Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)

{{short description| American sci-fi television series (1964–1968)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.jpg | caption = Cover art from the 2006 DVD release of the 1st season of ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' showing stars [[Richard Basehart]] and [[David Hedison]], with the submarine ''[[USOS Seaview|Seaview]]'' (center) | runtime = 60 minutes (including commercials) | creator = [[Irwin Allen]] | starring = [[Richard Basehart]] [[David Hedison]] [[Robert Dowdell]] [[Henry Kulky]] [[Terry Becker]] [[Del Monroe]] [[Arch Whiting]] [[Paul Trinka]] [[Allan Hunt]] [[Richard Bull (actor)|Richard Bull]] [[Paul Carr (actor)|Paul Carr]] | composer = [[Paul Sawtell]] [[Hugo Friedhofer]] [[Alexander Courage]] [[Morton Stevens]] [[Michael Hennagin]] (one episode) [[Jerry Goldsmith]] (one episode) [[Leith Stevens]] [[Lennie Hayton]] [[Nelson Riddle]] (one episode) [[Herman Stein]] (one episode) [[Robert Drasnin]] (one episode) Harry Geller Joseph Mullendore [[Irving Gertz]] (one episode) | country = United States | company = Cambridge Productions Inc. [[Irwin Allen Productions]] [[20th Television|20th Century-Fox Television]] | network = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] | first_aired = {{start date|1964|9|14}} | last_aired = {{end date|1968|3|31}} | num_seasons = 4 | num_episodes = 110 | list_episodes = #Episode list }}

'''''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea''''' is an American [[science fiction]] television series based on [[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea|the 1961 movie]]. Both were created by [[Irwin Allen]], which enabled the film's sets, costumes, props, [[special effect]]s models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series.<ref name="Woolery">{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series |date=1985 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1651-2 |pages=538–540}}</ref> ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' was the first of Irwin Allen's four science fiction television series (the three others being ''[[Lost in Space]]'', ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'', and ''[[Land of the Giants]]''), and the longest-running. The show's theme was underwater adventure.

''Voyage'' was broadcast on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from September 14, 1964, to March 31, 1968. The 110 episodes produced included 32 shot in [[black-and-white]] (1964–1965), and 78 filmed in color (1965–1968). The first two seasons took place in the then-future of the 1970s. The final two seasons took place in the 1980s. The show starred [[Richard Basehart]] and [[David Hedison]].

== Show history ==

=== Pilot episode === The pilot episode "Eleven Days to Zero" was filmed in color but shown in black-and-white. It introduces the audience to the futuristic [[nuclear submarine]] [[USOS Seaview|S.S.R.N. ''Seaview'']] and the lead members of her crew, including the designer and builder of the submarine [[Admiral (United States)|Admiral]] Harriman Nelson ([[Richard Basehart]]), and [[Commander (United States)|Commander]] Lee Crane ([[David Hedison]]), who becomes the ''Seaview'''s [[Captain (naval)|captain]] after the murder of her original [[commanding officer]]. The submarine is based at the Nelson Institute of Marine Research in [[Santa Barbara, California]], and is often moored some {{convert|500|ft|abbr=on}} beneath the facility in a secret underground submarine pen carved out of solid rock. The ''Seaview'' is officially for undersea marine research and visits many exotic locations in the [[Seven Seas]], but its secret mission is to defend the planet from all world and extraterrestrial threats{{r|king20110130}} in the then-future of the 1970s.

=== Season 1 === The first season's 32 episodes included gritty, atmospheric story lines devoted to [[Cold War]] themes and excursions into near-future [[speculative fiction]], involving [[espionage]] and [[science fiction]] elements. Aliens, sea monsters and dinosaurs were featured, but the primary villains were hostile foreign governments. While fantastic, the scripts had a recognisably contemporary setting.<ref name="Austin2010">{{cite book|author=Allan W. Austin|title=Space and Time: Essays on Visions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qY9lc1XSsx4C&pg=PA29|date=19 April 2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5634-5|pages=30–31}}</ref>

The first episodes began with Admiral Nelson and the crew of the ''Seaview'' fighting against a foreign government to prevent a world-threatening earthquake, and continuing with a foreign government destroying American submarines with new technologies in "The Fear Makers" and "The Enemies". The season also had several [[ocean]] peril stories in which the ''Seaview'' crew spent the episode dealing with the normal perils of the sea. Two examples are "Submarine Sunk Here" and "The Ghost of Moby Dick". The season introduced a [[diving bell]] and a [[Midget submarine|mini-submarine]], and the first episodes featuring [[Extraterrestrial life in popular culture|extraterrestrials]] (Don Brinkley's "The Sky is Falling") and [[sea monster]]s.

During the course of the first season, Nelson was promoted from a three-star to a four-star admiral. It was also established that while essentially a marine [[research vessel]], SSRN ''Seaview'' was also part of the U.S. nuclear armed fleet (most notably defined in William Read Woodfield's episode, "Doomsday").<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Dedman|title=May the Armed Forces Be with You: The Relationship Between Science Fiction and the United States Military|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CyD3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96|date=2 September 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2286-6|pages=96–97}}</ref> The season ended with the ''Seaview'' crew fighting a foreign government to save a defense weapon.

=== Season 2 === The second season began with a trip inside a whale, a trip inside a volcano, and a few [[Cold War]] intrigue and nuclear war-themed episodes, and saw several brushes with world disaster. The season ended with a [[ghost]] story, one of the show's few sequels.

Due to ABC's demands for a somewhat "lighter" tone to the series, 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. The second season also saw a change from [[black-and-white]] to [[Color television|color]]. The beginning of the second season saw the permanent replacement of Chief "Curly" Jones with Chief Francis Ethelbert Sharkey, due to the death of Henry Kulky, who portrayed Chief Jones.

The most important change in the series occurred during this season when a notably redesigned ''Seaview'' interior was introduced, along with the ''[[USOS Seaview#Refit and the Flying Sub|Flying Sub]]'', a yellow, two-man [[Midget submarine|mini-submarine]] with passenger capacity. The Flying Sub could leave the ocean and become airborne. The futuristic craft greatly increased the ''Seaview'' crew's travel options. It was launched from a bay, access to which was via a sealed hatch stairway at the bow section. The ''Seaview''{{'}}s private observation deck from the first season was never seen again. The ''Seaview'' control room was expanded and a large rectangular panel screen of flickering lights was added. The ''Seaview'' also now had a powerful laser beam in its bow light. The small mini-sub from the first season was retained and occasionally still used in the color episodes.

The ship's enlisted men were also given more colorful uniforms (red or light blue jumpsuits) and white [[Keds (shoes)|Keds]] Champion [[Sneakers (footwear)|sneakers]]. The traditional sailor uniforms worn in the first season were only seen in stock footage from the first season and on characters who were newly filmed to match up with that footage.

A second-season episode, "The Sky's on Fire", was a remake of the basic storyline of Irwin Allen's original film ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'' (1961) using considerable film color footage, though several film sequences were removed and had been featured in other first-season episodes such as "The Village of Guilt" and "Submarine Sunk Here."

A few later season two episodes were filmed without Richard Basehart, who was hospitalized for a bleeding ulcer. He filmed the scenes in the Flying Sub for "The Monster's Web" before hospitalization, requiring a stand in and other characters taking over his lines. He was missing entirely from the next two episodes. These episodes didn't feature his character at all, while in one story "The Menfish" [[Gary Merrill]] guested as Admiral Park, a colleague of Nelson's who substituted for him. Basehart returned for "Return of the Phantom," the final episode of the season.

=== Season 3 === The third season of ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' ran simultaneously with two other series produced by [[Irwin Allen]], ''[[Lost in Space]]'' (in its second season) and ''[[The Time Tunnel]]''.

The third season began with [[Dick Tufeld]] (voice of the Robot on ''Lost in Space'') playing an evil disembodied brain from [[outer space]]. The season continued with a [[werewolf]] story that is one of the few episodes to inspire a sequel. In one episode, the ''Seaview''{{'}}s officers and crew encountered [[Nazis]] who believed [[World War II]] was still ongoing. The third season only had two espionage stories and one ocean peril story that were reminiscent of the first season. One of those three stories was about a hostile foreign government trying to steal a strange new mineral with the aid of a brainwashed Admiral Nelson. This espionage story was the end of the third season.

The final two seasons continued the shift towards [[paranormal]] storylines that were popular in the late 1960s.<ref name=king20110130>{{cite news|last=King|first=Susan|title='Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea': David Hedison looks back on periscope days|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/01/30/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-david-hedison-looks-back-on-periscope-days/|access-date=2011-01-30|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=2011-01-30}}</ref> [[Mummies]], werewolves, talking puppets, and an evil [[leprechaun]] all walked the corridors of the ''Seaview''. There were also [[fossil]] men, flame men, frost men, lobster men, and shadow men.

The opening credits were largely identical to the revised season two, but the initial season two yellow lettering credits that were first altered to white, (and then back to yellow on the later revised sequence) were now depicted in a golden/yellowish lettering, and closing credits were set over a green-backed painting of ''Seaview'' underwater.

=== Season 4 === [[File:Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea David Hedison 1967.JPG|thumb|200px|David Hedison as Lee Crane in the episode "Time Lock", 1967]] [[File:Voyage to the bottom of the sea 1968.JPG|thumb|200px|Nelson and Sharkey fight an alien spy, 1968.]] The fourth and final season of ''Voyage'' began with [[Victor Jory]] playing a five-centuries-old [[Alchemy|alchemist]] and the ''Seaview'' is threatened by the hydrodynamic effects of a major volcanic eruption. Starting with the eighth episode of the season, there were revamped opening credits depicting action sequences and the stars' pictures in color set on a sonar board design. The closing credits picture remained unchanged from season three. Near the end of the fourth season, there were three unrelated stories of [[Extraterrestrials in fiction|extraterrestrial]] invasion. One episode had an unknown master of disguise infiltrating and wreaking havoc aboard the ''Seaview''. Another episode depicted Nelson, Morton and Sharkey [[gaslighting]] Crane. There were two [[time travel]] stories featuring the enigmatic but dangerous Mister Pem. The second had the ''Seaview'' going back in time to the [[American Revolution]]. The episode (and series) ended with the ''Seaview'' returning to the present. The final scene of the show had Nelson and Crane sitting in the seldom-used easy chairs on the port side of the observation nose discussing how fast time goes by.

In March 1968 it was announced that ''Voyage'' would not be back for a fifth season.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PiZAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5614,4167077&dq=voyage+to+the+bottom+of+the+sea&hl=en |title=TV Winter Season Getting Shorter |newspaper=The Robesonian |location=Lumberton, N.C. |date=March 11, 1968 |page=9}}</ref>

== Music == The series' main theme, "The Seaview Theme", was written by [[Paul Sawtell]]. A new darker, more serious theme composed by [[Jerry Goldsmith]] was introduced at the beginning of the second-season episode "Jonah and the Whale", but this was quickly replaced by the original version. A version of the Goldsmith suite re-orchestrated by Nelson Riddle was heard as incidental music in the episode "Escape From Venice", and the original Goldsmith suite was used as incidental music throughout the rest of the series. The series' main composer, supervisor and conductor was [[Lionel Newman]], who for the second season composed a serious sounding score for when the episode credits (episode title/guests/writer/director) were shown just after the theme song, which would be used by many episodes (starting with "The Left Handed Man") through the second and into the early third season. Other guest composers included [[Lennie Hayton]], [[Hugo Friedhofer]], ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' composer [[Alexander Courage]], [[Morton Stevens]], [[Leith Stevens]] (no relation) who wrote the music to nine episodes, and Sawtell, who worked on the show for a while in the first season.

[[GNP Crescendo]] issued a soundtrack album in 1997 as part of its series tying into the documentary ''The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen'', featuring Sawtell's theme from the series and his score for the pilot episode "Eleven Days to Zero" (tracks 2–6) and Goldsmith's work for "Jonah and the Whale".

# '''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea''' Main Title (:29) # Murderous Pursuit (2:54) # Ocean Floor Search/Squid Fight (5:34) # Solid Ice (1:48) # Lost/Job Well Done (3:35) # End Title (The Seaview Theme) (:40) # Jonah and the Whale (Main Title) (:30) # A Whale of a Whale/Thar She Blows/A Whale of a Time/The Second Dive (4:23) # A Meal Fit for a Whale/Crash Dive/Sub Narcotics (4:18) # Collision Course I/Collision Course II/Diving Party/Going Down (4:44) # Home Free Part I/Home Free Part II (3:58) # Jonah and the Whale (End Credit) (:50)

==Cast== *[[Richard Basehart]] as [[Admiral (United States)|Admiral]] Harriman "Harry" Nelson *[[David Hedison]] as [[Commander (United States)|Commander]] Lee Crane *[[Robert Dowdell]] as [[Lieutenant Commander (United States)|Lieutenant Commander]] Chip Morton *Derrik Lewis as Lieutenant Commander O'Brien (pilot episode, Seasons 1–2) *[[Henry Kulky]] as [[Chief Petty Officer (United States)|Chief]] "Curly" Jones (Season 1) *[[Terry Becker]] as Chief Petty Officer Francis Ethelbert Sharkey (Seasons 2–4) *[[Del Monroe]] as Kowalski *[[Arch Whiting]] as Sparks *[[Paul Trinka]] as Patterson *[[Allan Hunt]] as Stuart "Stu" Riley (Season 2) *[[Richard Bull (actor)|Richard Bull]] as the Doctor

== Episode list == {{small|Note: Two different episodes (28 and 73) are both titled "The Creature".}}

=== Season 1 (1964–65) === All episodes (except "Eleven Days to Zero") were made and broadcast in black-and-white

{{Episode table |background=#515151 |overall= |season= |title= |director= |writer= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Eleven Days to Zero | DirectedBy = [[Irwin Allen]] | WrittenBy = Irwin Allen | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|9|14}} | ShortSummary = A polar earthquake in eleven days could cause the destruction of civilization. Guest starring [[Eddie Albert]], [[Theo Marcuse]], and [[John Zaremba]]. '''Note''': This episode was produced in color but was broadcast in black-and-white | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The City Beneath the Sea | DirectedBy = [[John Brahm]] | WrittenBy = Richard Landau | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|9|21}} | ShortSummary = Two ships have vanished near an island off the coast of Greece. Guest starring [[Hurd Hatfield]], [[Linda Cristal]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Fear-Makers | DirectedBy = [[Leonard Horn]] | WrittenBy = Anthony Wilson | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|9|28}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' must take up another submarine's mission when it disappears. Guest starring [[Lloyd Bochner]] and special guest star [[Edgar Bergen]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = The Mist of Silence | DirectedBy = Leonard Horn | WrittenBy = [[John McGreevey]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|10|5}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' attempts to rendezvous with an apparent defector from a hostile nation. Guest starring [[Rita Gam]], [[Alejandro Rey]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = The Price of Doom | DirectedBy = [[James Goldstone]] | WrittenBy = [[Harlan Ellison]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|10|12}} | ShortSummary = A scientist on a research facility in Antarctica discovers a new form of sea plankton that turns monstrously large and aggressive if exposed to heat. After the scientist mysteriously disappears, the Seaview is sent in to investigate. Guest starring [[David Opatoshu]], [[John Milford]] and [[Jill Ireland]]. Screenplay by [[Harlan Ellison]] (under his Cordwainer Bird alias, credited as "Cord Wainer Bird"). | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Sky Is Falling | DirectedBy = Leonard Horn | WrittenBy = [[Don Brinkley]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|10|19}} | ShortSummary = A U. F. O. has been spotted flying around the United States, terrifying people and violating every airspace regulation in the book. It falls into the sea, which, after another ship is destroyed investigating it, the Seaview is ordered to check it out. Guest starring [[Charles McGraw]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = Turn Back the Clock | DirectedBy = Alan Crosland, Jr. | WrittenBy = Sheldon Stark | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|10|26}} | ShortSummary = A lone survivor of a doomed Antarctic expedition is rescued. The Seaview takes him and a woman photographer to see if there really is a dinosaur laden tropical paradise somewhere in the Antarctic. Guest starring [[Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)|Nick Adams]], [[Yvonne Craig]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = The Village of Guilt | DirectedBy = Irwin Allen | WrittenBy = Berne Giler | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|11|2}} | ShortSummary = In the fjords of a small Norwegian fishing village, a small boat manned by three drunken fishermen is attacked by what appears to be a giant sea monster. Guest starring [[Richard Carlson (actor)|Richard Carlson]], [[Anna-Lisa]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Hot Line | DirectedBy = John Brahm | WrittenBy = Berne Giler | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|11|9}} | ShortSummary = A Soviet rocket carrying a satellite is crashing back to Earth, and the ''Seaview'' must transport two Russian missile experts to find and disarm it. Guest starring [[Everett Sloane]], [[Ford Rainey]], [[James Doohan]], [[John Banner]] and special guest star: [[Michael Ansara]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Submarine Sunk Here | DirectedBy = Leonard Horn | WrittenBy = [[William Tunberg (screenwriter)|William Tunberg]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|11|16}} | ShortSummary = The ship's diving bell may be the ''Seaview'''s only hope when the sub becomes entangled in a derelict minefield. Co-starring [[Carl Reindel]], [[Eddie Ryder]], Robert Doyle and [[Wright King]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 11 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = The Magnus Beam | DirectedBy = Leonard Horn | WrittenBy = [[Alan Caillou]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|11|23}} | ShortSummary = A powerful magnetic beam has caused the crashes of several spy planes, and has now caught the ''Seaview'', dragging it to its destruction. Co-starring [[Mario Alcalde]], Monique Lemaire, [[Malachi Throne]], [[Jacques Aubuchon]] and [[Joseph Ruskin]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 12 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = No Way Out | DirectedBy = [[Felix E. Feist]] | WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay | s = [[Robert Leslie Bellem]] | ex1 = Robert Hamner | slabel = {{abbr|S|Story by}} | ex1label = {{abbr|S/T|Story and teleplay by}} }} | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|11|30}} | ShortSummary = An important Soviet official is wounded and his daughter captured when they try to defect to the U.S. With the official recovering aboard ''Seaview'', Nelson and the crew must either rescue the daughter or leave her behind. Co-starring [[Jan Merlin]] and [[Danielle De Metz]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 13 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = The Blizzard Makers | DirectedBy = Josef Leytes | WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay | s = Joe Madison | ex1 = William Welch | slabel = {{abbr|S|Story by}} | ex1label = {{abbr|S/T|Story and teleplay by}} }} | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|12|7}} | ShortSummary = Admiral Nelson needs the help of a climatologist to help discover why the Gulf Stream has shifted, but doesn't know that the scientist has been brainwashed to kill him to stop him from uncovering the truth. Guest star [[Werner Klemperer]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 14 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = The Ghost of Moby Dick | DirectedBy = [[Sobey Martin]] | WrittenBy = Robert Hamner | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|12|14}} | ShortSummary = A whale specialist's son is killed when his father's data-gathering methods enrage an enormous whale. Now the crippled father needs ''Seaview'''s help to (as he claims) continue his research. Guest stars [[June Lockhart]], [[Edward Binns]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 15 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = Long Live the King | DirectedBy = [[László Benedek]] | WrittenBy = Raphael Hayes | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|12|21}} | ShortSummary = When his father is assassinated, a young prince abruptly becomes his country's king, but he still has a lot to learn about ruling, and a mysterious sailor may not only help him but also help the crew keep the new king alive. Guest star [[Carroll O'Connor]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 16 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Hail to the Chief | DirectedBy = [[Gerd Oswald]] | WrittenBy = Don Brinkley | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1964|12|28}} | ShortSummary = On his way to an important peace conference, the U.S. President suffers a head injury and needs a brain operation on board the ''Seaview''. Guest star [[Viveca Lindfors]]; also starring [[John Hoyt]], [[Malcolm Atterbury]] and [[Edward Platt]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 17 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = The Last Battle | DirectedBy = [[Felix E. Feist]] | WrittenBy = Robert Hamner | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|1|4}} | ShortSummary = Nelson is kidnapped by a group of former Nazis determined to resurrect the Third Reich. Co-starring [[John Van Dreelen]], [[Joe De Santis]], Rudy Solari. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 18 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = Mutiny | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = [[William Read Woodfield]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|1|11}} | ShortSummary = Nelson and the first officer of a new submarine are the only survivors when the sub is attacked by a giant jellyfish. Guest starring [[Harold J. Stone]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 19 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = Doomsday | DirectedBy = James Goldstone | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|1|18}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' receives a message that the U.S. is at war. Co-starring [[Don Harron|Donald Harron]], [[Paul Carr (actor)|Paul Carr]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 20 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = The Invaders | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|1|25}} | ShortSummary = An undersea earthquake exhumes hundreds of strange metallic capsules, and a powerful humanoid creature who could destroy mankind is restored to life after millions of years in suspended animation. Guest starring [[Robert Duvall]], credited as "Robert Duval". | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 21 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = The Indestructible Man | DirectedBy = Felix E. Feist | WrittenBy = Richard Landau | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|2|1}} | ShortSummary = The Seaview is tasked with recovering a returned deep space probe. On board the probe is a robot as sophisticated as a man, and capable of experiencing everything a human can. Co-starring [[Michael Constantine]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 22 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Buccaneer | DirectedBy = László Benedek | WrittenBy = William Welch & Al Gail | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|2|8}} | ShortSummary = The Seaview is seized by a man calling himself the "Buccaneer. As audacious as his plan is, it is only a small piece in a much larger plan. Co-starring [[Barry Atwater]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 23 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = The Human Computer | DirectedBy = James Goldstone | WrittenBy = Robert Hamner | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|2|15}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' is converted to full automation with Captain Crane the only human aboard...or so he thinks. Co-starring [[Simon Scott (actor)|Simon Scott]] and Harry Millard. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 24 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = The Saboteur | DirectedBy = Felix E. Feist | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield & George Reed | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|2|22}} | ShortSummary = Crane is brainwashed to sabotage an important national defense mission which is being monitored by the national intelligence agency. Co-starring [[Bert Freed]] & [[Warren Stevens]]; featuring [[James Brolin]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 25 | EpisodeNumber2 = 25 | Title = Cradle of the Deep | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = Robert Hamner | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|3|1}} | ShortSummary = The Seaview is sent on a mission that will take it into some of the most dangerous waters in the world for submarines. Adding to the tension one of the officers lost an elder brother on a similar mission years before. Also starring [[John Anderson (actor)|John Anderson]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 26 | EpisodeNumber2 = 26 | Title = The Amphibians | DirectedBy = Felix E. Feist | WrittenBy = [[Hendrik Vollaerts]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|3|8}} | ShortSummary = Two scientists want to rush ahead with the development of an amphibian adaptation for man. Guest stars [[Skip Homeier]] and [[Zale Parry]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 27 | EpisodeNumber2 = 27 | Title = The Exile | DirectedBy = James Goldstone | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|3|15}} | ShortSummary = The premier of the "People's Republic", with some very valuable information, wants to defect to the US. The Seaview is sent to pick him up, but Nelson must first evaluate the information before deciding if the mission worth the risk. Guest star [[Edward Asner]], co-starring [[David Sheiner]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 28 | EpisodeNumber2 = 28 | Title = The Creature | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = Rik Vollaerts | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|3|22}} | ShortSummary = When a missile is destroyed by apparent ultrasonic sound, the Seaview investigates with Adams, the mentally unstable launch commander, on board and finds a giant manta ray source which along with Adams' actions pose a threat to safety. Guest star [[Leslie Nielsen]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 29 | EpisodeNumber2 = 29 | Title = The Enemies | DirectedBy = Felix E. Feist | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|3|29}} | ShortSummary = Investigating the wreck of a submarine, the ''Seaview'' uncovers evidence of strange behavior just before the wreck. Guest stars [[Henry Silva]], [[Tom Skerritt]], and [[Malachi Throne]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 30 | EpisodeNumber2 = 30 | Title = The Secret of the Loch | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = [[Charles Bennett (screenwriter)|Charles Bennett]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|4|5}} | ShortSummary = Nelson is to meet a scientist working on a secret project at Loch Ness. When he arrives he discovers the scientist is dead. A series of strange events leads Nelson to believe there may be a way for a submarine to enter the Loch. Guest star [[Torin Thatcher]], co-starring [[Hedley Mattingly]], [[George Mitchell (actor)|George Mitchell]] and [[John McLiam]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 31 | EpisodeNumber2 = 31 | Title = The Condemned | DirectedBy = Leonard Horn | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|4|12}} | ShortSummary = This episode involves the testing of a new air mixture that will allow a submarine to go to the "bottom of the sea" literally! A brash, news hogging, admiral and his aide, along with his assistant all successfully make the first tests in a diving bell. Then it is time for the Seaview to follow suit. Only then does the real fun begin! Guest star [[J. D. Cannon]], co-starring [[Arthur Franz]], [[Alvy Moore]]. | LineColor = 515151 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 32 | EpisodeNumber2 = 32 | Title = The Traitor | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = William Welch & Al Gail | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|4|19}} | ShortSummary = Admiral Nelson's sister is kidnapped, but Nelson soon learns that there's a more sinister behind it. Guest star [[George Sanders]], co-starring [[Michael Pate]], [[Susan Flannery]]. '''Note''': This is the last episode to be produced in black-and-white | LineColor = 515151 }} }}

=== Season 2 (1965–66) === All episodes from Season 2 and onwards in color {{Episode table |background=#9C380C |overall= |season= |title= |director= |writer= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 33 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Jonah and the Whale | DirectedBy = [[Sobey Martin]] | WrittenBy = [[Shimon Wincelberg]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|9|19}} | ShortSummary = When Admiral Nelson and an impatient Russian scientist are trapped inside a diving bell inside a giant whale, it's up to the crew of the ''Seaview'' to mount an effective rescue to bring them both back alive. Guest starring [[Gia Scala]]. '''Note''': This is the first episode to be shown in color. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 34 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = Time Bomb | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = [[William Read Woodfield]] & Allan Balter | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|9|26}} | ShortSummary = Admiral Nelson becomes an unwitting accomplice in a high-stakes game of sabotage designed to overturn the existing world order. Guest star [[Ina Balin]], co-starring [[Susan Flannery]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 35 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = ...And Five of Us Are Left | DirectedBy = [[Harry Harris (director)|Harry Harris]] | WrittenBy = Robert Vincent Wright | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|10|3}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' is sent to rescue the surviving crew of a supposedly sunk U.S. WW2 submarine. Guest Star [[Phillip Pine]], co-starring Robert Doyle, [[Teru Shimada]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 36 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = The Cyborg | DirectedBy = [[Leo Penn]] | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|10|17}} | ShortSummary = Nelson is captured and replaced by a look-alike cyborg ordered to start a war. With special guest star [[Victor Buono]], co-starring [[Brooke Bundy]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 37 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = Escape from Venice | DirectedBy = Alex March | WrittenBy = [[Charles Bennett (screenwriter)|Charles Bennett]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|10|24}} | ShortSummary = Captain Crane is entrusted with the key to decipher a set of messages of great importance, but his fellow crewmembers must get to him before the enemy does. Co-starring [[Renzo Cesana]], [[Vincent Gardenia]] and [[Delphi Lawrence]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 38 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Left-Handed Man | DirectedBy = [[Jerry Hopper]] | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|10|31}} | ShortSummary = Admiral Nelson risks his life to publicly oppose a popular political nominee secretly backed by a contentious millionaire. Guest star [[Cyril Delevanti]], co-starring [[Regis Toomey]], [[Barbara Bouchet]] and [[Charles Dierkop]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 39 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = The Deadliest Game | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = Rik Vollaerts | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|11|7}} | ShortSummary = Some sort of weapon is blocking all communication to and from an underwater installation while the U.S. President is visiting. Guest starring [[Lloyd Bochner]]. Co-starring [[Audrey Dalton]], [[Robert Cornthwaite (actor)|Robert Cornthwaite]] and [[Robert F. Simon]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 40 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Leviathan | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|11|14}} | ShortSummary = Guest starring [[Karen Steele]], co-starring [[Liam Sullivan]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 41 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = The Peacemaker | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|11|21}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' sets out to rescue a traitor who can help save the world from a doomsday device of his own making. Guest starring [[John Cassavetes]], co-starring [[Whit Bissell]], [[Irene Tsu]] & [[Dale Ishimoto]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 42 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = The Silent Saboteurs | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay | s = [[Max Ehrlich (writer)|Max Ehrlich]] | t = Sidney Marshall | slabel = {{abbr|S|Story by}} | tlabel = {{abbr|T|Teleplay by}} }} | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|11|28}} | ShortSummary = Captain Crane and his crew team up with foreign agents to neutralize an enemy weapon, but not all the agents are what they seem to be. Guest starring [[Pilar Seurat]], co-starring [[George Takei]], [[Bert Freed]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 43 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = The X Factor | DirectedBy = [[Leonard Horn]] | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|12|5}} | ShortSummary = An American weapons scientist is kidnapped by a major spy ring, and the only lead is a mysterious toy company. Guest star [[John McGiver]], co-starring [[Jan Merlin]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 44 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = The Machines Strike Back | DirectedBy = [[Nathan Juran]] | WrittenBy = John and [[Ward Hawkins]] | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|12|12}} | ShortSummary = Something has caused Admiral Nelson's new drone sub system to malfunction and fire missiles at New York City. Guest starring [[Roger C. Carmel]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 45 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = The Monster from Outer Space | DirectedBy = [[James B. Clark (director)|James Clark]] | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|12|19}} | ShortSummary = An unmanned space probe returns to Earth with an alien hitchhiker, which one by one bends the crew of the ''Seaview'' to its will. No guest star. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 46 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = Terror on Dinosaur Island | DirectedBy = Leonard Horn | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1965|12|26}} | ShortSummary = Nelson and Chief Sharkey are trapped on an island populated by prehistoric creatures. Co-starring [[Paul Carr (actor)|Paul Carr]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 47 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = Killers of the Deep | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|1|2}} | ShortSummary = Captain Crane is captured and held prisoner on a submarine that has been stealing nuclear missiles. Guest star [[Michael Ansara]], co-starring [[Patrick Wayne]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 48 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Deadly Creature Below! | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|1|9}} | ShortSummary = The two men rescued by the ''Seaview'' are actually dangerous criminals. Guest star [[Nehemiah Persoff]], co-starring [[Paul Comi]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 49 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = The Phantom Strikes | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|1|16}} | ShortSummary = Captain Crane is the target of the captain of a sunken German U-boat. Guest star [[Alfred Ryder]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 50 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = The Sky's on Fire | DirectedBy = Gerald Mayer | WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay | s = [[Irwin Allen]] & Charles Bennett | t = William Welch | slabel = {{abbr|S|Screenplay by}} | tlabel = {{abbr|T|Teleplay by}} }} | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|1|23}} | ShortSummary = A disaster has struck the southern hemisphere and the ''Seaview'' may be the world's best hope for redemption, if only the scientists in charge can agree on the right course of action. Guest Star [[David J. Stewart]], Co-starring [[Robert H. Harris]], [[Frank Marth]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 51 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = Graveyard of Fear | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = Robert Vincent Wright | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|1|30}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' is on a mission to recover a sunken ships's secret cargo, but whatever sank the other ships in the area is now after the ''Seaview''. Guest starring [[Robert Loggia]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 52 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = The Shape of Doom | DirectedBy = Nathan Juran | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|2|6}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' pursues an enormous whale which has swallowed a 50-megaton nuclear bomb. Guest star [[Kevin Hagen]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 53 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = Dead Man's Doubloons | DirectedBy = Sutton Roley | WrittenBy = Sidney Marshall | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|2|13}} | ShortSummary = The reincarnation of a dead pirate captain threatens the ''Seaview''. Guest star [[Albert Salmi]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 54 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Death Ship | DirectedBy = [[Abner Biberman]] | WrittenBy = Michael Lynn & George Reed | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|2|20}} | ShortSummary = A guest crew of scientists is aboard the ''Seaview'' to test new automation technology, but one of them is a cold-blooded killer with ulterior motives. Guest star [[David Sheiner]], co-starring [[Lew Gallo]] and Elizabeth Perry. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 55 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = The Monster's Web | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay | t = Al Gail | ex1 = Peter Packer | tlabel = {{abbr|T|Teleplay by}} | ex1label = {{abbr|S/T|Story and teleplay by}} }} | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|2|27}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' tangles with a giant, spider-like sea monster. Guest star [[Peter Mark Richman|Mark Richman]] | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 56 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = The Menfish | DirectedBy = [[Tom Gries]] | WrittenBy = William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|3|6}} | ShortSummary = Captain Crane must stop a scientist from creating human/marine animal hybrids. Guest star [[Gary Merrill]], special guest star [[John Dehner]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 57 | EpisodeNumber2 = 25 | Title = The Mechanical Man | DirectedBy = Sobey Martin | WrittenBy = John and Ward Hawkins | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|3|13}} | ShortSummary = An unstoppable android threatens the ''Seaview''. Guest star [[James Darren]], special guest star [[Arthur O'Connell]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 58 | EpisodeNumber2 = 26 | Title = The Return of the Phantom | DirectedBy = Sutton Roley | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|3|20}} | ShortSummary = "The Phantom" Captain Kreuger returns, with Captain Crane's body as his target once again. Guest star [[Alfred Ryder]], co-starring [[Vitina Marcus]]. | LineColor = 9C380C }} }}

=== Season 3 (1966–67) === {{Episode table |background=#700070 |overall= |season= |title= |director= |writer= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 59 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Monster from the Inferno | DirectedBy = [[Harry Harris (director)|Harry Harris]] | WrittenBy = Rik Vollaerts | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|9|18}} | ShortSummary = An intelligent organism from the bottom of the ocean is brought aboard the ''Seaview'', but proves highly dangerous. Guest star [[Arthur Hill (Canadian actor)|Arthur Hill]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 60 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = Werewolf | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = Donn Mullally | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|9|25}} | ShortSummary = A scientist infected by [[lycanthropy]] in turn infects Admiral Nelson. Guest star [[Charles Aidman]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 61 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Day the World Ended | DirectedBy = [[Jerry Hopper]] | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|10|2}} | ShortSummary = The arrival of a new U.S. Senator on an inspection sets off a chain of events that causes everyone on Earth outside the ''Seaview'' to mysteriously vanish. Guest star [[Skip Homeier]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 62 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Night of Terror | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = Robert Bloomfield | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|10|9}} | ShortSummary = The crew aboard the ''Seaview'''s diving bell become stranded on a mysterious tropical island. Guest star [[Henry Jones (actor)|Henry Jones]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 63 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = The Terrible Toys | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = Robert Vincent Wright | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|10|16}} | ShortSummary = The toys in an old man's sack come to life and begin sabotaging the ''Seaview''. Guest star [[Paul Fix]]. Last role for [[Francis X. Bushman]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 64 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = Day of Evil | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|10|23}} | ShortSummary = A shape-shifting alien boards and tries to take over the ''Seaview''. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 65 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = Deadly Waters | DirectedBy = Gerald Mayer | WrittenBy = Robert Vincent Wright | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|10|30}} | ShortSummary = After rescuing Kowalski's brother, the ''Seaview'' is trapped on the ocean floor far below its crush limit. Guest star [[Don Gordon (actor)|Don Gordon]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 66 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Thing from Inner Space | DirectedBy = Alex March | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|11|6}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' investigates the mysterious deaths of a film crew on a remote island. Guest star [[Hugh Marlowe]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 67 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = The Death Watch | DirectedBy = Leonard Horn | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|11|13}} | ShortSummary = Nelson arrives on board the ''Seaview'' to find it totally abandoned except for Captain Crane and Chief Sharkey...supposedly on the admiral's orders. Only episode not to feature Lt. Cdr. Chip Morton [[Robert Dowdell|(Bob Dowdell)]] | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 68 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Deadly Invasion | DirectedBy = Nathan Juran | WrittenBy = John and Ward Hawkins | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|11|20}} | ShortSummary = An alien impersonating Admiral Nelson's dead friend leads a force to capture the ''Seaview''. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 69 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = The Haunted Submarine | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|11|27}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' is attacked by a 17th century warship. Richard Basehart has a dual role in this episode. In addition to his regular character of Admiral Nelson, Basehart also plays Captain Nelson. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 70 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = The Plant Man | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = Donn Mullally | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|12|4}} | ShortSummary = Twin brothers are connected with an underwater plant creature - the one who created it and the other who wants to control it. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 71 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = The Lost Bomb | DirectedBy = Gerald Mayer | WrittenBy = Oliver Crawford | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|12|11}} | ShortSummary = A cargo plane carrying a top secret bomb is shot down, and the ''Seaview'' races to retrieve it before an enemy government can. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 72 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = The Brand of the Beast | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1966|12|18}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' suffers engine failure, and while repairs are being made Admiral Nelson is affected by radiation. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 73 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = The Creature | AltTitle = The Creature Returns | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = John and Ward Hawkins | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|1|1}} | ShortSummary = A seaweed humanoid creature captures Captain Crane. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 74 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Death from the Past | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay | t = Sidney Marshall | ex1 = Charles Bennett | tlabel = {{abbr|T|Teleplay by}} | ex1label = {{abbr|S/T|Story and teleplay by}} }} | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|1|8}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' discovers a German submarine from World War II on the ocean floor, but its surviving crew members still believe the war is being fought. Guest star [[John van Dreelen]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 75 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = The Heat Monster | DirectedBy = Gerald Mayer | WrittenBy = Charles Bennett | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|1|15}} | ShortSummary = An alien intelligence invades the ''Seaview''. Guest star [[Alfred Ryder]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 76 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = The Fossil Men | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = James Whiton | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|1|22}} | ShortSummary = The strange sounds from an undersea canyon may be connected with the destruction of a British fleet 200 years ago. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 77 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = The Mermaid | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|1|29}} | ShortSummary = After Captain Crane captures a real live mermaid, its mate seeks revenge. Guest star [[Diane Webber]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 78 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = The Mummy | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|2|5}} | ShortSummary = Transporting an Egyptian mummy proves to be anything but a routine task for the ''Seaview''. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 79 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = Shadowman | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = Rik Vollaerts | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|2|12}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' and its skeleton crew are menaced by a strange object while attempting a space probe launch. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 80 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = No Escape from Death | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|2|19}} | ShortSummary = A mysterious submarine deliberately rams the ''Seaview'', severely damaging it and sending it crashing to the bottom. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 81 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = Doomsday Island | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = Peter Germano | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|2|26}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' discovers a strange egg on the ocean floor, but its hatching could spell disaster. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 82 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = The Wax Men | DirectedBy = Harmon Jones | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|3|5}} | ShortSummary = The crates that the ''Seaview'' has been ordered to transport supposedly contain ancient statues, but what are they really? Guest star [[Michael Dunn (actor)|Michael Dunn]]. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 83 | EpisodeNumber2 = 25 | Title = Deadly Cloud | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = Rik Vollaerts | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|3|12}} | ShortSummary = If the ''Seaview'' can't uncover the truth behind a cloud causing immense destruction, then the world is doomed. | LineColor = 700070 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 84 | EpisodeNumber2 = 26 | Title = Destroy Seaview! | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = Donn Mullally | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|3|19}} | ShortSummary = Admiral Nelson is the only survivor of an expedition into an undersea cave to secure a new element. | LineColor = 700070 }} }}

=== Season 4 (1967–68) === {{Episode table |background=#01645C |overall= |season= |title= |director= |writer= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 85 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Fires of Death | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = Arthur Weiss | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|9|17}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' is sent to stop a volcano from erupting, but the scientist accompanying it has plans of his own. Guest Starring [[Victor Jory]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 86 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Deadly Dolls | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = Charles Bennett | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|10|1}} | ShortSummary = Nelson and Crane are the only ones left to stop an evil puppeteer who has replaced the crew with his puppet duplicates. Guest Starring [[Vincent Price]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 87 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = Cave of the Dead | DirectedBy = [[Harry Harris (director)|Harry Harris]] | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|10|8}} | ShortSummary = While investigating the disappearance of four Navy ships, the ''Seaview'' comes across a mysterious island and dagger that may be somehow connected with the legend and curse of The [[Flying Dutchman]]. Guest Starring [[Warren Stevens]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 88 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Journey with Fear | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = Arthur Weiss | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|10|15}} | ShortSummary = Aliens kidnap Commander Morton, then Captain Crane, and now they're after the ''Seaview'' itself. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 89 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = Sealed Orders | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|10|22}} | ShortSummary = Leaking Neutron Bomb radiation causes ''Seaview'' crewmen to either hallucinate or completely vanish. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 90 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = Man of Many Faces | DirectedBy = Harry Harris | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|10|29}} | ShortSummary = A scientist is murdered on live TV, and the killer appears to be Admiral Nelson! It's now a game of "who's really who" as a master of disguise infiltrates the ''Seaview'' to disrupt a vital mission. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 91 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = Fatal Cargo | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|11|5}} | ShortSummary = A rare white ape brought aboard the ''Seaview'' is released and runs wild. Guest Starring [[Woodrow Parfrey]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 92 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Time Lock | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|11|12}} | ShortSummary = A man from the future who collects military officers tries to add Admiral Nelson to his collection. Guest Starring [[John Crawford (actor)|John Crawford]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 93 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Rescue | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|11|19}} | ShortSummary = Captain Crane, while seeking an enemy craft in the Flying Sub, is attacked. Guest Starring [[Don Dubbins]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 94 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Terror | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = Sidney Ellis | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|11|26}} | ShortSummary = A shore party from ''Seaview'' encounters a dying scientist, who warns that deadly planet life threatens the Earth. Guest Starring [[Damian O'Flynn]] and Pat Culliton | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 95 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = A Time to Die | DirectedBy = Robert Sparr | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|12|3}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' is cast back a million years in time by the mysterious Mr. Pem and Nelson has to play a deadly game with Pem to escape. Guest starring [[Henry Jones (actor)|Henry Jones]] as Mr. Pem. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 96 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = Blow Up | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|12|10}} | ShortSummary = Admiral Nelson starts behaving very oddly after using an experimental breathing apparatus. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 97 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = Deadly Amphibians | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = Arthur Weiss | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|12|17}} | ShortSummary = ''Seaview'' is trapped on the ocean floor by malicious amphibian creatures. Guest Starring [[Don Matheson]] and [[Joey Tata]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 98 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = The Return of Blackbeard | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = Al Gail | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1967|12|31}} | ShortSummary = The ghost of [[Blackbeard in popular culture|Blackbeard]] appears, and attempts to seize the ''Seaview''. Adding complications is that Nelson is trying to protect the US President, who is attending a diplomatic meeting. Guest Starring [[Malachi Throne]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 99 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = The Terrible Leprechaun | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = Charles Bennett | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|1|7}} | ShortSummary = Two leprechauns, one good and one evil, appear on the ''Seaview.'' Guest Starring [[Walter Burke]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 100 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = The Lobster Man | DirectedBy = Justus Addiss | WrittenBy = Al Gail | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|1|21}} | ShortSummary = A lobster-like humanoid is found on the ocean floor. Guest Starring [[Victor Lundin]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 101 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = Nightmare | DirectedBy = ''TBA'' | WrittenBy = ''TBA'' | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|1|28}} | ShortSummary = Captain Crane returns from a trip in the Flying Sub to find the ''Seaview'' apparently abandoned. It soon transpires someone is putting him through a sinister test. Guest Starring [[Paul Mantee]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 102 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = The Abominable Snowman | DirectedBy = Robert Sparr | WrittenBy = Robert Hamner | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|2|4}} | ShortSummary = Visiting an experimental station in the Antarctic, the ''Seaview'' discovers the station is almost abandoned, and a strange white-furred creature is glimpsed. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 103 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = Secret of the Deep | DirectedBy = Charles Rondeau | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|2|11}} | ShortSummary = ''Seaview'' investigates a sea-lab surrounded by dangerous creatures. Guest Starring [[Peter Mark Richman]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 104 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = Man-Beast | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|2|18}} | ShortSummary = An experiment with an artificial diving-bell atmosphere has disturbing consequences. Guest Starring [[Lawrence Montaigne]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 105 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = Savage Jungle | DirectedBy = ''TBA'' | WrittenBy = ''TBA'' | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|2|25}} | ShortSummary = Mysterious jungle growths invade the submarine. Guest Starring [[Perry Lopez|Perry López]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 106 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = Flaming Ice | DirectedBy = Robert Sparr | WrittenBy = Arthur Browne, Jr. | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|3|3}} | ShortSummary = ''Seaview'' is under the ice cap, trying to investigate the cause of mysterious flooding. The malicious Frost Men are revealed as the culprits. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 107 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = Attack! | DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|3|10}} | ShortSummary = The US Navy is attacked by a hostile UFO. Nelson is captured by the UFO's inhabitants. Guest starring [[Skip Homeier]] and [[Kevin Hagen]]. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 108 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = The Edge of Doom | DirectedBy = ''TBA'' | WrittenBy = ''TBA'' | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|3|17}} | ShortSummary = There is a treacherous impostor hiding among the ''Seaview's'' crew. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 109 | EpisodeNumber2 = 25 | Title = The Death Clock | DirectedBy = [[Charles R. Rondeau]] | WrittenBy = Sidney Marshall | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|3|24}} | ShortSummary = The malevolent scientist Mallory creates an evil version of Captain Crane. Guest starring [[Chris Robinson (American actor)|Chris Robinson]] as Mallory. | LineColor = 01645C }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 110 | EpisodeNumber2 = 26 | Title = No Way Back | DirectedBy = Robert Sparr | WrittenBy = William Welch | OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1968|3|31}} | ShortSummary = The ''Seaview'' is destroyed in a mysterious explosion. A distraught Admiral Nelson encounters the time-travelling Mr. Pem. Nelson asks Pem to help him travel into the past to change history and save the ''Seaview''. However, Pem has his own plans, and soon Nelson finds himself on the ''Seaview'' with the infamous [[Benedict Arnold]]. Guest starring Henry Jones as Mr. Pem and [[Barry Atwater]] as Benedict Arnold. | LineColor = 01645C }} }}

==Other media== *A [[paperback]] [[novel]], ''City Under the Sea'', authored by [[Paul W. Fairman]], was published in 1965, to tie into the series. It had a different storyline than the episode of the same name. The book should also not be confused with the later Irwin Allen film of nearly the same name, which was about the attempts of the world's first under-sea city to prevent the earth from being hit by a rogue asteroid. It is not about "A wealthy family attempting to move the Earth's oceans to another planet for resettlement" as has occasionally been stated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065556/|title=City Beneath the Sea (TV Movie 1971)|author=manzp|date=25 January 1971|work=IMDb}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=September 2018}} * [[Western Publishing]] began publishing a [[comic book]] based on the series in 1964 under their [[Gold Key Comics]] line. It ran 16 issues from December 1964 to April 1970.<ref>{{cite book|last1= Overstreet|first1= Robert M.|title= [[Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide]]|edition= 49th|publisher= [[Gemstone Publishing]]|date= 2019|location= Timonium, Maryland|page= 1134|isbn= 978-1603602334}}</ref> Most covers were painted by [[George Wilson (artist)|George Wilson]], and most had a photo of either Richard Basehart or David Hedison on them. The first issue of the Gold Key comic was a story called "The Last Survivor". The story brought back Dr. Gamma, the villain from the pilot episode, "Eleven Days to Zero". Gold Key's story was the only sequel to the pilot episode. [[Hermes Press]] reprinted the entire run in 2 hardback volumes; the first was released in 2009. *In 1966, [[World Distributors]], a British [[publishing company]] in [[Manchester, England]], published the first of two ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' [[Annual publication#Comic books|Annuals]], hardback gift books. The British-made books used the series' characters in all new stories but also contained a reprint of a story from the Gold Key Comics series. Both books were mostly prose stories with some illustrations. *[[Aurora Plastics Corporation]] released a [[plastic model]] kit of ''Seaview'' as well as the ''Flying Sub'' during the original run of the series. From 1975 - 1977, Aurora reissued both kits; the ''Seaview'' (kit #253) was modified with a sea floor base (originally created for the ''Dick Tracy Space Coupe'' kit #819) and sub surface details, while ''The Flying Sub'' (kit #254) was remodeled in a different base color. The 1975 - 1977 kits—part of Aurora's reissue of 5 of their 11 TV & movie-related science-fiction kits, also included instruction sheets with a detailed history of the TV series or movie plot. *Both kits were recently re-released by Polar Lights. The ''Flying Sub'' model sold more than the ''Seaview'' model. *Other [[collectables]] from the show include a [[board game]] with illustrations based on the pilot episode, as well as a boxed card game with a painting of the divers' battle with the giant octopus, both from [[Milton Bradley Company|Milton Bradley]], and a school [[lunch box]] with thermos from Aladdin with depictions of Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane trying to save the ''Flying Sub'' from an evil looking [[octopus]]. There was also a Sawyers [[View-Master]] slide reel based on the episode "Deadly Creature Below." *In 1964, a 66-card set of black-and-white trading cards was released by Donruss. Selling for 5 cents a pack, the set consisted of stills from the first season. Today, a set in [[mint condition]] can sell for several hundred dollars. *In the UK, TV Tornado published 14 issues that contained ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' stories, either comics or text with illustrations as per the issue and at least two TV Tornado annuals had original stories as well. *Theodore Sturgeon wrote a novel, ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel)|Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'', based on the original script written by Irwin Allen for the movie, and published in 1961.

==Popular culture== *The popularity of the TV show inspired ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' (March 1966) to spoof the show, their version being called ''Voyage to See What's on the Bottom'', featuring a submarine called the ''Seapew'' and a flying sub called ''Son of Seapew''. *Australian TV show ''[[Fast Forward (Australian TV series)|Fast Forward]]'' sent-up the series as ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Harbour''. *Stock footage of ''Seaview'' was used in the ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]'' episode "The [[Bermuda Triangle]] Crisis." *An often referenced running joke{{who|date=September 2018}} is that in many episodes of the series, characters lurch to camera movements on the visibly static set, to give the illusion that ''Seaview'' had sustained impact. This was an old movie trick, and was commonly used by other television shows of the period, including ''[[Star Trek]]'', but none did it so frequently, nor with such relish as ''Voyage''.<ref>Season 3 Vol 1 DVD extra feature "The Rock and Roll"</ref> Hence, the technique is still commonly known as "Seaview Rock and Roll".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/dvd-review-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-complete-series-three |title=DVD Review: Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea – The Complete Series 3 |date=Sep 2010 |website=[[Starburst (magazine)|Starburst Magazine]] |access-date=22 Dec 2019}}</ref> *On the SciFi Channel's 1995 documentary tribute to Irwin Allen, ''The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen'', series co-star [[June Lockhart]] recalled this technique being used also on ''Lost In Space'', where the cast also knew it as "the rock-and-roll". *The [[Disney Channel]] animated series ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has an episode with a pun on the title called ''Voyage to the Bottom of Buford''.

==Home media== [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox]] has released all 4 seasons on DVD in Region 1 in two volume sets.

In Region 2, [[Revelation Films]] has released the entire series on DVD in the UK in four complete season sets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voyage-To-The-Bottom-Sea/dp/B004BFZA5U/ |title=Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series One DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Robert Dowdell, Dell Monroe: Film & TV |date=28 March 2011 |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voyage-Bottom-Sea-Complete-Second/dp/B004BFZA8C |title=Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — The Complete Second Series DVD 1961: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV |date=13 June 2011 |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voyage-To-The-Bottom-Sea/dp/B004FS27OU |title=Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series Three DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV |date=12 September 2011 |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voyage-To-The-Bottom-Sea/dp/B004FS27RC |title=Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series Four DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV |date=7 November 2011 |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref> On March 26, 2012, they released ''Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Complete Collection'', a 31-disc set featuring all 110 episodes of the series as well as bonus features.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voyage-The-Bottom-Complete-Collection/dp/B006UF2688 |title=Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea The Complete Collection DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV |date=26 March 2012 |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref>

In Region 4, [[Madman Entertainment]] released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia on August 20, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/20759/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-season-1|title=Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 1|work=Madman Entertainment|access-date=2014-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822031101/http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/20759/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-season-1|archive-date=2014-08-22|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/20760/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-season-2|title=Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 2|work=Madman Entertainment|access-date=2014-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427111518/http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/20760/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-season-2|archive-date=2015-04-27|url-status = dead}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" |- !DVD name !Ep # !Release date !Additional information |- | Season 1 Vol. 1 | style="text-align:center;"|16 | February 21, 2006 | * Unaired Color Pilot * Behind the scenes home movie from [[Irwin Allen]] * Promotional Reel featuring Irwin Allen from 1964 * Still Gallery |- | Season 1 Vol. 2 | style="text-align:center;"|16 | July 11, 2006 | * Still Gallery (22 images) * Blooper Reel * David Hedison Interviews |- | Season 2 Vol. 1 | style="text-align:center;"|13 | October 24, 2006 | * Special Effects Footage (22:04) * Concept Art Gallery (5 stills) * Episodic Photo Gallery (35 stills) * Publicity Photo Gallery (8 stills) |- | Season 2 Vol. 2 | style="text-align:center;"|13 | February 20, 2007 | * David Hedison Interview * Still Gallery |- | Season 3 Vol. 1 | style="text-align:center;"|13 | June 19, 2007 | * Still Galleries * David Hedison Interviews * Visitors on Set * Letters from Fans * "The Rock and Roll" * David Hedison 1966 Interview (audio only) |- | Season 3 Vol. 2 | style="text-align:center;"|13 | October 23, 2007 | * Episodic Photo Gallery * Publicity Photos * TV Merchandise * David Hedison Interviews * Richard Basehart 1966 Interview (audio only) |- | Season 4 Vol. 1 | style="text-align:center;"|13 | March 31, 2009 | * Eleven Days to Zero (re-cut unaired pilot) * David Hedison Interviews: ** Years 1–4 ** Irwin's Goal ** Irwin's Office ** Work Hours ** Voice-overs * Still Gallery |- | Season 4 Vol. 2 | style="text-align:center;"|13 | style="text-align:center;"|January 11, 2011 | *Original Unaired Pilot *Broadcast Pilot with Vintage Commercials * Still Gallery |}

==Reboot== On November 23, 2020, it was announced that [[Legendary Entertainment]] is developing a new version. Chris Lunt and [[Michael A. Walker]] are writing the project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/11/legendary-forms-joint-venture-with-emma-frost-matthew-graham-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-remake-1234620300/|title = Legendary Forms Joint-Venture with 'The Spanish Princess' Showrunners Emma Frost, Matthew Graham; Slate Includes 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' Remake|date = 23 November 2020}}</ref>

==See also== * [[List of underwater science fiction works]] * ''[[SeaQuest DSV]]'' TV series

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

== References == *''SEAVIEW: The making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' by Tim Colliver, copyright 1992, published by Alpha Control Press. *''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' DVD sets *''The Irwin Allen Scrapbook Volume One Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' Edited by William E. Anchors Jr.; copyright 1992 by Alpha Control Press. *''Irwin Allen Television Productions 1964–1970'', Jon Abbot, McFarland and Company, 1996 *''Voyage au fond des mers : guide pour la série d'Irwin Allen,'' Max Philippe Morel, Lulu.com, 2012 *''TV.Com''{{Unreliable source?|date=September 2018}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb title|id=0057798|title=Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea}}

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