The BEST episodes of Sealab 2020
Every episode of Sealab 2020 ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Sealab 2020!
Sealab, an underwater research base based on the Challenger Seamount (an underwater mountain), in the year 2020 (48 years in the future at the time of broadcast). Commanded by Captain Murphy, Sealab was home to 250 people, and was dedicated to the exploration of the seas and the protection of marine life.
#1 - Deep Threat
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1972
An earthquake spells danger for Sealab when the recurring mass of shock waves ruptures exposed canisters of radioactive waste.
#2 - The Capture
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1972
Although the Sealab crew doesn't like helping Mr. Harlan trap two animals from every species on the Seamount for a new aquarium, they carry out the task because of orders.
#3 - The Arctic Story
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1972
The crew of Sealab 2020 ventures into the frozen Arctic to rescue two scientists who have been trapped by a blizzard while on a scientific expedition.
#4 - The Shark Lover
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1972
The entire Sealab complex is threatened by an increasing buildup of aggressive sharks in the area.
#5 - Lost
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1972
An approaching red tide has more than the fish in a panic - the murky oceanic flux, which initiates a process of oxygen depleting, could cut off the life support system of Sealab.
#6 - The Challenge
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1972
An archaeologist enlists the aid of Hal, Ed, and Gail in removing ancient Mayan gold artifacts buried in the hold of a vessel sunk during WWI.
#7 - Collision of the Aquarius
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1972
Human complications make dealing with the mechanical ones more difficult when cargo sub "Aquarius" crashes into Seamount and endangers the Sealab complex.
#8 - Backfire
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1972
Ed considers resigning from Sealab after Dr. Williams grants permission to a submarine geologist to use explosives on Seamount for the purpose of oil exploration.
#9 - The Singing Whale
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1972
A new world opens up for Roger Cummings, a crippled boy whose father is doing research at Sealab, when Booby befriends him and teaches him how to dive.
#10 - The Basking Shark
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1972
When a space probe loses its parachute during reentry and plummets out of sight into the ocean's depths, the staff of Sealab is called on to locate it.
#11 - Green Fever
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1972
A red alert is signaled after a supply ship's concrete mooring, cast off during a hurricane, unwittingly strikes Sealab's control dome and splits a major section of the shell.
#12 - The Deepest Dive
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1972
Hal, Ed, and Gail plunge to the lowest depths of the ocean in a special crystal bell to plant a second seismographic signaling device after the first one mysteriously disappears.
#13 - Where Dangers Are Many
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1972
Ed, Gail, and Hal become "muckrakers" when ocean waters around Sealab become blanketed with layers of loosened silt.