Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is the
television series sequel to the 1961 film,
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
The success of the film spawned a
television series, which used sets, costumes, props,
special effects models, and sometimes footage, from the movie. The series ran on
ABC from
September 14,
1964 to
March 31,
1968 for 110 episodes; 32 in
black and white (1964-65) and 78 in color (1965-68).
The first season was an action adventure series that was gritty, atmospheric and intense with story lines devoted to
Cold War themes. Many episodes involved espionage and
SpyFi elements. While fantastic, there was a semblance of reality in the scripts. The second season saw an increase in monster of the week type plots, yet there were still some episodes that harkened back to the tone of the first season. This season also introduced a redesigned Seaview and the addition of the
Flying Sub. A shuttlecraft type of vehicle, the Flying Sub was launched in a bay under the Seaview. The final two seasons cemented the shift towards
camp storylines that were popular in the late 1960s.
Mummies,
werewolves, talking puppets and an evil
leprechaun all walked the corridors of the
Seaview. There were also fossil men, flame men, frost men and lobster men. Until the fifth season of
Star Trek: The Next Generation,
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the longest running American science fiction television series in broadcasting history.
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Richard Basehart as
Admiral Harriman Nelson *
David Hedison as
Captain Lee Crane *
Bob Dowdell as
"Chip" Morton *
Henry Kulky as
Chief Curly Jones (1st Season)
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Terry Becker as
Chief Sharkey (2nd-4th Seasons)
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Del Monroe as
Kowalski *
Arch Whiting as
Sparks*
Paul Trinka as
Patterson *
Alan Hunt as
Riley (2nd Season)
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Richard Bull as the Doctor
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Paul Carr as
Casey Clark (1st-3rd Seasons, Recurring)
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In June 1961, Pyramid Books published a novelization of the feature film by
Theodore Sturgeon. The book was reprinted several times during the 1960s.
Another paperback novel, "City Beneath the Sea", was also published to tie into the series. It had a different storyline than the episode of the same name.
Western Publishing published a comic book based on the TV series. The first issue appeared as
Four Color Comics #1230, put out by
Dell Comics. Then Western's comic company,
Gold Key Comics put out a series that ran 16 issues from 1964-1970. Most covers were painted, and most had a photo of either Richard Basehart or David Hedison on them.
Aurora released a plastic model kit of the Seaview as well as the Flying Sub during the original run of the searies. Both kits were recently re-released by
Polar Lights.
On
February 212006, the first 16 episodes of season one was released in the United States and Canada by 20th Century Fox Home Video. The second half of season one was released on
July 112006.
The popularity of the TV show inspired
Mad magazine to spoof the show, their version being called
Voyage to See What's on the Bottom, featuring a submarine called the
Seapew.
Stock footage of the Seaview was used in the
Wonder Woman episode "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis."
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
