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The Best Episodes of Sea Hunt Season 1

Every episode of Sea Hunt Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Sea Hunt Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Sea Hunt Season 1

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. 8.5/10(25 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.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.4/10(35 votes)

    #2 - Gold Below

    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
  3. 8.4/10(27 votes)

    #3 - Hardhat

    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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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.3/10(67 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.2/10(27 votes)

    #5 - Alligator Story

    S1:E20

    A vicious alligator escapes from a wild animal show and takes refuge in the lake of a public park.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.1/10(36 votes)

    #6 - Female of the Species

    S1:E6

    A beautiful woman hires Mike to give her diving lessons for mysterious reasons.

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    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.1/10(27 votes)

    #7 - The Poacher

    S1:E16

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.0/10(26 votes)

    #8 - Midget Submarine

    S1:E12

    Mike plays commando in rescuing a scientist who had defected from Soviet kidnappers who are returning him to Moscow aboard a Pacific liner.

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    Director:Andrew Marton
    Writer:N/A
  10. 8.0/10(30 votes)

    #9 - Girl in the Trunk

    S1:E17

    Mike comes to the aid of a female escape artist when her underwater stunt goes awry.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  11. 8.0/10(25 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    Director:John Florea
    Writer:N/A
  12. 8.0/10(30 votes)

    #11 - The Amphibian

    S1:E35

    A group of sportsmen hire Mike to supervise their skin-diving outing, whereupon one of them sneaks off and begins photographing secret Navy facilities.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  13. 7.9/10(37 votes)

    #12 - Rapture of the Deep

    S1:E3

    A grudge between two divers whom Mike is testing for underwater mining skills becomes a secondary issue when one of them contracts nitrogen narcosis.

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    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.9/10(39 votes)

    #13 - The Sea Sled

    S1:E5

    Mike helps the Immigration Department Border Patrol break up an underwater border-running operation.

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    Director:John Florea
    Writer:N/A
  15. 7.9/10(31 votes)

    #14 - Sonar Queen

    S1:E8

    Hired to test a new electronic fish-finder, Mike encounters a village where every fish in the vicinity has disappeared.

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    Director:John Florea
    Writer:N/A
  16. 7.9/10(32 votes)

    #15 - Recovery

    S1:E10

    Mike dives into the Caribbean to recover the lost nose cone from an ICBM rocket before enemy agents can get it.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  17. 7.9/10(25 votes)

    #16 - The Manganese Story

    S1:E39

    Mike discovers an important manganese deposit, but an ambitious young geologist, sharks, and an approaching hurricane threaten to silence him before he can inform the government.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lee Erwin
  18. 7.8/10(41 votes)

    #17 - Mark of the Octopus

    S1:E4

    Before Mike can investigate the disappearance of a pair of skin-diving geologists, one turns up dead on the beach bearing marks resembling the suction valves of a giant octopus.

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    Director:Andrew Marton
    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.8/10(27 votes)

    #18 - Continental Rift

    S1:E15

    A man claims to have invented a machine that can locate ships carrying gold.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lee Erwin
  20. 7.8/10(22 votes)

    #19 - Magnetic Mine

    S1:E21

    An entire Mexican town is menaced by the presence of a derelict floating mine in its harbor that could ignite fumes from the local nitrate factory if it is detonated.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  21. 7.8/10(27 votes)

    #20 - The Hero

    S1:E26

    Mike is hired by a playboy sportsman to supervise their underwater shark ""safari"" in the waters off Peru.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  22. 7.8/10(42 votes)

    #21 - The Birthday Present

    S1:E32

    After locating a leak in a gas line and retrieving a young boy's sunken bicycle, Mike is beaten up and threatened by a gang of thugs.

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    Director:N/A
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  23. 7.8/10(33 votes)

    #22 - Dead Man's Cove

    S1:E33

    An underwater camera holds the key to determining whether a woman's drowning was accidental, as her husband claims, or not.

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    Director:John Florea
    Writer:N/A
  24. 7.7/10(31 votes)

    #23 - The Shark Cage

    S1:E13

    Mike and two cameramen are imperiled when an irrationally jealous man drops their camera cage into shark-infested waters.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:N/A
  25. 7.7/10(35 votes)

    #24 - Legend of the Mermaid

    S1:E23

    Mike investigates an underwater grotto said to feature a mermaid that lures men to their deaths.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Lee Erwin
  26. 7.7/10(39 votes)

    #25 - The Lost Ones

    S1:E28

    A frustrated former athlete pushes his children to be Olympic swimmers, resulting in their becoming trapped in a cave by a rising tide.

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    Director:John Florea
    Writer:N/A

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Sea Has Ears" is the best rated episode of "Sea Hunt" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Leon Benson and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1958. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Gold Below".