Why SEA HUNT Was CANCELED After 4 HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SEASONS
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- SEA HUNT was a show that ran for 4 highly successful seasons. It had great ratings but was canceled after the fourth season. In this video, I'll tell you what happened to SEA HUNT and why it was canceled-.
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In the 1960's. I was mesmerized by Sea Hunt. It led me in my teenage years to get my Faui "c" card, then go on to become a divemaster and to dive some of the best diving in the world. As a kid, I would watch Sea Hunt with a diving mask on, Toy Tanks, I mean, I was what you would call "crazy", All this thanks to Lloyd Bridges and Sea Hunt. At 64, I still dive today. Thanks for presenting.
My brother used to put a belt in his mouth and dive under the coffee table ! Good Times !
That's NAUI.
I learned that the aqualung was invented by Jacques Cousteau.
@@wdd3141 I think the problem that needed to be overcome was a practical regulator that automatically worked at any depth and was very reliable.
The big hose system you see on Sea Hunt illustrates the solution: the breath out side was also pressurized to match the breath-in side. The big hose goes all the way around with the mouthpiece in the middle.
Modern systems use a small secondary regulator at the end of a (single) thin hose. Though I wish the bubbles didn't come out right in my face.
@@garymattscheck9066 No, it's FAUI in Baz's case: Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors. The world is bigger than just the USA, you know.
Growing up, my dad was one of the early SCUBA divers in California, diving before I was born in 1954. He had his dry suit in the garage in an old wooden dresser with other older dive gear. I'm currently watching Sea Hunt here on RUclips, and it reminds me of my dad in every episode. He taught me and my brother to skin dive as soon as we could swim, and waited until we were around 12yo to teach us to SCUBA dive. He was a master abalone diver, taking my brother and I along with him. It's a real art to finding and leveraging off an abalone, an art I never really mastered, mainly because I was extremely near-sighted and couldn't see well underwater without my thick glasses. The three of us would go ab diving, my dad would have an ab for me when I went underwater and hand it to me so I could come up with it and put it in my bag, so if there was a game warden watching us from the shore he wouldn't know my dad was getting all three of our limits of abalone for the day. Great memories, thanks for posting this video, I had wondered why Sea Hunt was cancelled.
I loved watching this series growing up in the ‘50s. Mike was always in situations where something could “blow us all to kingdom come”. He was a great problem solver, all around hero, and terrific role model.
One of my favorite programs as a kid!
I loved sea hunt ...great series!
Shutting down with no good programs is still a great idea. Just what we need, overpaid night talk shows and infomercials. Give me the test pattern anyday.
My Dad loved this show, and anything Dad loved, I loved too.
I also grew up in the 60's and at that time, there wasn't a male child worth his salt who didn't carry a pocket knife and rush home to watch Sea Hunt reruns .......I still remember jumping off the School bus like a paratrooper and running in the house to be in time to catch the beginning of the show at 4pm.....
It was one of the final frontiers.
As a dedicated Sea Hunt fanatic who never missed an episode (starting at age 6 - now age 69, still go snorkeling w/mask & flippers - thank you Mike Nelson)) who still has a compelling interest in the series, the eclipse of independent producers like Mr. Ziv's company is only part of the story. Ziv knew he could get a couple more years out of a golden property like Sea Hunt - the ratings held up strongly. A secondary factor was Mr. Bridges' desire to beyond the existing "chase" format of the show (and many other Ziv productions). Lloyd bridges thought they were repeating themselves too much. With all the time spent in different locales, Lloyd realized the problems of ocean pollution, etc., especially by oil & chemical companies of the time. He thought the show should address these things. With so many of these companies being network sponsors, Ziv could see big trouble ahead. So w/a changing market and a somewhat unwilling star, the writing was on the wall so a series was cancelled while still popular. It was a series of things. Lloyd Bridges & Gene Roddenberry had done some good work together in the past - it's a shame Mr. Bridges turned down the Captain Kirk role on Star Trek. Not to take anything away from William Shatner - Shatner's an excellent, talented actor, but he didn't really understand or believe in science fiction at the time, and his ego often got in the way. Put in Lloyd Bridges, who loved working in acting, especially w/others (he personally welcomed new actors to the show each week, and would offer his hand to shake and say "Hi, I'm Lloyd Bridges, welcome to the show"), and who understood what being on a crew was like from his Coast Guard experiences - what a captain he would have made. Factor in his experience w/Sea Hunt, w/an educated understanding of working in an alien environment (working underwater and working in space have many similarities), and Star Trek could have been an even better show with even more depth to it. I bet w/ Lloyd Bridges at the helm, that series would've had a larger following and a longer run. Sorry we missed it.
I don't think he really said why Sea Hunt was cancelled.
You're right, he didn't. He said something vague about a dwindling market for first-run syndicated programs, but that isn't very explanatory. In the case of Sea Hunt, everything I have read said that Lloyd Bridges wanted to move on after the third season, when his contract expired, but agreed to do one more season if there were more "environmentally focused" episodes and not just catching criminals and spies.
The cabinetry in the Argonaut, was built for Trojan Boats, of Paradise, and Lancaster, PA, by the cabinetmaker who was our neighbor. I remember him working with Teak and Mahogany much of the time, as they were not his only customers.
Many early independent stations started out as part of the Dumont Network, that first 'fourth' network. When Dumont closed shop in 1955, ZIV became a major program supplier to those and other channels, and help jump start the first-run syndication wave in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
ZIV/ UNITED ARTISTS.
In NYC, Sea Hunt aired on WCBS-2, the CBS flagship and for a time on WABC-7, the ABC flagship. It aired on Saturday night, so I was able to watch it.
I loved this show too from the start. I didn't know Lloyd Bridges was offered the role of Captain Kirk on Star Trek. I wonder why he turned it down. He would have been great for the part.
Guess who the role of Spock almost went to? Of all the interviewees it was narrowed down to two and according to the producers and directors it could have gone either way. One was Nimoy and the other.......George Lindsey.
@@bobwallace9814 Wait! What?! Spock was almost played by..... Goober? WOW!!!
Well, it sounds like he was offered the Jeffrey Hunter role in The Cage, not Shatner's.
Communists can't see the big picture.
@@glassontherocks
More accurate to say, communists can't see the small picture....
In a word, Mike Nelson had (and continues to have) a tremendous influence on my life. I learned more about life and how to live in the real world from watching Sea Hunt (and I truly mean that) than I ever did from my parents. Mike taught me loyalty to friends and family, a sense of empathy, a strong work ethic, and not leaving until the job is done. And yes, wanting to at least try scuba diving is something I’ve wanted to do since I was 5 years old (I’m 62 now), and it’s still on my bucket list.
We were just at the infancy of Marine Biology and Research. I loved Mike as a little girl he was one of my first crushes. I dreamed of seeing the ocean one day as I was a land locked midwestern girl. I especially LOVED the Sea Hunt theme. Just hearing it transports me.
Loved Sea Hunt as a kid, didn't grow up to be a Skin Diver, but I joined the Navy, did some surfing, and completed in so Triathlons, so I guess Sea Hunt made me love the Sea.🐳🏊♂️🙂👍
My cousin and I as 10 year olds used to have Sea Hunt fights in the swimming pool, complete with rubber knives. Great times!
Mr. Bridges Senior is my favorite actor. I recently went online and purchased a color photo of Mr. B. as Mike Nelson, a "Sea Hunt" novel for young readers, AND licensed Sea Hunt comic books from Dell. I also enjoy Sea Hunt online and on DVD.
It's still on TV where I live, but at an obscene time like 3 or 4 a.m., right after Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford. Both ZIV productions
I loved this show and Zorro.
I was all of 10 years old and it only took one episode to hook me on Sea Hunt like a big mackerel! I would sit in my school classroom drawing pictures of frogmen with their SCUBA tanks bubbling away. Most divers used one tank, occasionally you would see someone using two tanks, but on one episode there was a diver actually using a cluster of three tanks, it was so cool I almost couldn’t stand it! That was one great show!
I loved shows like Sea Hunt and was really "Bummed out" when it was cancelled. Being a kid living out in the country we had to watch the three major networks (not counting PBS which sucked as far as kids shows back then) and even had to mount a huge rotating antenna about 25 feet above the house just to see them clearly! So once all of these shows were cancelled and went into syndication the only time I got to see them again was sometimes on Saturday or Sunday but then they would get shuffled around and eventually taken off the air for several years. Now that cable is available I have paid extra on my cable bill just so I can get certain channels and watch all of the old westerns and sci-fi and action shows that I loved as a kid!
I always loved and watched "Sea Hunt" with Lloyd Bridges. We lived in Malibu, right across the street fromTed's Rancho Restaurant at the beach on PCH.
Sea Hunt was my motivation to become a certified diver.
PADI here.
It was my favorite show to watch on a regular basis. I hated it when it stopped.
I loved Sea Hunt! I had a Sea Hunt lunch box in fourth grade.
Great end credit music. Haunting.
Sea Hunt was so influential on my life. I became a diver, took all of the PADI Certs. Became a USMC Force Recon Combatant Diver and eventually teamed up with a former Navy SEAL to do commercial U/W assignments. All of this from the influence of Mike Nelson. I try not to think about how much more successful I could have been without SeaHunt
awesome! love hearing these stories. I loved everything about the series especially the theme.
I thought it was a wonderful show to. I always enjoyed those water adventures.🖒
The Sea Hunt series helped take away my fear of deep water (mostly). I enjoyed snorkeling and viewing the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, where I live.
I watched all the episodes twice a few months ago. Upon researching the history of the show I learned more about the details and ultimate cancellation. Bad decision to cancel, in my view. I would like to have seen more Sea Hunt. Good vid. Keep at it!
I had no idea that Mr. Bridges was affiliated with a Commie organization. Rather disappointing.
Because of Loyd Bridges and Sea Hunt, I got my NASDS and NAUI dive cards in 1965 as a 12 year old. My first deep water dive was at Catalina Island.
At 1:30 to 2:00, referencing to stations going off the air at night, I wonder, how many people younger than myself (I'm 64) have never seen a test pattern or the "High Flight" video at sign-off? From Cheech & Chong, "hey, man, what are you watching?". "Oh man, it's a movie about Indians, but it's really boring". "Man, that's not a movie, man, thats a test pattern, man!".
Born in 1949 I was 8 when SH came out. Living in Boston, It used to come on at 10pm on a weeknight I forget what day but I had to bribe my mom to let me stay up to watch it being a school night.
As a kid, the stories seemed so real but as grown up you can see how unrealistic the really were. I still enjoy them today as it brings me back to the amazing 50’s when America was really America unlike today. So sad for my grandchildren not to know how great being a kid was in those wonderful years. I hate what the country has become.
RIP Mike Nelson (LB).
Note: I did become a diver at age 14 and eventually became a PADI instructor at 21 in Florida.
I remember this show being on really early on Saturday and Sunday mornings when I lived in Virginia in the early 70s. Always enjoyed it, in its what I always identify Lloyd Bridges with.
What part of Virgnia.
@@shinjaokinawa5122 Newport News
ZIV productions was such a major contribitor to the TV market in the late 1950's and early 1960's. I would like to see a more in depth video on the subject. Thanks to "Rerun Zone" for the shout out of "ZIV" they were such a pioneer in the early days of TV series production.
Sea Hunt was cancelled because Lloyd Bridges changed careers and went into air traffic control, you remember ‘Airplane’!
Black & White TV made us think and imagine more than the HD, Hi Res 5.1 shows of today. A trip to the movie theater was really something. Seeing an actor in person was never disappointing. The world changed.....
It's also worth recalling that, early on in his movie career, Lloyd Bridges was the opposite of Mike Nelson, as he (convincingly) played sneering hoodlums and gangsters.
I wanted to be like Mike Nelson since I was 3 yrs old. By 14 yrs old, I was PADI certified, diving Catalina Island. Later on, I worked for ScubaPro in pursuit of this idea. However, the cast of twits there turned the stay into a sickening circus. Three years ago, I finally acquired a set of twin 38's and a double hose regulator. The coroney baloney scamdemic wrecked my ability to book any boat dives to fulfill my childhood dream. Still working on it. Is high on the bucket list. When I finally get to dive my vintage gear, I plan to bring a watertight MP3 player loaded with the Sea Hunt theme music to play during the dive.
I'm with you Rerun. I loved "Sea Hunt", and when I saw the episodes later (being a little older), I noticed that the women featured were very pretty. My favorite episode shows the Grumman Goose seaplane that made the San Pedro/Avalon run.
I don’t believe I’ve ever caught an episode of See hunt. The only underwater series I remember when I was a kid was voyage to the bottom of the Sea which I truly did enjoy and watch pretty much every episode of. I’m gonna have to try to find sea hunt and check it out. Still shocked I missed it, I loved all those far-fetched TV shows of the day like land of the Giants, Star Trek lost in space stuff like that. By the way because if you did a video of some of those shows. Thanks for the video.
If you get on Amazon or eBay, pretty sure you can buy Sea Hunt on DVD. Or watch it online. Hope you enjoy the show.
Better get on it!
I loved Sea Hunt as a child.
Sea Hunt was a great adventure series. And to think Lloyd Bridges did a comedic turn as one of the Mandelbaum boys in an episode of Seinfeld.
It's too bad what happened to many shows like Sea Hunt. Have gun Will travel, and many more. People today seem to want to watch shows about thousand pound sisters getting along. That makes me want to puke. People living together in a house and bitching about each other. That makes me want to puke too. And thirdly people that can't find other people to be around and date like they can't figure out what's going on. That makes me want to puke too. The worst thing that happened to us is that TV runs 24 hours a day. There isn't anybody that can come up with a decent show anymore. And that makes me want to cry. I'm losing way too much fluids here. Got to hydrate. God bless America
Because the Sea Hunt theme creeped me out, I couldn't watch the show until adulthood. Now I 💕 it and watch it on DVD. Wish I could have met Lloyd Bridges. He is one of my favorite actors. And if he had played Captain Kirk, I might be able to watch Star Trek. What a Handsome Hottie! Rowr Rowr!
In the 70s, I watched this and used my GI Joe SCUBA diver with sea sled to reenact every episode
Lloyd didn’t follow the US Navy Dive Tables closely enough…..that’s why…
Seahunt was my show as a sickly little kid.
I love that show as a kid still like it I haven’t seen it in years now. Going to search it out and watch A few episodes again now
Used to watch Sea Hunt all the time. Great stuff.
Well, we still don't know why it was cancelled.
During the Laughing Gas Craze of the Mid 70s, Lloyd can be attributed to the Phrase “Don’t Lloyd the Tank”
A parallel to “Don’t Bogart that Joint”..Cheers
Agreed with you 100% until "JAWS" came out! Haven't been in salt water since 1975.
The Real Mike Nelson will always be the MST3K and Rifftrax guy. The Other Mike Nelson is Lloyd Bridges, whose show Sea Hunt went downhill quite a bit later on when they started doing more and more international espionage plots compared to the generally more grounded stories earlier on.
I liked them.
As a young child I watch Sea Hunt every time it came on. I wanted to be a scuba diver but I had to take swimming lessons. My mother registered need for swimming lessons. When they have free sessions I would go underwater hold my breath in 10 I was Mike Nelson. That was unusual for a young girl. Especially a young black girl. I took swimming lessons never did become a scuba diver but it was because of Sea Hunt that I learn to swim and also by the integrated I didn't know that till later a swimming pool
I loved watching this show as a kid. Hi sons went on to be even bigger stars.
Sea Hunt brings back a lot of great memories of growing up in the 60's
Maybe Sea Hunt was more popular in the east. I don't remember it ever being in syndication in my area. I'm 63 and the first time I ever saw it was about a year ago on one of the new retro TV channels. They aired Flipper right after it. And then the new adventures of Flipper. Then the NEW new adventures of Flipper.
Then Flipper Does Dallas.
I liked that show, I also liked Flipper and the Adams family and Hawaii five-O, etc. All that's on now is crap.
I took up scuba diving because of Sea Hunt.
Same here.
I loved that show as a kid.
When I Retire I'm Gonna Get Sea Hunt on DVD and Be a 1960s Kid Again. (smile)
It was a truely great show! Watched it every week!
Very good information 👌 great job
Do yo7 remember a show called(I think) Shamus,early '70's in New Zealand.He had perry submarine Shark hunter?
That got me interested in diving.
Wow I wish they still played the national anthem at the crack of dawn mid day and at midnight
When I first learned about this show as a kid in about second grade, lots of boys talked about the show with great enthusiasm, but no one called it by its name, "Sea Hunt". Instead, they called it "Mike Nelson", and would say things like, "I'm going to watch Mike Nelson when I get home", or "did you guys see Mike Nelson yesterday?" I don't think most of us even understood at that age that Mike Nelson was a fictional character at all.
Mike Nelson? Me, too.
Nope, never a desire to dive. In the Marines we had to do survival test in the ocean on our way to S E Asia (Nam for you youngsters) and I hated it. But I liked this show.
I really liked that show! 🙂😉😀😄😊👍🏻
I loved that show. It got a bit scary.
Saying you want to be like Mike Nelson means a VERY different thing now than it did then, apparently. :-)
It does? How?
@@alcoholic2412 it means you want to sit around and watch bad movies with plastic puppet robots nkw.
I had no idea what his name was or who his sons were but def know his face.
The Nelsons never forgave the youngest brother, Tony, for joining the Air Force and becoming an astronaut.
😂😹
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit binge watching on RUclips.
I started watching this video but couldn’t finish it because I picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue lol 😂 thank you Mr Bridges 🙏🙏🙏
Caused me to learn SCUBA in 1975 and I still dive today.
I learned to SCUBA in the mid 70's from the three J's at Stillwell Field House in Fort Buckner Okinawa. I was not Military at the time. I learned because of Sea Hunt also.
@@shinjaokinawa5122 I learned at the Post pool with an MWR instructor at Fort Lewis, Washington.
@@larryfromwisconsin9970 Cool
And remember...
Never dive alone.
2008 tv really just fell off at that point
Great show
I loved Sea Hunt.
The show that inspired the creation of Aquaman
when they could write 'stories'
I was class of 1963, like you I was inthralled with the adventures of Mike Nelson. Lloyd Bridges was a great actor. I saw him in a western, I think he was the heavy. Thanks for the memory.
You did, it was High Noon. And he was a heavy.
Looks like this was a bad time to cancel Sea Hunt.
i wanted to grow up to be mike nelson and now i wanna grow up to be the dude
Why the big air hoses when the more modern ones were available?
That was the technology of the day. Regulators with diaphragm first stages and a feed and return hose with the exhaust coming out behind the head. Downstream piston regulators weren't far behind though.
@@doggovision8765 I get that but I seem to recall the other type used by othr divers in the same episodes...I could be wrong tho' and there was another show bout divers around the same time..
The new single hoses are an Australian invention. On TV, they were first used in the series "The Aquanauts".
Cost to much for color.
awesome
Loved the show but the music was horrible
Yeah, the theme kept me from watching it until I was an adult.
Who is that kid two minutes in?
That's a young Jeff Bridges. Both of Lloyd's boys, Jeff and Beau, appeared in episodes of Sea Hunt.
This was my first MALE CRUSH AS A YOUNG BOY WHO GREW UP TO BE GAY..BOB IN CINCINNATI OHIO
Old stool pigeon.
Downvoted because of clickbait title.
It was boring. T.V. changed.
I never missed an episode I’m pretty sure. I was completely enthralled with Mike Nelson!
I really loved this show, Hubert. I watched it faithfully when it was on.
I loved Sea Hunt.
Growing up in Florida, I wanted to like this show. My dad certainly liked it, and watched it all the time. I liked the later show Flipper, but watch reruns of this show made me understand why it was and still is, one of my dad's favs.
Blub blub blub......blub blub blub.....loved those sound effects!