I really enjoyed Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson as a kid. There was no other series like it and the underwater scenes were extremely well done for it's time.
Well, OK, some of the "special effects" were believable to a kid then, but obviously fairly obvious today. Such as when Mike gets tossed around by strong "killer" currents, but everything else in the scene is serene -- the plant life, his air bubbles, etc. This is somewhat like the special effects on "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger" where the actors would bounce around in their seats to simulate their ship being attached or in space trouble/turmoil for one reason or another.
What I really liked was when reruns were shown in the afternoon and I was home with the flu on school days. There's so much narration by Mike that I didn't really have to sit up and watch the old Westinghouse B&W 17-inch TV in the bedroom room, on its last legs. It was like listening to the radio.
Some of the episodes, though, are extremely bizarre when seen today, which is kinda fun. In one, and I guess we can have spoilers for a series that was on around 60 years ago, involved Mike and his crew summoned to either Ireland or the Scottish coast.
Locals are reporting a monster, traveling a terrific speeds through the water, scaring the population and destroying the fishing industry. Mike sets up a series of underwater nets to capture the monster, but it just breaks through all of them and keeps going. Some locals have even seen it, all green.
This is the dawning age of Sputnik, the first Earth orbiting satellite from the Soviet Union.
Turns out this "monster" is actually some government's ocean satellite, capable of traveling at incredibly high speeds under the seas. Any green on it was just kelp or seaweed.
Well, OK. Believable a half century ago as a kid.
Well, OK, some of the "special effects" were believable to a kid then, but obviously fairly obvious today. Such as when Mike gets tossed around by strong "killer" currents, but everything else in the scene is serene -- the plant life, his air bubbles, etc. This is somewhat like the special effects on "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger" where the actors would bounce around in their seats to simulate their ship being attached or in space trouble/turmoil for one reason or another.
What I really liked was when reruns were shown in the afternoon and I was home with the flu on school days. There's so much narration by Mike that I didn't really have to sit up and watch the old Westinghouse B&W 17-inch TV in the bedroom room, on its last legs. It was like listening to the radio.
Some of the episodes, though, are extremely bizarre when seen today, which is kinda fun. In one, and I guess we can have spoilers for a series that was on around 60 years ago, involved Mike and his crew summoned to either Ireland or the Scottish coast.
Locals are reporting a monster, traveling a terrific speeds through the water, scaring the population and destroying the fishing industry. Mike sets up a series of underwater nets to capture the monster, but it just breaks through all of them and keeps going. Some locals have even seen it, all green.
This is the dawning age of Sputnik, the first Earth orbiting satellite from the Soviet Union.
Turns out this "monster" is actually some government's ocean satellite, capable of traveling at incredibly high speeds under the seas. Any green on it was just kelp or seaweed.
Well, OK. Believable a half century ago as a kid.