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Sea Hunt- Episode 50 Segment 1

Series executive producer Ivan Tors conceived the idea for Sea Hunt while working on the 1958 film Underwater Warrior.[1] He tried in vain to sell the series to all three major networks, but each network passed on it because they felt that a series set underwater could not be sustained.[2] Tors then decided to sell it into the first-run syndication market. He teamed up with Ziv Television Programs and was able to sell it to more than 100 syndicated markets before it debuted in January 1958.[1]

Lloyd Bridges was cast as lead character Mike Nelson. Sea Hunt was intended as a comeback vehicle for Bridges due to his brief black-listing from acting. He was restricted from mainstream Hollywood roles after admitting to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had been a member of the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, a group that was tied to the Communist Party.[3][4]

Bridges served in the United States Coast Guard during the second World War and afterwards joined the Coast Guard reserve, so was already familiar with oceangoing ships. He took a crash course in scuba diving by Zale Parry and Courtney Brown, and Brown served as his underwater stunt double. Bridges was also educated in the art of scuba equipment by Brad Pinkernell on the beach in Southern California from 1956 to 1957 after a chance meeting when Pinkernell was coming out of the ocean while wearing scuba gear. Over the course of the show's run, Bridges got more involved in the underwater stunt work, graduating from close-ups in the earliest episodes to doing all but the most dangerous stunts by the end of the series' run.

Genre Action Adventure
Created by Ivan Tors
James Buxbaum
Developed by Ivan Tors
Starring Lloyd Bridges
Narrated by Lloyd Bridges
Theme music composer David Rose
(as "Ray Llewellyn")
Opening theme "The Sea Hunt Theme"
Ending theme "The Sea Hunt Theme"
Composer David Rose
Country of origin United States
Original language English
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 155

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