WGN Channel 9 - Sea Hunt - "Water Ski Show" (Complete Broadcast, 7/26/1980) 📺 🤿
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- Here's the complete broadcast of a repeat of an episode of the syndicated TV series, Sea Hunt, entitled "Water Ski Show" (S2E22 - original air date May 31st 1959), as aired over WGN Channel 9 via a somewhat worn 16mm print. I remember getting up really early in the morning with my dad to go fishing and seeing this on WGN.
Sadly, no mentions of "by this time my lungs were aching for air..." in this episode.
This early production effort of Ivan Tors (who would later produce the TV series Flipper), mounted by Ziv Television, starred (and made a star of) Lloyd Bridges as freelance scuba diver and former Navy frogman Mike Nelson (no, not the future host of Mystery Science Theater 3000!). This installment - about a champion water-skier who drowns during the finale of a water show - also featured Lisa Gaye, Robert Conrad (pre-Hawaiian Eye, Wild Wild West, Bye Bye Black Sheep / Black Sheep Squadron, etc.), William McGraw, Jack Wagner, William Boyett, and Courtney Brown (the last-named of whom had been Mr. Bridges' stunt double in the series' early going, before Bridges himself, by the show's end in 1961, did all but the most dangerous of the stunt work himself).
Includes:
[Note: this airing of Sea Hunt was preceded by the WGN Public Affairs program "Charlando" which you can see in its entirety here: • WGN Channel 9 - Charla... )
WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Len Johnson)
Show opening titles, and Act I
Book offer for "The Complete Encyclopedia of Weight Loss, Slenderizing and Body Shaping" (with Jack La Lanne and his dog "Happy")
Act II
Commercials for:
Creative Mirrors (voiceover by Len Johnson) (featuring Pam the Creative Mirrors Girl at the end)
Long Chevrolet (sale on trucks, with "Timmy the Newsboy" all grown up and in a construction worker's outfit)
Pheasant Run Resorts
Promo for The Mike Douglas Show (starting August 11th at 12pm; this is the Syndicast version started after he was fired by Group W earlier in the year) (note: This was the show that replaced Bozo's Circus at 12 Noon - truly, the end of an era)
Act III
Book offer for "The 1980's: Countdown To Armageddon" (featuring its author, Mr. Hal Lindsey who also wrote "The Late Great Planet Earth")
Epilogue, with Lloyd Bridges saying a few closing words, followed by ending credits:
Directed by Herman Hoffman
Written by Lee Erwin
A Ziv Television Production
Starring Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson
Produced with the Technical Advice and Cooperation of Marineland of the Pacific, Los Angeles, California
With:
Lisa Gaye
Robert Conrad
William McGraw
Jack Wagner
William Boyett
Courtney Brown
The characters, events and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Underwater Sequences for This Episode Photographed at Silver Springs, Florida
Production Manager - Joe Wonder
Second Unit Director - Paul Stader
Audio Supervisor - Al Lincoln
Set Designer - Robert Kinoshita
Costume Supervisor - Tommy Thompson
Location Manager - William Owens
Director of Photography - Robert Hoffman
Film Editor - Charles Craft, A.C.E.
Assistant Director - Wilbur McGaugh
Set Decorator - George Sawley
Supervisor of Diving Operations - Courtney Brown
Special Underwater Effects - Harry Redmond, Jr.
Underwater Photography - Lamar Boren
Ryder Sound Services, Inc. / IATSE / Westrex Recording System / A.T.F.P.
Copyright MCMLIX by Ziv Television Programs, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Produced by Ivan Tors
Commercial offer for Academy Life Insurance Co. Veterans Health Plan (with Chairman of the Board, General John D. Eisenhower, Brigadier General, USAR, Ret.)
WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Len Johnson)
Opening moments of This Week in Baseball (narrated by Mel Allen)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 26th 1980 during the 12:00pm to 12:30pm timeframe.
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I remember this (and Sgt. Bilko, Terrytoons and those bizarre Mel-O-Toons) in the wee hours on WGN.
Lloyd was hilarious in the 1993 movie "Hot Shots, Part Deux", recreating scenes similar to "Sea Hunt". "Why am I using helium instead of air" as he squeaks his line. And diving under a guarded patrol boat by cutting a huge fart to knock out those guards on board and falling off still cracks me up to this day 😂
i was thinking the same thing..... 😄
William Boyett was a character actor mostly known for his role on Adam 12 as Sgt "Mac" Mac Donald during its
7 season run ( 1968 -75).
I remember Sea Hunt used to come on TV in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Sea Hunt was on Channel 2, KNXT , Los Angeles, and Channel 5, KTLA, Los Angeles.
You were BALLER if you were able to stay up in Jr. High to see "Sea Hunt" on t.v.
Lloyd did a commercial for a Theme Park in Florida. When I find it I will post it. For Silver Springs
I remember the cartoons and movies and everything.😊
That was awesome thank you
My local TV station used to run this show back-to-back with "Flipper" on Sat. afternoons when I was growing up in the early 70's.
An Ivan Tors double feature, in other words.
@@wmbrown6 Ivan Tors also created in 1974 "Salty", a little known syndicated sea animal series about a seal.
"But two things kept running through my mind: Would we get to the men in time? And why did I bring helium instead of air?"
Westinghouse replaced Mike Douglas with John Davidson that season.
Both shows taped in Los Angeles
Mike's show was taped at CBS Television City from 1976 -81.
Just a few months into the 1981-82 season the show was cancelled.
The Syndicast Douglas show started out initially in New York on WCBS Channel 2 that aired his Westinghouse show from 1968 to 1980, but by the time its run ended had moved to WPIX Channel 11.
Ironically, a year after Westinghouse replaced him with Davidson, that show moved to WOR Channel 9 - the first station to have run Douglas' show in NYC, from 1965 to 1968.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to go scuba diving"
"...by now my lungs were burning for air"
27:13 is the closing to an episode of “Sea Hunt”, but unfortunately, it doesn’t have the MGM TV Distribution logo at the end, but later prints of “Sea Hunt” does have the MGM logo, but thankfully, it doesn’t scare them at all.
@Musicradio77Network, that’s because MGM didn’t own the ZIV library in 1980. That didn’t happen for a while. However, I am grateful that they’re not raising a stink about this video.
And to you, Fuzzy: Thanks a ton for putting this up.
MORE PLEASE!!!!
That's quite right. MGM obtained the Ziv library through their merger with United Artists in '81. They wouldn't put Leo on those shows for another decade or two.
12:24
"Let's have a 12 year old sell our trucks."
❤
Sea Hunt was revived in 1987 with Ron Ely (ex-Tarzan) as Mike Nelson. This version didn’t catch on.
ZIV Television Productions also put out Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford ("10-4"), which MeTV airs at 5:00AM EST. Maybe GN's sister WPIX aired Sea Hunt as I know it aired first-run syndication of Highway Patrol. ZIV also did the baseball show Home Run Derby where some of the greats of 1959-1960 baseball like Mickey Mantle and Mr. Cub Ernie Banks competed in a home run contest, hosted by Mark Scott and filmed at Wrigley Field (not THAT one) but in Los Angeles. ESPN Classic when it was available for me aired episodes of that show.
Most of the rights to ZIV shows, which also include The Cisco Kid are distributed by MGM Television and SFM Entertainment
This Week in Baseball...ah, I remember it well. Sunday PM during the baseball season on New York's channel 9 WOR-TV (WWOR) before Mets games...with ironically one of the greatest announcers in Yankees history Mel Allen...How 'Bout That?!
I seem to remember in New York, when "Sea Hunt" was first-run, it was aired on WCBS Channel 2. Don't know which station aired it in reruns, I'd have to look.
As for "This Week in Baseball," didn't WPIX Channel 11 air it at some point?
The theme to "This Week in Baseball" was originally the 1974-1975 theme to the Geoff Edwards hosted game show "Jackpot".
When Mike Douglas moved to 12 Noon on August 11, 1980 on WGN, Bozo's Circus moved to 8 AM following Ray Rayner's 7 AM morning kid show, but Ray Rayner's show would last only 5 more months.
Also: Regarding the Pheasant Run Resort commercial: I remember going to that place for a few stage shows and a few Zurko Pop Culture conventions in the 2010's, but the resort closed down for good at the end of February 2020, a few weeks before the COVID pandemic and stay and home orders/lockdowns in the USA occured.
Not only a worn 16mm print, but a pretty sloppy dub over to 3/4” U-Matic videotape.
What makes you think it was dubbed to Umatic tape?
The chroma smearing around the commercial breaks, particularly at 3:56.
That’s from something else. Color killer not turning on quick enough
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV - Ah, the days of analog TV before TBC's had built-in provisions for that sort of thing as far as airing in B&W was concerned.
It’s too bad that WGN TV Chicago has turned into a Chicago station of garbage programming now. Before Tribune Company purchased the station WGN had a good lineup of programs.