" scares customers is seen by Hobie, who finds the man is a depressed immigrant with no family. Hobie befriends the man, but when he falls in the water by accident his extra large size is a challenge for the Baywatch crew.
Starring: Michael Newman, John Allen Nelson, Andrew Keegan
4x05 Sky Rider
Oct 11, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
Matt and Slade have a confrontation on the waves over Summer and decide to have a huge bungee-jumping contest; Garner and Mitch chase pickpockets.
Writer: Michael Berk · Starring: Kelly Slater, Cindy Margolis, Adam Rich
4x06 Tentacles (1)
Oct 18, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.6
Matt and Slade compete for Summer's affections by surfing. Mitch encounters a desperate woman who needs help for her boyfriend.
Director: Michael Berk · Writer: Michael Berk · Starring: Kelly Slater
4x07 Tentacles (2)
Oct 25, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.3
Stephanie's sister, Caroline, arrives at Baywatch with exciting news, but her joy is shattered by a cataclysmic event. Mitch finds himself at the mercy of a wounded but dangerous adversary.
Directed by: Gregory J. Bonann · Written by: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman, Yasmine Bleeth, Joe Lara, Peter Reckell
4x08 Submersion
Nov 1, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.9
Mitch must make a difficult decision when he must choose which boy to rescue from the ocean, and the boy he does not save first ends up in a coma.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann · Writer: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman, Don Most, Chad Power
4x09 Ironman Buchannon
Nov 8, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 6.9
Mitch tries to show he can still compete with younger men by taking part in the Ironman competition; Matt's late hours make Summer suspicious. Standing in for a tired Matt, Summer Quinn is knocked unconscious attempting a rescue.
Written by: David Braff · Starring: Michael Newman
4x10 Tower of Power
Nov 15, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.6
While Mitch, Garner and the rest of the Baywatch team deals with a street gang that have been hanging around at the beach and harassing swimmers, Stephanie falls for Carlos, the new lifeguard trying to get away from the gang he was once in and tries to rescue his sister from the gang's leader.
Director: Gus Trikonis · Writer: David Braff · Starring: Mark Lindsay Chapman, Brandi Andres
4x11 The Child Inside
Nov 22, 1993 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
Olympic champion Mary Lou Retton comes to Baywatch to stage a Special Olympics competition for the mentally disabled. At Mary Lou's urging, Mitch takes under his wing a mentally disabled teen, named Darnell, who tries too hard at winning than on the ethics of the competition. Stephanie befriends Sammy, a shy young girl with Down syndrome who doesn't try at all to believe in herself.
Starring: Michael Newman, Nan Martin, Catero Colbert, Mary Lou Retton
4x12 Second Time Around
Jan 17, 1994 · 39 min · ★ 5.9
Matt is surprised when his former motorcycle girlfriend Jesse, who is now an aspiring model, arrives to shoot a video for an wave-runner advertisement. At Jesse's urging, Matt helps her discourage the video director's advances towards her and he soon becomes the target for murder by the jealous director, while Summer is struck with jealousy herself after learning of the past Matt had with Jesse.
Starring: Jennifer Campbell
4x13 The Red Knights
Jan 24, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 7.3
Ben Edwards doesn't look forward to a lifeguard reunion of his friends, called the Red Knights, over his walking disability when the rest of them are still fit and active. During a night on the town, Mitch, Ben and the other lifeguard trigger a barroom brawl between the retired lifeguards and a old rival team.
Director: Cliff Bole · Starring: Shell Danielson, Robert Colbert, Greg Grunberg, Glenn R. Wilder
4x14 Coronado Del Sol (1)
Jan 31, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 7.4
Stephanie, C.J., Matt and Summer take a weekend vacation to San Diego to demonstrate water rescue procedures while staying at the famed Hotel Del Coronado. Summer correctly begins to think that her hotel room is haunted, when she's a haunted by the ghost of a wealthy businessman who mistakes Summer for his lost love from a doomed love affair back in 1943.
Director: Gus Trikonis · Writer: David Braff · Starring: Jon Lindstrom, Mel Stewart
4x15 Coronado Del Sol (2)
Feb 7, 1994 · 39 min · ★ 6.8
C.J. thinks about her future as she spends more time with Keith and helps to rescue a stranded dolphin. The ghost who haunts Summer's hotel room takes her to be the love of his life who betrayed him and plots to reenact the tragedy that drove him to suicide 50 years ago.
Director: Gus Trikonis · Writer: David Braff · Starring: Jon Lindstrom, Mel Stewart
4x16 Mirror, Mirror
Feb 14, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
An attractive wild young woman, named Mattie, and her plain twin sister, Gwen, arrive at the beach and vie for Mitch's affections. But Mitch is unaware that Mattie and Gwen are the same person, a woman with split personalities which soon lands Mitch in danger when Gwen's other personality, Mattie, means him physical harm.
Starring: Lisa Boyle, Buckley Norris, Simone Hyams, Carrie-Anne Moss
4x17 The Falcon Manifesto
Feb 21, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
Matt has a shot at cheaply buying a small yacht and insists Summer should chip and move in. Mitch falls instantly in love with strangely aloof and secretive Kate McCoy. Only after her sudden death is diagnosed poisoning he learns from his cop mate Garner that Kate was an undercover alias of D.C. investigative reporter Catherine Larsen, who found out about secret arms deals.
Director: Charles Braverman · Starring: Bart Braverman, James Horan, Jacqueline Collen
4x18 Rescue Bay
Feb 28, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 6.7
After witnessing a rescue, a bumbling, ambitious TV producer, named Don Brand, decides to make a pilot movie, titled 'Rescue Bay', based on the life of the Baywatch team which results in chaos from everyone after observing their own "characters" in the show, including Garner's look-alike character, C.J. playing Stephanie's role, and Mitch caught in the middle of it all in playing himself.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann · Writer: Steven Barnes · Starring: Michael Newman, Lisa Canning
4x19 Western Exposure
Apr 25, 1994 · 40 min · ★ 7.0
A country-western singer, named Jessie Lee Harris, arrives at Baywatch and after C.J. rescues him from a horde of his fans, he asks her to help him find his estranged wife and son living in the area. C.J.'s newest friend, Sadie, hopes to impress Jessie Lee at an amateur night at the local western club in hopes of wining a spot with his band.
Director: Gregory J. Bonann · Starring: Ricky Van Shelton, Kassie DePaiva, Martina McBride, Jessica Wesson
4x20 The Life You Save
May 2, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
After all the beaches are closed down by Los Angeles budget commissioners looking to cut back on funding for the lifeguard squads of Baywatch. Mitch and the team organises a meeting on the beach with the three budget commissioners and some of the people rescued by the Baywatch lifeguards, they try to convince the city budget official not to stop funding for the lifeguards.
Directed by: Michael Berk · Written by: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman, Nikki Cox, Chad Power
4x21 Trading Places
May 9, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
Stephanie goes to work with the Coast Guard to help crack an arms-smuggling ring in the area, and becomes attracted to a warrant officer, Scott Daniels, who tries to persuade her to overcome her fear of helicopters after she begins having nightmares of her father being killed in action in a helicopter crash in Vietnam over 25 years ago.
Writer: David Braff · Starring: Michael Newman, René Assa
4x22 Guys & Dolls Season Finale
May 16, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
Matt rescues a shady teenage girl, calling herself Rachel, who turns out to be a con artist hiding from her mentor and ex-partner in crime who as come after a diamond stuffed doll that is being shipped in from Hong Kong.
Directed by: Cliff Bole · Written by: David Braff · Starring: Michael Newman, Jean Hasselhoff, Phillip Troy Linger, A. J. Langer