7.5/1021 votes#1 - Asylum
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1960
Working for the State Department, Mike attempts to rescue a political prisoner in South America by using a harbor city's canal system.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
7.4/1029 votes#2 - Water Nymphs
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1960
A swimsuit designer hires Mike to do an underwater fashion shoot, but corporate espionage interferes with the job.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1021 votes
#3 - Mister Big
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1960
Mike attempts to deal a blow to organized crime by using a periscope camera to photograph a secret meeting of mob bosses at a lakeside estate.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1018 votes
#4 - Hot Cargo
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/1960
Mike finds high radiation coming from the hull of a foreign freighter, but when the Coast Guard investigates, they find no trace of the radioactivity.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1023 votes
#5 - Underwater Drop
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1960
An accidental death puts Mike onto an espionage ring that is using an underwater cave for a microfilm drop site.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1019 votes
#6 - Cobalt Bomb
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1960
Mike and a female health official try to remove a dangerously radioactive capsule from a sunken ship.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1019 votes
#7 - Counterfeit
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/1960
Mike, working with a pretty Secret Service agent, poses as a scientist in order to retrieve a cache of counterfeit currency from a crashed Nazi plane off the coast of a Caribbean republic.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1019 votes
#8 - Missile Watch
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/27/1960
Mike finds that someone has tapped the underwater cable used in monitoring a televised missile test.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1019 votes
#9 - Jade Cavern
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/5/1960
Mike rescues a diver in the Bahamas, then helps her with her research into the origin of a jade statue she owns.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1016 votes
#10 - Expatriate's Return
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/1960
While on patrol with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Mike discovers a deported crime boss trying to re-enter the country, then has to rescue him from some old enemies.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1017 votes
#11 - 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
- 8.3/1016 votes
#12 - 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 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.7/1028 votes
#14 - Pirate Gold
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 4/9/1960
While marking underwater sites for demolition by a construction company, Mike learns that a young boy is trapped in a submerged grotto that has already been mined with an explosive.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1020 votes
#15 - The Living Fossil
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 4/16/1960
While supervising an expedition in the Indian Ocean to find a rare coelacanth fish, Mike finds that the organizer is dangerously eager to impress his fiance.
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1017 votes
#16 - Submarine Explosion
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 4/23/1960
Scientists risk triggering a tidal wave when they ignore Mike's warnings about the strength of the explosive charges they're using.
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1019 votes
#17 - Sacred Pool
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 4/30/1960
Mike faces arrows and an alligator in the Mayan jungle while searching for a drug that could be a boon to medicine or a dangerous narcotic.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1018 votes
#18 - Cindy
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 5/7/1960
Mike tries to reach a little girl trapped in the air shaft of a mine located at the edge of a man-made lake, but the potential for a landslide hampers his attempt.
Director: David Friedkin
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1017 votes
#19 - Cross Current
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 5/14/1960
Mike searches for a vanished oceanographer by retracing her charted course.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1015 votes
#20 - Synthetic Hero
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/1960
Mike discovers the wreck of a navy ship that disappeared mysteriously, and is joined by a pair of its former crew members when he dives to examine it.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1017 votes
#21 - 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
7.6/1017 votes#22 - Target
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 6/4/1960
While diving in Lake Ontario, Mike is sent by the Coast Guard to investigate an item that crashed into the lake nearby, which may be an enemy ICBM.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1018 votes
#23 - Ghost Light
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 6/11/1960
An East Indian oceanographer vanishes during a series of underwater experiments with infra-red light.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1017 votes
#24 - Rebreather
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 6/18/1960
Mike and an old war buddy use a new, untested ""re-breather"" to investigate an underwater missile site being constructed in the channel of a privately-owned island.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1019 votes
#25 - Blind Spot
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 6/25/1960
Mike helps a friend in the military with his tests of underwater radar equipment.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Sea Hunt Season 3
Every episode of Sea Hunt Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Sea Hunt Season 3!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Asylum" is the best rated episode of "Sea Hunt" season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Leon Benson and written by N/A, it aired on 1/9/1960. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Water Nymphs".