Sea Hunt — Season 4

Aired 7 January 1961

Mike is trapped in a ""scubasphere"" when the cable attached to it snaps.

Aired 14 January 1961

While surveying a remote river in the South American jungle, Mike is threatened by the jealousy of a man prospecting for emeralds with his wife.

Aired 21 January 1961

Mike investigates the source of a radar jamming signal that caused two ships to collide.

Aired 28 January 1961

A famous newsman, convinced that he has a fatal illness, tries to end his life in such a way that his wife can collect his insurance, with Mike as a witness.

Aired 4 February 1961

A scuba diving ballerina faces the possibility of underwater amputation when she catches her foot between the buckled plates of a sunken freighter.

Aired 11 February 1961

After being accidentally caught in a fishing net, Mike challenges an Asiatic warlord by trying to retrieve a cache of medical supplies that the dictator has dumped into a river.

Aired 18 February 1961

Unaware that two of his treasure-hunting friends are trapped inside, Mike sets charges to blow up a sunken ship that is a menace to a busy shipping lane.

Aired 25 February 1961

Mike scouts a path through mine-infested waters so that medical supplies can reach a China Sea port hit by a cholera epidemic.

Aired 4 March 1961

Mike's efforts to retrieve a pair of radioactive cylinders are complicated by the presence of a headstrong youth to whom he's been giving diving lessons.

Aired 11 March 1961

Mike uses sonar to foil a gang of underwater heroin smugglers.

Aired 18 March 1961

A young Mexican boy helps Mike locate a safe entrance to an underwater fossil cave.

Aired 25 March 1961

Mike faces sharks and other unexpected difficulties while working with three pretty women undergoing astronaut training.

Aired 1 April 1961

Mike is hired by a local German consul to salvage a survival kit from the wreckage of a Nazi warplane in the Caribbean.

Aired 8 April 1961

While helping his former history professor search for pirate treasure off the North Carolina coast, Mike finds evidence that the underwater cave said to house the treasure has been tampered with.

Aired 15 April 1961

Mike convinces a reluctant daughter to continue her father's work after he is killed testing an underwater electrical detection device.

Aired 22 April 1961

A man bribes Mike to continue giving lessons to an inept diving student whom he's stopped teaching.

Aired 29 April 1961

Mike heads a three-man team in an effort to disarm a pair of unexploded torpedoes at the bototm of a West Coast harbor.

Aired 6 May 1961

A restless youth and a college girl complicate Mike's attempts at capturing a poisonous lionfish.

Aired 13 May 1961

A heroic test pilot from the Korean War has his mettle tested when he must spend 24 hours with Mike in a makeshift decompression chamber after a dive to prevent the bends from killing him.

Aired 20 May 1961

Markings on the body of a dead diver convince a marine biologist that a tropical lagoon is inhabited by a killer octopus.

Aired 27 May 1961

One salvage diver disappears while diving on a sunken yacht off the coast of Yucatan, and Mike tries to see that two others don't share his fate.

Aired 3 June 1961

Mike teams up with a Mexican prison escapee to uncover nefarious activity on an uncharted Pacific atoll off the coast of South America.

Aired 10 June 1961

Mike must get past Jivaro Indians who are blocking his passage downriver as he attempts to get a young missionary's baby to a hospital for medical attention.

Aired 17 June 1961

Mike poses as a tourist on vacation as he tries to locate a hidden underwater missile launcher in the Caribbean.

Aired 24 June 1961

Pirates try to snatch a sunken freighter away from Mike before he can salvage it for an old Navy buddy.

Aired 1 July 1961

While working for the U.S. Treasury to break a counterfeiting ring, Mike intercedes in a kidnapping.

Aired 8 July 1961

A pretty woman and her father, vacationing in the Bahamas, become killers after inadvertently eating a variety of fish that causes hallucinations.

Aired 15 July 1961

A sunken truck points Mike to the murder of a political boss, and the killer is the father of a good friend of Mike's.

Aired 22 July 1961

Mike goes after an egocentric movie star who injured a friend of Mike's in a hit-and-fun speedboat accident.

Aired 29 July 1961

While searching a Latin American harbor for a sunken statue, Mike discovers a UHF homing beacon being used to guide submarines into the port.

Aired 5 August 1961

A dead ringer for Mike is stealing diamonds from a sunken sports cruiser, but when Mike is accused of the crime, he is unable to establish an alibi due to his current top-secret mission.

Aired 12 August 1961

While on a diving expedition in Guatemala, a woman seeking to slow down her husband's frantic lifestyle deliberately sinks the boat they share, unaware that her husband is a diabetic and his insulin supply will be lost with the vessel.

Aired 19 August 1961

Mike's assistant is trapped underwater by an overturned truck containing drums of poison that could endanger a South American city's water supply.

Aired 26 August 1961

Mike helps test a remote control guidance device invented by a rich eccentric.

Aired 2 September 1961

A naval officer of a Caribbean nation is sabotaging a series of experiments Mike is conducting with the Coast Guard.

Aired 9 September 1961

During hydroplane races, a friend of Mike's rams his craft into a Coast Guard ship, leaving Mike to investigate.

Aired 16 September 1961

Mike helps the daughter of his old UDT Commander investigate the man's death, which she believes was murder.

Aired 23 September 1961

Mike must find and disarm a torpedo that's been sent into the outflow tube of a hydro-electric plant.