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Sea Hunt

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radioman148

I've been watching videos of one of my favorite shows, "Sea Hunt" with Lloyd Bridges.
Anyone familiar with an actress who appeared in many of these episodes named Jan Harrison? She was quite beautiful in those days.
Don't know much about her other than she was born in 1924 and apparently left show biz in the late 60s.
Anyone know if she's still around?
Also, noticed a very young Larry Hagman in several episodes.
 
And one of the first successful shows in
first-run syndication; imagine if it had been
in color.

I seem to recall a revival in the late '80s or
early '90s with Ron Ely as Mike Nelson, now
the father of a teenage daughter who accompanied
him on his jobs. That didn't last very long.
 
bpatrick said:
And one of the first successful shows in
first-run syndication; imagine if it had been
in color.

I seem to recall a revival in the late '80s or
early '90s with Ron Ely as Mike Nelson, now
the father of a teenage daughter who accompanied
him on his jobs. That didn't last very long.
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As I watch these 50 year old episodes I think the same thing: if only they had been in color!
 
RicoGregg said:
Apparently she's still with us. Imdb offers vague information on her, but here you are:


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365642/
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Is IMDB the same as Wikipedia as far as how it is run and what content gets posted and changed?

Back in 1985, my uncle's house in Virginia was used in the Andrew McCarthy flick "The Beniker Gang". For YEARS his family tried to add that bit of info to IMDB but every single time they do..somebody goes in, deletes & changes that information and "claims" that the entire movie was made in New Jersey even though the family still has the papers, photos and the checkstub from the movie people that proves it.
 
I have not seen Sea Hunt since I was in first grade and WTAE in Pittsburgh
ran it at six o'clock in the morning. (I believe it replaced The Three Stooges
after a local mothers protest that they were "too violent").
 
I stumbled into an episode of Sea Hunt about a year ago on one of the cable networks (Hallmark, maybe?). By luck, it happened to be an episode with his real-life son Beau...maybe 15 years old at the time.

The plot was typical half-hour 1950s syndicated adventure pot-boiler..you know...comic book villains, and a too-easy resolution at the end. It was pretty far fetched...the kind of thing I loved as a little kid in the 60s, but is hard to suspend disbelief about when your a 21st century adult. But it was fun seeing the show again.

Son Jeff also guest starrred on occasion, from what I understand.
 
Sea Hunt was aired for years..into the early 1970's by KYW/WKYC-3 In Cleveland..for a time at 1AM weeknights after Johnny Carrson
 
Tim L said:
Sea Hunt was aired for years..into the early 1970's by KYW/WKYC-3 In Cleveland..for a time at 1AM weeknights after Johnny Carrson
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WGN-TV carried Sea Hunt often in the 60s & 70s. I also remember seeing it on one of the Chicago UHFs in the 80s.
 
mleach said:
RicoGregg said:
Apparently she's still with us. Imdb offers vague information on her, but here you are:


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365642/
Click to expand...

Is IMDB the same as Wikipedia as far as how it is run and what content gets posted and changed?

Back in 1985, my uncle's house in Virginia was used in the Andrew McCarthy flick "The Beniker Gang". For YEARS his family tried to add that bit of info to IMDB but every single time they do..somebody goes in, deletes & changes that information and "claims" that the entire movie was made in New Jersey even though the family still has the papers, photos and the checkstub from the movie people that proves it.
Click to expand...

Admittedly, Wikipedia & IMDB don't get everything right. Neither did encyclopedias. Neither did schools & teachers ("Latinos do not become doctors or lawyers or marry blond-haired people." - a 9th grade teacher I was stuck with in San Bernardino, Ca. in 1965). Neither did parents. How about politicians, the U.S. Government, or televangelists?

A veteran actress I know has very little of her info up on IMDB, especially her previous marriages, and she's tried to have her info updated, but somehow it never gets included.

The administration of IMDB is something of a mystery. I believe that they're based in England, and have a worldwide part-time staff of researchers who work at home in their spare time. Recently, Nikki Finke of Deadlinehollywooddaily.com took a shot at IMDB, calling them idiots for the way they were going to downgrade the listings of writers. Someone at IMDB must have read DHD, because they wound up changing their minds the very next day. FYI: Nikki Finke just sold DHD for $14 million.

Everyone gets something wrong sometimes. Just because someone gets something wrong say 14 times out of 100 doesn't mean that they're not credible sources. If that was the case, we might as well stop watching, listening to, and reading our media sources. Stop going to church services if you're so inclined. Get your kids out of school. Stop voting. Cut off communications with your friends & relatives. They all got a few things wrong, so they must not be reliable.

I admit that I don't know what exactly to say about IMDB. I would think that they have a link somewhere to contact them with correct information. I can't think of why they wouldn't want 100% correct information.

Think about it: Why would they lie about "Sea Hunt", Jan Harrison, or "The Beniker Gang"? What would they have to gain from that?
 
RicoGregg said:
mleach said:
RicoGregg said:
Apparently she's still with us. Imdb offers vague information on her, but here you are:


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365642/
Click to expand...

Is IMDB the same as Wikipedia as far as how it is run and what content gets posted and changed?

Back in 1985, my uncle's house in Virginia was used in the Andrew McCarthy flick "The Beniker Gang". For YEARS his family tried to add that bit of info to IMDB but every single time they do..somebody goes in, deletes & changes that information and "claims" that the entire movie was made in New Jersey even though the family still has the papers, photos and the checkstub from the movie people that proves it.
Click to expand...

Admittedly, Wikipedia & IMDB don't get everything right. Neither did encyclopedias. Neither did schools & teachers ("Latinos do not become doctors or lawyers or marry blond-haired people." - a 9th grade teacher I was stuck with in San Bernardino, Ca. in 1965). Neither did parents. How about politicians, the U.S. Government, or televangelists?

A veteran actress I know has very little of her info up on IMDB, especially her previous marriages, and she's tried to have her info updated, but somehow it never gets included.

The administration of IMDB is something of a mystery. I believe that they're based in England, and have a worldwide part-time staff of researchers who work at home in their spare time. Recently, Nikki Finke of Deadlinehollywooddaily.com took a shot at IMDB, calling them idiots for the way they were going to downgrade the listings of writers. Someone at IMDB must have read DHD, because they wound up changing their minds the very next day. FYI: Nikki Finke just sold DHD for $14 million.

Everyone gets something wrong sometimes. Just because someone gets something wrong say 14 times out of 100 doesn't mean that they're not credible sources. If that was the case, we might as well stop watching, listening to, and reading our media sources. Stop going to church services if you're so inclined. Get your kids out of school. Stop voting. Cut off communications with your friends & relatives. They all got a few things wrong, so they must not be reliable.

I admit that I don't know what exactly to say about IMDB. I would think that they have a link somewhere to contact them with correct information. I can't think of why they wouldn't want 100% correct information.

Think about it: Why would they lie about "Sea Hunt", Jan Harrison, or "The Beniker Gang"? What would they have to gain from that?
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I wouldn't go as far as to say that IMDB "lies"..and you said what would they gain anyway and I do agree. Not sure what it is that makes it to IMDB what is not. Maybe they have certian "rules" or something. But of course they aren't perfect..nobody is. Maybe in the eyes of IMDB a movie that was 85% shot in New Jersey while that 15% was done in Virginia..why bother mentioning the fact the movie was shot in Virginia?

Now with Wikipedia, that is something totally different since anyone can more/less edit the information such as adding stuff that is totally not true or even deleting things for a variety of reasons. For example there is a very popular HOT AC radio station in my hometown. Back in the late 90s one if their most popular jocks was busted for having sex with a 13 year old girl. There have been a few times over the years when I have checked out the Wikipedia page on this radio station which did bring up this incident..while there were other times that bit of information wasn't there. Maybe it was somebody at the radio station who did the deleting in an effort to hide the incident and maybe it was someone connected to the girl who keeps adding it in thinking the public has a right to know. Could be a variety of reasons.
 
Love that Sea Hunt theme. Who did that?
 
According to IMDB.com, music for Sea Hunt was scored by David Rose, who had a hit in the early 60s titled "The Stripper".
 
Jan Harrison's popularity has risen 18% this week, according to the webpage. Wonder how many more people will make a hit. Wonder if she is musing about why she has suddenly been looked into again. :D
 
RicoGregg said:
According to IMDB.com, music for Sea Hunt was scored by David Rose, who had a hit in the early 60s titled "The Stripper".
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David Rose was responsible for that great music although he was never mentioned in the credits.
Not only was the theme music great, but all the music through the show was fabulous.
 
Silkie said:
Jan Harrison's popularity has risen 18% this week, according to the webpage. Wonder how many more people will make a hit. Wonder if she is musing about why she has suddenly been looked into again. :D
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She can probably thank me for starting this. About 40+ years ago would have been nice ;D
 
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