Thomas M. Dykers
Host / Narrator
The Silent Service (1957)
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.
Released April 5, 1957
Episode 30 min
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Keywords: imdb.based-on-true-story, imdb.submarine, imdb.u-s-navy, imdb.1940s, imdb.world-war-two
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Jack at Tokyo
A submarine springs a leak while well into Japanese waters. An engineer takes on the dangerous mission of repairing it.
April 5, 1957, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
April 12, 1957, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
April 17, 1957, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
April 26, 1957, midnight
S1E5 - 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, midnight
S1E6 - The U.S.S. 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, midnight
S1E7 - The U.S.S. Batfish Scores
The USS Batfish is ordered to intercept some enemy submarines that are carrying very important Japanese officials.
May 17, 1957, midnight
S1E8 - The U.S.S. Tigrone Sets a Record
A submarine trying to rescue downed American pilots comes under attack from Japanese destroyers.
June 6, 1957, midnight
S1E9 - The 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.
June 27, 1957, midnight
S1E10 - The U.S.S. 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.
June 7, 1957, midnight
S1E11 - The U.S.S. 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.
June 14, 1957, midnight
S1E12 - The U.S.S. Tang vs. Truk
With morale low, USS Tang stands by for rescue downed American pilots during the attack on the Truk islands.
June 21, 1957, midnight
S1E13 - The Wahoo Story
The final mission of the USS Wahoo.
June 28, 1957, midnight
S1E14 - The Two Davids and Goliath
Darter and Dace during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
July 5, 1957, midnight
S1E15 - The Ordeal of S-38
A submarine suffers a series of disasters: a broken prop, damaged instruments and an explosion onboard.
July 12, 1957, midnight
S1E16 - 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.
July 19, 1957, midnight
S1E17 - The Salmon Swims Upstream
In October of 1944. 100 miles off Japan. Salmon is damaged in a depth charge attack and must remain surfaced.
July 26, 1957, midnight
S1E18 - Cargo for Crevalle
The crew of the USS Crevalle takes aboard a Filipino woman about to give birth to a baby.
Aug. 2, 1957, midnight
S1E19 - 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, midnight
S1E20 - The Squailfish
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, midnight
S1E21 - 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, midnight
S1E22 - The 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, midnight
S1E23 - The Sea Dragon Story
The USS Sea Dragon's oxygen tanks are exhausted. Death by suffocation or enemy gun fire seems inevitable.
Sept. 6, 1957, midnight
S1E24 - The 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.
Sept. 13, 1957, midnight
S1E25 - 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.
Sept. 20, 1957, midnight
S1E26 - The Final War Patrol
Concerns the Gato Class WWII Sub U.S.S. Barb (SS-220) and her Final WWII Patrol.
Sept. 27, 1957, midnight
S1E27 - 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, midnight
S1E28 - The Gar Story
A docudrama about the submarine USS Gar on a secret mission with guerillas during World War II.
Oct. 11, 1957, midnight
S1E29 - The Story of the U.S.S. Flier
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, midnight
S1E30 - 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, midnight
S1E31 - The Sealion Story
A damaged sub surfaces to attack a fleet of Japanese destroyers.
Nov. 1, 1957, midnight
S1E32 - The Nautilus Story
The Nautilus is assigned to observation duty at Tarawa and caught between U.S. and Japanese fire.
Nov. 8, 1957, midnight
S1E33 - 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, midnight
S1E34 - 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, midnight
S1E35 - The Tshushima 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, midnight
S1E36 - The Searaven
A U.S. sub becomes a sitting duck to save Australian soldiers from Timor Island.
Dec. 6, 1957, midnight
S1E37 - The Tang's Last Shot
The USS Tang, after sinking an entire convoy, gets in the way of her own torpedo.
Dec. 13, 1957, midnight
S1E38 - 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, midnight
S1E39 - 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, midnight
30 min/ep
30 min
April 5, 1957
Nov. 28, 1958, midnight
Ended
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