Episodes
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Deep Threat" | September 9, 1972 |
| Radiation is released into the water via some leaking barrels. Meanwhile, the captain's grandson and his friend Sally get lost while diving. | ||
| 2 | "Lost" | September 16, 1972 |
| A red tide engulfs Sealab, cutting down its oxygen supply. Meanwhile, Gail becomes attached to a lost, young dolphin she found and tries to train it to rescue divers. | ||
| 3 | "Green Fever" | September 23, 1972 |
| An anchor hits the Sealab, causing one of the compartments to flood. | ||
| 4 | "The Singing Whale" | September 30, 1972 |
| A whale expert and his wheelchair-bound son visit Sealab just as a blue whale and the obsessed hunter chasing it come to the seamount. | ||
| 5 | "The Shark Lover" | October 7, 1972 |
| When the level of shark activity skyrockets around Sealab, they call in a shark expert to try to learn the cause and ensure safety for the oceanauts. | ||
| 6 | "The Basking Shark" | October 14, 1972 |
| A probe sent to study the planet Neptune's atmosphere returns to earth after 12 years but on reentry the parachute fails and it crash lands into the ocean near Sealab. Mr Mills from the Aerospace Bureau enlists the help of Sealab to help recover the probe within 48 hours. An anomalous malfunction with the sonar system and perceived sudden disappearance of the probe lead Aerospace to suspect Sealab sonagrapher Henry Lucas of espionage. The probe is turns up in an unusual place and is retrieved in an even more unusual way. | ||
| 7 | "Where Dangers Are Many" | October 21, 1972 |
| Sealab crew investigates a disturbance to find an automatic bottom dredging mining operation in their area. The captain of the operation Samuel Carlson gets trapped under his dredge and is rescued by Sealab. While decompressing after having received medical attention at Sealab the crew manage to convince Carlson to allow them 24 hours to demonstrate how to mine less destructively. | ||
| 8 | "Backfire" | October 28, 1972 |
| Sealab members are out trying to capture an electric manta ray when they see some strange figures who they figure out are there drilling for oil, with Sealab's permission but without the crew's knowledge. They attempt to try to get the men relocate the oil drilling to another field miles away from Sealab but the drillers refuse. Then a tsunami hits and their oil drilling operation is destroyed, the episode is called Backfire because if they would have moved the drilling operation they would have been fine. | ||
| 9 | "The Deepest Dive" | November 4, 1972 |
| The crew of Sealab are testing a new submersible vehicle called the "Crystal Ball", which is made out of mostly glass and is supposed to be better than conventional submersibles and dive deeper. They are given a mission to place a seismograph unit at the bottom of a deep part of the sea, but for some reason the unit stops functioning. They go back out with a second replacement seismograph unit and realize that a giant squid had taken the first unit and used it for material for its rock home. The squid catches the Crystal Ball and the crew is stuck trying to escape from its grasp. They eventually get free and the new seismograph unit works | ||
| 10 | "The Challenge" | November 11, 1972 |
| The Sealab team meet Alex, an archaeologist who has dedicated the last 7 years to finding the sunken ship 'Viking', which sunk over 100 years ago. It's rumored that the ship was carrying some Aztec treasures. Alex's brother Chuck is very excited by the discovery, and his excitement is getting in the way. Sealab follows rules and guidelines that guarantee safety, but prevent Chuck from finding the treasure faster. Alex is willing to cut his losses if lives could be lost, but Chuck will not let the last 7 years of his brother's life be for nothing. | ||
| 11 | "Collision of the Aquarius" | November 18, 1972 |
| A malfunctioning cargo submarine crashes into the side of Seamount and its damaged nuclear reactor threatens Sealab, forcing an evacuation. The oceanauts race against time to prevent the sub's reactor from melting down, but complicating the situation is its commander, who has an acrimonious history with Captain Murphy. | ||
| 12 | "The Capture" | November 25, 1972 |
| The Sealab crew reluctantly assists biologist Mr Harlem in collecting animal species living on the Challenger sea mount. Two of the children are upset by this and secretly release the captive animals. Whilst trying to release animals from their cage the children become trapped in the cage and get dragged over the edge of the sea mount. | ||
| 13 | "The Arctic Story" | December 2, 1972 |
| Members of the crew use the submarine Dolphin in a desperate search for a two-man arctic research station which is underneath a capsized ice floe |
- Unaired episodes
- "Pilot"
- "S.O.S.: Sealab Ocean Signal"
- "Utopia of Cassidy"
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