The Silent Service - Season 1
Season 1
Documentary dramatic anthology about the US Navy's submarine fleet. All stories were based on fact and the realism was heightened by actual use of combat footage from the files of the Navy.
Network
DatesApr 5, 1957 - Dec 27, 1957
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
The Jack at Tokyo
A submarine springs a leak while well into Japanese waters. An engineer takes on the dangerous mission of repairing it.
Apr 5, 1957
Season 1Episode 230 min
The Trout at the Rainbow's End
A docudrama about a mission during World War II by the submarine USS Trout involving transporting a large amount of gold and silver.
Apr 12, 1957
Season 1Episode 330 min
The End of the Line
The USS Thresher is caught at the end of a Japanese destroyer's grappling hook and attempts to shake itself loose.
Apr 19, 1957
Season 1Episode 430 min
The Sculpin Story
After a damaged submarine is forced to surface, all hands are ordered by the captain to abandon ship, but he stays aboard.
Apr 26, 1957
Season 1Episode 530 min
The Spearfish Delivers
A submarine is ordered to slip into Japanese-occupied Filipino waters to spirit out some important passengers from Corregidor.
May 3, 1957
Season 1Episode 630 min
The Bergall's Dilemma
The USS Bergall, which has been badly damaged, is trying to get to port but three Japanese patrol boats are making it difficult.
May 10, 1957
Season 1Episode 730 min
The Batfish Scores
The USS Batfish is ordered to intercept some enemy submarines that are carrying very important Japanese officials.
May 17, 1957
Season 1Episode 830 min
The Tigrone Sets a Record
A submarine trying to rescue downed American pilots comes under attack from Japanese destroyers.
May 24, 1957
Season 1Episode 930 min
Five-Ring Circus
On the hunt for a Japanese convoy, the crew of the USS Gato discovers that an unexploded enemy depth charge has landed on its deck.
May 31, 1957
Season 1Episode 1030 min
The Pampanito Story
U.S. subs are about to close in on a Japanese convoy. What they don't know is that aboard one of the ships are Allied POWs.
Jun 7, 1957
Season 1Episode 1130 min
The Tirante Plays a Hunch
The commander of the submarine USS Tirante may lose his target in the shallow waters of a Japanese-held harbor if he doesn't surface.
Jun 14, 1957
Season 1Episode 1230 min
The Tang vs. Truk
With morale low, USS Tang stands by for rescue downed American pilots during the attack on the Truk islands.
Jun 21, 1957
Season 1Episode 1330 min
The Wahoo's Final Report
The final mission of the USS Wahoo.
Jun 28, 1957
Season 1Episode 1430 min
Two Davids and Goliath
Darter and Dace during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Jul 5, 1957
Season 1Episode 1530 min
The Ordeal of S-38
A submarine suffers a series of disasters: a broken prop, damaged instruments and an explosion onboard.
Jul 12, 1957
Season 1Episode 1630 min
The Seahorse Story
The USS Seahorse is in big trouble: it's deep in Japanese waters, it's been badly damaged and is in danger of being destroyed by a barrage of enemy depth charges.
Jul 19, 1957
Season 1Episode 1730 min
The Salmon Swims Upstream
In October of 1944. 100 miles off Japan. Salmon is damaged in a depth charge attack and must remain surfaced.
Jul 26, 1957
Season 1Episode 1830 min
Cargo for Crevalle
The crew of the USS Crevalle takes aboard a Filipino woman about to give birth to a baby.
Aug 2, 1957
Season 1Episode 1930 min
Boomerang
A sub being hunted by Japanese ships is forced to settle on the bottom of the ocean to escape detection, but it has been badly damaged and if it stays on the bottom for too long it may not be able to surface.
Aug 9, 1957
Season 1Episode 2030 min
The Squalfish
The Squailfish sinks a Japanese escort carrier, but that only seems to be what sets off a string of bad luck that begins to plague the sub.
Aug 16, 1957
Season 1Episode 2130 min
The Grouper Story
Prior to the invasion, the USS Grouper transports Australian raiders and their native guides to a hidden cove on New Britain.
Aug 23, 1957
Season 1Episode 2230 min
Eyes of the Seawolf
When his ship's attempts to sink Japanese shipping fail, a seaman with an interest in photography produces evidence of faulty design.
Aug 30, 1957
Season 1Episode 2330 min
The Seadragon Story
The USS Sea Dragon's oxygen tanks are exhausted. Death by suffocation or enemy gun fire seems inevitable.
Sep 6, 1957
Season 1Episode 2430 min
Narwhal's Passenger from Mindanao
A docudrama about a submarine mission during World War II, the rescue by the USS Narwhal of escaped POW survivors of Bataan from the island of Mindanao.
Sep 13, 1957
Season 1Episode 2530 min
The Perch's New Role
A docudrama about the submarine USS Perch on a mission during The Korean War to deliver British Royal Marines on a secret commando raid.
Sep 20, 1957
Season 1Episode 2630 min
The Final War Patrol
Concerns the Gato Class WWII Sub U.S.S. Barb (SS-220) and her Final WWII Patrol.
Sep 27, 1957
Season 1Episode 2730 min
The Last Dive
A broken propeller, an internal explosion and damaged instruments plague an outmoded American submarine assigned to attack Jap transports.
Oct 4, 1957
Season 1Episode 2830 min
The Gar Story
A docudrama about the submarine USS Gar on a secret mission with guerillas during World War II.
Oct 11, 1957
Season 1Episode 2930 min
The Flier Story
The successes and the sinking of the USS Flyer and the dozen who survived after 17 hours in the water and then had to sail to additional islands before finding food and rescue.
Oct 18, 1957
Season 1Episode 3030 min
The Starfish Came Home
Enemy bombers attack the U.S.S. Starfish, and a hatch cover sticks as it attempts to submerge.
Oct 25, 1957
Season 1Episode 3130 min
The Sealion Story
A damaged sub surfaces to attack a fleet of Japanese destroyers.
Nov 1, 1957
Season 1Episode 3230 min
The Nautilus Story
The Nautilus is assigned to observation duty at Tarawa and caught between U.S. and Japanese fire.
Nov 8, 1957
Season 1Episode 3330 min
Hit 'Em Again Harder
The Captain of the USS Harder earns the Congressional Medal of Honor by aggressive tactics which sink a record number of enemy destroyers over a few days. As a result, Japanese planning for a major operation is upset leading to American victory.
Nov 15, 1957
Season 1Episode 3430 min
The Seashark Story
A photographer's mate is frightened by his assignment - to photograph submarines in action. The crew helps to make things unpleasant.
Nov 22, 1957
Season 1Episode 3530 min
The Tsushima Straits Story
At the urging of Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, civilian scientists developed an electronic device that enabled submarines to detect floating and submerged mines. With this apparatus, a wolf-pack of nine subs entered the Sea of Japan in June 1945 and wreaked havoc with enemy shipping, contributing materially to the end of the war.
Nov 29, 1957
Season 1Episode 3630 min
The Searaven
A U.S. sub becomes a sitting duck to save Australian soldiers from Timor Island.
Dec 6, 1957
Season 1Episode 3730 min
The Tang's Last Shot
The USS Tang, after sinking an entire convoy, gets in the way of her own torpedo.
Dec 13, 1957
Season 1Episode 3830 min
The Loss of the Perch
The perch starts wwii two engines down and doesn't keep them repaired long. During the opening of the war it suffers a series of mishaps (a circular running torpedo detonates close, loss of the comm gear, hole at the base of the sail, cracked and bowed shafts with only one engine providing propulsion. Scopes out, depth gauge out, numerous electrical grounds take sonar out, interior communications out-can't call for help., "Can't fight, can't run, - can't even dive. "
Dec 20, 1957
Season 1Episode 3930 min
The Guardfish
Action centers around the historic and very successful First War Patrol for the USS Guardfish. There is a side story that the Guardfish got so close to Tokyo Bay that her crew were able to watch a horse race, through the periscope.
Dec 27, 1957
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