A Movie Treat: Silent Service TV shows
 

I like to contribute to the SH4 Community, in some small way, whenever I can....

...Here's something which I think the Old Salts (Born in the 40's) might appreciate. You youngsters also...if you can possibly overlook the bad acting from TV in the 1950's.....

This one is especially for those of you familiar with the USS Sea Lion story.....

Here is the short "Intro" version.... http://files.filefront.com/MiniTrail.../fileinfo.html
....and, if you are interested in seeing/hearing the whole story, here you can see and/or download the Full Episode/Show/Video: http://files.filefront.com/SilentSer.../fileinfo.html


[Sorry I messed up the Aspect Ratio....I stretched out 1950 TV into 21st Century Widescreen.....Dumb!]

Some actual recordings, made as depicted in the Video: http://www.hnsa.org/sound/index.htm#sealion

I had added the USS-Sealion aspect in my first custom mission during the Japanese air raid on Cavite Naval Base. Nice link.:up:

Thanks Doolittle :up:


RDP

Thanks for this one, downloading now. :up:

I watched The Silent Service as a kid and loved it. Thanks for letting me see an episode again.:sunny:

Where did you find this, that is sure a rare find.

Excellent. Just back from the pub and watched Silent Service. How much better can a Friday night get! Please.... No suggestions

Wow are there more episodes somewhere?
M

John Clear of usssealion.com has 18 episodes available. 70+ were produced in the series run.

http://www.usssealion.com/sealion/si...ice_tapes1.htm

Unfortunately, rights are still up in the air for the complete original series. So it may be awhile before we ever see this series on the DVD market. :damn:

Here's another episode.
Intro/Trailer

Full Episode

Visual quality is very poor, but a good story. I'm sure many of the SH4 community members, especially the "senior" submariners, will recognize Gunsmoke's Chester (Dennis Weaver) in this episode...

One thing I note/like about these shows is that they seem Very authentic in terms of terminology and sub procedures...My guess is that they had more than a few WWII vets/submariners as tech advisors. Movies made more recently, say in the past decade (few and far between), have not faired so well in this respect.
Also, the stories don't seem to have been "Hollywood-ized"/glamourized....they seem to stick to the basic facts of each patrol's story.


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Very nice :up:


RDP

This is great :up:

Thanks 4 sharing!

I have all 18 on VHS from John Clear. He took some significant heat from NBC with a cease and desist order for his sales, but is still distributing for donations. They vary in quality but are all watchable (you just want to get up and adjust the rabbit ears:lol: ). Some interesting actors including Dennis Weaver and DeForest Kelly

The Batfish museum has the Batfish episode, and it has great quality on vhs. These shows were in my opinion, the most accurately portrayed sub shows. It appears as though they filmed them on actual subs.