Sea Hunt

30min

Action & Adventure

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.

Production Companies

United Artists Television

Ziv Television Programs

Episodes

Cast

Sixty Feet Below

1. Sixty Feet Below

4th Jan 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

2. Flooded Mine

11th Jan 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

3. Rapture of the Deep

25th Jan 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

4. Mark of the Octopus

1st Feb 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

5. The Sea Sled

8th Feb 1958

Mike helps the Immigration Department Border Patrol break up an underwater border-running operation.

Female of the Species

6. Female of the Species

15th Feb 1958

A beautiful woman hires Mike to give her diving lessons for mysterious reasons.

Mr. Guinea Pig

7. Mr. Guinea Pig

22nd Feb 1958

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

Sonar Queen

8. Sonar Queen

1st Mar 1958

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

Gold Below

9. Gold Below

8th Mar 1958

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

Recovery

10. Recovery

15th Mar 1958

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

Killer Whale

11. Killer Whale

22nd Mar 1958

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

Midget Submarine

12. Midget Submarine

29th Mar 1958

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

The Shark Cage

13. The Shark Cage

5th Apr 1958

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

Hardhat

14. Hardhat

12th Apr 1958

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

Continental Rift

15. Continental Rift

19th Apr 1958

A man claims to have invented a machine that can locate ships carrying gold.

The Poacher

16. The Poacher

26th Apr 1958

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

Girl in the Trunk

17. Girl in the Trunk

3rd May 1958

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

The Sponge Divers

18. The Sponge Divers

10th May 1958

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

Diamond River

19. Diamond River

17th May 1958

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

Alligator Story

20. Alligator Story

24th May 1958

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

Magnetic Mine

21. Magnetic Mine

31st May 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.

Underwater Patrol

22. Underwater Patrol

7th Jun 1958

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

Legend of the Mermaid

23. Legend of the Mermaid

14th Jun 1958

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

Pressure Suit

24. Pressure Suit

21st Jun 1958

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

The Prospectors

25. The Prospectors

28th Jun 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.

The Hero

26. The Hero

5th Jul 1958

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

Underwater Station

27. Underwater Station

12th Jul 1958

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

The Lost Ones

28. The Lost Ones

19th Jul 1958

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

Capture of the Santa Rosa

29. Capture of the Santa Rosa

26th Jul 1958

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

The Shipwreck

30. The Shipwreck

2nd Aug 1958

Mike and three other survivors share a life raft after a storm capsizes their boats.

The Big Dive

31. The Big Dive

9th Aug 1958

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

The Birthday Present

32. The Birthday Present

16th Aug 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.

Dead Man's Cove

33. Dead Man's Cove

23rd Aug 1958

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

Explosion

34. Explosion

30th Aug 1958

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

The Amphibian

35. The Amphibian

6th Sep 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.

Lord Christobal

36. Lord Christobal

13th Sep 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.

Decoy

37. Decoy

20th Sep 1958

Mike investigates reports of a sea monster off the coast of Mexico.

The Sea Has Ears

38. The Sea Has Ears

27th Sep 1958

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

The Manganese Story

39. The Manganese Story

4th Oct 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.

First air date

4th Jan 1958

Last air date

23rd Sep 1961

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks