Why SEA HUNT Was CANCELED After 4 HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SEASONS
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- SEA HUNT was a show that ran for 4 highly successful seasons. It had great ratings but was canceled after the fourth season. In this video, I'll tell you what happened to SEA HUNT and why it was canceled-.
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In the 1960's. I was mesmerized by Sea Hunt. It led me in my teenage years to get my Faui "c" card, then go on to become a divemaster and to dive some of the best diving in the world. As a kid, I would watch Sea Hunt with a diving mask on, Toy Tanks, I mean, I was what you would call "crazy", All this thanks to Lloyd Bridges and Sea Hunt. At 64, I still dive today. Thanks for presenting.
My brother used to put a belt in his mouth and dive under the coffee table ! Good Times !
That's NAUI.
I learned that the aqualung was invented by Jacques Cousteau.
@@wdd3141 I think the problem that needed to be overcome was a practical regulator that automatically worked at any depth and was very reliable.
The big hose system you see on Sea Hunt illustrates the solution: the breath out side was also pressurized to match the breath-in side. The big hose goes all the way around with the mouthpiece in the middle.
Modern systems use a small secondary regulator at the end of a (single) thin hose. Though I wish the bubbles didn't come out right in my face.
@@garymattscheck9066 No, it's FAUI in Baz's case: Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors. The world is bigger than just the USA, you know.
Growing up, my dad was one of the early SCUBA divers in California, diving before I was born in 1954. He had his dry suit in the garage in an old wooden dresser with other older dive gear. I'm currently watching Sea Hunt here on CZcams, and it reminds me of my dad in every episode. He taught me and my brother to skin dive as soon as we could swim, and waited until we were around 12yo to teach us to SCUBA dive. He was a master abalone diver, taking my brother and I along with him. It's a real art to finding and leveraging off an abalone, an art I never really mastered, mainly because I was extremely near-sighted and couldn't see well underwater without my thick glasses. The three of us would go ab diving, my dad would have an ab for me when I went underwater and hand it to me so I could come up with it and put it in my bag, so if there was a game warden watching us from the shore he wouldn't know my dad was getting all three of our limits of abalone for the day. Great memories, thanks for posting this video, I had wondered why Sea Hunt was cancelled.
I loved watching this series growing up in the â50s. Mike was always in situations where something could âblow us all to kingdom comeâ. He was a great problem solver, all around hero, and terrific role model.
I loved sea hunt ...great series!
Shutting down with no good programs is still a great idea. Just what we need, overpaid night talk shows and infomercials. Give me the test pattern anyday.
One of my favorite programs as a kid!
When I was a kid, and watched this program, I too wanted to be Mike Nelson. One year, while my family was on vacation in Florida one summer, we visited Silver Springs, which had glass bottom boats to let the passengers see the beauty of the underwater world. We saw some scuba divers down there. A lot of them with some big things inside glass, or plastic, cases. It turned out that they were filming "Sea Hunt" there because the water was so clear, and while it LOOKED deep, it really wasn't. Most of the underwater scenes were filmed there, with the crew taking a couple of weeks at a time, to film all of the scenes that they would need for that season. All of the above water scenes were shot in California, either along the beaches, or just out of sight of land on a series of boats, depending on the various scripts. These, too, would be shot for several different shows at a time, so that the boat rental would only be for one or two days at a time. I found out allof these facts when we were having our lunch and
sweet story what a different America. I'd go back in a blink.
I never missed an episode Iâm pretty sure. I was completely enthralled with Mike Nelson!
I really loved this show, Hubert. I watched it faithfully when it was on.
My Dad loved this show, and anything Dad loved, I loved too.
Growing up in Florida, I wanted to like this show. My dad certainly liked it, and watched it all the time. I liked the later show Flipper, but watch reruns of this show made me understand why it was and still is, one of my dad's favs.
Blub blub blub......blub blub blub.....loved those sound effects!
As a dedicated Sea Hunt fanatic who never missed an episode (starting at age 6 - now age 69, still go snorkeling w/mask & flippers - thank you Mike Nelson)) who still has a compelling interest in the series, the eclipse of independent producers like Mr. Ziv's company is only part of the story. Ziv knew he could get a couple more years out of a golden property like Sea Hunt - the ratings held up strongly. A secondary factor was Mr. Bridges' desire to beyond the existing "chase" format of the show (and many other Ziv productions). Lloyd bridges thought they were repeating themselves too much. With all the time spent in different locales, Lloyd realized the problems of ocean pollution, etc., especially by oil & chemical companies of the time. He thought the show should address these things. With so many of these companies being network sponsors, Ziv could see big trouble ahead. So w/a changing market and a somewhat unwilling star, the writing was on the wall so a series was cancelled while still popular. It was a series of things. Lloyd Bridges & Gene Roddenberry had done some good work together in the past - it's a shame Mr. Bridges turned down the Captain Kirk role on Star Trek. Not to take anything away from William Shatner - Shatner's an excellent, talented actor, but he didn't really understand or believe in science fiction at the time, and his ego often got in the way. Put in Lloyd Bridges, who loved working in acting, especially w/others (he personally welcomed new actors to the show each week, and would offer his hand to shake and say "Hi, I'm Lloyd Bridges, welcome to the show"), and who understood what being on a crew was like from his Coast Guard experiences - what a captain he would have made. Factor in his experience w/Sea Hunt, w/an educated understanding of working in an alien environment (working underwater and working in space have many similarities), and Star Trek could have been an even better show with even more depth to it. I bet w/ Lloyd Bridges at the helm, that series would've had a larger following and a longer run. Sorry we missed it.
"Mike Nelson" was a hero of mine watched every episode in the 60's. Went on to enjoy SCUBA diving for many years as an adult.
I also grew up in the 60's and at that time, there wasn't a male child worth his salt who didn't carry a pocket knife and rush home to watch Sea Hunt reruns .......I still remember jumping off the School bus like a paratrooper and running in the house to be in time to catch the beginning of the show at 4pm.....
It was one of the final frontiers.
I don't think he really said why Sea Hunt was cancelled.
You're right, he didn't. He said something vague about a dwindling market for first-run syndicated programs, but that isn't very explanatory. In the case of Sea Hunt, everything I have read said that Lloyd Bridges wanted to move on after the third season, when his contract expired, but agreed to do one more season if there were more "environmentally focused" episodes and not just catching criminals and spies.
The cabinetry in the Argonaut, was built for Trojan Boats, of Paradise, and Lancaster, PA, by the cabinetmaker who was our neighbor. I remember him working with Teak and Mahogany much of the time, as they were not his only customers.
Many early independent stations started out as part of the Dumont Network, that first 'fourth' network. When Dumont closed shop in 1955, ZIV became a major program supplier to those and other channels, and help jump start the first-run syndication wave in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
ZIV/ UNITED ARTISTS.
In NYC, Sea Hunt aired on WCBS-2, the CBS flagship and for a time on WABC-7, the ABC flagship. It aired on Saturday night, so I was able to watch it.
Thanks for a great video! Like you, Mike Nelson was one of my earliest role models .... He and another icon you've covered, Iliya Kuryakin, were instrumental in my childhood years.
The SEA HUNT theme song as well as the music that was played during the underwater scenes were so vivid and beautiful that they stayed in my memory all these years.
Yes, I lived for that show and the theme. Such beautiful delicate music. The only thing we were missing was real coral reefs and schooling fish!
Thank you for posting this!!! When I was a very little kid my dad never missed an episode of Sea Hunt!!!!!
As a kid, I never understood how they could take the VERY cool double tank and double hoses and replace them with a single tank and single hose! I made my own scuba tanks from emptied CO2 cartridges and rubber. We lived in a wonderful apartment complex with a pool and we'd pretend to be Mike, fighting the bad guys under water, rolling and wrestling, having the times of our lives! Such good times!
I loved this show too from the start. I didn't know Lloyd Bridges was offered the role of Captain Kirk on Star Trek. I wonder why he turned it down. He would have been great for the part.
Guess who the role of Spock almost went to? Of all the interviewees it was narrowed down to two and according to the producers and directors it could have gone either way. One was Nimoy and the other.......George Lindsey.
@@bobwallace9814 Wait! What?! Spock was almost played by..... Goober? WOW!!!
Well, it sounds like he was offered the Jeffrey Hunter role in The Cage, not Shatner's.
Communists can't see the big picture.
@@glassontherocks
More accurate to say, communists can't see the small picture....
I grew up in New York City Public Housing in the 50s & 60s. I used to watch it on Saturday night and make believe I was a frogman like Mike Nelson. Really enjoyed the series that lead to my love of what the oceans of the world had to offer.
Lloyd Bridges was so cool. Every time he appeared in front of a camera, he upstaged everybody else.
I got to meet Lloyd Bridges when he was on the set of Mission Impossible. Even though I was only a kid, he spent some time with me.. He was really nice, others were not..
In a word, Mike Nelson had (and continues to have) a tremendous influence on my life. I learned more about life and how to live in the real world from watching Sea Hunt (and I truly mean that) than I ever did from my parents. Mike taught me loyalty to friends and family, a sense of empathy, a strong work ethic, and not leaving until the job is done. And yes, wanting to at least try scuba diving is something Iâve wanted to do since I was 5 years old (Iâm 62 now), and itâs still on my bucket list.
We were just at the infancy of Marine Biology and Research. I loved Mike as a little girl he was one of my first crushes. I dreamed of seeing the ocean one day as I was a land locked midwestern girl. I especially LOVED the Sea Hunt theme. Just hearing it transports me.
Loved Sea Hunt as a kid, didn't grow up to be a Skin Diver, but I joined the Navy, did some surfing, and completed in so Triathlons, so I guess Sea Hunt made me love the Sea.đłđââïžđđ
I always loved and watched "Sea Hunt" with Lloyd Bridges. We lived in Malibu, right across the street fromTed's Rancho Restaurant at the beach on PCH.
It's still on TV where I live, but at an obscene time like 3 or 4 a.m., right after Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford. Both ZIV productions
My cousin and I as 10 year olds used to have Sea Hunt fights in the swimming pool, complete with rubber knives. Great times!
I still watch Sea Hunt on DVD and have lived my whole life (64 years) just a couple of miles from Silver Springs Fl.where most of the underwater scenes were filmed.I became a certified diver because of Mike Nelson and even worked in a local dive shop.I still love scuba diving.
Growing up with the same name I never missed an episode
I loved this show and Zorro.
I, too watched Sea Hunt re-runs as a child for the underwater excitement. I think my Mum watched to see the handsome Mr. Hunt / Lloyd Bridges! :)
A most beloved series of my youth! In Brazil it was known as "Aventuras Submarinas" - "Undersea Adventures".
I loved shows like Sea Hunt and was really "Bummed out" when it was cancelled. Being a kid living out in the country we had to watch the three major networks (not counting PBS which sucked as far as kids shows back then) and even had to mount a huge rotating antenna about 25 feet above the house just to see them clearly! So once all of these shows were cancelled and went into syndication the only time I got to see them again was sometimes on Saturday or Sunday but then they would get shuffled around and eventually taken off the air for several years. Now that cable is available I have paid extra on my cable bill just so I can get certain channels and watch all of the old westerns and sci-fi and action shows that I loved as a kid!
Los Angeles County was the first entity in the world to offer SCUBA training certification. $36.00 bought the complete course, use of filled air cylinders, and a boat trip to Santa Catalina Island with use of two filled air tanks after course completion in 1966 at the Diver's Corner in Downey, CA.
When I was a kid, our TV repairman had been one of the stunt doubles for this show.
Our (my parents' and my) understanding was that Lloyd Bridges had middle ear issues and could not perform the stunts.
Eventually Mr. Favor had earned enough to become a full-time wreck-diving guide.
I loved Sea Hunt! I had a Sea Hunt lunch box in fourth grade.
I loved Sea Hunt when I was a kid. I specifically remember being in a pool as a young girl of 9 or 10 and swimming under water pretending that I was helping Lloyd Bridges' character with some special work.
As an adult I've wondered what happened to that show. Thank you for posting this video.
In the 50's as a child, I had already been thrilled by the exploits of Heyerdahl and Cousteau. "The Silent World" by Cousteau was one of the first books I ever read. Before Sea Hunt came along, we would skin dive and pick up star fish to protect the oyster beds nearby. I was attached to the TV during Sea Hunt. There was another program called "Assignment Underwater" which I watched. I did finally get certified in '76.
I watched Sea Hunt like the narrator. I lived in Clearwater Florida and learned to skin dive in my teens. Mike Nelson was a hero of mine.
Great end credit music. Haunting.
I was all of 10 years old and it only took one episode to hook me on Sea Hunt like a big mackerel! I would sit in my school classroom drawing pictures of frogmen with their SCUBA tanks bubbling away. Most divers used one tank, occasionally you would see someone using two tanks, but on one episode there was a diver actually using a cluster of three tanks, it was so cool I almost couldnât stand it! That was one great show!
I lived in Baldwin Park,LA California from 1957 to 1960 ,from when I was 7 yo to 9. My brothers and I always watched SeaHunt every chance we could. We also got to watch all the cartoons that were first run, Yogi bear, Bugs Bunny,Speedy Gonzales, Road Runner,Popeye, Foghorn Leghorn.Our gang/Little Rascals,Lone Ranger,Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and some I've forgotten.We also got to go to the matinee on saturday when all the old serials were shown.
I was a young fan of Sea Hunt and avidly watched as many as I could. Often thought back on those early episodes and wondered about the technical difficulties involved in filming underwater. It was very well done and stands apart as one of the great early television shows.
I think ZIV had only three series were sold to networks. Men Into Space, Tombstone Territory (which went into first-run syndication for its' final season), and Bat Masterson.
Bridges' resurgence actually began in 1978 with his guest star role of The Legendary Commander Cain on the original Battlestar Galactica.
It was my favorite show to watch on a regular basis. I hated it when it stopped.
Mr. Bridges Senior is my favorite actor. I recently went online and purchased a color photo of Mr. B. as Mike Nelson, a "Sea Hunt" novel for young readers, AND licensed Sea Hunt comic books from Dell. I also enjoy Sea Hunt online and on DVD.
As a child of the 50s, I think that I may have seen Sea Hunt in its first run, late on saturday nights. Not so much Mike Nelson, but the locations above and below sea level interested me as I lived hundreds of miles from the ocean. As I got older, I would notice all the soon to be big stars playing smallish parts on the show. Leonard Nimoy appears multiple times as both good and bad guy.
I'm 75 & you're right! The original broadcast of "Sea Hunt' was on in the late 50's,
at 10:30 p.m. Saturday night on CBS, right after the half-hour version of "Gunsmoke"!
I know. I was surprised to see Mr. Nimoy was nearly at the infancy of TV.
Sea Hunt going under water to Sky King going the other way. What else would a boy growing up in Florida need! I became a SCUBA before there was any certifications. Taught first by my Jr. high school band director then certified by "Mr. SCUBA" himself, Hal Watts. Mike Nelson started that ball rolling. Kirby Grant "Sky King" caused me to become a commercial pilot. Yes sir, real hero's in my book. That's what we had back in the "good ol' days". Gosh, we were blessed to have grown up then!
Sea Hunt was my motivation to become a certified diver.
PADI here.
Me Too....
I thought it was a wonderful show to. I always enjoyed those water adventures.đ
this sea hunt was great had a radio back in the day that picked up tv channels in car could listen to it with the narration and music you could keep track of the show perfectly
Because of Loyd Bridges and Sea Hunt, I got my NASDS and NAUI dive cards in 1965 as a 12 year old. My first deep water dive was at Catalina Island.
The Sea Hunt series helped take away my fear of deep water (mostly). I enjoyed snorkeling and viewing the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, where I live.
At 1:30 to 2:00, referencing to stations going off the air at night, I wonder, how many people younger than myself (I'm 64) have never seen a test pattern or the "High Flight" video at sign-off? From Cheech & Chong, "hey, man, what are you watching?". "Oh man, it's a movie about Indians, but it's really boring". "Man, that's not a movie, man, thats a test pattern, man!".
This was already in syndication when I was born in 63 and I remember watching it occasionally as a child but I was really too young to appreciate it. I didn't really get to watch it until 2009. I was working a graveyard shift job without that much to do and some station was showing this at 4:00 AM followed by another Ziv Productions show, Highway Patrol. I enjoyed them both and was surprised at how many later famous actors turned up in small parts.
Great series! Inspired many of us to get into scuba diving.
Sea Hunt was so influential on my life. I became a diver, took all of the PADI Certs. Became a USMC Force Recon Combatant Diver and eventually teamed up with a former Navy SEAL to do commercial U/W assignments. All of this from the influence of Mike Nelson. I try not to think about how much more successful I could have been without SeaHunt
awesome! love hearing these stories. I loved everything about the series especially the theme.
I find it ironic that the first rule of diving is to ALWAYS dive with a buddy, a point Mike Nelson makes to his students in multiple episodes. BUT, on virtually every assignment, Nelson dives solo. I'm guessing the show's budget wouldn't allow a partner...
No, it wasnt about that. Mike was the macho hero at all times and always.
I watched all the episodes twice a few months ago. Upon researching the history of the show I learned more about the details and ultimate cancellation. Bad decision to cancel, in my view. I would like to have seen more Sea Hunt. Good vid. Keep at it!
I had no idea that Mr. Bridges was affiliated with a Commie organization. Rather disappointing.
I really enjoyed your research and great information. There are many more wonderful hollywood stories and fun filled facts that surround Sea Hunt the TV show, not to mention all the real-life underwater and behind the scenes heroes that made the show a hit. For instance the real-life ARGONAUT is actually named FIVE SEA SONS. She is the 1961 33ft TROJAN Yacht used in season four. Producers wanted Mr. Bridges to be seen performing his own stunts by that time since he was a very skilled diver by season four. She was custom ordered and hand crafted for the show and was given the name FIVE SEA SONS in hopes of a fifth season and beyond...
Signed,
Owner of FIVE SEA SONS aka ARGONAUT
My introduction to Lloyd Bridges was his heroic depiction of Mike Nelson in "Sea Hunt." I remember watching the show regularly after I got home from school. In the mid 60s I saw "High Noon" on television one Saturday afternoon. It's one of my favorite movies. I was shocked to see Lloyd playing such a jerk in that movie.
Thanks for that bit about Lloyd being blacklisted because of his alleged Communist affiliation. It is shameful that right-wing zealots should have questioned the loyalty of a Coast Guard frogman to his country.
Like many scuba divers in my age group, it was watching 'Sea Hunt' as a boy that was largely responsible for piquing my interest. Watching Jacques Cousteau's many TV specials, as well as 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' and 'Thunderball,' among others, didn't hurt, but it was mostly 'Sea Hunt.'
My late husband was a huge Cousteau fan. He loved Sea Hunt and after the popularity of the movie, The Deep, he finally got certified.
ZIV was the bomb!!! I love all ZIV shows. In the late '70s our local indy station aired a different ZIV show at 5:30am. So at 14 I got very family with Seahunt, Highway Patrol, Bat Masterson, Boston Blackie and my personal favorite I Led 3 Lives. I also loved that the underwater sequences were filmed in Florida where I grew up.
ZIV productions was such a major contribitor to the TV market in the late 1950's and early 1960's. I would like to see a more in depth video on the subject. Thanks to "Rerun Zone" for the shout out of "ZIV" they were such a pioneer in the early days of TV series production.
Iâm a fan to production music used on Sea Hunt, even a few pieces (7) has make it to âNight Of The Living Deadâ. Those 7 ZIV Tunes were from Reel S-13 and Reel S-14, from the Capitol Production Music Library, (and ZIV Production Music Library). Yes, thereâs some âscaryâ Trombones with its Bomp Bomp Bommmmmmmmm, heard on both NOTLD, and Sea Hunt, and Highway Patrol, and others, itâs the last 3 notes from S-14 TC-155.
Because of Sea Hunt as an adult I became a scuba diver and member of PADI .
Black & White TV made us think and imagine more than the HD, Hi Res 5.1 shows of today. A trip to the movie theater was really something. Seeing an actor in person was never disappointing. The world changed.....
I remember this show being on really early on Saturday and Sunday mornings when I lived in Virginia in the early 70s. Always enjoyed it, in its what I always identify Lloyd Bridges with.
What part of Virgnia.
@@shinjaokinawa5122 Newport News
I too watched Sea Hunt as a child and enjoyed it !
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I'm with you Rerun. I loved "Sea Hunt", and when I saw the episodes later (being a little older), I noticed that the women featured were very pretty. My favorite episode shows the Grumman Goose seaplane that made the San Pedro/Avalon run.
Theme music is haunting
Sea Hunt was cancelled because Lloyd Bridges changed careers and went into air traffic control, you remember âAirplaneâ!
Very good information đ great job
Sea Hunt led me to 50 years as a Sport Diving instructor dive shop owner PADI m1210 NAUI #3112 SSI instructor emeritus Retire at 78. Thank for the ride. Mr Bridges.
Because the Sea Hunt theme creeped me out, I couldn't watch the show until adulthood. Now I đ it and watch it on DVD. Wish I could have met Lloyd Bridges. He is one of my favorite actors. And if he had played Captain Kirk, I might be able to watch Star Trek. What a Handsome Hottie! Rowr Rowr!
I Liked the Hope & Crosby Road to Hong Kong Movie. When Bob Hope Wise Crack "That Shark Looked Like He Just Eat Lloyd Bridges" LOL (smile)
I wanted to be like Mike Nelson since I was 3 yrs old. By 14 yrs old, I was PADI certified, diving Catalina Island. Later on, I worked for ScubaPro in pursuit of this idea. However, the cast of twits there turned the stay into a sickening circus. Three years ago, I finally acquired a set of twin 38's and a double hose regulator. The coroney baloney scamdemic wrecked my ability to book any boat dives to fulfill my childhood dream. Still working on it. Is high on the bucket list. When I finally get to dive my vintage gear, I plan to bring a watertight MP3 player loaded with the Sea Hunt theme music to play during the dive.
The only reason there was a Captain Kirk was because Jeffrey Hunter did not come back to reprise his role of Captain Pike. If Bridges accepted the role, we could have had Bridges, Nimoy and the rest for three years, than the animated series and movies. Imagine that!
In the 70s, I watched this and used my GI Joe SCUBA diver with sea sled to reenact every episode
It's also worth recalling that, early on in his movie career, Lloyd Bridges was the opposite of Mike Nelson, as he (convincingly) played sneering hoodlums and gangsters.
Lloyd didnât follow the US Navy Dive Tables closely enoughâŠ..thatâs whyâŠ
Sea Hunt was a great adventure series. And to think Lloyd Bridges did a comedic turn as one of the Mandelbaum boys in an episode of Seinfeld.
Thank You!
Agreed with you 100% until "JAWS" came out! Haven't been in salt water since 1975.
Used to watch Sea Hunt all the time. Great stuff.
I love that show as a kid still like it I havenât seen it in years now. Going to search it out and watch A few episodes again now
I donât believe Iâve ever caught an episode of See hunt. The only underwater series I remember when I was a kid was voyage to the bottom of the Sea which I truly did enjoy and watch pretty much every episode of. Iâm gonna have to try to find sea hunt and check it out. Still shocked I missed it, I loved all those far-fetched TV shows of the day like land of the Giants, Star Trek lost in space stuff like that. By the way because if you did a video of some of those shows. Thanks for the video.
If you get on Amazon or eBay, pretty sure you can buy Sea Hunt on DVD. Or watch it online. Hope you enjoy the show.
Better get on it!
The Real Mike Nelson will always be the MST3K and Rifftrax guy. The Other Mike Nelson is Lloyd Bridges, whose show Sea Hunt went downhill quite a bit later on when they started doing more and more international espionage plots compared to the generally more grounded stories earlier on.
Sea Hunt got me into scuba. Flipper encouraged me to move to Miami
Time to give sea hunt a rerun
During the Laughing Gas Craze of the Mid 70s, Lloyd can be attributed to the Phrase âDonât Lloyd the Tankâ
A parallel to âDonât Bogart that Jointâ..Cheers
As a young child I watch Sea Hunt every time it came on. I wanted to be a scuba diver but I had to take swimming lessons. My mother registered need for swimming lessons. When they have free sessions I would go underwater hold my breath in 10 I was Mike Nelson. That was unusual for a young girl. Especially a young black girl. I took swimming lessons never did become a scuba diver but it was because of Sea Hunt that I learn to swim and also by the integrated I didn't know that till later a swimming pool
That show sounds pretty great. I should probably go find it.
Please do!
I loved this show when I was a kid. I couldn't wait to get my SCUBA license as soon as I was 16. Still love watching Mike using that classic vintage gear
Well, we still don't know why it was cancelled.
Glad I grew up in the 60's, The world as a whole wasn't as screwed up as now!