#Sea hunt susan silo series
Navy frogman (having left the service about four years before the series began), is a well-known expert on diving who is often called on for difficult or dangerous projects. Mike Nelson (Bridges) is a free-lance scuba diver who has various adventures. 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. It was at a chance meeting when Pinkernell was coming out of the ocean with his scuba gear on. Bridges was also educated in the art of Scuba equipment by Brad Pinkernell on the beach in Southern California from 1956 to 1957. Brown served as his underwater stunt double. Īfter winning the role, Bridges was given a crash course in scuba diving by Zale Parry and Courtney Brown. Bridges was blacklisted 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. Sea Hunt was intended as a comeback vehicle for Bridges due to his brief blacklisting from acting. Lloyd Bridges was soon cast as lead character Mike Nelson. Tors teamed up with Ziv Television Programs and was able to sell the show to over 100 syndicated markets before the series debuted in January 1958.
Tors then decided to sell the series into the first-run syndication market.
Tors tried in vain to sell the series to all three major networks, but each network passed on the show because they felt a series set underwater could not be sustained. Series executive producer Ivan Tors conceived the idea for Sea Hunt while working on the 1958 film Underwater Warrior.
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