Sea Hunt

Overview

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.

Episodes

Sixty Feet Below

S01E01 Sixty Feet Below

January 4, 1958
Mike tries to free the pilot of a downed jet from his watertight cockpit before his air runs out, without causing the man's death from the water pressure.
Flooded Mine

S01E02 Flooded Mine

January 11, 1958
While investigating the cause of a mine flood that killed thirty men, Mike stumbles upon an air pocket with two survivors.
Rapture of the Deep

S01E03 Rapture of the Deep

January 25, 1958
A grudge between two divers whom Mike is testing for underwater mining skills becomes a secondary issue when one of them contracts nitrogen narcosis.
Mark of the Octopus

S01E04 Mark of the Octopus

February 1, 1958
Before Mike can investigate the disappearance of a pair of skin-diving geologists, one turns up dead on the beach bearing marks resembling the suction valves of a giant octopus.
The Sea Sled

S01E05 The Sea Sled

February 8, 1958
Mike helps the Immigration Department Border Patrol break up an underwater border-running operation.
Female of the Species

S01E06 Female of the Species

February 15, 1958
A beautiful woman hires Mike to give her diving lessons for mysterious reasons.
Mr. Guinea Pig

S01E07 Mr. Guinea Pig

February 22, 1958
An attractive magazine photographer hires Mike to assist her in getting pictures of a sunken barge off the coast of Mexico.

S01E08 Sonar Queen

March 1, 1958
Hired to test a new electronic fish-finder, Mike encounters a village where every fish in the vicinity has disappeared.

S01E09 Gold Below

March 8, 1958
A pair of ruthless treasure hunters dupes a young skin diver into helping them loot a sunken ship.

S01E10 Recovery

March 15, 1958
Mike dives into the Caribbean to recover the lost nose cone from an ICBM rocket before enemy agents can get it.

S01E11 Killer Whale

March 22, 1958
A killer whale is capsizing boats and endangering scuba divers and swimmers along a stretch of coastline.

S01E12 Midget Submarine

March 29, 1958
Mike plays commando in rescuing a scientist who had defected from Soviet kidnappers who are returning him to Moscow aboard a Pacific liner.

S01E13 The Shark Cage

April 5, 1958
Mike and two cameramen are imperiled when an irrationally jealous man drops their camera cage into shark-infested waters.

S01E14 Hardhat

April 12, 1958
Mike competes with a pair of helmet divers to salvage a German submarine sunk off the coast of South America.

S01E15 Continental Rift

April 19, 1958
A man claims to have invented a machine that can locate ships carrying gold.

S01E16 The Poacher

April 26, 1958
Mike is nearly killed by a massive electrical jolt used by a poacher to kill fish in the Florida Everglades.

S01E17 Girl in the Trunk

May 3, 1958
Mike comes to the aid of a female escape artist when her underwater stunt goes awry.

S01E18 The Sponge Divers

May 10, 1958
Mike interrupts an underwater survey in the Gulf of Mexico in order to save a diver whose air line has become snarled.

S01E19 Diamond River

May 17, 1958
Mike supervises a diamond diving expedition in South America, but discovers that his employers are poaching on someone else's property.

S01E20 Alligator Story

May 24, 1958
A vicious alligator escapes from a wild animal show and takes refuge in the lake of a public park.

S01E21 Magnetic Mine

May 31, 1958
An entire Mexican town is menaced by the presence of a derelict floating mine in its harbor that could ignite fumes from the local nitrate factory if it is detonated.

S01E22 Underwater Patrol

June 7, 1958
The State of Florida hires Mike to organize and train an underwater police force to deal with a series of underwater crimes.

S01E23 Legend of the Mermaid

June 14, 1958
Mike investigates an underwater grotto said to feature a mermaid that lures men to their deaths.

S01E24 Pressure Suit

June 21, 1958
A professor and his daughter hire Mike to help them search for a rare underwater plant in Costa Rica.

S01E25 The Prospectors

June 28, 1958
A pair of prospectors hire Mike to trace the source of radioactive fish with a Geiger counter in hopes of finding a uranium deposit.

S01E26 The Hero

July 5, 1958
Mike is hired by a playboy sportsman to supervise their underwater shark ""safari"" in the waters off Peru.

S01E27 Underwater Station

July 12, 1958
Mike finds a famous rocket scientist being held in an underwater prison by enemy agents.

S01E28 The Lost Ones

July 19, 1958
A frustrated former athlete pushes his children to be Olympic swimmers, resulting in their becoming trapped in a cave by a rising tide.

S01E29 Capture of the Santa Rosa

July 26, 1958
Mike leads a diving team in rescuing a Latin American diplomat and his family from kidnappers.

S01E30 The Shipwreck

August 2, 1958
Mike and three other survivors share a life raft after a storm capsizes their boats.

S01E31 The Big Dive

August 9, 1958
Mike's work on a movie prompts a fellow stunt diver to attempt a dangerous record-setting dive.

S01E32 The Birthday Present

August 16, 1958
After locating a leak in a gas line and retrieving a young boy's sunken bicycle, Mike is beaten up and threatened by a gang of thugs.

S01E33 Dead Man's Cove

August 23, 1958
An underwater camera holds the key to determining whether a woman's drowning was accidental, as her husband claims, or not.

S01E34 Explosion

August 30, 1958
Mike is hired to destroy an underwater offshore peak that is notorious for ripping the hulls out of passing ships.

S01E35 The Amphibian

September 6, 1958
A group of sportsmen hire Mike to supervise their skin-diving outing, whereupon one of them sneaks off and begins photographing secret Navy facilities.

S01E36 Lord Christobal

September 13, 1958
Mike is hired by an insurance company to investigate the sinking of a freighter, but a murder indicates that someone doesn't want him to complete his task.

S01E37 Decoy

September 20, 1958
Mike investigates reports of a sea monster off the coast of Mexico.

S01E38 The Sea Has Ears

September 27, 1958
The murder of a telephone company employee leads Mike to an underwater cable that is being tapped to access top-secret research Conferences.

S01E39 The Manganese Story

October 4, 1958
Mike discovers an important manganese deposit, but an ambitious young geologist, sharks, and an approaching hurricane threaten to silence him before he can inform the government.

Cast

Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges
Mike Nelson

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