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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!

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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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".

  • Prima Donna
    8.8/1019 votes
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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

  • Expedition
    8.8/1018 votes
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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.

  • The Dancer
    8.7/1018 votes
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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

  • Murder at 60 Feet
    8.6/1030 votes
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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

  • Underwater Beacon
    8.6/1017 votes
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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

  • The Sea Has Ears
    8.5/1025 votes
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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

  • Strong Box
    8.5/1017 votes
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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

  • Man Overboard
    8.5/1017 votes
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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

  • Mercy Trip
    8.5/1017 votes
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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

  • Gold Below
    8.4/1035 votes
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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

  • Hardhat
    8.4/1027 votes
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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

  • Monte Cristo
    8.4/1024 votes
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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

  • Diving for the Moon
    8.4/1021 votes
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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

  • The Search
    8.4/1023 votes
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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

  • Hermes
    8.4/1023 votes
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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

  • Base of Operations
    8.4/1017 votes
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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

  • The Missing Link
    8.4/1018 votes
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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

  • Rescue
    8.4/1021 votes
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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

  • The Defector
    8.4/1019 votes
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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

  • Sixty Feet Below
    8.3/1064 votes
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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

  • Air Pockets
    8.3/1020 votes
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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

  • The Fearmakers
    8.3/1016 votes
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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

  • Revolutionary Spoils
    8.3/1015 votes
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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

  • The Cellini Vase
    8.3/1017 votes
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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

  • Diplomatic Pouch
    8.3/1019 votes
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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