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#1 - Prima Donna
Season 3 Episode 36 - Aired 9/10/1960
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#2 - Expedition
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 4/8/1961
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: Mary C. McCall, Jr.
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#3 - The Dancer
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1961
A scuba diving ballerina faces the possibility of underwater amputation when she catches her foot between the buckled plates of a sunken freighter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1030 votesLoading...
#4 - Murder at 60 Feet
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/1959
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Underwater Beacon
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 7/9/1960
While helping to test a friend's underwater radio device, Mike discovers a submerged radio beacon, camouflaged and guarded by an electric gun.
Director: Franklin Adreon
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1025 votesLoading...
#6 - The Sea Has Ears
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 9/27/1958
The murder of a telephone company employee leads Mike to an underwater cable that is being tapped to access top-secret research Conferences.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#7 - Strong Box
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/1960
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Man Overboard
Season 3 Episode 39 - Aired 10/1/1960
Mike responds to a ""man overboard"" situation, but an extensive search turns up no victim.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#9 - Mercy Trip
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/1961
Mike scouts a path through mine-infested waters so that medical supplies can reach a China Sea port hit by a cholera epidemic.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1035 votesLoading...
#10 - Gold Below
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/1958
A pair of ruthless treasure hunters dupes a young skin diver into helping them loot a sunken ship.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: Gene Levitt
- 8.4/1027 votesLoading...
#11 - Hardhat
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/12/1958
Mike competes with a pair of helmet divers to salvage a German submarine sunk off the coast of South America.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Monte Cristo
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/1959
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#13 - Diving for the Moon
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/1959
Mike and a group of astronauts-in-training are stranded on the seabed when a hurricane blows their boat away.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: Lee Erwin
- 8.4/1023 votesLoading...
#14 - The Search
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/1959
Mike comes to the rescue of a scuba diver who has been trapped in a kelp bed while spear fishing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1023 votesLoading...
#15 - Hermes
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/10/1959
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#16 - Base of Operations
Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 9/13/1959
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#17 - The Missing Link
Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 8/20/1960
A scientific society hires Mike to obtain fossil samples from a newly-discovered underwater cavern for the purpose of authentication.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Rescue
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/1961
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#19 - The Defector
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/1961
A man bribes Mike to continue giving lessons to an inept diving student whom he's stopped teaching.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1064 votesLoading...
#20 - Sixty Feet Below
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1958
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.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1020 votesLoading...
#21 - Air Pockets
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/1959
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: Lee Erwin
- 8.3/1016 votesLoading...
#22 - The Fearmakers
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 3/26/1960
In preparation for the visit of a foreign head of state, Mike helps the Coast Guard do a security check on the area.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1015 votesLoading...
#23 - Revolutionary Spoils
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/2/1960
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.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#24 - The Cellini Vase
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/28/1960
Mike becomes suspicious when his hired dive on a Spanish galleon yields a rare art treasure.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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#25 - Diplomatic Pouch
Season 3 Episode 38 - Aired 9/24/1960
Mike tries to outmaneuver a foreign harbormaster as he attempts to retrieve a diplomatic pouch from an airliner that crashed into the sea.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
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!
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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".