Baywatch: Season 5

1994 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.8

What Season 5 of Baywatch

Season five opens after a massive earthquake leaves the California lifeguard team on edge. Mitch is pressured by Hobie, who wants to pursue music, and by Gayle, who asks him to marry her in a beach ceremony. Stephanie tries to get close to seismologist Riley Ferguson, while Matt clashes with Logan Fowler, a cocky Australian exchange lifeguard. Between ocean rescues, John D. Cort, who is running a smuggling scheme, also appears, along with a new relationship for Mitch. Every story starts with a coastal danger and tests the team's bond.

22episodes

Sep 26, 1994premiered

May 22, 1995latest episode

14.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Livin' on the Fault Line (1)
Sep 26, 1994 · 38 min · ★ 6.8
Matt is openly unamused by Aussie exchange program lifeguard Logan Fowler's hero complex, nearly running over a drowning man on his way to snatch a female from Matt. Mitch is hitting the breaks on Hobie's maternally sanctioned determination to commit to music. Stephanie has the hots for seismologist Riley Ferguson, but her sister returns homeless after a breakup. C.J. keeps turning up, panicking over a a mild tremor Mitch laughed away.
Directed by: Gregory J. Bonann · Writer: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman, Gordon Jump, Patrick Thomas O'Brien
5x02 Livin' on the Fault Line (2)
Oct 3, 1994 · 40 min · ★ 6.8
After Mitch rescues Hobie, he helps Matt commandeer a news helicopter to rescue Jackie from her trailer on the cliff. Hobie also breaks out of his shaken state long enough to help C.J. save the homeless man trapped under wreckage of the pier.
Directed by: Gregory J. Bonann · Writer: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman, Gordon Jump, Patrick Thomas O'Brien, Luanne Crawford
5x03 Aftershock
Oct 10, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
Three months after the trauma of the massive earthquake, Hobie arrives back home after spending the summer in Ohio with his mother, Gayle, who asks Mitch marry her again in a formal ceremony on the beach. Everyone is delighted, except for Stephanie who still has feelings for Mitch.
Directing: Gus Trikonis · Writing: David Braff · Starring: Michael Newman, Mila Kunis, Wendie Malick
5x04 Baja Run
Oct 17, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
Former Baywatch lifeguard John D. Cort once again arrives back at Baywatch and asks Mitch to enter with him in a dune buggy race in Mexico. But Mitch is unaware that Cort wants to use the race to smuggle rare artifacts into the U.S.
Starring: John Allen Nelson, Danny Comden, Gary Kasper
5x05 Air Buchannon
Oct 24, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
Mitch and Stephanie are partnered for a 24-hour shift on a busy day where they help out each other with accident victims and even try to rekindle their lost romance once again. With his father away, Hobie falls for a new girl from his school and throws an ill-advised party at the house just to impress her. The next day, disaster narrowly avoids Hobie when he tries to stop two of his wild friends, J.B. and Connor, from flying Mitch's hand glider off a cliff.
Writer: David Braff · Starring: Michael Newman, Andrew Keegan, Charisma Carpenter, Edith Fields
5x06 Short Sighted
Oct 31, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
During junior lifeguard training sessions, Matt deals with Hobie's newest friend, Carter, who is ashamed of his father, Simon, who happens to be a dwarf.
Starring: Ed Gale
5x07 Someone to Baywatch Over You
Nov 7, 1994 · 42 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directed by: Reza Badiyi · Starring: Michael Newman, Kathleen Kinmont, Angela Visser, Helle Michaelsen
5x08 K-GAS The Groove Yard of Solid Gold
Nov 14, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
A radio DJ leads a contest for hidden treasure on the beach, which brings a flood of treasure hunters to the beach- including Matt and C.J. who are swept up in the frenzy.
Directed by: Charles Winkler · Starring: Joni Avery
5x09 Red Wind
Nov 21, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
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 fiance remains infatuated with Mitch from a years-ago rescue.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Starring: Michael Newman, Julie Strain, Bobbie Phillips, Geraldo Rivera
5x10 I Spike
Nov 28, 1994 · 40 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Writing: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman, Kevin Matthews
5x11 Silent Night, Baywatch Night (1)
Dec 5, 1994 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Starring: Debbie Lee Carrington, Danny Woodburn, Paula Trickey
5x12 Silent Night, Baywatch Night (2)
Dec 12, 1994 · 40 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Starring: Michael Newman, Danny Woodburn
5x13 Rubber Ducky
Jan 30, 1995 · 41 min · ★ 5.2
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.
Directed by: Gregory J. Bonann · Writer: David Braff · Starring: Robert Colbert
5x14 Homecoming
Feb 6, 1995 · 41 min · ★ 6.0
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.
Directed by: Gus Trikonis · Writer: Steven Barnes · Starring: Michael Newman, Gretchen Palmer, Keri Jo Chapman
5x15 Seize the Day
Feb 13, 1995 · 42 min · ★ 6.8
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.
5x16 A Little Help
Feb 20, 1995 · 42 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directed by: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman
5x17 Father's Day
Feb 27, 1995 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Writing: Michael Berk · Starring: Michael Newman
5x18 Fire with Fire
Apr 24, 1995 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
Mitch's friend, a sheriff and part-time lifeguard, causes trouble when he uses strong-arm tactics on the beach. Logan annuls his marriage of convenience, putting his future at in the U.S. and Baywatch at risk.
Directed by: Michael Preece · Writer: David Braff · Starring: Michael Newman
5x19 Deep Trouble
May 1, 1995 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directed by: Gus Trikonis · Starring: John Allen Nelson, Joyce Brothers, Mike Piazza, Debbe Dunning
5x20 Promised Land
May 8, 1995 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Writer: David Braff · Starring: Michael Newman, Heidi Mark, Yau-Gene Chan, Jaime Pressly
5x21 The Runaways
May 15, 1995 · 32 min · ★ 7.2
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 water skiing behind a blimp. Stephanie questions Caroline's ability as a lifeguard.
Writing: David Braff · Starring: Gladys Knight, Little Richard, Richard Branson, Jayne Collins
5x22 Wet 'n' Wild Season Finale
May 22, 1995 · 42 min · ★ 7.0
When a stunt show lead by Johnny Danger comes to Baywatch, Hobie and his friends are intrigued by Johnny and his motorcycle stunts. But Mitch and Garner are concerned after finding out that Johnny Danger encourages teen-age drinking. Meanwhile, Neely Capshaw, an attractive new lifeguard, arrives at Baywatch and is assisted by Matt. But when Matt discovers that Neely is a alcoholic who drinks while on the job, he reports her to Mitch.
Directing: Paul Lazarus · Starring: Heather Campbell, Ellis Edwards