Classic Cars of Sea Hunt (TV Series 1958-1961)

[@FusionKidd]

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[@Geoduck.]

Loved this show back in the day as a young kid.

[@buzzwaldron6195]

There was always a desperate time limit... before they drowned... I did some SCUBA diving...

[@TheRealDrJoey]

75 year-young dude here, and yes, I noticed right away that you are doing a respectable Mike Nelson impression. This is a beauty of a viddy.

[@1940limited]

It was a great TV show. Loved watching it.

[@buzzwaldron6195]

76 here... surprised how wrinkly Lloyds face looked in the beginning, he was fairly young back then... I still have my rare '77 Pontiac Astre FORMULA Safari (kammback) Station Wagon upgraded with SBC 405" 555 HP... 01:32 that Pontiac may have had fuel injection... standard on Bonnevilles...

[@markg7030]

@@buzzwaldron6195 I think it had the rare Tri- Power carb set up. There is an emblem on the fender.

[@dillysgirl4ever]

@@markg7030 which is probably why The Man made it to the carny show so quickly! Although I would have loved to see The Man’s ‘58 Bonneville go up against a ‘56 DeSoto Adventurer which had an early 330 hemi. Too bad Harry Baldwin (the bad guy) wasn’t up for a drag race.

[@grecco_buckliano]

Another great post! I really enjoy these and I like when you give a short summary of the scenes the cars are in. PERFECT!

[@victorcarrasco9267]

I am 66 yrs old I remember watching sea hunt back in 1964\ 65 with my 3 other brothers . 👍

[@victorcarrasco9267]

Thanks 🙏

[@glennnickerson8438]

Lloyd Bridges before he became an air traffic controller... I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing airplane glue Fusion Kidd!😆

[@WilliamParmley]

Very good, I really enjoyed this! Thanks for putting it together.

[@johngraves6878]

Very entertaining. The voiceover was especially good and almost sounds like Bridges himself!

[@RickB1792]

My favorite show when I was about 7-8 years old. This narrator’s voice is amazingly like “Mike Nelson’s”.

[@coldlakealta4043]

1948 baby here: Everything in the house stopped when Sea Hunt came on. Mom sometimes made us a bowl of popcorn before it started. We had a little black and white TV with a rabbit ears antennae which had to be fine tuned during the show. Great memories.

[@1940limited]

This guy sure knows his cars, even the foreign stuff and trucks. Good job.

[@madmike2624]

My brother, I am 58 going on 59 and I have never even heard of this show, you are one of a kind!!!!~

[@1940limited]

I think reruns are on You Tube.

[@jkokich]

@@madmike2624 it’s a great show! I think the underwater photography won awards.

[@loualiberti4781]

Very well Done !! Thank U !!

[@kevinhamblin951]

Thanks Fusion Kidd ! Sea Hunt was a very good program……as kids we rigged Rubber band spear guns with cut up car tire inter tubes😊 a clothes pin let the big rubber bands go !

[@turbinexman]

Those were some cool cars!!

[@Pauley_in_GP]

Great video. I remember watching this series as a kid. It's surprising to see the variety of vehicles used. Seems that most TV series of the day stuck with a specific brand that may have doubled as sponsors - although my memory could indeed be faulty. That was a very long time ago.

[@dillysgirl4ever]

Pauley, you’re absolutely right. Many shows back then either were sponsored by automakers or had contracts with automakers to use their cars exclusively on the show (Andy Griffith Show is an example of that). Sea Hunt, being a syndicated series and having just local or regional sponsors, had no such problem.

[@1940limited]

I think you're right on that.

[@1940limited]

@@dillysgirl4ever Interesting. Andy Griffith is a perfect example of Fords all the way.

[@dillysgirl4ever]

@@1940limited yuppers. They had a contract with Ford for years. Speaking of Ford, they also sponsored The FBI around the same time period so that’s why everyone (including the bad guys) drove Fords.

[@1940limited]

@@dillysgirl4ever Nothing wrong with Fords but the scenes are obviously staged when the same make of cars are used everywhere. I always noticed that stuff as a kid watching these shows plus Ford isn't my favorite brand.

[@zora_noamflannery2548]

- Sea Hunt and Sky King were my favorite shows. I envied the hell out of Jeff and Beau Bridges and had a huge crush on Penny. Probly the reason for my fascination with SCUBA diving and airplanes.

[@rongendron8705]

I'm 78 & watched both shows, religiously! Sky King was on & off by the time Sea Hunt started in 1958! Both great shows!

[@dillysgirl4ever]

Thank you Fusion Kid!!!! My all-time favorite show paired with those amazing cars!!! You are the BEST!!!!!

[@Maria-z3mp]

4:27 That's a handsome young Peter Breck, later of Big Valley fame, playing the bad guy.

[@tonypetracca9530]

Clever idea. Love the cars. Boomer who watched the show back in the day. Thanks!

[@kevinguitar1224]

Did Mike drive a different vehicle in every episode???

[@MarvinThiessen]

I watched every episode I could as a kid during Sea Hunt's TV run on a black & white set, seems like another lifetime ago. 2:02-2:06, no bra, very nice!

[@tphvictims5101]

Mike filled his tanks with Nitrous Oxide and drove around like that. It’s the reason he went through so many cars.

[@JAMESPATTERSON-mk9sr]

I can understand high priced lawyer Perry Mason driving different expensive cars on his vid . Rugged Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson on Sea hunt must have made a fortune to drive a different car in addition to maintaining scuba diving equipment in every episode . Maybe the difference was that old Perry had to pay for Miss Della's wardrobe and changing coiffeur and Paul Drake' s seemingly world wide detective business .

[@1940limited]

Perry got a new, black, Cadillac convertible every season.

[@jkokich]

What a fun video! I wonder why they used so many different cars…

[@1940limited]

They weren't sponsored by any particular manufacturer.

[@jkokich]

@ I wonder if the crew went up to cast members and said, “Hey, can we use your car in this episode? How’s $15 a day sound?”

[@1940limited]

@@jkokich Wouldn't surprise me. I'm sure owners would be happy to comply.

[@mexicanspec]

It is interesting how many police cars back there were 2 doors.

[@1940limited]

It's how you keep the prisoners in the back! 🙂

[@buzzwaldron6195]

Back in the days before murderous Democrat junkie criminals...

[@youtubecarspottersguide1]

cool show did you do ' flipper' or the Dorris day show ?

[@dr.plutonus1496]

Did the NYPD ever actually use Nash Ambassadors as squad cars?

[@nlpnt]

My first thought is that it was left over from Superman.

[@cheeptrick5464]

@@nlpnt a car Jimmy Olson would drive

[@1940limited]

You see a lot of those Nashes used as police cars in TV shows and movies of the era. Don't think NYC ever used them, but can't be sure.

[@kevinhamblin951]

Airplane 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@nlpnt]

OK, that had to be the same '46 Chevy in both "roles".

[@1940limited]

Pretty sure. I think the second scene the folded down the wipers! 🙂