Sea Hunt (1958 - 61)
Sea Hunt (1958 - 61)
Sea Hunt
The lead character was free-lance scuba diver Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges), who had various adventures. He outmaneuvered villains, salvaged everything from a bicycle to a nuclear missile, and rescued a downed Navy pilot (in his sunken jet, in the pilot episode), children trapped in a flooded cave, and even a dog. Since no dialogue was possible during the underwater sequences, Bridges provided voice-over narration for all the installments. Bridges would appear as himself at the end of each episode to deliver a brief comment. These comments sometimes included a plea to viewers to understand and protect the marine environment, along with gems of wisdom.
After Bridges was cast, he was given a crash course in scuba diving by Zale Parry and Courtney Brown. Brown served as his underwater stunt double. Over the course of the show's run, Bridges got more involved in the underwater stunt work, graduating from close-ups in the earliest episodes, to doing all but the most dangerous stunts by the end of the series' run.
4 Jan 1958