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The Best Episodes of Sea Hunt

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Every episode of Sea Hunt ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Episodes
155
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  • Prima Donna
    8.8/10(19)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • Expedition
    8.8/10(18)
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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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    0
  • The Dancer
    8.7/10(18)
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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

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    0
  • Murder at 60 Feet
    8.6/10(30)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • Underwater Beacon
    8.6/10(17)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • The Sea Has Ears
    8.5/10(25)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
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  • Strong Box
    8.5/10(17)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • Man Overboard
    8.5/10(17)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • Mercy Trip
    8.5/10(17)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • Gold Below
    8.4/10(35)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • Hardhat
    8.4/10(27)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • Monte Cristo
    8.4/10(24)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • Diving for the Moon
    8.4/10(21)
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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

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    0
  • The Search
    8.4/10(23)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • Hermes
    8.4/10(23)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • Base of Operations
    8.4/10(17)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • The Missing Link
    8.4/10(18)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • Rescue
    8.4/10(21)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • The Defector
    8.4/10(19)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • Sixty Feet Below
    8.3/10(66)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • Air Pockets
    8.3/10(20)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • The Fearmakers
    8.3/10(16)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • Revolutionary Spoils
    8.3/10(15)
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    #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

    Comments

    0
  • The Cellini Vase
    8.3/10(17)
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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

    Comments

    0
  • Diplomatic Pouch
    8.3/10(19)
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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

    Comments

    0

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".