Primus - Season 1

Primus - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes26
DatesSep 22, 1971 - Jun 16, 1972

Episodes

Deepest of the Deep
Season 1Episode 130 min

Deepest of the Deep

Danger from underwater explosives, a robot and a sunken liner. Nicola, a photographic model and a woman's-lib advocate, is determined to attempt a dangerous dive. Nicola steals an untested underwater breathing device that has been altered and is lethal if used.

Sep 22, 1971
Trial and Terror
Season 1Episode 230 min

Trial and Terror

While studying ocean life off the island of Mangaya, Primus is precipitated into the quicksands of political intrigue. While investigating the disappearance of all fish life off the island of Mangaya Primus becomes involved with the kidnapping of an American Ambassador.

Sep 29, 1971
Kiss of Life
Season 1Episode 330 min

Kiss of Life

A deep sea scientist is stung by a scorpion fish to which he is highly allergic and becomes incapacitated on the depths of the ocean floor.

Oct 6, 1971
Underwater Getaway
Season 1Episode 430 min

Underwater Getaway

Routine bank robbers plot with a new twist: the getaway is planned on a submarine. A former employee of Primus pulls a bank robbery then tries to steal his submarine.

Oct 20, 1971
The Phantom Horse
Season 1Episode 530 min

The Phantom Horse

An underwater narcotics operation is the bugaboo for Carter. Primus must break-up this narcotics organizations' underwater refining and delivering of heroin.

Oct 27, 1971
Bearer of Light
Season 1Episode 630 min

Bearer of Light

Carter Primus is called to save a harbor doomed by cannisters of deadly phosphorus in the area.

Nov 3, 1971
Oil Rig
Season 1Episode 730 min

Oil Rig

The drama in this episode is provided by an inferno of an offshore drilling rig. An electrical storm causes a gigantic explosion aboard the rig. When the off-shore oil-drilling platform catches on fire, Carter tries to rescue a trapped friend.

Nov 10, 1971
Pipeline to Danger
Season 1Episode 830 min

Pipeline to Danger

Undersea sabotage is the problem faced by Carter. Primus investigates when oil piped from a tiny Arabian nation mysteriously disappears before it reaches its destination.

Nov 17, 1971
Breaking Point
Season 1Episode 930 min

Breaking Point

Three astronauts spend 60 days in an undersea habitat and begin to show signs of stress. Marshall Grant, one of the astronauts (Guy Stockwell), goes berserk in an underwater test chamber.

Nov 24, 1974
The 65th Minute
Season 1Episode 1030 min

The 65th Minute

The deranged Captain of a foreign submarine threatens to attack the east coast of the U.S. Primus makes a valiant attempt to Intercept the armed sub which its fanatical Captain plans on using to destroy the city of New York

Dec 1, 1971
Blade of Fire
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Blade of Fire

A case of the bends strikes a diver scientist. To aid the son of a Greek shipping magnate trapped in the wreck of a sunken World War II vessel, Primus swims to the rescue with on underwater torch, only to discover the man plans to use it in a robbery.

Dec 8, 1971
Tektite #1
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Tektite #1

Drama involving an impending hurricane. While training dry land miners to dig on the ocean Primus discovers that two miners searching for ore samples are missing.

Dec 15, 1971
49 Sharks
Season 1Episode 1330 min

49 Sharks

Toni and Charlie are trapped in a shark cage which drops to depths beyond which divers should go and Primus attempts their rescue amid a school of frenzied sharks.

Dec 22, 1971
The Sea is Boiling Hot
Season 1Episode 1430 min

The Sea is Boiling Hot

An erupting volcano spews molten lava into the sea during an undersea archeological expedition.

Dec 29, 1971
Death Tide
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Death Tide

At first it looks like a simple youthful prank when Primus captures three college students while stealing Primus' portable sub the Shark Hunter. But the students hide a more serious purpose in mind: to lock themselves to the waste pipe of a nearby chemical plant. Will Primus help save the kids, or will he help them save the environment?

Jan 5, 1972
Sea Serpent
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Sea Serpent

Carter Primus investigates a report of a 20-foot sea monster which turns out to be an anaconda that was washed overboard en route from Brazil.

Jan 12, 1972
The Sniper
Season 1Episode 1730 min

The Sniper

In this episode, Primus is dogged by a sniper. Primus helps a community whose important economic resource, a phosphate plant, is also its greatest liability, the most deadly cause of polution, killing all fish in the town's river.

Jan 19, 1972
The Steel Fish
Season 1Episode 1830 min

The Steel Fish

Primus unravels a mystery involving the disappearance of an experimental torpedo. Carter Primus is called to recover a live experimental torpedo which has sunk to the bottom of the ocean off the west coast of Cuba.

Apr 21, 1972
Black Diamonds
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Black Diamonds

A plane crashes into the ocean with a payload of $7,000,000 worth of industrial diamonds. Insurance investigator Derek Simpson (Lloyd Bochner) commissions Carter Primus (Robert Brown) to locate the wreckage. He finds it, but so does an unidentified submarine, which attacks Primus at the underwater site.

Apr 28, 1972
Infrared
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Infrared

Foiling a museum heist leads Primus on an underwater chase. Primus is commissioned to guard a museum filled with priceless treasures. The museum is located near the sea and while Primus and his assistant attempt to install infrared devices underwater, they are trapped by a steel net.

May 5, 1972
Nuclear Black Market
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Nuclear Black Market

The police chases a gang involved in the plutonium black market. Primus replaces one of the gang members, a Navy diver, after the guy is washed away dead on the beach.

May 12, 1972
The Black Hole
Season 1Episode 2230 min

The Black Hole

A whirlpool turns into a danger factor for Primus and other divers. Carter Primus hires professional skin divers to locate a boat which disappeared mysteriously. A whirl pool sucks them into an underwater cave. Searching for the divers, Primus and Tom Hayden fall into the whirlpool.

May 19, 1972
Trapped, Part One
Season 1Episode 2330 min

Trapped, Part One

While Primus and Toni train three divers, one receives a gash from the sunken wreckage they're exploring and a school of 200 sharks is attracted by the blood!

May 26, 1972
Trapped, Part Two
Season 1Episode 2430 min

Trapped, Part Two

In this concluding episode a school of sharks surrounds a diving mission led by Primus and injures one diver. While Primus surfaces for medical aid and fresh air supply, the divers seek refuge in a sunken wreckage.

Jun 2, 1972
The Net
Season 1Episode 2530 min

The Net

A man stricken with nitrogen narcosis disappears into a shapeless eerie ocean mass. Primus swims to investigate. Bill Bolton, an ex-frogman(Dan Chandler) is dying in an underwater habitat. The only doctor who can perform a tracheotomy to save him, has never made a descent. Carter Primus (Robert Brown) and Charlie Kingman (Will Kuluva) guide the doctor (Mike Road) 320 feet undersea, but the doctor develops nitrogen narcosis and Primus must perform the tracheotomy himself.

Jun 9, 1972
Ten Minutes of Eternity
Season 1Episode 2630 min

Ten Minutes of Eternity

Jorge Alquiero is eager to hire Primus for a dangerous underwater job. Primus must dive after an oceanographer stranded on the ocean floor. However, the assignment is hindered by a Benton's plan to steal his sophisticated equipment to look for a treasure. Primus is retained for a dangerous underwater operation involving explosives. When one diver is injured. Primus devises a robot to complete the assignment with disastrous results.

Jun 16, 1972

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