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Stingray Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
40 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Stingray (Pilot)
26 mins
A submarine of the World Security Patrol is destroyed. WASP is called in to investigate and its Stingray submarine, capable of speeds of up to 600 knots, is sent to investigate. Captain Troy Tempest and his sidekick Phones are eventually captured by Titan, ruler of an underseas empire determined to take over the surface world. Troy is aided by Marina, a member of another underwater civilization. But time is running out. WASP is preparing to launch nuclear missiles to the area where Stingray disappeared.
Episode 2
Emergency Marineville
26 mins
Marineville goes to battle stations as a missile is launched. Counter measures are launched and the missile is destroyed before it hits. Troy and the Stingray are ordered to investigate with air squadrons in support. The search centers on an abandoned island when another missile launches also successfully destroyed before impact. Troy and Phones discover the mouth of a cave, following it they discover a secret base but are captured. Marina is then tortured till Troy gives up secret information about Marineville defenses. The occupants of the base use the information to prepare a third launch. At dawn the missile is fired evades Marineville's defenses but fails to explode on impact. Investigations reveal Troy has somehow tampered with the weapon and left a message to be found alerting WASP of his situation and location. WASP aircraft are scrambled and fire on the base till the enemy surrender. Tempest then uses Stingray to complete the destruction of the base.
Episode 3
The Ghost Ship
26 mins
The sunken wreck of an old sailing ship suddenly rises to the surface and begins sailing. WSP are contacted and told the ocean liner Atlantis has gone missing after reporting the sighting of an ancient sea galleon. The Stingray is sent to investigate. In an unusual move Commander Shore accompanies them on the mission. Stingray arrives at the location to find it shrouded in fog. From nowhere they see the galleon reported by Atlantis. The Commander and Phones decide to board the galleon. Initially they find no one till they encounter a trap set by an unknown creature claiming to represent the underwater people. He explains the purpose of the trap was to destroy Stingray and her crew. The creature then instructs under threat of death to order Tempest to the ship. Shore ignores the threat and instead tells him to attack the ship, in essence sacrificing his own life. Tempest refuses the order, admitting he would rather face a court martial. Arriving on board, Tempest releases a laughing gas canister, while the underwater being is distracted in a laughing fit, Tempest releases the others and captures the creature. Later Tempest is dressed down for failing to obey orders but Shore believes his actions were mitigated by the daring rescue.
Episode 4
Subterranean Sea
26 mins
Scientists drill through the ocean floor to find another sea underneath. WASP sends Stingray to investigate, after Commander Shore orders Troy and Phones to cancel a scheduled vacation. The Stingray crew discovers a weird place where water rapidly disappears then reappears.
Episode 5
Loch Ness Monster
26 mins
Admiral Jack Denver is fishing in Scotland and is attacked by the Loch Ness monster. Back at Marinville debate rages if the creature exists or if the admiral imagined it. To win the argument Shore orders the Stingray crew to investigate. Marina refuses to go and Atlanta steps in. They stay overnight at a castle overlooking the loch and during the evening they are woken by strange noises, a search reveals nothing of consequence. Next day they take Stingray out onto the Loch and encounter the monster. Taking evasive action they fire a missile. Rather than kill the creature, the missile exposes it as a remote control robot. The owners of the castle then admit they have operated the robot for generations to get people to visit the Loch in hopes of spotting the creature. Troy after thinking it over decides to admit they saw the monster but could not be sure what they really saw, hence preserving the mystery of the Loch Ness monster for future generations.
Episode 6
Set Sail for Adventure
26 mins
Admiral Jack Denver finishes showing the team at Marineville his favorite naval movie. This sparks a debate if modern sailors were as tough as the sailors from the age of sail. To win the argument the Admiral arranges a galleon to be borrowed from the museum with plans to sail it across the Pacific. Troy and the Stingray are assigned escort duty, despite Denver's emphatic desire to have no outside help. The ship runs into a very bad storm, and the admiral is injured by falling rigging. The Stingray loses contact with the ship sparking a major air search which turns up nothing. The Admiral wakes, still partially stunned he believes he is a captain from the age of sale. Denver then convinces himself the crew was going to mutiny and casts them adrift in a rowboat. They are sighted and rescued by Stingray. The sub then finds the galleon and comes under fire from the delusional Admiral. Troy swims to the vessel and ambushes the admiral knocking him unconscious for the second time. He wakes in hospital once again as back as Admiral Denver.
Episode 7
The Man from the Navy
26 mins
During a training exercise Stingray is fired on by a submarine from the World Navy controlled by Captain Jordon. Despite Stingrays best efforts Tempest fails to shake the artificial missile and it thuds harmlessly into Stingray. On a nearby island an agent for the Aquaphibians makes a report back to King Titan about the successful test. Titan discovers another test is to be conducted and takes the opportunity to set a trap to destroy the Stingray and Tempest. The agents capture the World Navy sub and Jordon, then arms the dummy torpedo. The Stingray manages to avoid the torpedo, however everyone thinks Jordon fired intentionally. Shore orders Stingray to attack the sub. As Tempest closes in he spots the aquaphibians leaving and chases them down and destroys their vessel.
Episode 8
An Echo of Danger
26 mins
Titan, leader of the amphibians decides that destroying Stingray is taking too much effort. He thinks that getting the crew replaced on Stingray could be just as effective. He instructs surface agent X20 to take charge of the operation. Stingray while on escort duty is drawn into a trap set by X20 that sees a vessel destroyed and Phones' judgment called into question. At the enquiry the blame for the loss is placed squarely with Phones. Troy begins a desperate search for answers before his best friends career is washed up.
Episode 9
Raptures of the Deep
25 mins
Although told otherwise, two men take an unsafe submarine to the ocean floor searching for a rumored forest of gems. As expected they quickly get into trouble and need rescue. As Stingray maneuver to help the trapped men, Troy himself gets into trouble. On the verge of death Troy has a strange encounter that sees him assume command of an undersea empire including the fabled gem forest. As his capital comes under attack things begin to crumble leading Troy realize all may not be as they seem.
Episode 10
Titan Goes Pop
26 mins
Duke Dexter the world's most famous singer will be visiting Marineville for a benefit concert. Titan, although unsure who Dexter is, decides he could be valuable to Titanica's plans and arranges for him to be kidnapped. Surface agent X20 gets the opportunity to execute the plan by using the confusion created in Marineville by the waves of Dexter fans arriving for the concert. Dexter is interviewed by Titan leading to some unusual conclusions both for Titan and the Stingray team
Episode 11
In Search of the Tajmanon
26 mins
Stingray is deployed to Africa to investigate a series of flooded underwater ruins that appear to have disappeared. Arriving at the site the crew discovers evidence of human intervention and narrowly avoid fatal trap when a bomb explodes under Stingray. Commander Shore believes the same people set the bomb and stole the temple complex and Troy and the team are ordered to solve the twin mysteries.
Episode 12
A Christmas to Remember
26 mins
Troy visits Barry, an orphan of a former commander of Marineville. After telling Barry stories of his adventures on Stingray, Troy invites the boy to spend Christmas at Marineville, and the holiday progresses Troy talks Commander Shore into allowing Barry to go on patrol with the Stingray crew. During the patrol a series of strange events occur that catapult Barry to the status of hero just like his father before him.
Episode 13
Tune of Danger
26 mins
Upon learning that a jazz group is scheduled to give a concert in the undersea city of Pacifica, where Marina's father Aphony lives, Surface Agent X2-Zero plants a bomb in the group's bass.
Episode 14
The Ghost of the Sea
26 mins
Commander Shore keeps having nightmares about the time when he was crippled in a sea battle with an underwater craft five years ago and rescued by a mysterious stranger.
Episode 15
Rescue from the Skies
26 mins
As part of his training to become an aquanaut, Lieutenant Fisher is given temporary command of Stingray and assigned target practice.
Episode 16
The Lighthouse Dwellers
26 mins
Just as an aircraft begins its approach towards a new airfield, the light from a disused lighthouse comes on, confusing the pilot and causing him to crash.
Episode 17
The Big Gun
26 mins
An underwater race that lives beneath the floor of the Pacific Ocean, has developed a large "missile ejector" and is test firing it on small islands. Stingray is sent to investigate and manages to prevent an attack on the West Coast of the United States. The underwater race devises a trap designed to lure the crew of Stingray to its doom and to launch an attack on Marineville.
Episode 18
The Cool Cave Man
26 mins
Troy Tempest is on standby duty while a ship carrying a radioactive isotope nears its port destination. He is supposed to rest. While he does so, he ponders how he should dress to a costume party hosted by Atlanta Shore. Suddenly, he gets a summons to help the stricken ship. Or does he?
Episode 19
Deep Heat
26 mins
After a robot probe inexplicably disappears, the Stingray crew is ordered to investigate.
Episode 20
Star of the East
26 mins
An Eastern dictator named El Hudat arrives in Marineville, wishing to become a member of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol.
Episode 21
Invisible Enemy
26 mins
Troy and Phones rescue a comatose man and take him back to Marineville for treatment.
Episode 22
Tom Thumb Tempest
25 mins
Falling asleep whilst on duty, Troy has a dream in which he, Phones and Marina are inexplicably shrunk and stumble across preparations for a meeting of all of the WASP's undersea enemies.
Episode 23
Eastern Eclipse
26 mins
Having been dethroned by the people of his Eastern nation, El Hudat's twin brother, Ali Khali, arrives in Marineville.
Episode 24
Treasure Down Below
26 mins
A ship with a load of gold disappears after hitting an iceberg. Meanwhile, the Stingray crew is enjoying a shore leave in Casablanca. While there, Troy Tempest is on a date with Marina while "Phones" is offered the chance to buy a purported treasure map for $500. "Phones" only has $200 but blackmails Troy by reminding him he has a date the next night with Atlanta Shore and gets the remaining money to buy the map. However, the map indicates the treasure is out of the way for Stringray's return course to Marineville. Marina, feeling sorry for "Phones," alters course while Troy and "Phones" sleep. After they awaken, the WASP officers realize what has happened. As the submarine approaches the treasure's location, it is sucked into a whirlpool and ends up in a cavern. There, they are captured by two beings who have been hijacking ships for their treasurer over hundreds of years. Troy and "Phones" must escape on their own because help won't be coming from WASP because no one knows where to look for Stingray.
Episode 25
Stand by for Action
26 mins
A film crew arrives at Marineville to make a movie on Stingray. Everyone will play themselves except Troy, who is to be replaced by an actor.
Episode 26
Pink Ice
26 mins
Reports come in from all over the world about pink ice appearing in the middle of earths oceans and Stingray and the WASPs are sent out to investigate before a new ice age begins.
Episode 27
The Disappearing Ships
25 mins
When three disused freighters that are to be blown up by remote control mysteriously vanish, Troy and Phones set off in Stingray to find them.
Episode 28
Secret of the Giant Oyster
26 mins
After recovering a giant oyster, two explorers are captured by Troy in restricted waters.
Episode 29
The Invaders
26 mins
The Stingray crew fall into a trap set at a weather station by undersea aliens, and are interrogated about Marineville's defense systems.
Episode 30
A Nut for Marineville
26 mins
When a seemingly indestructible craft is sighted heading towards Marineville on a collision course, the eccentric Professor Burgoyne is called in to help develop a new super missile with which to destroy it.
Episode 31
Trapped in the Depths
26 mins
Atlanta is visiting an undersea fish farm run by Professor Cordo, when he takes her hostage in a scheme to capture Stingray. Troy, Phones, and Marina must work to get the vessel back and rescue Atlanta before they run out of oxygen.
Episode 32
Count Down
26 mins
As part of his plan to destroy Marineville, Surface Agent X-2-Zero infiltrates the base by posing as a professor who can teach mute people to speak.
Episode 33
Sea of Oil
26 mins
Atlanta joins the Stingray crew when they investigate why a series of oil rigs keep getting destroyed, and ends up being captured by a race of undersea aliens protecting their home.
Episode 34
Plant of Doom
26 mins
Following the escape of his slave Marina, Titan plots revenge by planning to kill the Stingray crew with a deadly plant that gives off toxic fumes.
Episode 35
The Master Plan
25 mins
During a routine patrol, Stingray is attacked by a Terror Fish and is damaged. When Troy goes to make repairs, an Aquaphibian sprays him with some purple poisonous liquid, which puts him into a coma.
Episode 36
The Golden Sea
26 mins
The Stingray crew is assigned to make monthly visits to Professor Darren and his team, who have developed a method for making gold from minerals taken from the sea bed.
Episode 37
Hostages of the Deep
26 mins
When an undersea alien named Gadus kidnaps World Navy Admiral Carson and his wife from their remote island home, Troy, Phones and Marina head off on a rescue mission in Stingray.
Episode 38
Marineville Traitor
26 mins
Commander Shore appears to be a traitor after Marineville's security has been breached. This forces Troy Tempest to arrest his commanding officer and causes heartbreak for Atlanta Shore. However, just when the situation seems to be resolved, a complication occurs.
Episode 39
Aquanaut of the Year
26 mins
After receiving the 'Aquanaut of the Year' award, Troy finds himself part of a 'This is Your Life' programme where he reminisces some of his greatest adventures.
Episode 40
The Reunion Party
26 mins
While waiting for Atlanta and Marina, Commander Sam Shore shows to Admiral Denver films showing the previous missions that Troy Tempest and Phones had with the submarine Stingray.
