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Series of children's live action shorts
the character on the Australian television series SeaChange

Diver Dan is a series of 104 seven minute live action shorts made for children's television from 1960 to 1970. Made by Brian Cartoons, it was syndicated (mainly to NBC affiliates) and distributed by ITC Entertainment. The shows were sometimes re edited into half hour (including commercials) blocks by local stations. The series featured the adventures of a diver in an old fashioned diving suit who talked to the passing fish. The series was filmed in live action with puppet fish; the underwater effect was achieved by shooting through an aquarium.

Diver Dan debuted in 1960, the brainchild of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, cartoonist J. Anthony (John) Ferlaine, as a spinoff of his comic strip, Fish Tales. Ferlaine, who worked as an art director at Philadelphia's CBS affiliate WCAU TV, produced two Fish Tales live action marionette pilots. When CBS did not pick up the show, Ferlaine and promoter Martin Young partnered with Philadelphia producer Louis W. Kellman, who with his staff produced local TV spots and film shorts and filmed NFL football games. They produced the shorts over nine months and syndicated them. In New York City, Diver Dan shorts ran as part of Felix & Diver Dan, a 30 minute children's show airing from January 4, 1960, to August 31, 1962, which also included Felix the Cat. In Chicago during the 1960s, Diver Dan was regularly shown on the WGN TV show "Ray Rayner and His Friends" even though Rayner would frequently read on air letters from children requesting that he get other cartoons.

Ep. # Episode title 01 Hard Water 02 Goldie The Goldfish 03 Talking Fish 04 Skippers Gold 05 Treasure Ship 06 Sawfish Rescue 07 Shell O Phone 08 The Octopus 09 Murder Ink 10 Bottomless Pit 11 Teetering Rock 12 Barons Capture 13 An Unusual Treasure 14 Triggers Revenge 15 An Unusual Fish 16 The Verdict 17 Horaces Dilemma 18 The Trap 19 The Trap Is Sprung 20 Riddle Of The Hermit Crab 21 Sargasso Sea 22 Lost In The Sargasso Sea 23 Current Flow 24 The Storm 25 Goldies Heroism 26 Dynamite 27 Ghost Is Clear 28 Captain Barney 29 Lost City 30 Secret Of The Throne 31 Crawling Danger 32 The Strange Fish 33 The Bomb 34 The Bubbling Pit 35 The Volcano 36 Depth Charge 37 School Daze 38 Strange Vines 39 Savage Seaweed 40 The Magnet

Dell Publishing issued a Diver Dan comic book, as issue #1254 (February–April 1962) of its series Four Color. A follow up issue, #2 was also published, dated June–August 1962. In 1964, songwriter and record producer Tony Piano of Columbia Records put out a children's album based on the series titled Diver Dan and the Bermuda Onion. With the exception of the theme song, which he legally borrowed from the series, Piano wrote the story, music, and lyrics for the album. His inspiration for producing it was his two young children at the time, who were 'hooked' on the Diver Dan TV series. In addition to producing the album, Piano took on three of the roles: Trigger, Sam the Sawfish, and Skipper Kipper. Aiding Piano on the album was the comedian Del Close, playing the role of Baron Barracuda. "Birthday House" and children's album star Kay Lande played Minerva the Mermaid.

The Nickelodeon animated children's show SpongeBob SquarePants seems to have been somewhat influenced by Diver Dan, either in directly parodying or by paying homage to it. In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "One Krabs Trash", Mr. Krabs goes to a graveyard to retrieve a "soda drink hat", and there is a gravestone that reads "Diver Dan".