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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!

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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 series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Sea Hunt Season 1 Episode 38 - The Sea Has Ears
    8.5/10(27 votes)

    #1 - The Sea Has Ears

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Sea Hunt Season 2 Episode 37 - Base of Operations
    8.5/10(20 votes)

    #2 - Base of Operations

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Sea Hunt Season 4 Episode 5 - The Dancer
    8.5/10(22 votes)

    #3 - The Dancer

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Sea Hunt Season 1 Episode 9 - Gold Below
    8.4/10(38 votes)

    #4 - Gold Below

    S1:E9

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

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Gene Levitt

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  5. Sea Hunt Season 1 Episode 14 - Hardhat
    8.4/10(32 votes)

    #5 - Hardhat

    S1:E14

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Sea Hunt Season 2 Episode 7 - Diving for the Moon
    8.4/10(24 votes)

    #6 - Diving for the Moon

    S2:E7

    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

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  7. Sea Hunt Season 3 Episode 11 - Strong Box
    8.4/10(20 votes)

    #7 - Strong Box

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Sea Hunt Season 3 Episode 36 - Prima Donna
    8.4/10(24 votes)

    #8 - Prima Donna

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Sea Hunt Season 1 Episode 1 - Sixty Feet Below
    8.3/10(81 votes)

    #9 - Sixty Feet Below

    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.

    Director:Felix E. Feist
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Sea Hunt Season 2 Episode 11 - Air Pockets
    8.3/10(23 votes)

    #10 - Air Pockets

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Lee Erwin

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  11. Sea Hunt Season 3 Episode 12 - The Fearmakers
    8.3/10(20 votes)

    #11 - The Fearmakers

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Sea Hunt Season 3 Episode 33 - The Missing Link
    8.3/10(22 votes)

    #12 - The Missing Link

    S3:E33

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Sea Hunt Season 3 Episode 38 - Diplomatic Pouch
    8.3/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Diplomatic Pouch

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Sea Hunt Season 4 Episode 7 - Rescue
    8.3/10(24 votes)

    #14 - Rescue

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Sea Hunt Season 4 Episode 21 - Quicksand
    8.3/10(20 votes)

    #15 - Quicksand

    S4:E21

    One salvage diver disappears while diving on a sunken yacht off the coast of Yucatan, and Mike tries to see that two others don't share his fate.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Sea Hunt Season 1 Episode 16 - The Poacher
    8.2/10(31 votes)

    #16 - The Poacher

    S1:E16

    Mike is nearly killed by a massive electrical jolt used by a poacher to kill fish in the Florida Everglades.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Sea Hunt Season 2 Episode 34 - Chained
    8.2/10(20 votes)

    #17 - Chained

    S2:E34

    Mike stands by to assist an undercover man in his assignment to infiltrate an illegal alien-smuggling ring.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Sea Hunt Season 3 Episode 13 - Revolutionary Spoils
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    #18 - Revolutionary Spoils

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Sea Hunt Season 3 Episode 39 - Man Overboard
    8.2/10(21 votes)

    #19 - Man Overboard

    S3:E39

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Sea Hunt Season 4 Episode 1 - Point of No Return
    8.2/10(30 votes)

    #20 - Point of No Return

    S4:E1

    Mike is trapped in a ""scubasphere"" when the cable attached to it snaps.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Sea Hunt Season 4 Episode 10 - Sonar Story
    8.2/10(23 votes)

    #21 - Sonar Story

    S4:E10

    Mike uses sonar to foil a gang of underwater heroin smugglers.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Sea Hunt Season 4 Episode 28 - Sunken Car
    8.2/10(23 votes)

    #22 - Sunken Car

    S4:E28

    A sunken truck points Mike to the murder of a political boss, and the killer is the father of a good friend of Mike's.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Sea Hunt Season 1 Episode 19 - Diamond River
    8.1/10(29 votes)

    #23 - Diamond River

    S1:E19

    Mike supervises a diamond diving expedition in South America, but discovers that his employers are poaching on someone else's property.

    Director:John Florea
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Sea Hunt Season 2 Episode 2 - Operation Greenback
    8.1/10(27 votes)

    #24 - Operation Greenback

    S2:E2

    Mike unwittingly shares his explosives expertise with an old navy buddy who is planning an underwater bank heist.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Sea Hunt Season 2 Episode 10 - Murder at 60 Feet
    8.1/10(35 votes)

    #25 - Murder at 60 Feet

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Sea Has Ears" is the best rated episode of "Sea Hunt". It scored 8.5/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by Leon Benson and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/27/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Base of Operations".