Sea Hunt
Round Up
TV Flash files “Round Up” as a desk essential hour — Sea Hunt (1958–1961) on Syndication, season 4, episode 38, aired 1961-09-23, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E38: listed hour 155 of 155 in the Sea Hunt guide, last listed hour of season 4. It aired 1961-09-23 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Crime at Sea” (S04E37). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Round Up”. Round Up closes 1961: last named dive, Bridges packing the tanks after making divers of a living-room generation.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Round Up sit in the Sea Hunt guide?
S04E38 is listed hour 155 of 155 — last listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 38.
When did Sea Hunt S04E38 air?
Round Up aired 1961-09-23 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Bridges underwater. Mike Nelson's assignments and the real diving footage are the show; you have the form in one dive.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Sea Hunt put Lloyd Bridges in scuba gear and made divers of a generation. Syndicated underwater adventure that popularized scuba as TV spectacle. In 2026 it is worth watching as location action before cheap CGI, plus the family-business lore of Beau and Jeff hanging around a set that actually went underwater.
The silhouette is a man in scuba, tanks on the back, California light turning the Pacific into a second red carpet nobody called a carpet. Sea Hunt (first-run syndication, 1958–1961) put Lloyd Bridges in the water for 155 episodes produced by Ivan Tors, real diving footage and aquatic stunts as the whole look. Ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson takes dangerous underwater assignments off the coast. Kids watching in 1958 grew up wanting tanks for Christmas; the series is credited with boosting public interest in scuba.…
Filed against
- Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson
Lloyd Bridges put a generation in scuba as Mike Nelson on Sea Hunt — syndicated underwater adventure that made location action the spectacle and the ocean a weekly set. No cheap CGI, just a man and a tank. TV Flash files him as 1950s…