Sea Hunt

Seasons

1958

USA

7.7

Mike Nelson is a scuba diver in the days when it was still very new. He works alone, it was mostly carried through his voice-over narrations. These gave the show a flavor of a radio program.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Sixty Feet Below

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.

S1 • E2

Flooded Mine

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?

S1 • E3

Rapture of the Deep

While testing the skills of two divers, Mike is attacked by one of them, whom is suffering from rapture of the deep.

S1 • E4

Mark of the Octopus

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.

S1 • E5

The Sea Sled

Mike Nelson rescues an unidentified girl from drowning. The Immigration Department suspects she's an illegal alien and releases her in Mike's custody.

S1 • E6

Female of the Species

Although Kay Dalton is terrified of the sea, she is determined to dive for a cache of stolen diamonds.

S1 • E7

Mr. Guinea Pig

An old flame comes back into Mike's life, and she's nothing but trouble.

S1 • E8

Sonar Queen

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.

S1 • E9

Gold Below

Mike comes to the aid of a young friend, whom has been fooled into working for a couple unsavory treasure hunters.

S1 • E10

Recovery

Mike searches the ocean bottom for a gone-astray nose cone.

S1 • E11

Killer Whale

Mike hunts down a killer whale that has been terrorizing a local coastal community.

S1 • E12

Midget Submarine

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.

S1 • E13

The Shark Cage

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.

S1 • E14

Hard Hat

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.

S1 • E15

Marvelous Treasure Machine

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.

S1 • E16

The Poacher

Mike assists the authorities in trying to apprehend a poacher operating in the swamps of Silver Springs, Florida.

S1 • E17

Girl in the Trunk

Mike has serious concerns regarding a dangerous, underwater, carnival magic act.

S1 • E18

The Sponge Divers

Mike comes to the aid of a young diver - in more ways than one.

S1 • E19

Diamond River

Mike Nelson accepts a job to supervise a diving expedition for diamonds in South America, but soon rebels against his employers.

S1 • E20

Alligator Story

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.

S1 • E21

Magnetic Mine

Mike Nelson learns of a derelict mine which has drifted into a California harbor.

S1 • E22

Underwater Patrol

Mike Nelson is called in by the Florida State Police to help solve a series of underwater crimes.

S1 • E23

Legend of the Mermaid

Mike investigates the legend of a mermaid located in an underwater cave off the west coast of Florida.

S1 • E24

Pressure Suit

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

S1 • E25

The Prospectors

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.

S1 • E26

The Hero

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.

S1 • E27

Underwater Station

Mike discovers a kidnapped scientist being held in an underwater prison cell.

S1 • E28

The Lost Ones

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.

S1 • E29

Capture of the Santa Rosa

Mike attempts to rescue a kidnapped Latin American diplomat being held with his wife at sea on his pleasure boat named Santa Rosa.

S1 • E30

The Shipwreck

An unexpected storm capsizes a boat.

S1 • E31

The Big Dive

A stuntman tries to break the world's skin-diving record.

S1 • E32

The Birthday Present

Hoodlums attack Mike after he explores the waters around a pier.

S1 • E33

Dead Man's Cove

Mike tries to prove that a woman's drowning was not accidental.

S1 • E34

Killer Rock

Mike is hired to make a molehill out of an underwater mountain.

S1 • E35

The Amphibian

While underwater, a member of Mike's supervised diving party goes missing.

S1 • E36

Lord Cristobal

Mike's life is targeted for murder during his insurance investigation of a sunken ship.

S1 • E37

Decoy

Mike investigates reports of a sea monster, which is literally causing whales to leap into the air above the ocean's surface.

S1 • E38

The Sea Has Ears

Mike searches for the divers who are tapping top secret telephone communications along an underwater cable.

S1 • E39

The Manganese Story

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.