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Oil Island

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Sep 5, 1959

An amateur salvage diver carelessly examines a sunken freighter, causing a two-ton spool of heavy lead cable to roll down the deck. It rolls over his legs and pins him down. Mike Nelson responds to the emergency call.

Full Episodes

Season 2, 39 episodes

The Alcatraz Story,

Three brothers hire Mike Nelson to give them SCUBA instructions. Their secret purpose for the lessons: a daring underwater attempt to free a fourth brother from Alcatraz, the 'unbreakable' island prison.

26m Jan 3, 1959

Operation Greenback,

And old frogman buddy dupes Mike Nelson into using his signature to procure dynamite. Mike learns he has been made the unwitting accomplice in a fantastic scheme: his 'friend' plans to blast into the vault of a bank at the edge of a lagoon.

26m Jan 10, 1959

Underwater Security,

Mike Nelson tests the security of underwater approaches to an oceanside rocket fuel plant. At the mouth of a tunnel leading to the heart of the plant, he captures two saboteurs -- but only after they have fired a delayed action torpedo into the tunnel!

26m Jan 17, 1959

Underwater Labyrinth,

An electronic test boat sinks, taking a newly-developed guided missile tracker with it to the bottom of the sea. Mike Nelson, hired to recover the invaluable equipment, discovers skin-diving thieves have already made off with it.

26m Jan 24, 1959

A movie company is shooting the famous scene from 'The Count of Monte Cristo'. The producer hires Mike Nelson to assist the movie star and his stand-in in the perilous underwater sequence.

26m Jan 31, 1959

Mike accepts the challenge of Blaze Green, an expert female swimmer, to race underwater from the California coast to Catalina Island. Blaze -- hungry for the publicity she'll get if she beats Mike -- pits trickery against Mike's superior underwater skill.

26m Feb 7, 1959

Diving For The Moon,

Mike takes a group of future space pilots to the bottom of the sea, where many survival problems are similar to those encountered in outer space. But a sudden hurricane washes their boat away, stranding them underwater.

26m Feb 14, 1959

When a scuba diver is dragged under by a fish he had speared, Mike dives to the rescue. He finds that the victim is held fast in a treacherous kelp forest, a tangled mass of jungle-like undergrowth with ghostly branches and fronds.

26m Feb 21, 1959

During a hurricane, an Air Force bomber is forced to 'ditch' a nuclear bomb off the coast of South America. Sea water corrodes the bomb casing, threatening to trigger it. Mike's perilous assignment: find the bomb and recover it before it goes off!

26m Feb 28, 1959

Murder At 60 Feet,

Mike is hired to teach SCUBA diving to Paul Garrick's wife, supposedly in the hope that water therapy will restore her paralyzed legs. Actually, Garrick is setting up a murder with the swirling underwater current of Drake's Cove, off the California coast.

26m Mar 7, 1959

A freighter sinks to the bottom of New York harbor, with all hands. The ship's owner believes some of the crew might still be alive in air locked inside the vessel. He calls Mike Nelson in for emergency action.

26m Mar 14, 1959

Checking the underwater security of a newly-constructed turbo-electric dam, Mike Nelson discovers dynamite set in one of the intake valves. He races against time to catch the saboteurs and save the dam from explosive destruction.

26m Mar 21, 1959

Flames from a fierce dock fire approach a chemical supply building. With the building already cut off by fire, Mike Nelson attempts an almost suicidal task: swim into the building through an underwater intake pipe and douse the chemicals in water.

26m Mar 28, 1959

The Persuaders,

Smugglers receive narcotics shipments via a fishing boat, which drops the contraband cargo off the coast, in sixty feet of water. At the point of a gun, they force Mike Nelson to locate the narcotics container and retrieve it from the ocean floor.

26m Apr 4, 1959

After coming upon a Japanese submarine sunk during World War II, amateur skin-diver Gerald Wiley goes suddenly berserk and tries to strangle his wife. Called to the pair's assistance, Mike also goes strangely berserk.

26m Apr 11, 1959

Strange Salvage,

Two divers make an exciting discovery: the wreck of the 'Seawind,' a luxury yacht which sank with a magnificent jewel collection aboard. But Lou Martin spots the divers and drowns them. Investigating the drownings, Mike tracks down Martin.

26m Apr 18, 1959

Underwater Survey,

While on assignment to examine the possibilities of a canal which would connect two Latin American lakes, Mike is fired upon by rebel guerillas. After further examination, he learns the reason why -- a huge cache of arms and ammunition hidden in a cave.

26m Apr 25, 1959

Underwater Curtain,

Off the Panama coast, Mike and two companions discover a mysterious submarine discharging a group of frogmen. And it becomes apparent that they are preparing a launching pad for a ballistic missile. Their target: the Panama Canal.

26m May 2, 1959

Greek sponge-diver Elias Staros and his girlfriend Cara find a valuable antique statue on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Afraid Mike will interfere, they rig the area with booby-trap mines.

26m May 9, 1959

John Bentham, to get secret missile data, lures a government scientist onto a boat. Bentham 'accidently' drops the scientist's data-filled portfolio into the water, where one of his hirelings awaits. Mike Nelson gets a call: Find the vital papers!

26m May 16, 1959

While searching an underwater cave, geologist George Bryan is trapped in a sudden landslide which pins a massive rock to the cave entrance. Racing against time, Mike tries heroically to pull the rock away which the aid of hooks and cables.

26m May 23, 1959

Water Ski Show,

Joe Ross, featured performer in a water ski show, drowns during the underwater finale to the new act. Mike investigatesand learns an unidentified SCUBA diver was spotted near the death scene. Mike meets the killer in a fierce underwater struggle.

26m May 30, 1959

Underwater Shrine,

Mike and a husband-wife archaeology team search for underwater caves in the Caribbean. Imperiled by a deadly network of booby traps, the trio learns that islanders set the traps to guard a cave filled with ancient Mayan treasures.

26m Jun 6, 1959

Chain Of Evidence,

Latin American revolutionists seek Mike's help in overthrowing their country's ruthless dictator. They ask him to recover the body of the dictator's murdered opponent from the bottom of the palace lagoon to spark a full-scale revolt

26m Jun 13, 1959

A young skin-diver steals lobsters from an elderly fisherman as an initiation stunt. Shortly thereafter the boy's found murdered. The police immediately arrest the fisherman. But on the ocean floor, Mike Nelson finds a vital clue to the real killer.

26m Jun 20, 1959

Mike, on an expedition in Arabia, learns a shipment of liquid explosives has been stolen en route to an American guided missile base. Simultaneously, terrified Arabians relate tales of a gigantic 'sea serpent' in the vicinity. Mike dives to investigate.

26m Jun 27, 1959

A member of a holdup trio is wounded during a robbery of a beach casino. To get a doctor to their oceanside hideout, his accomplices kidnap the pretty skin-diving wife of a doctor to draw her husband into a trap. Mike Nelson hits on a daring rescue plan.

26m Jul 4, 1959

Underwater Ejection,

Mike devises an effective method of recovering ICBM nose cones which have dropped into the sea. But during the acid test -- in which a man is placed in the capsule for experimental recovery -- a freak accident plays havoc with the capsule device.

26m Jul 11, 1959

Reckless Gracie Bond enrolls in Mike's class for skin-diving instructors. She promptly flunks out. Vengeance bent, she invites Mike on a dive to an underwater cave. Gracie lets half the air out of Mike's tank, then waits for the chance to save his life.

26m Jul 18, 1959

Drug traffickers smuggle heroin into the U.S. by hiding it in the ballast tanks of freighters. Mike sneaks aboard one of the vessels and battles a boatload of thugs.

26m Jul 25, 1959

Underwater Park,

Mysterious attackers attempt to take Mike's life while he's reconnoitering the proposed site of an underwater marine preserve. Mike follows a vital clue -- right on the shore approach of a well-hidden gambling establishment.

26m Aug 1, 1959

Underwater Unit,

Mike heads a band of three crack skin-divers who have been handed a secret, highly-dangerous mission: rescue an anti-Communist woman from a Red concentration camp on the coast of Albania.

26m Aug 8, 1959

Proof Of Guilt,

A beautiful Hawaiian girl is harassed by skin-diving thieves who are robbing her underwater cultured-pearl beds. Mike agrees to help her and rigs a TV monitor on a police launch, then sets up an underwater TV camera as a trap for the thieves.

26m Aug 15, 1959

Immigration authorities ask Mike to assist them in a risky mission: they plan to slip one of their men, Ben Tempesta, among aliens to be sneaked ashore by a smuggling ring, thus gaining the evidence needed to blow the ring wide open.

26m Aug 22, 1959

A husband-wife robbery team makes a million dollar haul: six of the fabulous 'Memory Tapes' which are the heart of a plant's electronic computer system. Mike Nelson races into action to nab the thieves and recover the precious tapes.

26m Aug 29, 1959

An amateur salvage diver carelessly examines a sunken freighter, causing a two-ton spool of heavy lead cable to roll down the deck. It rolls over his legs and pins him down. Mike Nelson responds to the emergency call.

26m Sep 5, 1959

Base Of Operations,

Harry and Norma Hervey, famed news-camera team, plan to dive to photograph a sunken ocean liner. They disregard Mike Nelson's warning that they're inviting almost certain death in danger infested waters. Eager for a news scoop, the pair descend.

26m Sep 12, 1959

A coastal fisherman wages a private war against kelp harvesters in his area. The fisherman has a diabolical scheme to destroy the kelp harvesters' boat with a mine, but Mike steps in to prevent a tragedy.

26m Sep 19, 1959

Fog claims a freighter, which strikes a reef and goes to the bottom of the sea with a highly-explosive cargo of liquid nitro in its hold. Fearing the explosives will float away and endanger shipping lanes, the owner of the freighter calls on Mike Nelson.

26m Sep 26, 1959