The Silent Service (1957)
The Silent Service
The Silent Service was a 1957–1958 syndicated anthology television series based on actual events in the submarine section of the United States Navy. The Silent Service was narrated by Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers, who retired from the Navy in 1949 after twenty-two years of service. He began each episode with this refrain: "Tonight, we bring you another thrilling episode of Silent Service stories, of warfare under the sea." Many of the episodes focused on the history of specific submarines, including: ⁕USS Sculpin ⁕USS Nautilus, the first atomic submarine ⁕USS Perch ⁕USS Tang ⁕USS S-38 ⁕USS Tirante ⁕USS Bergall ⁕USS Spearfish ⁕USS Triton ⁕USS Wahoo, and ⁕USS Gato, subject of the series finale. Actors appearing on The Silent Service included Russell Johnson, cast three times in the role of the character "Beach". DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy appeared in two episodes each as Lieutenant Commander James Dempsey and as Sonarman, respectively. Jerry Paris and Liam Sullivan each guest starred twice. Eric Morris appeared in nineteen episodes identified only as "Soldier". Other guest stars included Joe Conley, Mike Connors, Lawrence Dobkin, Ron Hagerthy, Adam Kennedy, Robert Knapp, Paul Richards, Bing Russell, Craig Stevens, Dennis Weaver and Stuart Whitman.
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Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
Episodes season 1
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1x1
The jack at tokyo
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1x2
The trout at the rainbow's end
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1x3
The end of the line
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1x4
The sculpin story
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1x5
The spearfish delivers
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1x6
The u.s.s. bergall's dilemma
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1x7
The u.s.s. batfish scores
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1x8
The u.s.s. tigrone sets a record
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1x9
The five-ring circus
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1x10
The u.s.s. pampanito story
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1x11
The u.s.s. tirante plays a hunch
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1x12
The u.s.s. tang vs. truk
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1x13
The wahoo story
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1x14
The two davids and goliath
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1x15
The ordeal of s-38
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1x16
The seahorse story
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1x17
The salmon swims upstream
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1x18
Cargo for crevalle
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1x19
Boomerang
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1x20
The squailfish
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1x21
The grouper story
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1x22
The eyes of the seawolf
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1x23
The sea dragon story
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1x24
The narwhal's passenger from mindanao
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1x25
The perch's new role
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1x26
The final war patrol
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1x27
The last dive
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1x28
The gar story
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1x29
The story of the u.s.s. flier
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1x30
The starfish came home
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1x31
The sealion story
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1x32
The nautilus story
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1x33
Hit 'em again, harder
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1x34
The seashark story
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1x35
The tshushima straits story
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1x36
The searaven
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1x37
The tang's last shot
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1x38
The loss of the perch
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1x39
The guardfish
Episodes season 2
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2x1
The archerfish spits straight
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2x2
The sea devil attacks puget sound
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2x3
The bergall's revenge
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2x4
The unsuccessful patrol
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2x5
The story of the u.s.s. aspro
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2x6
The thresher story
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2x7
The ugly duckling
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2x8
Peto plucks some chickens
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2x9
The s-38 story
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2x10
Incident down south
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2x11
Mine for keeps
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2x12
Fish out of water
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2x13
The u.s.s. cod's lost boarding party
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2x14
The triton's christmas
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2x15
The hawkbill's revenge
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2x16
The tigershark
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2x17
The cavalla story
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2x18
The growler's captain
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2x19
The u.s.s. tinosa story
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2x20
The grayling story
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2x21
The s-44 story
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2x22
The pargo's lucky seventh
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2x23
The crevalle's mine plant
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2x24
The sunfish story
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2x25
The sunfish's cook
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2x26
The nautilus and the nuns
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2x27
The sandshark story
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2x28
Operation seadragon
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2x29
The harder at woleai
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2x30
The tautog story
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2x31
The swordfish story
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2x32
The gabilan story
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2x33
The gato story
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2x34
The silversides story
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2x35
The bowfin story
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2x36
Royal submarines
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2x37
The squalus story
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2x38
Seanettle vs u-boat
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2x39
U-47 in scapa flow
