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I wonder why they don't rebroadcast shows like Sea Hunt? A lot of the older shows have made a comeback....well somewhat. Tim

[Broxton Carol]

Seahunt Jerry made me some excellent prints from his extensive reel to reel "sea hunt" collection. Just super clear great killer stuff! Jerry, when are you going to send me the "GOMEZ LOOSES HIS SHOES beyond 50 fathoms" episode? Come on get shakin!

[Broxton Carol]

Yah, back in 57 you were cutting the grass while Mike Nelson was cutting HOSES!

[Seahuntjerry]

Gomez,
Says be at the Wayzee vintage dive or be Square.
Moo ,moo

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William,

Thr Aquanauts was a 1960 -1961 SCUBA salvage and adventure show starring Jeremy Slate as Larry Lahr, Kieth Larsen as Drake Andrews and later, Ron Ely as Mike Madison. It was set in Malibu Beach, California and was renamed Malibu Run. It featured Sportsways single hose SCUBA. Perhaps that is why one of the Sportsways regulators was called the Malibu. It only lasted one season.

Assignment Underwater was another show starring Bill Williams and there are 8 episodes on two DVDs currently available. One episode features a Pirelli rebreather. Bill Williams is Bill Greer, who lives on a boat with his young daughter Patty, who is also a diver. He begins each show entering the water with triple 44 US Divers tanks, from a hovering helicopter. His gear is from US Divers and he often has a yellow hose Mistral regulator. He is an ex-Marine working in the San Francisco Bay area.

There was a Lloyd Bridges film called Daring Game, but it was not based on Mike Nelson. However, it uses one of the story lines, rescuing someone from and island. They sky dive and use submarines and gun boats. As usual there is a pretty daughter invoved. I think there was a short lived Sea Hunt revival that did not take off. Sea Hunt does a reprive in Hot Shots Part Deux. Lloyd Bridges is an Admiral and goes on a mission with the heros. He wears his twin Voit and has the Sea Hunt theme playing.

While Sea Hunt was running Hans Hass had a TV show called Diving to Adventure. It was marine biology and Drager rebreathers. His films are available from www.polarfilms.de in Germany. Search: Klassik Edition Hans Hass.

Other shows featured divers including Danger is My Business, You Asked For It, and others. I don't recall David Janssen in a diving movie, but he was in Adventures in Paradise once, as I recall. He was known for The Fugitive and other detective shows. He was in a favorite film of mine called Birds of Prey, about helicopters in Salt Lake.

I hate to date myself but, I watched all of these shows before the days of re-runs.

Steve

[neo1968]

Jul 16, 2008 23:27:38 GMT -8 @yankdownunder said:

William,

Thr Aquanauts was a 1960 -1961 SCUBA salvage and adventure show starring Jeremy Slate as Larry Lahr, Kieth Larsen as Drake Andrews and later, Ron Ely as Mike Madison. It was set in Malibu Beach, California and was renamed Malibu Run. It featured Sportsways single hose SCUBA. Perhaps that is why one of the Sportsways regulators was called the Malibu. It only lasted one season.

Assignment Underwater was another show starring Bill Williams and there are 8 episodes on two DVDs currently available. One episode features a Pirelli rebreather. Bill Williams is Bill Greer, who lives on a boat with his young daughter Patty, who is also a diver. He begins each show entering the water with triple 44 US Divers tanks, from a hovering helicopter. His gear is from US Divers and he often has a yellow hose Mistral regulator. He is an ex-Marine working in the San Francisco Bay area.

There was a Lloyd Bridges film called Daring Game, but it was not based on Mike Nelson. However, it uses one of the story lines, rescuing someone from and island. They sky dive and use submarines and gun boats. As usual there is a pretty daughter invoved. I think there was a short lived Sea Hunt revival that did not take off. Sea Hunt does a reprive in Hot Shots Part Deux. Lloyd Bridges is an Admiral and goes on a mission with the heros. He wears his twin Voit and has the Sea Hunt theme playing.

While Sea Hunt was running Hans Hass had a TV show called Diving to Adventure. It was marine biology and Drager rebreathers. His films are available from www.polarfilms.de in Germany. Search: Klassik Edition Hans Hass.

Other shows featured divers including Danger is My Business, You Asked For It, and others. I don't recall David Janssen in a diving movie, but he was in Adventures in Paradise once, as I recall. He was known for The Fugitive and other detective shows. He was in a favorite film of mine called Birds of Prey, about helicopters in Salt Lake.

I hate to date myself but, I watched all of these shows before the days of re-runs.

Steve

I would be interested in seeing episodes of the "The Aquanauts/Malibu Run". I purchased a VHS tape with one episode years ago. It's a shame I forgot who I got it from! Does anybody out there have anymore episodes or know where they can get a hold of a DVD?

[neo1968]

Jul 6, 2008 12:22:19 GMT -8 @william said:

Sea Hunt was the most famous of the television tv shows useing scuba and being made when scuba was just taking off and becoming so very popular. I often wonder why a movie was never made based on the show? I think it would have been a great movie especially if Jeff Bridges played the part of his father. Jeff is getting older now but still young enough to play the part if it was ever made. But I think he does not want to do a Sea Hunt movie because of so much respect and love he has for his father and probably would rather that Sea Hunt only be remembered with Lloyd Bridges as the star. Don Russel told me one time that they had or were trying to make a Sea Hunt Museum with all the original equipment and other Voit equipment, but I have not heard anything else about it other than that and do not know if it actually was created and exists. He owned an original 1950s Voit Tank, still in the Original Box with the Metallic Foil Voit Decal and all on and a person who represented the Sea Hunt Museum was wanting to buy it from him. He never bought it and it was sold to another collector for $700 back when things were selling for very low prices. I was offered the tank with original box and I always regret not buying it. I wonder who has all of the Original Equipment from all the Sea Hunt Shows now, that must have been saved over the years that belonged to Lloyd Bridges and was used in the Sea Hunt shows? The SeaHuntGuy's website is very good with a great amount of information and pictures of stars who played in Sea Hunt, but it still does not have a great amount of very specific information about Many of the things and questions people often ask.
The Aquanauts was a scuba based show, I only saw a few episodes of, but do not remember exactly what it was based on or much about it, except seeing they only used the single hose regulators. I remember many people liked it & it was popular for a while. I think it was just a Dive Shop based show. Most of the scenes in it seemed to only have a Sandy Bottom, very few fish ever seen and sometimes thick & tall Kelp Plants in the scenes, but very little else, except for the actors in underwater scenes with them fighting the bad guys rolling and tumbling all over.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea I think was based on 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea just changed around a good bit, almost a Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers themed show in it's style, very good and they did make the movie which, from what I understand was very successfull also. I have a few pictures where they used, of all things, Totaly White Suits, Even The Fins and double hose regulator Hoses were White and sometimes Bright Yellow Suits. Rachel Welch and David MacCallum starred in some of the episodes, if I am not mistaken.
But there was one other excellent scuba diving based show that only had a very few episodes, did not last very long and I think it starred David Jansen as a detective in it. I do remember he used the very large Duckfeet Fins. I do not remember the name, or positive about the stars name, but do remember it was based on a detective and was located in the Eastern USA, I think in the New England area. I saw 2 or 3 of the episodes before it was cancelled and it was a very good and exciting show. It was cancelled probably for similar reasons that Star Trek was.

Raquel Welch starred in an episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"? I must have missed that one!

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William,
The white wet suits, fins, and regulators came from the film "Around the World Under the Sea", an Ivan Tors production from 1965. The white rubber was supposedly heat resistant, so divers could place underwater sensors near volcanic fumeroles.
It starred Lloyd Bridges, David McCallum, Marshall Thompson, Keenan Wynn, Brian Kelly, and Shirley Eaton.
They used the same mini sub used in the TV series "Flipper", and a larger research sub with windows.
Raquel Welch starred in a film "Fantastic Voyage", about a microscopic submarine injected in the human body to conduct a medical procedure. It used face mask scuba gear, except the divers were on wires in the air during the scenes.

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Oct 12, 2008 8:10:54 GMT -8 @diverbob said:

William,
The white wet suits, fins, and regulators came from the film "Around the World Under the Sea", an Ivan Tors production from 1965.

It starred Lloyd Bridges, David McCallum, Marshall Thompson, Keenan Wynn, Brian Kelly, and Shirley Eaton.
They used the same mini sub used in the TV series "Flipper", and a larger research sub with windows.

They used more than just the same mini-sub. Brian Kelly, of course, played Porter Ricks on Flipper, and in the episode entitled A Job For Sandy, they use a fair bit of what appears to be behind the scenes footage of the making of the movie (the plot revolved around the oldest son, Sandy, taking the place of an incapcitated stunt diver on a film set). I guess since the TV show was also produced by Ivan Tors, it made some to recycle material from the movie for the TV show.

For what it's worth, I believe the hijacked military plane that was seen in Thunderball also appeared on Flipper, in an episode called Agent Bud. Again, I believe there was some behind the scenes connection between Flipper and the crew who filmed the underwater scenes in Thunderball.

And speaking of Flipper, they had a lot of scuba related episodes. The first season is out on DVD now. One of the things I like on this show was that most of the time, they didn't use stunt divers. When you saw any of the characters underwater, it was actually the same actors you saw topside. I think they only used stunt divers when they doing something dangerous, like dealing with sharks or whatever.

[OystrPir8]

I keep waiting for season two of flipper. I have been rationing my Sea Hunt episodes and Flipper I have been rationing as well.
How about Primus? I saw a guy on eBay who was selling four episodes of that. That would be great to have as a complete set. I believe there were 26 made.

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Oct 25, 2008 15:31:07 GMT -8 OystrPir8 said:

I keep waiting for season two of flipper. I have been rationing my Sea Hunt episodes and Flipper I have been rationing as well.
How about Primus? I saw a guy on eBay who was selling four episodes of that. That would be great to have as a complete set. I believe there were 26 made.

I have a few episodes of Primus on DVD-R. They look they were derived directly from the copy that would have sent to a TV station for broadcast, as you have the "Insert Commercial Here" cards at the appropriate places. Pretty decent show from the few episodes I have.

And yeah, I'm waiting for Flipper seasons two and three myself. Ya know, thinking about it, I said before they didn't use stunt divers often, but I think you can tell when they did, because that's when everyone would start putting on wetsuits...it's a lot harder to recognize a stand in when they're cover in black neoprene. And there's a couple episodes where you see a shot of a diver in a wetsuit with a hood, but then the closeup, suddenly he doesn't have the hood on anymore. Really weird continuity errors.

That's one of my pet things is watching TV shows and movies with scuba scenes, and trying to spot the continuity errrors. There's always things like slight differences in gear arrangement (such as, say, the distribution of weights on the weightbelt being different) or those bits where they cut back and forth between different takes topside (so that a diver who just got out of the water, suddenly looks like they haven't been in the water at all, then seconds later, is sopping wet, then back to being completely dry, etc).

Then occasionally, you get bits where the tank colour will change (topside it'll be yellow, but u/w, suddenly it's white, or whatever), or the mask will change.

But then there's weird ones, like an episode of SWAT where a diver has a BCD on topside (as well as most of the u/w shots), but there's one u/w shot where the diver doesn't have it on! Another favorite is a movie called Killer Fish, where Karen Black's regulator hose keeps switching between which shoulder it comes over (in one shot, it'll be coming over her right shoulder, the next it'll be her left shoulder, then the right shoulder again in the shot after that one, etc). And once in awhile, you'll even see wetsuits change (there's one movie I saw once where the diver had a black wetsuit on topside, but underwater, it was blue!). Weird!

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Jul 6, 2008 15:28:17 GMT -8 @divertim said:

I wonder why they don't rebroadcast shows like Sea Hunt? A lot of the older shows have made a comeback....well somewhat. Tim

It's come back occasionally for brief stays. I remember back around 2000 or 2001, I think it was, a channel called The Outdoor Channel (I think that's what it was called) showed it for a short while.

I've been told by one person who works in television that the reason a lot of those shows don't resurface (pun intended) more often is because "nobody wants to watch b&w shows". He gave this as the reason why the Sci-Fi Channel (for whom he works) stopped showing Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. Apparently, the ratings weren't very good.

Anyone want to talk about shows that weren't heavy on the scuba, but did have the occasional scuba episode? I can think of shows like Barnaby Jones, SWAT, and Charlie's Angels which all had at least one scuba episode (Charlie's Angels and SWAT each had two, actually). There was also a scuba episode of CHiPs.

And does anyone remember a short lived early 80's show called 240 Robert. It was about the LA County Sherrif's Dept. Rescue Team, code named 240 Robert (hence the name of the show). This was sticks out for me as there's a great episode where one of the deputies is teaching their helicopter pilot (played by Joanna Cassidy) how to dive. Eventually a "trouble maker" who works at the dive shop ends up filling the instructor's tank with exhaust fumes from his motorcycle. So, on the check out dive, the instructor has to be saved by his student!

This episode stayed with me for YEARS, the whole thing of them buddy breathing and everything, but I never knew who was in it, or what it was called, until the late 90's when I met someone online who remembered the show better than I did. When he said the name of the show and that Joanna Cassidy was in it, I thought "Wait a second, I don't remember a scuba scene with Joanna Cassidy", but once he started describing the plot, I was able to give him pretty much every minute detail other than the cast, etc. Anyway, unfortunately, I've never been able to find a copy of that episode.

[OystrPir8]

Ive actually never seen Primus before - only heard about it. How many episodes do you have?
I learned about Sea Hunt on these forums. I had never seen it on TV. Love the show now. Flipper is pretty much my dream life. Ranger at an underwater park... man.

[duckbill]

It's been well over a year since season one of Flipper was released. Has there ever been a show that they released a season or two, then stopped and never released the rest? I hope that won't be the case for Flipper.

Anyhow, I remember Magnum P.I. had an episode entitled "Rapture", or "Rapture of the Deep".

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Oct 25, 2008 20:42:04 GMT -8 OystrPir8 said:

Ive actually never seen Primus before - only heard about it. How many episodes do you have?
I learned about Sea Hunt on these forums. I had never seen it on TV. Love the show now. Flipper is pretty much my dream life. Ranger at an underwater park... man.

I have, I think three episodes of Primus. It's pretty decent, it's your typical early 70's sort of family oriented "adventure" show. I guess it's sort of an update on Sea Hunt.