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Baywatch: Season 4

22 episodes Premiered Sep 20, 1993 Updated Sep 26, 2026
Previously on Baywatch

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Baywatch Season 3.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S4·E1 Mytharc

Race Against Time (1)

Sep 20, 1993 · 41 min

Hobie, a cold-hearted Gayle and Ken, Gayle's fiance, get trapped inside Ken's plane when it crashes in the ocean.

S4·E2 Core

Race Against Time (2)

Sep 20, 1993 · 41 min

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.

S4·E3 Core

Lover's Cove

Sep 27, 1993 · 41 min

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 romant

S4·E4 Core

Blindside

Oct 4, 1993 · 41 min

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 att

S4·E5 Core

Sky Rider

Oct 11, 1993 · 41 min

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.

S4·E6 Core

Tentacles (1)

Oct 18, 1993 · 41 min

Matt and Slade compete for Summer's affections by surfing. Mitch encounters a desperate woman who needs help for her boyfriend.

S4·E7 Core

Tentacles (2)

Oct 25, 1993 · 41 min

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 a

S4·E8 Core

Submersion

Nov 1, 1993 · 41 min

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.

S4·E9 Core

Ironman Buchannon

Nov 8, 1993 · 41 min

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

S4·E10 Core

Tower of Power

Nov 15, 1993 · 41 min

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 ne

S4·E11 Core

The Child Inside

Nov 22, 1993 · 41 min

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 di

S4·E12 Core

Second Time Around

Jan 17, 1994 · 39 min

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 help

S4·E13 Core

The Red Knights

Jan 24, 1994 · 41 min

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

S4·E14 Core

Coronado Del Sol (1)

Jan 31, 1994 · 41 min

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

S4·E15 Filler

Coronado Del Sol (2)

Feb 7, 1994 · 39 min

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 lif

S4·E16 Core

Mirror, Mirror

Feb 14, 1994 · 41 min

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

S4·E17 Core

The Falcon Manifesto

Feb 21, 1994 · 41 min

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

S4·E18 Core

Rescue Bay

Feb 28, 1994 · 41 min

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 resu

S4·E19 Core

Western Exposure

Apr 25, 1994 · 40 min

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

S4·E20 Core

The Life You Save

May 2, 1994 · 41 min

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 meetin

S4·E21 Mytharc

Trading Places

May 9, 1994 · 41 min

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 t

S4·E22 Mytharc

Guys & Dolls

May 16, 1994 · 41 min

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

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