Sea Hunt TV Show Actor Lloyd Bridges Hear How To Skin Dive Vinyl LP Record 1961
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Sea Hunt TV Show Actor Lloyd Bridges Hear How To Skin Dive Vinyl LP Record 1961
This is an odd item that appeared on the market near the end of the Sea Hunt TV show, in 1961. It’s an LP (Long Play) 33 1/3 record narrated by Lloyd Bridges and intended to educate people interested in skin diving. Like the book “Mask & Flippers”, this record was also a collaboration with Bill Barada. Bill was a skin diving expert and an instructor. Lloyd Bridges was neither of those things but his famous name from his role as Mike Nelson ensured the record would be a hit. So, like the book, it’s pretty clear that the text, the technical stuff, came from Bill Barada. In fact, the record cover says “Written by William Barada”.
This record was produced by The Carlton Record Corporation of New York and is one of their “Hear How ..” series. They had many different Hear How records – learning a language, driving a boat, improve your golf, even how to train your dog. These were quite popular from the 1950’s to the end of the 1960’s but by then they were running out of topics and the public was losing interest. The series ended.
The pictures of Lloyd Bridges are of interest. One is clearly a promo shot of Mike Nelson in his gear as he emerges from the water – and stops for a quick picture! Another is from one of the TV episodes. Possibly it’s from the first aired episode where Mike saves a downed jet pilot from drowning. The third picture is particularly good. It’s NOT from the TV series but is a picture of Lloyd showing his young dive buddy how to work an underwater camera. The dive buddy is his son … Jeff Bridges. We know this is not from the TV series for a couple of reasons including that Mike is not wearing VOIT scuba gear, the official gear of Sea Hunt.
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