Born in ‘56, started diving in ‘67 after watching reruns of Sea Hunt for years, and then taking lessons at the YMCA in 1967 as an 11 year old kid. Back then they called in Skin Diving. Diving was all I ever wanted to do. I’m now 67 years old and I’m still diving.
I just watched this episode last week. I bought the first complete season on dvd,way better picture too! I grew up in the 60’s and Sea Hunt was a regular re-run in the Tampa Bay Area.
My favorite show of all time. Grew up watching it in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Lloyd Bridges inspired me to learn to dive when I was 11 years old in 1967. Over 50 years later I’m still driving. Became an instructor so I could pass along my love of diving to others. Taught my son and daughter to dive when they were kids. I have Sea Hunt on DVD and love going back and watching the series and seeing the old equipment they used not to mention some of the greatest actors got their start on the show.
Yes! Sea Hunt on re-runs in the afternoon-and watching Perry Mason with Mom in the evenings when, as reward for good behavior I'd be allowed to stay up past 9pm bedtime, in the summers with No School Tomorrow! And I didn't become a Scuba Diver OR a Lawyer!😂🤣😂 Such happy memories!
Watched Sea Hunt in syndication on Channel 5 in the 1960's. Made me become an NASDS certified diver in 1975 when I was old enough. In those days you had to learn the US Navy Decompression tables and tested on them. No decompression computers then. It was a happy day when I was able to get all 155 episodes of Sea Hunt on DVD. Watching them again I am struck on what an upstanding man Mike Nelson/Lloyd Bridges is in the series; fair, loyal, hardworking and honest. Truly a great role model and I am proud that he was my inspiration, as he was to a whole generation, to become Scuba Divers, or "Skin Divers" as they were known then.
I used to watch this show on reruns when I was a little boy. The writers then were much better than they are today. They packed a lot of good story in under 30 mins.
I remember this show from my childhood and like bigrich6750 it inspired me to learn to scuba dive. I was diving in the late 1970's and 80s, open water, wreck diving, quarries and even some cave diving. Diving mainly the South coast of the UK but also the Scilly Isles. I firmly believe iy was Lloyd Bridges that gave me the sense of adventure that led me not only to scuba diving but joining the British Army and the adventures I had there.
I'm 73 and still diving (occasionally on vacation), but it was Sea Hunt that got me started. And I'm not the only one of my vintage to be inspired by Sea Hunt and, of course, Jacquea Cousteau.
Keylie, thank you for this trip down memory lane! I grew up watching this and other shows like this. Back when you could let your children watch TV and not worry what they might see in a show or even in a commercial. Again, thanks for amassing these seasons for us on RUclips! New subscriber!
The aircraft was the short lived Convair F2Y Sea Dart supersonic seaplane. Love how they pronounce Mach as Match in the cockpit voice over. I'll be binge watching this for the next few weeks.
This show and Flipper I never missed. They are why I've loved the ocean, learned to snorkel and then dive, and spend my time trying to get back to the salt water. Thanks for these.
Still one of my favourite shows ever. Let's appreciate how solid an actor Lioyd Bridges.was. In technical diving, any dive below 60 feet is considered a deep dive. In the show, Bridges rarely dove below 30 feet but he was a fully certified diver.
Good afternoon Brian. You said; "he was a fully certified diver." Actually Courtney Brown did ALL the diving on Sea Hunt. Bridges would be filmed diving into the murky waters of Marine Land of California with a perfect, little used, wetsuit And the next clip would be Courtney Brown in the clear water of Silver Springs Florida in his well worn, scratched, cut wetsuit with the crotch black with wear. ______________________ Close-ups of Bridges underwater were done in a tank at Marine Land in California. Where he was trained by Zale Barry (famous female diver) enough to dive into the water, get out of the water and for the close ups. Most of the land scenes were in California. While the underwater scenes were in Silver Springs Fla. Even on the land shots, Bridges tanks were made out of wood.
Like so many of those leaving comments, I watched this program and was both inspired and thrilled. It's hard to remember that scuba diving was VERY new and Mike Nelson sold it. Like many, I certified.
yep i was just a kid but this made me a life long Bridges fan. I also wanted to become a deep sea diver. Never did but always wanted to. Saw this at 65 and same memories came flooding back. Want to become deep sea diver but never will but hey Bridges did it for me.
Underwater communication was quite primitive when "Sea Hunt" was made. Only the characters at the surface can understand what Mike Nelson is telling them. Today there are full face masks with underwater communications systems built in. TV news reporters who have to go underwater to get the story use them all the time. I don't think I ever missed an episode of "Sea Hunt" when I was a youngster. Thanks for uploading the series, Keylie!
My father was a salmon fisherman and abalone diver in the '50s and '60s, and this was his favorite series of all time. He never missed it, so in his memory, thank you very much for the uploads...
Lloyd Bridges was the man of the day. His sons followed in his footsteps, even when he joined the great comedies of our day. It takes humility to go down that road. Ole Leslie led the way.
If Mike can't do it, no man can! Happier days from my young boyhood, even if was more fiction than fact. They don't do scripts & shows like this anymore.
I watched this show when I was young. It was the first time I saw Lloyd Bridges. I'm 72 now and even back then I thought he was a very handsome man. I'm very excited to find it here. I'm very grateful. Thank you RUclips and especially Keylie
When Sea Hunt first aired, it was my very favorite program. It came on later in the evening, around 10:30-11:00 p.m. I was 11 years old and my parents let me stay up to watch it. It was so much different than other t.v. programs at the time... it was like watching an "inner space" movie. And of course it really created interest in scuba diving as well. Great show for the time. Lloyd Bridges had a great acting career that spanned many years. That said, I believe this series is what made him a star with a name that people remembered.
This show was responsible for me getting into diving, getting certified at 14 and even doing it professionally for awhile when I was older. Thank you for bringing back the memories.
Mike Nelson was my idol. I had to have every piece of equipment he had. I remember trying out my new spear gun down in my friend's basement and accidentally shooting the spear through a can of paint sitting on the shelf. His dad was pissed. Thanks for the videos and the great memories.
Thanks for posting these vidoes. This was one of the most memorable TV series of my childhood. So exciting. It fueled my imagination for years. I grew up landlocked in the Midwest; but I couldn't wait to get to the ocean, swim beneath it and see all the sights Mike Nelson had shown us. Maybe that's why I wound up in South Florida after college. Been here ever since.
i was 7 when this came on. like many here, i got my certification because of Mike Nelson. By about age 9, my parents were trying alternative discipline - no more spanking. grounding worked for my brother. Me: "fine, i'll go read". the only thing they ever found that was instantly effective was taking away my beloved Sea Hunt. i was good Instantly. this is the only place i've found to watch this. Danke Chica! You are my Hero!!!
Silly as it sounds just the theme music to this and Im transported back to my childhood, i loved this show and watched daily during summer vacation, in Carrollton Texas about as far from the Pacific one could be.
MY FAVORITE SHOW TOO....I was about 8 or 9 watching this show...never miss any episodes. Later on as adult I worked at Disney World....I had family of 2 boys myself/ wife. I happen to be at EPCOT and there he was coming out of the WATER ATTRACTION...I got to meet him and shake my HERO's hand. WOW...what a HUGE DEAL that was for me......I feel so LUCKY to have shook his hand. THE BEsT SHOW on besides I love Lucy and the HoneyMooners.
I learned to swim at 35 just to certify as an open water diver and then went on to earn my Divemaster's rating with nine additional specialty certifications. I always wanted to learn to dive as a child because of this show. Funny how many other people posting here did as well thanks to Lloyd Bridges.
Loved it! Sea Hunt was my favorite show in the 1950-1960's and the reason why SCUBA diving and Freediving has been part of my live hood since. Now in my mid 60's I am still active in this wonderful world. Thank you, thank you so much for having these videos in YT. Great work!
Ive been binge watching old shows i grew up watching. The Dick Van Dyke show, Hazel, Flipper, Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, etc...❤
WOW WOW WOW...My favorite show....Years later I actually got to shake hands of my HERO Lloyd Bridges at Epcot ctr at DISNEY WORLD, Orlando, Fl where I worked. I will NEVER FORGET...>and here I am today watching all over again..... THANKS SO MUCH for posting my FAVORITE show back then...I was about 9 yrs old.... I love this. I grew up near Niagara Falls, NY American side....during this time.. Ken Orlando, Florida, USA
This old show is great. It aired before I was born but I do remember the show from when my mother watched it in later years. Scuba diving was relatively new back then and was exciting to watch.
The older guys in mY SCUBA class talk about this show and I never heard of it. My ham friends talked about it so I looked it up. Super cool show and I am glad to be seeing it.
One of The Best Sea Adventure, I Grew Up Watching This Show They Don't Make Good Shows Like This ! It Is Truly An Iconic Show R.I.P. Lloyd Bridges You' One Of The Best !
Another ZIV product, Highway Patrol,used the same technique.. Broderick Crawford reminding us .."this weekend,leave your blood at the Red Cross,not on the road"...etc.
Brill Post, I watched these when I was a very small kid. The show inspired me, and I wanted to do this, I joined the Royal Marines at 17 and became a diver, along with other things.
I think I was six years old when I saw part of this episode. We had moved to a new suburb and a new house in 1959/60 and my Father and I saw this on a TV in the local shop window.... the first time we had ever seen TV ! I have had a love of scuba diving and the ocean ever since.
Just thought about this show and so glad I did. Remember watching it when it first aired with my folks every week. Love these old TV shows, they were the greatest. Thank you so much for uploading and bringing back great and wonderful memories.
You got an underwater problem ? . . Well here I am , I'm your man . . . the name . . . Nelson , MIKE NELSON ! I can find anything underwater . . ." And there it was " ! Brilliance . . sheer Brilliance !
I wasn't even four years old when this episode first aired. But I remember seeing a rerun of it. Sea Hunt was fascinating to me as a child. For a few years, after watching this show faithfully, I dreamt of being a scuba diver or US Navy Frogman. Nothing came of my early dreams. But I do remember Lloyd Bridges, the theme music for Sea Hunt, the the many adventures of the heroic Mike Nelson. Great early TV.
hy was I fascinated with this show??This was closest I ever came to knowing what was in the Deep Sea!! I had swimming lessons but never learned to swim!!! Happy to see this show is on RUclips!!!
I was about 6 when started watching this series here in Chile in 1964 or 65. It was a family must see show in that era, when we had just two channels to choose from. By the way, the name of the show in Spanish was "El Investigador Submarino" ("The Submarine resarcher"). These translations have some oddities here and there...
I was about 4 or 5. We lived in Rendondo. My parents scuba dove around P.V. cove then. I got to go out on one of those "floaty rafts" with a mask and watch them down there. We would see the Sea Hunt boat out there numerous times. We also visited Marine Land many times..
I like the 'you are there' narration. 'This story would make the national headlines'... They didn't have to add that. It just made it more intimate, and real.
I grew up watching this show, and I loved it. I later had the opportunity when I was stationed overseas with the Air Force to join a base scuba club and learn how to dive. I did a few before I was transferred to another base. Unfortunately a situation happened where I never got my certification. I love diving and wish I could get certified and do it again.
What is preventing you from going to the local dive shop and getting certified? You don't have to go 100 feet; plenty to look at 1, 20, 30 feet deep! There is an organization SNSI (Scuba Nitrox Safety International) that has their entire training on RUclips if you want to watch. There are only 2 SNSI shops in the US, both in Miami, so you would have to use another organization to actually get certified. SSI, NAUI, SDI, and if you have to, PADI. Most shops have a Try Scuba class where you can get in the pool with an instructor and try it out.
@@zaphod9977 That was over 40 years ago, and there isn't much water where I live now. I did work in a dive pro shop for a while years ago, but at the time I didn't have the money to take the classes again. The job only paid minimum wage and just making enough to pay my rent was tough.
I have to add, that I'm currently retired, disabled and wheelchair bound. I also live on a fixed income that doesn't give me much money to spend on things like diving. I wish it did.
Wow! I delighted I discovered this old show. When I was in the Sea Scouts we had one of those boats. 63' Aviation Rescue Boat or AVR for short. Sweet!! :-)
Wow! Can you imagine a show nowadays with 39 episodes per season.? With with rehearsals camera set up and under underwater time I'm surprised Lloyd Bridges had time for a family.
Born in ‘56, started diving in ‘67 after watching reruns of Sea Hunt for years, and then taking lessons at the YMCA in 1967 as an 11 year old kid. Back then they called in Skin Diving. Diving was all I ever wanted to do. I’m now 67 years old and I’m still diving.
I just watched this episode last week. I bought the first complete season on dvd,way better picture too! I grew up in the 60’s and Sea Hunt was a regular re-run in the Tampa Bay Area.
I was 8 years old when I saw this on TV GREAT SHOW!!!
My favorite show of all time. Grew up watching it in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Lloyd Bridges inspired me to learn to dive when I was 11 years old in 1967. Over 50 years later I’m still driving. Became an instructor so I could pass along my love of diving to others. Taught my son and daughter to dive when they were kids. I have Sea Hunt on DVD and love going back and watching the series and seeing the old equipment they used not to mention some of the greatest actors got their start on the show.
Exact same age and exact same reasons I started to dive!
Yes! Sea Hunt on re-runs in the afternoon-and watching Perry Mason with Mom in the evenings when, as reward for good behavior I'd be allowed to stay up past 9pm bedtime, in the summers with No School Tomorrow!
And I didn't become a Scuba Diver OR a Lawyer!😂🤣😂
Such happy memories!
I grew up watching Sea Hunt, although I seen every episode countless times, I still love watching them
Watched Sea Hunt in syndication on Channel 5 in the 1960's. Made me become an NASDS certified diver in 1975 when I was old enough. In those days you had to learn the US Navy Decompression tables and tested on them. No decompression computers then. It was a happy day when I was able to get all 155 episodes of Sea Hunt on DVD. Watching them again I am struck on what an upstanding man Mike Nelson/Lloyd Bridges is in the series; fair, loyal, hardworking and honest. Truly a great role model and I am proud that he was my inspiration, as he was to a whole generation, to become Scuba Divers, or "Skin Divers" as they were known then.
I used to watch this show on reruns when I was a little boy. The writers then were much better than they are today. They packed a lot of good story in under 30 mins.
I remember this show from my childhood and like bigrich6750 it inspired me to learn to scuba dive. I was diving in the late 1970's and 80s, open water, wreck diving, quarries and even some cave diving. Diving mainly the South coast of the UK but also the Scilly Isles. I firmly believe iy was Lloyd Bridges that gave me the sense of adventure that led me not only to scuba diving but joining the British Army and the adventures I had there.
I'm 73 and still diving (occasionally on vacation), but it was Sea Hunt that got me started. And I'm not the only one of my vintage to be inspired by Sea Hunt and, of course, Jacquea Cousteau.
This is a great first episode. Thanks for posting.
What a way to start a TV series!
Great series! The shows of the 50s and 60s were the best ever on television.
Keylie, thank you for this trip down memory lane! I grew up watching this and other shows like this. Back when you could let your children watch TV and not worry what they might see in a show or even in a commercial. Again, thanks for amassing these seasons for us on RUclips!
New subscriber!
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SEA HUNTS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SERIES LLOYD BRIDGES WAS A GREAT ACTOR AND A GOOD MAN❤
All I can think of is "looks like I picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue".
The aircraft was the short lived Convair F2Y Sea Dart supersonic seaplane. Love how they pronounce Mach as Match in the cockpit voice over. I'll be binge watching this for the next few weeks.
This show and Flipper I never missed. They are why I've loved the ocean, learned to snorkel and then dive, and spend my time trying to get back to the salt water. Thanks for these.
I got my SCUBA license because of this show and its impact on me.
So did I. When I was a kid, I would say "I wanna be a frogman".
I was taken by a shark in 1956 thanks to this show.
It truly was that inspiring
NAUI or PADI License? I was NAUI.
@@USCG.Brennan PADI
"I picked the wrong day to give up glue sniffing!"........Bridges was a class act!
He was. One of my first crushes
..great line..!!!. shows loyd dad a sense of humor..
Close: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue".
Still one of my favourite shows ever. Let's appreciate how solid an actor Lioyd Bridges.was. In technical diving, any dive below 60 feet is considered a deep dive. In the show, Bridges rarely dove below 30 feet but he was a fully certified diver.
Good afternoon Brian. You said; "he was a fully certified diver."
Actually Courtney Brown did ALL the diving on Sea Hunt. Bridges would be filmed diving into the murky waters of Marine Land of California with a perfect, little used, wetsuit
And the next clip would be Courtney Brown in the clear water of Silver Springs Florida in his well worn, scratched, cut wetsuit with the crotch black with wear.
______________________
Close-ups of Bridges underwater were done in a tank at Marine Land in California. Where he was trained by Zale Barry (famous female diver) enough to dive into the water, get out of the water and for the close ups.
Most of the land scenes were in California. While the underwater scenes were in Silver Springs Fla.
Even on the land shots, Bridges tanks were made out of wood.
Like so many of those leaving comments, I watched this program and was both inspired and thrilled. It's hard to remember that scuba diving was VERY new and Mike Nelson sold it. Like many, I certified.
yep i was just a kid but this made me a life long Bridges fan. I also wanted to become a deep sea diver. Never did but always wanted to. Saw this at 65 and same memories came flooding back. Want to become deep sea diver but never will but hey Bridges did it for me.
Underwater communication was quite primitive when "Sea Hunt" was made. Only the characters at the surface can understand what Mike Nelson is telling them. Today there are full face masks with underwater communications systems built in. TV news reporters who have to go underwater to get the story use them all the time. I don't think I ever missed an episode of "Sea Hunt" when I was a youngster. Thanks for uploading the series, Keylie!
My father was a salmon fisherman and abalone diver in the '50s and '60s, and this was his favorite series of all time. He never missed it, so in his memory, thank you very much for the uploads...
+nickellicker What a neat connection! I'm glad you are enjoying the series.
Love that old show! Why I started diving...with Red Cross Rescue Corp & Cleveland Ports & Harbor...late 1960s
Lloyd Bridges was the man of the day. His sons followed in his footsteps, even when he joined the great comedies of our day. It takes humility to go down that road. Ole Leslie led the way.
If Mike can't do it, no man can! Happier days from my young boyhood, even if was more fiction than fact. They don't do scripts & shows like this anymore.
I remember this show better than any show i saw as a child.
GOD we need Mike Nelson now lol. This is why the world is falling to bits! No Mike!😅😅
I was born on 7/13/59 missed this show but there were a lot of family friendly shows like this on the air, not like today.
" children's" TV today...isn't family friendly. No adult could stick watching it with their kids...
I agree 100 percent.
I watched this show when I was young. It was the first time I saw Lloyd Bridges. I'm 72 now and even back then I thought he was a very handsome man. I'm very excited to find it here. I'm very grateful. Thank you RUclips and especially Keylie
When Sea Hunt first aired, it was my very favorite program. It came on later in the evening, around 10:30-11:00 p.m. I was 11 years old and my parents let me stay up to watch it. It was so much different than other t.v. programs at the time... it was like watching an "inner space" movie. And of course it really created interest in scuba diving as well. Great show for the time. Lloyd Bridges had a great acting career that spanned many years. That said, I believe this series is what made him a star with a name that people remembered.
This show was responsible for me getting into diving, getting certified at 14 and even doing it professionally for awhile when I was older. Thank you for bringing back the memories.
He inspired a lot of us when we were young. And a lot of us are still diving in our senior years.
Mike Nelson was my idol. I had to have every piece of equipment he had. I remember trying out my new spear gun down in my friend's basement and accidentally shooting the spear through a can of paint sitting on the shelf. His dad was pissed.
Thanks for the videos and the great memories.
Thanks for posting these vidoes. This was one of the most memorable TV series of my childhood. So exciting. It fueled my imagination for years. I grew up landlocked in the Midwest; but I couldn't wait to get to the ocean, swim beneath it and see all the sights Mike Nelson had shown us. Maybe that's why I wound up in South Florida after college. Been here ever since.
I grew up with this and got into scuba diving because of this show.
Mike Nelson...... No contest..., el mas macho!
Always loved Sea Hunt Lassie Flipper the Lone Ranger Robbing Hood great shows plus more
i was 7 when this came on. like many here, i got my certification because of Mike Nelson. By about age 9, my parents were trying alternative discipline - no more spanking. grounding worked for my brother. Me: "fine, i'll go read". the only thing they ever found that was instantly effective was taking away my beloved Sea Hunt. i was good Instantly. this is the only place i've found to watch this. Danke Chica! You are my Hero!!!
+Shasta Walton You're welcome, and I'm glad you are enjoying the Sea Hunt community.
Silly as it sounds just the theme music to this and Im transported back to my childhood, i loved this show and watched daily during summer vacation, in Carrollton Texas about as far from the Pacific one could be.
ME TOO it captures the mystery and beauty of the deep
MY FAVORITE SHOW TOO....I was about 8 or 9 watching this show...never miss any episodes. Later on as adult I worked at Disney World....I had family of 2 boys myself/ wife. I happen to be at EPCOT and there he was coming out of the WATER ATTRACTION...I got to meet him and shake my HERO's hand. WOW...what a HUGE DEAL that was for me......I feel so LUCKY to have shook his hand. THE BEsT SHOW on besides I love Lucy and the HoneyMooners.
I learned to swim at 35 just to certify as an open water diver and then went on to earn my Divemaster's rating with nine additional specialty certifications. I always wanted to learn to dive as a child because of this show. Funny how many other people posting here did as well thanks to Lloyd Bridges.
Just goes to show you, anytime is a good time to learn something new.
My favorite show as a kid! Inspired my love of the
Ocean and scuba!
Loved it! Sea Hunt was my favorite show in the 1950-1960's and the reason why SCUBA diving and Freediving has been part of my live hood since. Now in my mid 60's I am still active in this wonderful world. Thank you, thank you so much for having these videos in YT. Great work!
Ive been binge watching old shows i grew up watching. The Dick Van Dyke show, Hazel, Flipper, Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, etc...❤
WOW WOW WOW...My favorite show....Years later I actually got to shake hands of my HERO Lloyd Bridges at Epcot ctr at DISNEY WORLD, Orlando, Fl where I worked. I will NEVER FORGET...>and here I am today watching all over again..... THANKS SO MUCH for posting my FAVORITE show back then...I was about 9 yrs old.... I love this. I grew up near Niagara Falls, NY American side....during this time..
Ken
Orlando, Florida, USA
I haven’t seen this series in over sixty years. Thank you for posting it.
This old show is great. It aired before I was born but I do remember the show from when my mother watched it in later years. Scuba diving was relatively new back then and was exciting to watch.
I used to watch seahunt every day after school when i was 14 years old
The older guys in mY SCUBA class talk about this show and I never heard of it. My ham friends talked about it so I looked it up. Super cool show and I am glad to be seeing it.
One of The Best Sea Adventure, I Grew Up Watching This Show They Don't Make Good Shows Like This ! It Is Truly An Iconic Show R.I.P. Lloyd Bridges You' One Of The Best !
I'm 39 yes old and I really agree with probably most people this is one of the best shows I have ever seen.
Loved at the end where Mike would give a message about diving. so cool
Joanie Adams l became a dive master because of Mike nelson
Another ZIV product, Highway Patrol,used the same technique.. Broderick Crawford reminding us .."this weekend,leave your blood at the Red Cross,not on the road"...etc.
Brill Post, I watched these when I was a very small kid. The show inspired me, and I wanted to do this, I joined the Royal Marines at 17 and became a diver, along with other things.
I think I was six years old when I saw part of this episode. We had moved to a new suburb and a new house in 1959/60 and my Father and I saw this on a TV in the local shop window.... the first time we had ever seen TV ! I have had a love of scuba diving and the ocean ever since.
Just thought about this show and so glad I did. Remember watching it when it first aired with my folks every week. Love these old TV shows, they were the greatest. Thank you so much for uploading and bringing back great and wonderful memories.
Shows like this have a certain class. Some of the new shows are good, but older is often better.
Lloyd bridges became a household name thanks to this tv series, sea hunt.
An ex UDT working with a civilian aquarium and Coast Guard Auxiliary. Mike Nelson was the best.
I still am the best, and thank you! 😂
favorite tv series with one of my top 20 favorite actors, good stuff huh!
My favorite TV show when I was a child. Tuesday nights. I always looked forward to Tuesdays.
Got open water certified with my dad recently and all he would talk about was Sea Hunt. Now I see why, this guy is a hard ass.
I loved this show as a kid, ended doing a lot of diving mostly recreational but some commercial. It was “Sea Hunt” that started all of that
How did I forget that I never missed this show when I was a kid. This episode was gripping
You got an underwater problem ? . . Well here I am , I'm your man . . . the name . . . Nelson , MIKE NELSON ! I can find anything underwater . . ." And there it was " ! Brilliance . . sheer Brilliance !
I love this 30 minute show. I wish they still made 30 min. dramas.
I wish they still made good TV shows of any length! 😂
great show rip Lloyd Bridges
"It's go time"..Seinfeld
I remember this show as a youngster, great family entertainment, grateful I can still watch these shows........ Jim.
I wasn't even four years old when this episode first aired. But I remember seeing a rerun of it. Sea Hunt was fascinating to me as a child. For a few years, after watching this show faithfully, I dreamt of being a scuba diver or US Navy Frogman. Nothing came of my early dreams. But I do remember Lloyd Bridges, the theme music for Sea Hunt, the the many adventures of the heroic Mike Nelson. Great early TV.
I was young when I started watching this, don't know just how young... good acting I think... thank you for posting this series.
watched this show since i was 4 years old, these are great!! thanks for the great collection
The episode was only thirty minutes long, because in those days a full Nelson was considered an illegal move.
Best underwater adventure series , only drawback , not in color .
hy was I fascinated with this show??This was closest I ever came to knowing what was in the Deep Sea!! I had swimming lessons but never learned to swim!!! Happy to see this show is on RUclips!!!
I miss marineland!
Became a scuba diver, Mike Nelson inspired me.
Thank you! This show is only on a channel received via digital antenna at 4am in the morning. No more getting up early.
timothy riley You are welcome! I don't like getting up that early either!
I can remember watching this around 3 or 4 years old, 1964, thanks for posting these!
Loved this show. I finally got SCUBA certified in England and California. 👍🏾
I got my Scuba certificate because of Sea Hunt. I even trained on a double hosed regulator, and I still use one!
So did I. I still have my double hosed regulator too. We called the other "cheap regulators". Now they are standard.
You can really see how much Jeff looks like his dad in that opening shot where Lloyd is looking down, but Beau really has his dad's eyes
never saw a test pilot wear tennis shoes......1st year ,episode 1, fantastic, was my favorite show as a kid....cheers
omg that music is so nostalgic!
The music was great loved it too!
I was about 6 when started watching this series here in Chile in 1964 or 65. It was a family must see show in that era, when we had just two channels to choose from. By the way, the name of the show in Spanish was "El Investigador Submarino" ("The Submarine resarcher"). These translations have some oddities here and there...
I was about 4 or 5. We lived in Rendondo. My parents scuba dove around P.V. cove then. I got to go out on one of those "floaty rafts" with a mask and watch them down there. We would see the Sea Hunt boat out there numerous times. We also visited Marine Land many times..
This show so good!
thanks much for loading these
I like the 'you are there' narration. 'This story would make the national headlines'... They didn't have to add that. It just made it more intimate, and real.
I got my NAUI RATING AT AGE 13 in 1966. This show was the reason.
Lloyd Bridges.
Nuff Said. 😶
great show...let the memories flow!
I watched that Saturdays at the age of nine. Got me a bit on edge. Thank you, KWWL-TV.
Good ol' Channel 7, I remember it well, grew up in Waterloo.
One of my favorite shows when I was growing up.
THANK YOU SIR LOVE SEA HUNT
im 50 years old I d never seen this show when i was young the 1st time I seen seahunt its been my favorite show every Scent's then....jimmy kennon
I grew up watching this show, and I loved it. I later had the opportunity when I was stationed overseas with the Air Force to join a base scuba club and learn how to dive. I did a few before I was transferred to another base. Unfortunately a situation happened where I never got my certification. I love diving and wish I could get certified and do it again.
What is preventing you from going to the local dive shop and getting certified? You don't have to go 100 feet; plenty to look at 1, 20, 30 feet deep! There is an organization SNSI (Scuba Nitrox Safety International) that has their entire training on RUclips if you want to watch. There are only 2 SNSI shops in the US, both in Miami, so you would have to use another organization to actually get certified. SSI, NAUI, SDI, and if you have to, PADI. Most shops have a Try Scuba class where you can get in the pool with an instructor and try it out.
@@zaphod9977 That was over 40 years ago, and there isn't much water where I live now. I did work in a dive pro shop for a while years ago, but at the time I didn't have the money to take the classes again. The job only paid minimum wage and just making enough to pay my rent was tough.
I have to add, that I'm currently retired, disabled and wheelchair bound. I also live on a fixed income that doesn't give me much money to spend on things like diving. I wish it did.
Wow! I delighted I discovered this old show. When I was in the Sea Scouts we had one of those boats. 63' Aviation Rescue Boat or AVR for short. Sweet!! :-)
Thanks so much for these.
I love this show. I watched it when I was a kid -- a million years ago.
As a Mike Nelson, I'm finally watching this
Been wanting to watch this show for so long but was unable to find any place to do so. Thank you!!!!!!!!
Devilfish73 Thank you! I'm glad you and everyone enjoys them.
Wow! Can you imagine a show nowadays with 39 episodes per season.? With with rehearsals camera set up and under underwater time I'm surprised Lloyd Bridges had time for a family.
We have had the pleasure to watch this movies in germany's Tv as well, at the began of the 1960th
Watching Alec Peirce Scuba brought me here. :D
Loved, Mr. Bridges, Navy stunts, sayings, in "Hot Shots", 1 &2, He would have made a , GREAT President !