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Capture Of The Santa Rosa

Thriller

26

Jul 25, 1958

When a Latin American diplomat and his family are kidnapped, the authorities hesitate to act lest the captives are killed. Mike Nelson and two hastily trained divers use sea scooters to free the captives.

Full Episodes

Season 1, 39 episodes

Sixty Feet Below,

A jet plane suddenly goes out of control, plunging to the bottom of the sea. When ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson dives to locate the wreck, he's amazed to find the pilot still alive, imprisoned in the watertight cockpit.

26m Jan 3, 1958

An explosion rocks a Wyoming coal mine, flooding the shafts and costing the lives of 30 miners. Deep in the shafts, Mike discovers two survivors trapped in an air pocket.

26m Jan 10, 1958

Rapture Of The Deep,

When deep sea divers go too deep or stay down too long, the resulting narcotic effect is called 'Rapture of the Deep.' When a party of skin divers falls victim to the 'rapture,' one of them becomes homicidal.

26m Jan 24, 1958

Mark Of The Octopus,

Before Mike Nelson can investigate the disappearance of two geologists, the sea washes one of them upon the beach. His body bears marks made by the suction valves of a giant octopus. Mike knows an octopus rarely attacks.

26m Jan 31, 1958

Mike Nelson rescues an unidentified girl from drowning. The Immigration Department suspects she's an illegal alien. The girl confesses she was towed into the country underwater in a sea sled operated by a ring of border runners.

26m Feb 7, 1958

Female Of The Species,

Lovely Kay Dalton, terrified of the sea, persists in skin-diving. Her objective is to recover a cache of stolen diamonds on the ocean floor. Although Mike Nelson warns that she will never conquer her fears, Kay refuses to quit.

26m Feb 14, 1958

Mr. Guinea Pig,

A pretty magazine photographer employs Mike Nelson to help her film a sunken barge off the coast of Mexico. Despite Mike's warnings, she gets trapped at the bottom of the sea.

26m Feb 21, 1958

Mike Nelson cruises to a small Mexican fishing village where he finds strange phenomena. Every fish in the vicinity seems to have disappeared. Mike uses the latest scientific 'miracles' to pierce the mystery of the disappearing fish.

26m Feb 28, 1958

When two ruthless treasure hunters dupe a young skin diver to help them loot a long-sunken ship, underwater investigator Mike Nelson foresees disaster. Mike braves the wrath of man and sea to save the lad from tragedy.

26m Mar 7, 1958

Cathy Morton, a U.S. Government undercover agent, and Mike Nelson search for a missing nose cone on the floor of the Caribbean. Unseen, three armed and dangerous foreign agents follow the expedition to capture the cone for their own government.

26m Mar 14, 1958

A savage killer whale blockades a strip of coastline, capsizing boats and harassing skin divers and swimmers. Mike Nelson, armed with a shark-harpoon gun, engages the killer whale in a wild and desperate undersea battle.

26m Mar 21, 1958

Midget Submarine,

A Red scientist defects to the West and comes to the U.S. Kidnapped by Communist agents. He is soon aboard a Pacific liner en route to Moscow. Mike Nelson drives a midget submarine through the shark-infested Pacific and storms the heavily-guarded liner.

26m Mar 28, 1958

The Shark Cage,

During a shark-filming expedition, Brent Marshall's flirtatious wife pays him no attention, concentrating instead on Mike Nelson and two camera operators. Enraged, Marshall severs a camera cage cable and drops his three 'rivals' into shark-filled waters.

26m Apr 4, 1958

A Smithsonian Institute professor employs Mike Nelson to salvage a German submarine sunk off the coast of South America. But two 'hard-hat' divers in conventional diving helmets and lead boots are after the same prize.

26m Apr 11, 1958

Continental Rift,

Lewis Hale tells Mike that he has invented a machine that locates sunken ships laden with gold. Mike discovers the machine is actually a stolen Top Secret U.S. Navy device and pitches into a life-or-death struggle with Hale to retrieve it.

26m Apr 18, 1958

On an underwater 'safari' in Florida's dense swamplands, Mike is suddenly gripped by a massive electric current and nearly loses his life. Recovering, he learns that a poacher is using electric shocks to kill all the fish in the area.

26m Apr 25, 1958

Girl In The Trunk,

A girl is placed in a straight jacket, securely locked in a trunk, and cast to the bottom of the ocean. It's all part of a carnival act, except she doesn't come up! Mike Nelson learns the secret of the act in time to save the girl from drowning.

26m May 2, 1958

The Sponge Divers,

Mike Nelson interrupts an underwater survey in the Gulf of Mexico to save a diver with a faulty air line.

26m May 9, 1958

Mike Nelson accepts a job to supervise a diamond diving expedition in South America but soon rebels when he learns his employers are poaching on somebody else's property.

26m May 16, 1958

Alligator Story,

Caesar, a vicious alligator, escapes from a wild animal show in Silver Springs, Florida, and takes refuge in the lake in a public park. Mike Nelson volunteers to match brain and brawn with the man-eater.

26m May 23, 1958

Mike Nelson learns of a derelict mine that has drifted into the harbor of a nearby town. The town's principal industry, a nitrate factory, will blow up and destroy the city if the mine explodes.

26m May 30, 1958

Underwater Patrol,

When the State of Florida is plagued with a series of underwater crimes, Mike Nelson is called to organize and train an underwater police force.

26m Jun 6, 1958

Legend Of The Mermaid,

Despite warnings from his friends, Mike Nelson dives to investigate an underwater grotto where–according to legend–a beautiful mermaid lures men to destruction. Mike fights for his life against the 'mermaid.'

26m Jun 13, 1958

Professor Auerbach and his daughter employ Mike Nelson to help them search for a rare underwater plant in Costa Rica. Angry Costa Ricans attack the party just as the professor falls victim to the bends.

26m Jun 20, 1958

Playboy sportsman Elliot Conway and his wife Gloria employ Mike Nelson to teach them skin-diving and guide their underwater 'safari' for sharks in the waters off Peru. Mike fights a school of hungry sea beasts to save the lives of his 'pupils.'

26m Jun 27, 1958

The Prospectors,

Two prospectors find a radioactive fish in Florida. Convinced that the fish will lead them to a rich underwater uranium deposit, they employ Mike Nelson to track it with a Geiger counter.

26m Jun 27, 1958

Underwater Station,

Mike Nelson observes three men entering a strange chamber deep in the ocean. When only two men surface, Mike investigates and learns the remaining man is a famous missile expert held prisoner by enemy agents.

26m Jul 11, 1958

Athlete Dave Crane pushes two children to be future Olympic swimmers. But when rising tides trap the children in an underwater cave, Dave is powerless to help them. Mike races the tide to reach the children and get them out.

26m Jul 18, 1958

Capture Of The Santa Rosa,

When a Latin American diplomat and his family are kidnapped, the authorities hesitate to act lest the captives are killed. Mike Nelson and two hastily trained divers use sea scooters to free the captives.

26m Jul 25, 1958

Mike Nelson is surveying underwater currents off California's coast when an unexpected storm capsizes his boat and many others. Mike pits his strength against the terrible rigors of the open sea.

26m Aug 1, 1958

A stuntman trying to break the world's skin diving record falls victim to the numbing cold and unbearable sea pressures. Mike Nelson descends to a greater depth than ever before to rescue the reckless actor.

26m Aug 8, 1958

Birthday Present,

After exploring the waters around a harbor pier, Mike Nelson is jumped by a gang of hoodlums and blackjacked. Recovered, Mike returns to the scene, determined to find out why he was beaten.

26m Aug 15, 1958

Dead Man's Cove,

Skin-diving fans Robert and Maria Tyler explore the sea with an underwater camera. But only Mr. Tyler returns. Mike Nelson uses an underwater photograph to test the truth of Tyler's story.

26m Aug 22, 1958

Killer Rock is an underwater off-shore peak that tears the hulls of passing ships like paper. Mike, armed with dangerously unstable explosives, fights ocean currents and an attack by an electric ray to fulfill his job.

26m Aug 29, 1958

Six sportsmen rent an amphibian plane to fly them to a skin-diving site. When one of the divers, using a Sea Scooter, mysteriously disappears, Mike searches and finds him–photographing secret Navy installations!

26m Sep 5, 1958

Lord Christobal,

The Caribe Insurance Company sends Mike to the West Indies to investigate the sinking of a freighter. On arrival, Mike finds a shipping executive murdered, a grim warning someone doesn't want Mike to investigate!

26m Sep 12, 1958

Two Mexican fishermen show Mike a net with an odd hole in it and claim an unknown species of sea monster caused it. Mike, using whale-tracking equipment and underwater microphones, risks his life to track and trap the 'monster.'

26m Sep 19, 1958

The Sea Has Ears,

Investigating the death of a telephone company employee, Mike Nelson discovers an underwater cable has been tapped–and the culprit is eavesdropping on top-secret research conferences.

26m Sep 26, 1958

The Manganese Story,

Fighting sharks and an approaching hurricane, Mike Nelson and a young geologist discover a field of pure manganese–a vital metal to national defense–on the ocean floor. The geologist tries to kill Mike Nelson and claim the discovery as his own.

26m Oct 3, 1958