Baywatch: Season 8

1997 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.0

What Season 8 of Baywatch

Season eight opens with Mitch leading a team of newly arrived lifeguards on the California beaches. During the first few weeks, the lifeguards celebrate New Year's, get to know one another, and learn to work together in the ocean. Coastal dangers, such as treacherous currents and swimmers who drown, drive each story. Off duty, the characters deal with personal problems: Lani is being harassed by a former boyfriend, Caroline tries to make it as an actress, and Manny and April must face the prejudice of those around them. Hobie, Mitch's son, wants to prove to his father that he is ready.

22episodes

Sep 22, 1997premiered

May 18, 1998latest episode

15 hrtotal runtime

Season 8 Episodes

8x01 Rookie Summer
Sep 22, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
A flood of new recruits arrive at Baywatch to try out for rookie school, who include Hobie, Manny, and newcomers; Lani McKensie, a part-Hawaiian, part-Caucasian wanting to be a professional dancer, April Giminski, a naive, design major college student unfamiliar with swimming in the ocean, and Skylar Bergman, April's roommate who wants to become a paramedic.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Writing: David Braff · Starring: Marliece Andrada, Erin Gray, Hamilton von Watts, Ingrid Walters
8x02 Next Generation
Sep 27, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
During the second week of rookie school, April is injured by a bump on the head caused by a mysterious wave runner rider which harasses her, Lani and Skylar and nearly causes her to be thrown out of rookie school. After visiting his home neighborhood, Manny becomes more determined to become a lifeguard than anything else.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Writing: David Braff · Starring: Marliece Andrada, Erin Gray, Ingrid Walters, Sonia Satra
8x03 The Choice
Oct 6, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
Veteran lifeguard John "J.D." Darius arrives at Bayside and competes with Taylor Walsh, an attractive newcomer, for Mitch's old job as lieutenant and Mitch must make his own decision as to which one will be the most eligible one for his former job. Although J.D. has more experience as a lifeguard than Taylor, he is plagued by haunting memory of failing in a rescue at Daytona Beach where he worked some years ago.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Writing: Gillian Horvath · Starring: Marliece Andrada, Erin Gray, Kelly Monaco
8x04 Memorial Day
Oct 13, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
On Memorial Day weekend, Mitch, April, and Skylar find a lot of problems on their hands after discovering the dead body of an elderly Navy veteran whose two elderly Navy buddies of his want to give him a proper burial in the ocean.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Writing: Kimmer Ringwald · Starring: Gabriel Damon, Marliece Andrada, Dick Martin, Howard Morris
8x05 Charlie
Oct 20, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
April's mother and her 12-year-old younger brother, Charlie, arrive for a visit where Mitch and Hobie try to make the best of the weekend with Charlie who is revealed to be dying from a rare form of cancer that April refuses to accept.
Starring: Michael Cuccione
8x06 Lifeguard Confidential
Oct 27, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
A sleazy TV reporter, called Roger Riptide who flies around the beach in a helicopter, starts dishing dirt on the private lives of the Baywatch lifeguards for his TV show much to the irritation of Mitch and Taylor, who suspect someone is leaking information to Riptide.
Starring: Yasmine Bleeth, Amy Miller
8x07 Out of the Blue
Nov 3, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
While strange earth tremors plague the area, Mitch tries to get Jordan to meet her real biological mother on a fishing outing, who turns out to be a white woman named Rene, who's dying from a brain disorder and thinks the problem is hereditary. But things take a turn after a massive rouge wave, triggered by an underwater tremor, capsizes the fishing boat and traps Rene below decks in a room with toxic fumes.
Directing: Parker Stevenson · Writing: David Braff
8x08 Eel Nino
Nov 10, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
The hot Santa Ana desert winds stir up more troubles for the Baywatch lifeguards when a typical day begins with a large hole appearing on the beach, as well as an uncharted sand bar, the lifeguard trucks disappearing and then reappearing buried in the sand. Also, mysterious deaths of sea lions point to a giant electric eel living in the Zuma Beach caves.
Starring: Gregory White
8x09 Homecoming
Nov 17, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
Mitch is reunited with his old Baywatch lifeguard friend, Craig Pomeroy, now a full-time lawyer who's in town trying to honour a Native American's dying wish to die peacefully on sacred Indian grounds at the beach.
Starring: Parker Stevenson, Art LaFleur
8x10 Missing
Nov 24, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
Cody becomes consumed with guilt when his actions of leaving his post before the end of his shift to go on a date with Lani result in the disappearance of a young Latino woman swimming in the ocean, and the incident results in a hyped media circus that comes to the beach to cover the story.
Directing: Parker Stevenson · Writing: David Braff · Starring: Jerry Penacoli
8x11 Hijacked
Dec 1, 1997 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
Caroline Holden returns to Baywatch during a break for her soap opera role in New York, which takes an unexpected turn when she is taken hostage by an armed robber which fills her with paranoia and fear for days after.
8x12 No Way Out
Jan 26, 1998 · 41 min · ★ 6.8
After learning of Manny's ethnic prejudices originating from the Latino street gang that he used to hang out with, as well as from his mother who also may be prejudice at her son dating a Caucasian girl, an irate April joins Craig on a diving expedition that takes a turn for the worse.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Starring: Parker Stevenson
8x13 Countdown
Feb 2, 1998 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
After Mitch saves a young girl on the beach from a live grenade, he and Cody investigate a sunken ship containing a cache of smuggled weapons where Cody is trapped in the hull of the ship 75 feet on the ocean floor after he and Mitch are taken hostage by a pair of arms smugglers looking to retrieve their arms shipment.
Starring: Christopher Mayer
8x14 Surf City
Feb 9, 1998 · 41 min
After breaking up with Manny, April sees romance on her mind with Craig, who is experiencing a mid-life crisis over leaving his wife. April asks a reluctant Craig to attend a formal dinner party with her prompting him to seek out advice from Mitch over the situation he is in.
Directing: Gregory J. Bonann · Writing: David Braff · Starring: Parker Stevenson
8x15 To the Max
Feb 16, 1998 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
Mitch meets Jenny Wade, a horseback riding instructor who rides on the Malibu beach everyday on her race horse, Max. Struck with love, Mitch engineers a picnic date with Jenny using a variety of circumstances, including encouraging Hobie to take one of Jenny's riding classes.
8x16 Night of the Dolphin
Feb 23, 1998 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
Mitch's old policeman friend, Garner Ellerbee, returns where he recruits Mitch's help him bust a drug smuggling ring after a lifeless dolphin washes up on shore, and they end up putting Neely in danger when she willing agrees to place a tracer on a yacht of a shady man from the beach club she is life guarding at.
Starring: Gregory Alan Williams
8x17 Full Throttle
Mar 2, 1998 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
After a grudge motorboat race between April and Jordan, against Cody and Newman, Cody gets trouble when he uses Mitch's boat as the ante in a bet with a pair of local rich snobs in a more powerful motorboat race. When Cody becomes incapacitated after spraining his knee, Mitch steps in and soon discovers the true nature of the game with the men he and Newman are playing with.
8x18 Quarantine
Apr 20, 1998 · 41 min · ★ 6.6
A long bad day begins when after Mitch rescues a struggling swimmer, the local Disease Control Center places the entire Baywatch Headquarters under quarantine after the swimmer shows symptoms of a deadly virus.
Starring: Kelly Monaco
8x19 Diabolique
Apr 27, 1998 · 41 min · ★ 7.0
Mitch rescues a troubled young woman, named Sara, from her boat after it catches afire after which she charms Mitch and gets his mother, Irene, to hire her as a nanny for Neely's baby, Ashley. But Mitch gets concerned when Sara quickly develops a dangerous obsession with him and tries to win his affections at any cost. When Mitch lets Sara down, she immediately shows her true colours and plots to make Mitch's life a nightmare.
Directing: Parker Stevenson · Starring: Kelly Monaco
8x20 Bon Voyage
May 4, 1998 · 41 min · ★ 7.2
In this three-part season final, Neely, Donna and Lani are chosen by the sports magazine 'Inside Sports' for a week-long trip to Alaska on the cruise ship Dawn Princess, where Neely tells Mitch she is thinking about visiting her ex-husband who lives in Juneau to reconcile with him. But things change when Hobie wins a contest for the same Alaskan cruise for him, Mitch and Cody to travel to Alaska as well.
Writing: David Braff · Starring: Don Diamont
8x21 White Thunder at Glacier Bay (1)
May 11, 1998 · 38 min · ★ 7.2
On the Dawn Princess, Mitch and Cody surprise Neely and Lani by showing up where Cody tries to stay close to Lani during her photo shoot aboard the ship.
Writing: David Braff · Starring: Don Diamont, Anna Marie Goddard
8x22 White Thunder at Glacier Bay (2) Season Finale
May 18, 1998 · 40 min · ★ 6.7
Gavin chases Leslie and Hobie up a mountain and through the skies in para-gliders right to a glacier where a standoff takes place with Leslie and Hobie trapped in a glacier gorge with Gavin above them, while Mitch and Cody follow close behind.
Writing: David Braff · Starring: Don Diamont