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Writer:	Gerry & Sylvia Anderson
Director:	Alan Pattillo
Editor:	Editor's Name
Transmission:	Sunday 11th, October, 1964, 5:35PM
Production Order
Previous:	Plant Of Doom
Next:	Hostages Of The Deep
Broadcast Order
Previous:	Count Down
Next:	Plant Of Doom

Sea of Oil was the third produced episode and the thirty-first broadcasted episode of the series Stingray

PlotEdit

Mysterious attacks on an oil mining stage require the attention of Troy, Phones, Marina and Atlanta. There is more to the attacks than first thought.

SynopsisEdit

Out in the sea a new oilrig has been set up and is commanded by Mr Preston. They begin to send down the drill. While drilling, Preston hears a noise and orders the drill to be switched off, they can then hear a strange humming sound. Every one recognises it and Preston gives the order to evacuate. Just after they’ve escaped the oilrig is destroyed.

Back at Marineville, Preston is explaining to Commander Shore and Troy that this is the third time it’s happened. Shore tells Troy to help Preston at their fourth oilrig. So Troy, Phones, Marina and Atlanta head off.

Once they arrive they start getting to work. The drill is carefully lowered down to the seabed accompanied by Stingray. The drill starts drilling, being watched by Stingray. While watching, Phones picks up a sound on his headset and tells Troy. Phones loses the signal and they assume it was an echo from the drill

Atlanta contacts Marineville and tells Shore that drilling has being going on for six hours and say that there has been no incidents. Stingray surfaces and they all retire for the night. Not knowing that there was another vessel in the area, a marine person heads towards Stingray and places a bomb on it.

However Marina is not asleep, but is on deck. She then hears a splash of water. She notices someone has jumped into the water. She jumps in her self and ends up chasing after the vessel, but she eventually loses it. Marina wakes up Troy and Phones, they find out that Atlanta has been kidnapped.

In an underground base, a marine agent called Garick reports to his leader N’geer that he has captured one of the terraineans. There Atlanta tries to explain that they're not invaders, they just want the oil. She convinces the two that they meant no harm, but Garick informs her that he planted a bomb on Stingray. He says that when it submerges it will explode!

Stingray begins to dive, when Troy notices something is wrong with the Service Video Scanner. Stopping the dive, Troy and Phones go up on deck to see what wrong. They discover a seal in front the camera. They then see it balancing a the bomb on it’s nose. They manage to get rid of the bomb, just in time and start looking for Atlanta.

In order to contact Stingray, Atlanta and Garick head out of the base in his ship. On Stingray, Phones pick up the ship on his headset. Troy decides to fire a missile not knowing that Atlanta is aboard. Atlanta figures out that Phones is picking up the motors of Garick’s ship. She uses a switch turning the motors on and off, trying to signal a code. Phones picks it up and tells Troy that it spelt out Atlanta. They stop the attack and head for the marine base. Working out their agreements N’geer gives them the oil.

CastEdit

Regular CastEdit

• Troy Tempest — Don Mason
• Phones Sheridan — Robert Easton
• Marina
• Atlanta Shore — Lois Maxwell
• Commander Sam Shore — Ray Barrett
• Oink — David Graham

Guest Voice CastEdit

• Preston — David Graham
• Garrett — David Graham
• N'veer — Don Mason
• Jack — Ray Barrett
• Oil Rig Worker — David Graham
• Base 472 — Robert Easton

NotesEdit

• This is the first appearance of Oink voiced by David Graham. He later appears in Treasure Down Below, The Golden Sea, Loch Ness Monster and The Invaders.

ContinuityEdit

• This episode was broadcast as the 33rd, which meant the other apperences of Oink came before despite the fact this episode establishes the character Oink.