January 11, 1958…’Sea Hunt’ Debuts On 100 Stations In Syndication
January 11, 1958…’Sea Hunt’ Debuts On 100 Stations In Syndication
Filming began September 23, 1958 and ended exactly four years later on September 23, 1961. The series was created and produced by Ivan Tors and ZIV Television. Initially, the under water scenes were shot in Southen California, but soon moved to South Florida and The Bahamas where Tors later created ‘Flipper’.
Pioneering underwater cinematographer Lamar Boren shot nearly all the underwater footage and would later shoot ‘Flipper, and the underwater sequences of three James Bond films…’Thunderball’, ‘You Only Live Twice’, and ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. Below is the first episode of ‘Sea Hunt’. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqCIEr8AFgs
Sea Hunt: Season 1, Episode 1 Sixty Feet Below (4 Jan. 1958) Racing against time, Mike Nelson attempts a risky rescue of a test pilot trapped in his plane’s …
Great theme by renowned composer David Rose.
he should of stopped sniffing that glue!
The filming year appears to be in error. Must have been the September before the show first appeared
The 1st 2 episodes were filmed in color but only aired in B&W.
Great theme!!
I met Lloyd Bridges at NBC and told him of my desire and adventures scuba diving from Sea Hunt. On one show, Mike Nelson entered a sunken U-boat and that gave me the fever to scuba dive. Truk Lagoon is my favorite diving area as we’ve been there five times. “Mike Nelson” is responsible for our spending too much money travelling and diving around the world. Lloyd Bridges and I spoke for some time about diving and TV shows. Many thanks to Lloyd Bridges for sparking our travels and adventures.
As a little kid, I always wondered how he could narrate underwater in SCUBA gear?
Here’s the Bridges family in 1960