Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt

1958
Sea Hunt
Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt

7.7 | NR | en | Drama

Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP38  Round Up
Sep. 23,1961
Round Up

Mike must find and disarm a torpedo that's been sent into the outflow tube of a hydro-electric plant.

EP37  Crime at Sea
Sep. 16,1961
Crime at Sea

Mike helps the daughter of his old UDT Commander investigate the man's death, which she believes was murder.

EP36  Skipper
Sep. 09,1961
Skipper

During hydroplane races, a friend of Mike's rams his craft into a Coast Guard ship, leaving Mike to investigate.

EP35  Starting Signal
Sep. 02,1961
Starting Signal

A naval officer of a Caribbean nation is sabotaging a series of experiments Mike is conducting with the Coast Guard.

EP34  P.T. Boat
Aug. 26,1961
P.T. Boat

Mike helps test a remote control guidance device invented by a rich eccentric.

EP33  Roustabout
Aug. 19,1961
Roustabout

Mike's assistant is trapped underwater by an overturned truck containing drums of poison that could endanger a South American city's water supply.

EP32  Superman
Aug. 12,1961
Superman

While on a diving expedition in Guatemala, a woman seeking to slow down her husband's frantic lifestyle deliberately sinks the boat they share, unaware that her husband is a diabetic and his insulin supply will be lost with the vessel.

EP31  Impostor
Aug. 05,1961
Impostor

A dead ringer for Mike is stealing diamonds from a sunken sports cruiser, but when Mike is accused of the crime, he is unable to establish an alibi due to his current top-secret mission.

EP30  The Saint Story
Jul. 29,1961
The Saint Story

While searching a Latin American harbor for a sunken statue, Mike discovers a UHF homing beacon being used to guide submarines into the port.

EP29  Hit and Run
Jul. 22,1961
Hit and Run

Mike goes after an egocentric movie star who injured a friend of Mike's in a hit-and-fun speedboat accident.

EP28  Sunken Car
Jul. 15,1961
Sunken Car

A sunken truck points Mike to the murder of a political boss, and the killer is the father of a good friend of Mike's.

EP27  Dark Evil
Jul. 08,1961
Dark Evil

A pretty woman and her father, vacationing in the Bahamas, become killers after inadvertently eating a variety of fish that causes hallucinations.

EP26  The Meet
Jul. 01,1961
The Meet

While working for the U.S. Treasury to break a counterfeiting ring, Mike intercedes in a kidnapping.

EP25  Underwater Pirates
Jun. 24,1961
Underwater Pirates

Pirates try to snatch a sunken freighter away from Mike before he can salvage it for an old Navy buddy.

EP24  Confidential Mission
Jun. 17,1961
Confidential Mission

Mike poses as a tourist on vacation as he tries to locate a hidden underwater missile launcher in the Caribbean.

EP23  Baby
Jun. 10,1961
Baby

Mike must get past Jivaro Indians who are blocking his passage downriver as he attempts to get a young missionary's baby to a hospital for medical attention.

EP22  Lost Island
Jun. 03,1961
Lost Island

Mike teams up with a Mexican prison escapee to uncover nefarious activity on an uncharted Pacific atoll off the coast of South America.

EP21  Quicksand
May. 27,1961
Quicksand

One salvage diver disappears while diving on a sunken yacht off the coast of Yucatan, and Mike tries to see that two others don't share his fate.

EP20  The Octopus Story
May. 20,1961
The Octopus Story

Markings on the body of a dead diver convince a marine biologist that a tropical lagoon is inhabited by a killer octopus.

EP19  Sub Hatch
May. 13,1961
Sub Hatch

A heroic test pilot from the Korean War has his mettle tested when he must spend 24 hours with Mike in a makeshift decompression chamber after a dive to prevent the bends from killing him.

EP18  Cougar
May. 06,1961
Cougar

A restless youth and a college girl complicate Mike's attempts at capturing a poisonous lionfish.

EP17  Niko
Apr. 29,1961
Niko

Mike heads a three-man team in an effort to disarm a pair of unexploded torpedoes at the bototm of a West Coast harbor.

EP16  The Defector
Apr. 22,1961
The Defector

A man bribes Mike to continue giving lessons to an inept diving student whom he's stopped teaching.

EP15  Bionics
Apr. 15,1961
Bionics

Mike convinces a reluctant daughter to continue her father's work after he is killed testing an underwater electrical detection device.

EP14  Expedition
Apr. 08,1961
Expedition

While helping his former history professor search for pirate treasure off the North Carolina coast, Mike finds evidence that the underwater cave said to house the treasure has been tampered with.

EP13  Survival Kit
Apr. 01,1961
Survival Kit

Mike is hired by a local German consul to salvage a survival kit from the wreckage of a Nazi warplane in the Caribbean.

EP12  The Aquanettes
Mar. 25,1961
The Aquanettes

Mike faces sharks and other unexpected difficulties while working with three pretty women undergoing astronaut training.

EP11  Amigo
Mar. 18,1961
Amigo

A young Mexican boy helps Mike locate a safe entrance to an underwater fossil cave.

EP10  Sonar Story
Mar. 11,1961
Sonar Story

Mike uses sonar to foil a gang of underwater heroin smugglers.

EP9  Hot Tracer
Mar. 04,1961
Hot Tracer

Mike's efforts to retrieve a pair of radioactive cylinders are complicated by the presence of a headstrong youth to whom he's been giving diving lessons.

EP8  Mercy Trip
Feb. 25,1961
Mercy Trip

Mike scouts a path through mine-infested waters so that medical supplies can reach a China Sea port hit by a cholera epidemic.

EP7  Rescue
Feb. 18,1961
Rescue

Unaware that two of his treasure-hunting friends are trapped inside, Mike sets charges to blow up a sunken ship that is a menace to a busy shipping lane.

EP6  Sperling of Lamatsue
Feb. 11,1961
Sperling of Lamatsue

After being accidentally caught in a fishing net, Mike challenges an Asiatic warlord by trying to retrieve a cache of medical supplies that the dictator has dumped into a river.

EP5  The Dancer
Feb. 04,1961
The Dancer

A scuba diving ballerina faces the possibility of underwater amputation when she catches her foot between the buckled plates of a sunken freighter.

EP4  Vital Error
Jan. 28,1961
Vital Error

A famous newsman, convinced that he has a fatal illness, tries to end his life in such a way that his wife can collect his insurance, with Mike as a witness.

EP3  The Destroyers
Jan. 21,1961
The Destroyers

Mike investigates the source of a radar jamming signal that caused two ships to collide.

EP2  River Treasure
Jan. 14,1961
River Treasure

While surveying a remote river in the South American jungle, Mike is threatened by the jealousy of a man prospecting for emeralds with his wife.

EP1  Point of No Return
Jan. 07,1961
Point of No Return

Mike is trapped in a ""scubasphere"" when the cable attached to it snaps.

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7.7 | NR | en | Drama , Action & Adventure | More Info
Released: 1958-01-04 | Released Producted By: United Artists Television , Ziv Television Programs Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.

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Lloyd Bridges

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Reviews

GeorgeSickler I really enjoyed Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson as a kid. There was no other series like it and the underwater scenes were extremely well done for it's time.Well, OK, some of the "special effects" were believable to a kid then, but obviously fairly obvious today. Such as when Mike gets tossed around by strong "killer" currents, but everything else in the scene is serene -- the plant life, his air bubbles, etc. This is somewhat like the special effects on "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger" where the actors would bounce around in their seats to simulate their ship being attached or in space trouble/turmoil for one reason or another.What I really liked was when reruns were shown in the afternoon and I was home with the flu on school days. There's so much narration by Mike that I didn't really have to sit up and watch the old Westinghouse B&W 17-inch TV in the bedroom room, on its last legs. It was like listening to the radio.Some of the episodes, though, are extremely bizarre when seen today, which is kinda fun. In one, and I guess we can have spoilers for a series that was on around 60 years ago, involved Mike and his crew summoned to either Ireland or the Scottish coast.Locals are reporting a monster, traveling a terrific speeds through the water, scaring the population and destroying the fishing industry. Mike sets up a series of underwater nets to capture the monster, but it just breaks through all of them and keeps going. Some locals have even seen it, all green.This is the dawning age of Sputnik, the first Earth orbiting satellite from the Soviet Union.Turns out this "monster" is actually some government's ocean satellite, capable of traveling at incredibly high speeds under the seas. Any green on it was just kelp or seaweed.Well, OK. Believable a half century ago as a kid.
njosprey03 I was born in 1951 and grew up watching Sea Hunt. As kids, my brothers and I played "Sea Hunt" in our swimming pool with masks, fins and snorkels, "fixing" things on the swim ladder.While I would love to see a really good remake, I enjoy watching "Deadliest Catch" (Bearing Sea crab fishing), Mega Movers, and other shows on the Discovery, Science and other cable channels. Real people handling technically demanding jobs. I wonder if Sea Hunt paved the way for the interest in this type of "reality" show (as opposed to nonsense like "Survivor").By the way, if anyone knows if the music from the show was ever compiled, I would be very interested. Some of the music was shared with "Men Into Space." The music, in addition to "Mike Nelson's" narration, really made the show for me.
blondiesguy2004 Back in the late 1950's, "Sea Hunt" was one of the biggest hits on TV. It inspired a small score of short-lived knockoffs like "Aquanauts" (from the same producers, Ivan Tors and Ziv TV) and "Assignment Underwater", as well as an airborne "Sea Hunt" called "Ripcord" (also from Tors and Ziv).Today this gem sits in the Sony Pictures archives, gathering "seaweed". Which is a crying shame, because this was a cool adventure show, the ultimate in shows for the man's man. Former B-actor Lloyd Bridges escaped the obscurity list to take on the role of no-nonsense scuba diver Mike Nelson. There simply couldn't be any other actor made for such a rugged role... Bridges was the one, bar none. His craggy, determined looks made him a natural. That was proved 26 years after the last original "Sea Hunt" aired, when Ron "Tarzan" Ely was cast as Nelson in a tepid remake. Ely was rugged, but he simply wasn't Lloyd Bridges. At least the character of Nelson obviously led a charmed life, for the revival added a hottie for his daughter, played by Kim Sissons.Add in some impressive underwater photography, courtesy of Ricou Browning and Courtney Brown, and some serious stunts (many courtesy of Bridges himself), throw in some taut scripts, and you have a show that is dying to be resurrected on DVD.Note: Avoid the 1987 revival like the plague. Boring as sin."Sea Hunt" is a Ziv Television Production, produced with the cooperation of Marineland of the Pacific, Los Angeles. Owned by the MGM division of Sony Pictures. 155 episodes were filmed between 1957 and 1961.
ED-116 The Outdoor Life Network has just started showing Sea Hunt at 10:00 PM Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. It's amazing to see all the actors who have gotten their start on this show. Since it started last week there have been first appearances for Larry Hagman, Leonard Nemoy and Robert Conrad.