"Sea Hunt" does occasionally show up on cable around the country. As far as I know it has not been released on any format. If anyone has any information on this series, please contact me at: [email protected].
Let's talk! FrankC.
I have not been lucky enough to catch Sea Hunt in a great many years. Most of my viewing now days is on DirectTV satellite . I am now 52 years old but still remember it vividly. If I could find it I would introduce this fine show to my 11 year old son. I realize I should stay on subject here but doubt many will read this post anyway. My son loves to watch many old shows with me. The Rifleman, Tarzan, Rockford Files, and lots of old movies, especially gangster flicks and film noir and all the classics. I truly believe watching these types of TV and movies help build character, morals and good ethics in children. It's a shame that the networks don't give us more of a chance to all see them. I am sure lots of people want to see them. How about Flash Gordon, Adventures in Paradise, Have Gun Will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive, Johnny Yuma was a Rebel? Oh well, I've ranted long enough, besides who is listening anyway.
shareAbout 10 years ago one of the cable channels (A&E, Nickelodeon) ran episodes of Sea Hunt, back to back: I was always hot to record stuff (especially these old shows that I hadn't seen in 40 years & didn't know when I'd see again) & still have some on tape. But the tape's 10 years old, too. One of the few shows then where the main characters weren't bundled into suits.
One show I'd like to see again is M-Squad, the old Lee Marvin cop vehicle that took place in Chicago (where we lived then). I liked all those old shows, although, except for Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock a few years ago, I don't watch much TVLand. These days I'm more likely to watch old stuff on tape or the local county channel: televised planning boards & county councils. The All-Paper Shuffling Network.
Recently, I've seen old Bishop Sheen shows on one of the eucumenical networks: I remember when he was prime time.
NeboCorfu
Hi. You mentioned a Lee Marvin cop show. Was it "Law Breaker"? I thought it was hilarious.
shareand "The Guns of Will Sonnett."
Can you fly this plane?
Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious,and don't call me Shirley
I'm in Marlborough, MA, and I see several episodes a week on Comcast's Boston, MA 'This' channel, which is 297 on Marlborough's Comcast system.
I also am a fan, having watched it during its original run in the 1950s. I love the show, but the only gripe I have is that their research/writing department made some really rookie mistakes re: chemistry and physics. E.g, in the episode where Mike Nelson helps retrieve a lost nuclear warhead, they claim that if the seawater eats through the metal casing of the bomb, and the fissile material in the two halves touch each other, there will be a nuclear explosion. This is totally ridiculous. And the bomb wouldn't even have been armed when it was lost. Also, the rate at which the seawater was supposedly eating through the bomb's shell was ridiculously fast--totally unrealistic.
There are lots of other examples of bad scientific research behind the plots/scripts (or else examples of just playing fast and loose with the truth to make things more exciting). And there are also some really bad continuity mistakes which I won't even go into.
But on the whole, these mistakes are forgivable (I suspect they didn't have a huge budget for research), and the episodes are quite entertaining. I never understood why Lloyd Bridges left because they supposedly weren't doing enough "environmental" episodes. That would have killed the series quickly, because audiences back then couldn't care less about environmental issues, and they would have been bored silly by such plots.