Talk:Sea Hunt

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Wasn't the 1986 remake Canadian? --squadfifteen 3/10/05

No mention of Marineland of the Pacific, which was listed in the end credits of each episode (for season 1 at least). I'm pretty sure many of the fish shots were from Marineland's tanks. Wayne 12/4/07 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.20.235.52 (talk) 09:46, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article says that the networks all turned down Sea Hunt, feeling that the premise was not sustainable. However, I have long heard that the problem was that Ivan Tors insisted Lloyd Bridges play the lead, but the actor had not long before cursed during a broadcast-live play and was consequently blacklisted. Anybody have documentation? Ted Watson (talk) 21:54, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article says:

The underwater sequences were filmed in a matrix fashion

What is a "matrix fashion"? Looking over the matrix disambiguation page, I find nothing that seems to fit. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:21, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would assume that they filmed various shots in different locations and then edited them together to comprise a scene. 63.192.101.43 (talk) 01:49, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, some anonymous person "would assume". But where can I find something that by someone who at least sounds as if they know? Michael Hardy (talk) 03:23, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Googled the show and could many (if any) reliable references or sources for this article other than IMDB and other fan type sites. The only two that any "really" good data were:

http://www.tvparty.com/acseahunt.html

http://www.tv.com/sea-hunt/show/3003/summary.html?tag=page_nav;main

Maybe someone could incorporate some of the info on those two sites. Morenooso (talk) 09:08, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

While looking at the tags above, I noticed that one says a low resolution screenshot might be helpful. I looked up Lloyd Bridges here and on Wikicommons but no pictures of him as Mike Nelson appear within either. Funny but a Yahoo image search came up with lots of pix but none that I could determine exist within the Public Domain:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=lloyd+bridges+sea+hunt&ni=18&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush-mail&fr2=tab-web&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=1

Another of the tag references what effects this article/show had on society. A reader can see from this image search DVDs, comic books, etal were generated. Maybe a regular editor could find a way to incorporate this search into useful data for the article. Morenooso (talk) 09:19, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The aircraft involved in the pilot episode was a Navy (not Air Force) jet; specifically the F2Y Sea Dart. I was going to correct this mistake and link to the appropriate Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2Y_Sea_Dart), but the topic is locked. Somebody needs to fix this.

If you don't believe me, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_BqJEldOw — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.127.23.2 (talk) 01:30, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK Someone removed the lock. I've made the corrections 08/29/2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.127.23.2 (talk) 13:26, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There were some edits made in December 2015 which removed substantial content, some of it referenced. Whole sections were blanked with no explanation. It also left some parts of the article incoherent. Not sure what the rationale was, I've reverted those edits. There might be some issues remaining, but sorting the wheat from the chaff on this one is too difficult for me. 60.240.207.146 (talk) 07:25, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This edit says the show "was filmed in a matrix fashion". That statement still appears in the article today. What is a "matrix fashion"? Wikipedia's article titled matrix (disambiguation) sheds no light. Michael Hardy (talk) 22:40, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Matrix fashion" was a clumsy term to describe individual scenes shot at many different locations being later combined in post-production to form complete sequences. I fixed it. - LuckyLouie (talk) 01:34, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Didn't some wrong-ocean cases occur w/r to native wildlife? For example, an episode would be set in the Caribbean only to have a Pacific Ocean species show up? Carlm0404 (talk) 00:24, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What does this mean ? Is it some new aesthetic of which others, i.e. me, are unaware? Or is it intended to mean ‘the technique of using Self-Contained, Underwater Breathing Apparatus’? Golly, how I wish I knew. In used to watch ‘Sea Hunt’ as a kid, but I never knew it was an art-form of some kind. Gawsh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:C8F7:F661:133:8C0C (talk • contribs)

"the art of..." is an American and UK idiom, meaning the skill of, i.e. gaining proficiency in some chosen activity, e.g.

The Art Of War, The Art of Electronics, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, etc. - LuckyLouie (talk) 16:37, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply

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I just added the paragraph and link about the Royal Huntation Society of Princeton and want to reassure any Wikipedia editors that the material is literally true. Sea Hunt was on at 1 a.m. and a gang of us watched it religiously and came up with the counting-huhs goof. Our class just had its fiftieth reunion and we agreed it was time to record this history. Martycap — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.197.165 (talk) 00:54, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there's

WP:NOTEVERYTHING to consider. This appears to be a bit of non-notable trivia where the only reference is from a student newspaper. - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:25, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply

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