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Sea Hunt (1958)
Sea Hunt
Rating Rating
Run Time: 30 min
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Sound: Mono
Producer: Ziv Television Productions
Genre
  • Action
  • Adventure
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 155
Overview

Underwater tales that made for one of the most popular syndicated series of its time, and, as TV Guide remarked in 1959, 'an epic so watery that Lloyd Bridges' colleagues tell him they have to drain their TV sets after watching his show.' Its mix of action beneath the ocean surface and plotlines involving Mike Nelson saving people and solving crimes made for a major hit that resurfaced in 1987 with a remake starring former TV Tarzan Ron Ely.

1. Sixty Feet Below
First Aired January 03, 1958
Racing against time, Mike Nelson attempts a risky rescue of a test pilot trapped in his plane's cockpit 60 feet below the ocean's surface.
2. Flooded Mine
First Aired January 10, 1958
Mike travels 1500 miles inland to a flooded mine where two men are trapped in a foul air pocket. He reaches them, but his dilemma is that there is only enough air in his tank to rescue the miners one-at-a-time and not enough air in the pocket for the remaining man to survive until he returns with more air. Who will go? Who will stay? How will he decide?
3. Rapture of the Deep
First Aired January 24, 1958
While testing the skills of two divers, Mike is attacked by one of them, whom is suffering from rapture of the deep.
4. Mark of the Octopus
First Aired January 31, 1958
Mike is asked to investigate when two underwater geologists disappear, one of whom washes up on the beach with marks of a struggle with a gigantic octopus.
5. The Sea Sled
First Aired February 07, 1958
Mike Nelson rescues an unidentified girl from drowning. The Immigration Department suspects she's an illegal alien and releases her in Mike's custody.
6. Female of the Species
First Aired February 14, 1958
Although Kay Dalton is terrified of the sea, she is determined to dive for a cache of stolen diamonds.
7. Mr. Guinea Pig
First Aired February 21, 1958
An old flame comes back into Mike's life, and she's nothing but trouble.
8. Sonar Queen
First Aired February 28, 1958
Mike has been hired to test a machine dubbed "the fish-finder" on an experimental boat called The Sonar Queen, in hopes of determining why all of the fish have disappeared from the coast of a Mexican fishing village.
9. Gold Below
First Aired March 07, 1958
Mike comes to the aid of a young friend, whom has been fooled into working for a couple unsavory treasure hunters.
10. Recovery
First Aired March 14, 1958
Mike searches the ocean bottom for a gone-astray nose cone.
11. Killer Whale
First Aired March 21, 1958
Mike hunts down a killer whale that has been terrorizing a local coastal community.
12. Midget Submarine
First Aired March 28, 1958
Mike pilots a mini-submarine in an attempt to rescue a Russian scientist defector from a ship, where he is being held by his Soviet kidnappers.
13. The Shark Cage
First Aired April 04, 1958
Nelson is hired to study shark behavior at various depths and the effects of a new shark repellent.In Caribbean waters and with two other divers assisting him,he is lowered in a shark "cage" to accomplish the assignment.Before it is all over Mike is reminded that human beings also pose a danger to his life.
14. Hard Hat
First Aired April 11, 1958
Nelson,brought to the Latin American port of Santa Pueblo,investigates a recently found German WWII submarine.The sub,which had been on a secret mission,may contain secret documents or weapons,the remains of top Nazi Party members-or gold! "Hard hat" divers backed by the country's dictator interfere in the exploration.
15. Marvelous Treasure Machine
First Aired April 18, 1958
An overly energetic man appears on Nelson's boat and claims to have built a machine which can find shipwrecks by calculating where the shifting of the earth's plates have moved them. After a successful test run, the objective is to find lost barges carrying gold! Oddly, Nelson is more interested in the machine itself.
16. The Poacher
First Aired April 25, 1958
Mike assists the authorities in trying to apprehend a poacher operating in the swamps of Silver Springs, Florida.
17. Girl in the Trunk
First Aired May 02, 1958
Mike has serious concerns regarding a dangerous, underwater, carnival magic act.
18. The Sponge Divers
First Aired May 09, 1958
Mike comes to the aid of a young diver - in more ways than one.
19. Diamond River
First Aired May 16, 1958
Mike Nelson accepts a job to supervise a diving expedition for diamonds in South America, but soon rebels against his employers.
20. Alligator Story
First Aired May 23, 1958
Mike Nelson goes after a vicious alligator that escapes from a wild-animal show in Silver Springs, Fla. and takes refuge in the lake in a public park.
21. Magnetic Mine
First Aired May 30, 1958
Mike Nelson learns of a derelict mine which has drifted into a California harbor.
22. Underwater Patrol
First Aired June 06, 1958
Mike Nelson is called in by the Florida State Police to help solve a series of underwater crimes.
23. Legend of the Mermaid
First Aired June 13, 1958
Mike investigates the legend of a mermaid located in an underwater cave off the west coast of Florida.
24. Pressure Suit
First Aired June 20, 1958
A professor and his daughter hire Mike Nelson to help them search for a rare underwater plant in Costa Rica.
25. The Prospectors
First Aired June 27, 1958
Two prospectors (one of whom is at times violently paranoid about being cheated) ask Nelson to join them in a search for uranium deposits in a river bottom. When after two futile weeks Nelson finally has a positive reading on his Geiger counter, the paranoid partner snaps and lets his suspicions get the better of him.
26. The Hero
First Aired July 04, 1958
To fund research for an "ocean plants into food products" project, Nelson agrees to travel to Puerto Blanco/South America. There he teaches skin diving to a thrill seeking millionaire hunter and his wife. The boorish hunter wants to kill a large shark and a giant squid for his trophy case. An accident quickly matures the man.
27. Underwater Station
First Aired July 11, 1958
Mike discovers a kidnapped scientist being held in an underwater prison cell.
28. The Lost Ones
First Aired July 18, 1958
Offshore near Santa Barbara,Nelson is testing a sea "scooter". Meanwhile,a know-it-all ex-athlete and his wife are spending the day at the beach with their two kids. The kids are carelessly allowed to explore the area and end up trapped in a cave which high-tide will engulf. Nelson and his scooter attempt to be of help.
29. Capture of the Santa Rosa
First Aired July 25, 1958
Mike attempts to rescue a kidnapped Latin American diplomat being held with his wife at sea on his pleasure boat named Santa Rosa.
30. The Shipwreck
First Aired August 01, 1958
An unexpected storm capsizes a boat.
31. The Big Dive
First Aired August 08, 1958
A stuntman tries to break the world's skin-diving record.
32. The Birthday Present
First Aired August 15, 1958
Hoodlums attack Mike after he explores the waters around a pier.
33. Dead Man's Cove
First Aired August 22, 1958
Mike tries to prove that a woman's drowning was not accidental.
34. Killer Rock
First Aired August 29, 1958
Mike is hired to make a molehill out of an underwater mountain.
35. The Amphibian
First Aired September 05, 1958
While underwater, a member of Mike's supervised diving party goes missing.
36. Lord Cristobal
First Aired September 12, 1958
Mike's life is targeted for murder during his insurance investigation of a sunken ship.
37. Decoy
First Aired September 19, 1958
Mike investigates reports of a sea monster, which is literally causing whales to leap into the air above the ocean's surface.
38. The Sea Has Ears
First Aired September 26, 1958
Mike searches for the divers who are tapping top secret telephone communications along an underwater cable.
39. The Manganese Story
First Aired October 03, 1958
Mike battles rough weather, sharks, bullets, and even a giant clam, as he searches for a deep-water manganese deposit, which could be invaluable to the U.S. Government.