In Search of...
Psychic Sea Hunt
TV Flash files “Psychic Sea Hunt” as hour 65 of 152 in the TV Flash guide — In Search of... (1977–1982) on Syndicated, season 3, episode 17, aired 1979-01-25, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E17: listed hour 65 of 152 in the In Search of... guide, hour 17 of 24 in season 3. It aired 1979-01-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd)” (S03E16). Next is “The Angel of Death (aka Joseph Mengele)” (S03E18).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Various individuals with psychic abilities are given a map of the ocean floor and asked to identify areas that may contain long-forgotten shipwrecks and perhaps even treasure. A submarine travels to the selected spots to gauge the results.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Psychic Sea Hunt sit in the In Search of... guide?
S03E17 is listed hour 65 of 152 — hour 17 of 24 in season 3, season 3 episode 17.
When did In Search of... S03E17 air?
Psychic Sea Hunt aired 1979-01-25 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is this a skeptical documentary?
It investigates with serious tone and does not require a closed answer. Nimoy's calm is the gravitas; the hypothesis can stay open.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Leonard Nimoy narrates Bigfoot, Atlantis, and every late-night rabbit hole with Spock-grade calm. Syndicated paranormal documentary as mass habit, occult-chic 1970s meeting proto-cable mystery television. The voice, the grainy reenactments, and the pleasure of a hypothesis that never has to close.
The voice arrives before the hypothesis. Syndicated, 1977–1982 in the best-known version: Alan Landsburg's In Search of... puts Leonard Nimoy in the host/narrator chair covering UFOs, cryptids, lost civilizations, and conspiracies with serious tone and eerie synths. Spock-grade calm lending gravitas to wild hypotheses. Bigfoot, Atlantis, every late-night rabbit hole. Grainy reenactments. Occult-chic 1970s meeting proto-cable mystery television. Aesthetic ancestor of countless paranormal docuseries. **They were…
Filed against
- Leonard Nimoy as Narrator / Host
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