Television: Off the Deep End

Producer Ivan Tors hovered weightlessly just out of camera range; fluttering near by were a director, a movie cameraman and a lighting expert. Tors's pretty secretary, Zale Parry, glided about the group, taking notes on a slate. The movie camera, encased in a weightless "blimp," focused on the desperate struggle of Actor Lloyd Bridges as he grappled with a villain who might have come from Mars.

But this was no imaginary corner of outer space. For a typical underwater interlude in the shooting of Sea Hunt, one of the world's most widely syndicated TV...

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