Name: Sea Hunt
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama
Released: 1958-01-04
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis

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 series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.

Sea Hunt proved to be popular with viewers and was a hit throughout its four-season run.

Series executive producer Ivan Tors conceived the idea for Sea Hunt while working on the 1958 film Underwater Warrior.

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.

Lloyd Bridges was cast as lead character Mike Nelson.

Bridges was also educated in the use 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.