SEA SERPENTS

      Captain:   You say you saw a singing Sea Sick Sea Serpent named Cecil?  
                      I can't even say it. How could I see it? Beany, you know there's no  
                      such thing as a sea serpent and I'm ashamed of you for telling an  
                      untruth.  
        Beany:    Its' the truth, Uncle Captain Huffenpuff. If I didn't see a Sea  
                      Serpent may lightning strike me.  
      Captain:    And I say there was no Sea Serpent! [Lightning strikes Captain]  
                      EEEEEEeeeeeyyyyyyyy!  
        Beany:    See?

                                                                                --Time for Beany  

    Cecil the Sea Serpent -  One of the earliest television sea serpents appeared on BEANY AND CECIL/SYN/1950, a 15-minute puppet show produced by Bob Clampett about the exploits of a small boy named Beany who sailed the seven seas accompanied by his pet Cecil, the green "seasick" sea serpent and Captain Huffenpuff, the blowhard captain of their ship, the Leakin' Lena. Originally entitled TIME FOR BEANY, the program  first premiered on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles on February 1949. An animated cartoon spin-off BEANY & CECIL/ABC/1962-64 continued their adventures. Whenever Beany was threatened by the program's chief villain, Dishonest John, Cecil came rushing to the rescue with his favorite saying "I'm coming Beanie-boy!" 

    Loch Ness Monster  - The most famous sea monster is the Loch Ness Monster, a dark slithering form that allegedly inhabited a lake in Loch Ness, Scotland. On episode No. 231 "Samantha and the Loch Ness Monster" (9-29-71) of the sitcom BEWITCHED/ABC/1964-72 Samantha the witch (Elizabeth Montgomery) meets up with the legendary Loch Ness Monster, who was actually a warlock named Bruce turned into a monster by Samantha's look-alike cousin, Serena because he was getting on her nerves. On episode "Terror of the Zygons" during the 13th season of the British syndicated sci-fi series DOCTOR WHO/BBC/1963-89. aliens called Zygons sent a scouting ship to Earth as a prelude to invasion. The spacecraft crash-landed into the watery depths of a lake later to be called Loch Ness. Stranded, the Zygons attempted to repair their damaged starship. To scare away any intruders while they rebuilt their ship at the bottom of the lake, the Zygons unleashed the Skarasen, a huge creature (part animal and part  machine). When the  Zygons were destroyed, their aquatic monster, the Skarasen (an "armored cyborg of devastating power") was left to roam the lake as the Loch Ness Monster.  

    Sigmund the Sea Monster - Timid sea monster on the live-action children series SIGMUND AND THE SEA MONSTER/NBC/1973-75. Disowned by his fellow family of sea monsters because he didn't have the heart of scare humans, Sigmund Ooz (played by Billy Barty) wandered away from his home at Dead Man's Point along the beaches of southern California until he was befriended by the Stuart brothers, Johnny  (Johnny Whitaker) and Scott (Scott Kolden). His new human friends let Sigmund live in their club house.