The Best Episodes Written By Steven Barnes

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.8/10(5 votes)

   #1 - Hero Time

   S1:E96/18/2010

   Ben meets his hero, Captain Nemesis, who's become jealous of all the attention Ben attracts.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #2 - Lover's Cove

   S4:E39/27/1993

   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.

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   6.5/10(4 votes)

   #3 - The Edge

   S9:E1112/14/1998

   Cody puts his career (and life) on the line when he starts using a performance-enhancing supplement in hopes of making it to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, which soon begins affecting his life guarding job as well.

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   6.5/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Rescue Bay

   S4:E182/28/1994

   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.

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   6.5/10(4 votes)

   #5 - The Sum of Its Parts

   S1:E162/26/2001

   A humanoid robot visits the Andromeda crew, helps them fight off a culture of organized machines and learns what it means to be a living being.

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #6 - The Elevator / To See the Invisible Man / Tooth and Consequences

   S1:E161/31/1986

   Two twenty-something brothers go to their father's laboratory to steal his fathers' growth serum research and sell for their own profit. They find a web-like material, which tastes great. They find large plants. Some plants have increased in size more than others. For the crime of emotional coldness, Mitchell Chaplin is condemned to social invisibility. For one year he will be branded with an irremovable brand that everyone knows means they must totally ignore him. At first, Chaplin is thrilled at the prospects. A depressed dentist, Myron Mandel, is visited by the Tooth Fairy, who grants him the wish to be incredibly popular and loved. The wish is granted in full force, and soon Mandel can't handle the endless stream of visitors singing his praises.

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   5.3/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Homecoming

   S5:E142/6/1995

   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.

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   5.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Teacher's Aide / Paladin of the Lost Hour

   S1:E711/8/1985

   A teacher on a violent and gang infested high school has trouble controlling her students. The building is warded by some mysterious gargoyles, which give some special powers to the teacher. A Vietnam Vet named Billy saves an old man named Gasper from a mugging at a cemetery. He discovers that this old man holds the future of time in his watch.

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