Season 7 - Episode Guide

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 will not work. Logan gets disappointed and asks a captain on a boat if he can sedate a shark.

Mitch judges a beachside beauty 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.

C.J. befriends Max, an eccentric old man who dwells on the beach and claims he was a famous Hollywood costume designer and after he suddenly dies, she is shocked to discover that his will leaves her with $4 million. Meanwhile, Manny Gutierrez, a Latino teenager from East Los Angeles, moves to Malibu after his mother gets a job as a maid for a wealthy family and immediately tries out for the Junior Lifeguards. Cody assigns Hobie to coach Manny while dealing with his wild friends, Connor and J.B., pressuring Hobie to go with them to a tattoo parlor.

Mitch is the main attraction at the Baywatch Lifeguard Bachelor Auction and "bought" for $5,000 by a wealthy socialite named Alicia Hancock, eager to put him to her satisfaction. But on their sailing date, Mitch ends up stranded on a deserted island with the snobbish Alicia, and both quickly get on each other's nerves. Meanwhile, Cody joins a roller-blade hockey team to win a championship competition, while Caroline and Stephanie enjoy watching his performance on the court.

When a heat wave hits Baywatch, a long chaotic day begins with Secret Service agent Duddly Dawson arriving to take charge of the beach before President Clinton's afternoon jog there while he's in town. Agent Dawson's antics nearly drive Mitch and Samantha up the wall. Meanwhile, Cody suffers through relentless rescues with Newmie plus a visit by an IRS agent auditing him, and C.J. has to go to a dentist for a root-canal filling. Hobie helps Neely with various mishaps, including an obnoxious lost child, Manny deals with two lost kids of his own, and Jordan receives attention from another lost girl who grows attached to her. Also, Caroline meets a homeless man in a garbage can and later stops him from killing himself, and he's apparently the only one who seems to care that today is her birthday.

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

Shelly Sands, C.J.'s eccentric mother and former Vegas showgirl, arrives in town from Las Vegas seeking C.J.'s help to escape her mobster ex-boyfriend, Tony Blanton, and his goons. Blanton is determined to retrieve an incriminating computer disk of his gambling profits and income tax evasion schemes that Shelly stole as part of an insurance policy. When Blanton and his men hold C.J. and Shelly hostage on a remote beach, they force C.J. to look for the disk. But Mitch and Cody figure out what's going on in time to rescue them.

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

Donna poses nude in Playboy magazine, which causes controversy and divides the Baywatch lifeguards, including Mitch and Samantha. Donna gets suspended. En route to a survival training weekend, Mitch and Caroline chaperon a bus trip of teenage junior lifeguards, including Manny, who is feuding with another junior lifeguard, Brice, over dating Brice's former girlfriend. But an earthquake strikes and triggers a rock slide, burring the bus in a road tunnel cave-in. With the air supply running out, Mitch tries to dig his way out while Samantha, Cody, and Donna try to rescue them.

After rescuing a group of fishermen and tourists from a massive pier fire, Samantha and L.A. fire chief Captain Huntingdon form a rescue firefighting team of six lifeguards and firefighters, called the Search and Rescue Unit, for such conditions. Cody, Neely, Jordan, and Newman try out for the unit and meet their firefighting counterparts. Their skills are tested when the new group of Cody, Neely, and Catalina lifeguard Rick Jenner with firemen Jessica, Clay, and Terry are sent on their first mission to rescue two men in a partially submerged basement of a fire-ravaged building. Meanwhile, Cody asks C.J. to paint his portrait after seeing some of her other paintings. Finally, Mitch has difficulty explaining (and believing) to the Baywatch team his increasingly strange PI work at night when he must catch a man who believes he is a vampire from Baywatch Nights.

After Mitch falls ill from swimming over contaminated waters, Cody, Caroline and C.J. investigate the cause.

Molly McCoy, a young editor from Flash Magazine, approaches Mitch and tells him of his nomination as the Flash Bachelor of the Month, complete with a photo and video shoot. It turns out that C.J. nominated him. But Mitch has other concerns helping Newman and Donna catch a giant Portuguese Man-O-War jellyfish infesting the area after it stung a swimmer. Meanwhile, Stephanie and Tom are planning a small and simple wedding. However, Caroline believes a big wedding is the best and starts preparations. She is revealing the frustrations in her life after recently breaking up with Logan. Stephanie and Tom then decide to marry immediately. 

Disaster strikes on Stephanie and Tom's honeymoon. But even worse, Stephanie realizes there is a kid missing. She finds Trisha in the cabin and risks her life, then the sail of the boat falls and lands on Stephanie, crushing her. She dies and they hold a funeral service for her at Baywatch and Mitch holds a speech.

Mitch rescues Cassie Cole, a popular TV talk show hostess who invites him to appear on her show. While on the show, Mitch saves the other guest, Jay Leno, from choking, and he becomes an instant overnight celebrity. The conniving Neely and Donna plot to use Mitch's sudden fame for their profit, pretending to be his agent and manager. Meanwhile, a few months after Stephanie's death, Caroline and C.J. adopt a stray dog swimming in the ocean that leads them to the dead body of its drowned owner. Naming it "Annie," the dog is surprisingly neat, responds to commands, likes to swim in the ocean, is drawn to Mitch, and will only sleep in Stephanie's old bed. C.J. then suspects Annie possesses the reincarnated soul of Stephanie.

After Caroline, Neely, and Manny rescue three orphan teenage boys from drowning near a rock jetty, Caroline seeks out a mysterious youth who helps her rescue one of the boys, named Derek, who is connected with a street gang that means harm. It turns out that the youth is actually the ghost of Derek's long-dead brother, who's looking out for him since no one can see him except Caroline. Meanwhile, Neely's ex-husband, Peter, arrives, and she becomes confused again ever since she walked out on him two years ago.

Manny's past haunts him when two juvenile delinquents from his home borough in East L.A., Hector and Pulga, arrive at Baywatch for community service. Hector bitterly resents Manny for moving out of the neighborhood to escape gang life, while Pulga plans revenge against Manny and his mother for trying to help Manny escape. Meanwhile, thanks to Neely telling Cody about their relationship, Mitch and Samantha must reveal their secret romance to the rest of Baywatch. They also plan to give Hobie a car for his 16th birthday.

Kristy and Todd are two of Manny's friends at his high school and are madly in love with each other. When their romance is threatened by Todd's wealthy and snobbish parents, who employ Manny's mother as their maid, and Kristy's single working-class mother, Kristy and Todd make a suicide pact rather than end their romance. Mitch and Caroline rescue the teenage lovers. Meanwhile, Cody meets a mermaid while scuba diving who mistakes him for her long-lost love. But no one will believe Cody's story, except C.J, who together they attempt to track her down.

Sam, Neely and Caroline investigate a military jet containing a virus that crashes into the ocean; C.J., Cody and Newmie try to shut down a nude beach.

Caroline is sued by the mother of a victim of a failed rescue. C.J.'s desire for motherhood hits a snag when she realizes Cody's not ready for that type of commitment.

After rescuing two people trapped on a rock with a gunshot sea lion, C.J. and Cody transport the injured mammal to the animal recovery facility at Sea World in nearby San Diego, where C.J. develops a bond with the mammal she names "Leo." Also, Samantha plans to promote lifeguarding with a Baywatch-theme stunt show at Sea World. Meanwhile, Mitch and Jordan track down the fisherman and his cronies responsible for the sea lion shootings, who are also illegally fishing with explosives.

Neely and Cody break up a disturbance on the Venice boardwalk started by a crazed young woman named Jamie Duncan, who's in town for the Malibu Female Bodyboard Tournament. Neely discovers Jamie to be manic-depressive, and it causes her alarm since Neely's late sister also suffered from the same thing. Meanwhile, Mitch and Samantha's romance is tested when Samantha's former fiancé Adam, a sports promoter, arrives to promote the body board tournament. Elsewhere, Newman meets the beautiful blond woman of his dreams. But when he finally musters the nerve to ask her on a date, he finds she's a Mexican tourist who doesn't speak any English. So, Manny must translate for them, even when events lead her to take Newman to meet her family in Mexico.
 

C.J. finds out she has a secret admirer.