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The Best Episodes of Sea Hunt

Every episode of Sea Hunt ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Sea Hunt!

The Best Episodes of Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The...

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  1. 8.8/10(19 votes)

    #1 - Prima Donna

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    S3:E36

    Another movie company using Mike as an advisor needs his help when a planned torpedo blast traps the star and a Hollywood columnist onboard a sinking ship.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.8/10(18 votes)

    #2 - Expedition

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    S4:E14

    While helping his former history professor search for pirate treasure off the North Carolina coast, Mike finds evidence that the underwater cave said to house the treasure has been tampered with.

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    Director:Leon Benson
  3. 8.7/10(18 votes)

    #3 - The Dancer

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    S4:E5

    A scuba diving ballerina faces the possibility of underwater amputation when she catches her foot between the buckled plates of a sunken freighter.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.6/10(17 votes)

    #4 - Underwater Beacon

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    S3:E27

    While helping to test a friend's underwater radio device, Mike discovers a submerged radio beacon, camouflaged and guarded by an electric gun.

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    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.5/10(25 votes)

    #5 - The Sea Has Ears

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    S1:E38

    The murder of a telephone company employee leads Mike to an underwater cable that is being tapped to access top-secret research Conferences.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.5/10(31 votes)

    #6 - Murder at 60 Feet

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    S2:E10

    A man planning to murder his wife hires Mike to teach her to scuba dive so that he may lure her into a dangerous underwater current.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.5/10(17 votes)

    #7 - Strong Box

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    S3:E11

    Mike leads the way in a salvage operation to recover more than a million dollars' worth of gems from the captain's safe of a sunken ship.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.5/10(17 votes)

    #8 - Man Overboard

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    S3:E39

    Mike responds to a ""man overboard"" situation, but an extensive search turns up no victim.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  10. 8.5/10(17 votes)

    #9 - Mercy Trip

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    S4:E8

    Mike scouts a path through mine-infested waters so that medical supplies can reach a China Sea port hit by a cholera epidemic.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  11. 8.4/10(35 votes)

    #10 - Gold Below

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    S1:E9

    A pair of ruthless treasure hunters dupes a young skin diver into helping them loot a sunken ship.

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    Director:Leon Benson
  12. 8.4/10(27 votes)

    #11 - Hardhat

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    S1:E14

    Mike competes with a pair of helmet divers to salvage a German submarine sunk off the coast of South America.

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  13. 8.4/10(24 votes)

    #12 - Monte Cristo

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    S2:E5

    As consultant on a remake of The Count of Monte Cristo, Mike finds that the emotions of the star and his stand-in may lead to disaster in the execution of a stunt.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  14. 8.4/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Diving for the Moon

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    S2:E7

    Mike and a group of astronauts-in-training are stranded on the seabed when a hurricane blows their boat away.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Lee Erwin
  15. 8.4/10(23 votes)

    #14 - The Search

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    S2:E8

    Mike comes to the rescue of a scuba diver who has been trapped in a kelp bed while spear fishing.

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    Director:N/A
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  16. 8.4/10(23 votes)

    #15 - Hermes

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    S2:E19

    A Greek sponge diver and his pretty girlfriend lay a minefield for Mike, fearful that he will interfere with their discovery of a valuable statue on the Mediterranean seabed.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  17. 8.4/10(17 votes)

    #16 - Base of Operations

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    S2:E37

    A husband and wife team of photojournalists ignore Mike's warnings about diving on a sunken ocean liner and are imperiled by the pressures of the deep.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  18. 8.4/10(18 votes)

    #17 - The Missing Link

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    S3:E33

    A scientific society hires Mike to obtain fossil samples from a newly-discovered underwater cavern for the purpose of authentication.

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  19. 8.4/10(21 votes)

    #18 - Rescue

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    S4:E7

    Unaware that two of his treasure-hunting friends are trapped inside, Mike sets charges to blow up a sunken ship that is a menace to a busy shipping lane.

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  20. 8.4/10(19 votes)

    #19 - The Defector

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    S4:E16

    A man bribes Mike to continue giving lessons to an inept diving student whom he's stopped teaching.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  21. 8.3/10(67 votes)

    #20 - Sixty Feet Below

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    S1:E1

    Mike tries to free the pilot of a downed jet from his watertight cockpit before his air runs out, without causing the man's death from the water pressure.

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  22. 8.3/10(20 votes)

    #21 - Air Pockets

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    S2:E11

    Mike is hired to dive on a sunken freighter in New York Harbor in the hopes that some crew members may still be alive in air pockets.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Lee Erwin
  23. 8.3/10(16 votes)

    #22 - The Fearmakers

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    S3:E12

    In preparation for the visit of a foreign head of state, Mike helps the Coast Guard do a security check on the area.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  24. 8.3/10(15 votes)

    #23 - Revolutionary Spoils

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    S3:E13

    A new revolutionary leader asks Mike to help him retrieve his country's hidden gold reserves, believed to have been hidden aboard a scuttled freighter by the ousted former dictator.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  25. 8.3/10(17 votes)

    #24 - The Cellini Vase

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    S3:E21

    Mike becomes suspicious when his hired dive on a Spanish galleon yields a rare art treasure.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  26. 8.3/10(19 votes)

    #25 - Diplomatic Pouch

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    S3:E38

    Mike tries to outmaneuver a foreign harbormaster as he attempts to retrieve a diplomatic pouch from an airliner that crashed into the sea.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"Prima Donna" is the best rated episode of "Sea Hunt". It scored 8.8/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by Leon Benson and written by N/A, it aired on 9/10/1960. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Expedition".