Sea Hunt — Season 3

Aired 9 January 1960

Working for the State Department, Mike attempts to rescue a political prisoner in South America by using a harbor city's canal system.

Aired 16 January 1960

A swimsuit designer hires Mike to do an underwater fashion shoot, but corporate espionage interferes with the job.

Aired 23 January 1960

Mike attempts to deal a blow to organized crime by using a periscope camera to photograph a secret meeting of mob bosses at a lakeside estate.

Aired 30 January 1960

Mike finds high radiation coming from the hull of a foreign freighter, but when the Coast Guard investigates, they find no trace of the radioactivity.

Aired 6 February 1960

An accidental death puts Mike onto an espionage ring that is using an underwater cave for a microfilm drop site.

Aired 13 February 1960

Mike and a female health official try to remove a dangerously radioactive capsule from a sunken ship.

Aired 20 February 1960

Mike, working with a pretty Secret Service agent, poses as a scientist in order to retrieve a cache of counterfeit currency from a crashed Nazi plane off the coast of a Caribbean republic.

Aired 27 February 1960

Mike finds that someone has tapped the underwater cable used in monitoring a televised missile test.

Aired 5 March 1960

Mike rescues a diver in the Bahamas, then helps her with her research into the origin of a jade statue she owns.

Aired 12 March 1960

While on patrol with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Mike discovers a deported crime boss trying to re-enter the country, then has to rescue him from some old enemies.

Aired 19 March 1960

Mike leads the way in a salvage operation to recover more than a million dollars' worth of gems from the captain's safe of a sunken ship.

Aired 26 March 1960

In preparation for the visit of a foreign head of state, Mike helps the Coast Guard do a security check on the area.

Aired 2 April 1960

A new revolutionary leader asks Mike to help him retrieve his country's hidden gold reserves, believed to have been hidden aboard a scuttled freighter by the ousted former dictator.

Aired 9 April 1960

While marking underwater sites for demolition by a construction company, Mike learns that a young boy is trapped in a submerged grotto that has already been mined with an explosive.

Aired 16 April 1960

While supervising an expedition in the Indian Ocean to find a rare coelacanth fish, Mike finds that the organizer is dangerously eager to impress his fiance.

Aired 23 April 1960

Scientists risk triggering a tidal wave when they ignore Mike's warnings about the strength of the explosive charges they're using.

Aired 30 April 1960

Mike faces arrows and an alligator in the Mayan jungle while searching for a drug that could be a boon to medicine or a dangerous narcotic.

Aired 7 May 1960

Mike tries to reach a little girl trapped in the air shaft of a mine located at the edge of a man-made lake, but the potential for a landslide hampers his attempt.

Aired 14 May 1960

Mike searches for a vanished oceanographer by retracing her charted course.

Aired 21 May 1960

Mike discovers the wreck of a navy ship that disappeared mysteriously, and is joined by a pair of its former crew members when he dives to examine it.

Aired 28 May 1960

Mike becomes suspicious when his hired dive on a Spanish galleon yields a rare art treasure.

Aired 4 June 1960

While diving in Lake Ontario, Mike is sent by the Coast Guard to investigate an item that crashed into the lake nearby, which may be an enemy ICBM.

Aired 11 June 1960

An East Indian oceanographer vanishes during a series of underwater experiments with infra-red light.

Aired 18 June 1960

Mike and an old war buddy use a new, untested ""re-breather"" to investigate an underwater missile site being constructed in the channel of a privately-owned island.

Aired 25 June 1960

Mike helps a friend in the military with his tests of underwater radar equipment.

Aired 2 July 1960

Mike straightens out a pair of teenagers who poisoned a shark Mike had captured for Marineland.

Aired 9 July 1960

While helping to test a friend's underwater radio device, Mike discovers a submerged radio beacon, camouflaged and guarded by an electric gun.

Aired 16 July 1960

A small Latin American country calls upon Mike to help defuse a sunken munitions ship set to blow by saboteurs.

Aired 23 July 1960

Mike goes after a newlywed teenager turned fugitive after a bungled holdup prompts him to hide in the city's storm drain system.

Aired 30 July 1960

Mike trains a pair of frogmen for a rescue mission in which they will rescue their kidnapped president from an ancient fortress.

Aired 6 August 1960

When Mike is called upon to teach scuba diving to his former mentor who trained him in helmet diving, he finds that the older man is not physically up to it.

Aired 13 August 1960

The Coast Guard asks Mike to investigate the drowning death of a scientist who had invented a new type of rebreather.

Aired 20 August 1960

A scientific society hires Mike to obtain fossil samples from a newly-discovered underwater cavern for the purpose of authentication.

Aired 27 August 1960

Mike discovers a plant growing profusely on the ocean floor that turns out to be a hybrid cannabis, and he is speared when he investigates further.

Aired 3 September 1960

Mike is sent by the government to investigate a jamming signal affecting a listening station in the Indian Ocean.

Aired 10 September 1960

Another movie company using Mike as an advisor needs his help when a planned torpedo blast traps the star and a Hollywood columnist onboard a sinking ship.

Aired 17 September 1960

Mike races foreign agents to a missile fired from Central Asia in order to photograph it on the sea bottom and obtain its data recorder.

Aired 24 September 1960

Mike tries to outmaneuver a foreign harbormaster as he attempts to retrieve a diplomatic pouch from an airliner that crashed into the sea.

Aired 1 October 1960

Mike responds to a ""man overboard"" situation, but an extensive search turns up no victim.