Secrets of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Only Noticed by Hardcore Fans

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[@StephenCole1916]

I grew up watching reruns of Voyage as a kid as my Mother was not only a big fan of the show but also president of David Hedison's fan club. Later on when the club was dissolved a website was then created that I eventually took over and still run till this day. My fondest memory of Mr. Hedison was back in 2011 when I flew out to SFO for work and met up with him at a small convention there. He sat me down behind the desk and we chatted for hours about everything from Bond to Voyage as he signed autographs for fans. We later had lunch that weekend before I had to fly out to BUR and PSP for performing upgrades for United Airlines. He was always a kind a gracious person who appreciated his fans and friends and always had great stories to tell. RIP Mr. Hedison and thanks for all the memories both on the screen and off.

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

How can I join the fan club? I’m a hopeless Voyage addict!

[@StephenCole1916]

@@unassistedsuicide2243 The fan club was dissolved many years ago when the website was created.

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

@@StephenCole1916 I got that, what’s the website please

[@celiaporto2197]

A beleza de David Hedison não era somente física, mas também uma incrível beleza de espírito.

[@bcgrittner8076]

Richard Basehart had the distinction of playing Ishmael in the 1956 (?) movie Moby Dick. He played the part very well.

[@stargazeronesixseven]

Richard Baseheart & David Hedison & the Seaview's sonar echo were the most memorable features from this 1962-1968 sci-fi series : The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ... Still a fan to these days in year 2023! 🙏🌷🌿🌍💜🐠

[@otterscott1701]

Let's not forget that awesome theme song. With it's SONAR pinging, the commanding narration "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA," and that swelling orchestra piece, you knew intantanly that adventure was on the way !

[@odojang]

This is one of my 3 top series of my youth, along with Star Trek and The Invaders. They knew how to make good shows in those days. Maybe because they didn't have CGI and millions to hide their failings, and weren't just producing ''content.''They had no choice but to be creative and emphasize character and plot to make it all beleivable. Thanks for sharing this.

[@Retired_Gentleman]

The series was an absolute favorite of mine back in the '60s. One Christmas I got a plastic model kit of the Seaview. I remember building it over the holiday break and stopping one night just long enough to watch an episode of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. When I stopped I knocked over a bottle of Testors model paint staining the built in table in the rec room. That stain was still plainly visible in real estate pictures when the house was sold again a couple years ago.

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We're happy to know that you're a fan of Secrets of Voyage. Which episode is your favorite?

[@Retired_Gentleman]

@@FactsVerse I can't remember the name of the episode though I saw it recently. In it a group of toys came "alive"(?). I saw the episode as a small boy and remembered it because in it there was a toy tank and I had one very similar. Battery operated, the gun would spark, and the commander would come up out of the turret. The toy in the VTTBOTS episode was very similar and it really got to me. It was a joy seeing it again after 55 years.

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

Scifi is freaking dangerous dude!

[@Retired_Gentleman]

@@NathanTarantlawriter Yep.

[@richardmoloney689]

I built the Seaview and the flying sub in '69. Great fun painting them.

[@stevekitt52]

I loved watching it here in the UK. I was lucky enough to meet David Hedison 3 times. A real gent who seemed to enjoy interacting with his fans.

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We're happy to know that you enjoy watching the show and to know that you had the chance to meet David! Which episode is your favorite?

[@stevekitt52]

@@FactsVerse Five of us are left, Leviathan, The Cyborg, The monster's web, The day the world ended are amongst my favourites. Yours?

[@sblackhurst1]

@@stevekitt52 Leviathan!? NOW you're talking. That episode scared the shit out of me, and I'd just turned thirty!!! 😂

[@hg27]

I was about six or seven years old when I started watching the series in the mid seventies and I'm still a fan of the show to this day. I was especially fascinated by the design of the Seaview submarine. I happen to own the entire series on dvd and wish they would release it on blu ray one day.

[@williamstephenjackson6420]

Even as a kid, I noticed the funny re-use of the shaggy monster suit used in both Voyage and Lost in Space. Such cheesy fun!

[@daveroche6522]

The Nelson puppet in 'The Deadly Dolls' is easily the most irritating, yet adorable 'villains' ever. WHOOPS! Loved watching Voyage when I was 8, then the reruns when I was 26, still love it today (as does my eldest!). Thank you Irwin.

[@gertraba4484]

Creepy ep

[@daveroche6522]

@@gertraba4484Nelson Puppet: "Too bad. Too bad. Too bad. Too bad. Too....."

[@lazyhazeldaisy9596]

David Hedison did not want to do the series as he felt he had done enough of this sort of thing he was in London doing a show with his best friend Sir Roger Moore, David was still being chased about Voyage to which he was still not keen when it got to a point that Roger just simply said 'Just get and do it!' so he agreed. So I think we might have Roger to thank for him being in it and the fact that Richard Basehart had agreed to be the Admiral, I loved his voice and he used to do some interesting documentarys. God Bless all the cast they were wonderful.💖 Favourite episode has got to be 'The Phantom'

[@josephjohnson8520]

I remember seeing reruns of this show in the 80's when I was younger. This show was a very entertaining sci-fi action series. I love watching it.

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We're happy to know that you loved watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea! Which episode is the most memorable for you?

[@josephjohnson8520]

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[@robvangessel3766]

I've watched the whole series online, ultimately favoring the 1st season while accepting them in the context of their time.

[@daveroche6522]

The legendary L.B. Abbott did the FX - he'd developed the 'square root' rule for filming model boats/ships/subs etc. to ensure the generated waves when the models were in motion remained at scale (authentically representing a 300-500+ ft. vessel for example - if the model is 1/30 scale, multiply the standard framerate of 24fps by the square root of 30 [5.477] => shooting speed of 131-132 fps with playback of 24 fps) - check out Tora Tora Tora. Oh yes - the bubbles emanating from Seaview (ok, the principle model) when submerged are also true to scale.

[@daveroche6522]

I remember wondering at the start of every episode "How many times will Kowalski and/or Patterson accidently get shot in this one?".

[@ricoz2016]

Being born in 1961, this little boy watched TV move from black & white to 'living color', and this show and Batman (both on ABC) were a BIG part of my TV viewing. The images simply EXPLODED on a 24" Zenith color TV as I lay on the living room rug, inches away from the screen. Yep, I was blessed!

[@dexterdog62]

I was nine years old when the series debuted and I never missed an episode. My father was hyper critical when he saw that it was on, he didn’t especially care for all the rubber suit monsters and English speaking aliens. An episode from the first season sticks out in my mind, the one where the crew come across all these cylinders lying on the ocean floor. They bring one aboard and have a tough time cutting it open, but eventually this alien emerges with no hair and no ears… I believe the part of the alien was played by Robert Duvall. So many great episodes, the one where the diving bell is swallowed by a huge whale was another favourite. Man I could go on forever, the kid in me still loves the series to this very day.

[@markknivila8383]

Loved this show when I was a kid, in the late 60's and early 70's! Great video! Thank you!

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[@dj-kq4fz]

A lot of people from my era have fond memories of this show. I'm always impressed by their depth of knowledge and critiques of certain impossibilities represented by other fans. I just thought the flying sub was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

[@jloobie5207]

I loved the flying sub! I Used to daydream in grammar school that i would fly away from class in it and went underwater to fight sea creatures! Ahh youth & imagination!

[@gordonjustin4787]

I miss this series! They came on on Sunday Nights in the 1960's. Just the right actors for this.

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Brings back memories, which episode appealed to you the most?

[@kevinmaloney2391]

I was 5 years old when my parents took me to see Voyage at the movies. I can remember seeing an ad while watching Mchales Navy for the upcoming TV series of Voyage back in 63 as a kid. I couldn't wait to tell my friend because it was our favorite movie, we loved the Seaview.

[@robertdragoff6909]

One day I was watching a Voyage to the bottom of the sea rerun and Captain Crain was recording a voice memo for the date the scene took place, which was April 13, 1978, which was coincidentally the day I saw that episode! It was a great TV show with lots of familiar faces on it….. Sadly, some are now in that big TV show in the sky. Great video

[@Iluthra]

Is anyone alive from the show?

[@THOMMGB]

Back in the day, I used to love this show! I got and built the Seaview model kit. Amazingly, I still have it.

[@Keefymonoped]

Mine was destroyed in an epic battle with my brothers Thunderbird 4, there were no real winners on that day 🤣🤣🤣

[@dapdne4916]

A precious memory watching "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" with my family.

[@1965GJS13]

Here in the UK, the "Seaview Rock & Roll" was instead often referred to as "The Irwin Allen School of running from side to side"... 🤪

[@timacoata7456]

At 7 My dad went over seas to Nam and left me a $10.00 dollar bill 💵 for the upcoming school year (hit the big time)! I had a choice between the GI Joe or Voyage to the bottom of the sea lunch pale . The iconic Sub Seaview and vast blue ocean with sea monsters won out hands down! Thanks to dad I had the coolest pale in which to carry my PB&J on soft white rainbow bread, a space food stick (Carmel),an orange and a cool thermos to drink my orange Tang! Hog heaven! Whew. Those were the days! 😊🇺🇸

[@evancortez2]

When I was a kid the name "Irwin Allen" was like magic

[@xray86delta]

Loved this show as a child! Watched it years later, and it was still a lot of fun!

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[@darrylruiz2573]

I loved the whacked out storylines and the monsters who often showed up on Lost in Space Irwin Allen's shows were fun

[@wightangel]

I absolute loved this when it was on. Thank you for bringing back some great memories.

[@kevinogill6726]

I had a model of the Flying Sub when I was little. That thing is still cool.

[@Illusions2020]

Wow! The Mini-Sub and who could ever forget the drama's of The Bell. One episode it literally saved the crew after becoming stranded on the sea floor and running out of air. You was always on the edge of your seat when that huge metal cable spool began the bell's underwater descent. Sometimes running into the unlikeliest of sea creatures. So many aspects of this show's action from cast to crew to workings of the Seaview itself, so on and so forth.

[@jananderson672]

When I was 12,this was one of my fave shows. My best friend had such a crush on David Hedison. Thanks for posting this. I liked Chip.

[@joep5146]

This show was so much fun as a small kid in the 1960's. Then when the DVDs came out I enjoyed them all over again as an adult. Season 1 (black and white) had a serious cold war era spy theme. Season 2 was the best in my opinion. Seasons 3 and 4 went completely off the rails with aliens, time travel and monsters - but still tons of fun. I highly recommend getting the DVD set.

[@ricoz2016]

Yeah, by Season 4 there were 2 over-riding themes: 'Rubber suit monster of the week' and Admiral Nelson increasingly losing his temper (it's said Basehart wanted out of the series by then to do serious acting again). hard to watch it now but then I was all of 7 and loving it!

[@michaelmcguire9749]

The "Deadly Dolls" was a great episode. Of course Vincent Price was excellent, as always.

[@daveroche6522]

Always a joy to watch that one. Puppet Nelson is so punchable.....

[@jananderson672]

My favorite too!

[@jamesedselmcgee2998]

I was hooked on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ever since I saw the original movie at a theater back in the '60s...submarine Seaview was the coolest thing I had ever seen!

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[@daveroche6522]

FS-1: COOLEST AIRCRAFT EVER.....

[@MrScottx]

Great Entertaining show. I have been watching alot of the episodes lately. I prefer my tv shows with this kind of tone then the shows of today !

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[@daveroche6522]

The episode with that bonkers robot-gone-homicidal-after-returning-from-space scared 50 Shades of Shite out of myself and my brother when it first aired. Ok, it was a [very] slow-walking bloke in a silly costume or an upside-down silver trashcan or something plus dramatic music in the background but c'mon - we were 8 and 6 for Chrissakes....

[@zoppie]

One thing that always gave me a chuckle was how many times they would show the sub in a crash dive or headed toward the surface at a 45-degree angle then cut to an interior shot showing everyone standing on a level deck.😆

[@carlacrawford9349]

Hedison also took the part because he had a chance to work with Richard Basehart.😊😊 3:03

[@rebeccaabraham8652]

One of the best sci-fi series of it’s decade - and probably the next

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[@Jackcrow955]

I'm 65 and I never missed an episode thanks for this...

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[@Jackcrow955]

@@FactsVerse well excerpts from u.f.o.series would be good..the original with Straker .

[@ManFa_Q]

Never really came together for me with latching onto this show but the intro always gives me a remembrance of the 1960s when I was slightly above toddler( It comes on ME-TV on Saturday nights now). I use to ridicule [figuratively] the show because every time the sub was impacted by an explosion of sorts, The crew always "conveniently" had something to catch hold of in a synchronize fashion when they were thrown from one side to the other.

[@gailbirchall2163]

I loved this series and to think that you could see out of a window to the ocean ahead, and a saucer craft to fly from the sub to a country, and the shape, front, was amazing

[@mister-v-3086]

One of my biggest giggles was the re-re-recurring appearance of the Giant Seaweed Monster. Seemed like they ran into him every 3d episode or so.

[@marcusjustice6165]

The Condemned Season 1 John Donovan J.D. Cannon Deadly Creature Below! Season 2 Nehemiah Persoff Paul Comi Secret of The Deep Season 4 Peter Mark Richman

[@kathleencummings8081]

Ah yes, Sammy Seaweed.

[@Keefymonoped]

Kowalski and Patterson were my favourites as a kid! The downtrodden working class heroes of the show! I could identify with them 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnbockelie3899]

Kowalski , Del Monroe was also in the 1961 movie as well. I guess he was a popular fan favorite character.

[@robharris8844U]

My memory of it was the "seesaw" as I watched both as I grew up and laughed and laughed with my dad as we seesawed across our lounge to both shows. (VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM AND STAR TREK ) I remember my dad saying one time " they must be having earthquakes in California daily"🤣😄 It was used in LOST IN SPACE but not quite as much, if I remember rightly.

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[@sulaco2122]

I loved that the Seaview was "not" a US Navy ship and belonged the Nelson Institute yet it packed two full rows of nuclear missile launch tubes that were armed with cobalt bombs! World ending weapons. Ah the 60's.

[@stevekitt52]

I always think that may have been a condition in order to have secured the funding to build the Seaview in the first place.

[@marcusjustice6165]

The U.S.S. Seaview SSRN1 is a Commissioned Vessel in Reserved status that can be call into Active Duty status with the US Navy. Thus her introduction mission statement from the episode Eleven Days To Zero. "This is the Seaview. The most Extraordinary submarine in all the Seven Sea. Its Public Image is that of an instrument of Marine Research. In actuality It is the Mightiest Weapon afloat and is secretly assigned to the most dangerous missions against the Enemies of Mankind."

[@franciscomoliner1296]

All of Allen's series were great entertainment, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of Giants, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel as well as the film "The Towering Inferno". Other greats of the era Star Trek, The Invaders, Mission Imposible, The Man from UNCLE, The FBI,... So much creativity!

[@SoundJudgment]

Don't forget Irwin's movie "The Poseidon Adventure."

[@rocketdude2969]

I remember watching the movie with my dad late one Saturday night. Later I found out about the show and I've been able to watch some of the episodes. It may have been the inspiration for Sea quest .

[@bobblum5973]

I've heard _Seaquest_ sometimes disparagingly referred to as "Voyage to the Bottom of the Ratings". I enjoyed both shows, but the less outlandish the episodes, the better!

[@gljm]

After "Voyage" David Hedison was offered the role of "Mike Brady" in "The Brady Bunch" but turned it down. He also played André Delambre in the original movie "The Fly".

[@rgrif777]

I loved Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in the 60s and still love it today. I own the complete series on DVD. Shows in the 50s and 60s were the pinnacle of TV. Since then there have always been some outstanding shows, but seem fewer and fewer with each passing decade.

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[@rgrif777]

@@FactsVerse I don't know which episode I loved best. I liked different aspects of each episode. I liked the early episodes that were more realistic, but I also liked the color episodes using lasers instead of just guns, electrifying the outer hull of the ship and its forward laser and more of the flying sub. I liked it when all seemed completely lost and Admiral Nelson would turn it all around. There seemed to be a pecking order to the characters strength you could rely on from the Admiral then the Captain then Mr. Morton to the chief to Kawasaki to Patterson. I didn't like some of the aspects of the cheaper more childish creatures, that I think they got from later seasons of Lost in Space that Jonathan Harris convinced Irwin Allen to implement. One creature I liked, even though the head could have been more movable, was an episode with a baby creature tearing through walls and bulkheads while the mother creature, much bigger, attacking the ship from the outside was kind of scary. Lasers couldn't stop the baby, not sure why it slowed down the mother though? I could talk about something interesting episode by episode. There is just so much there.

[@carlacrawford9349]

There are several episodes I LOVE. But, I Do wish they in clouded more information about the characters backgrounds. Would have made for interesting storyline. Keep the full length postings coming . 😊❤CJ❤😊

[@mattlauer3323]

I remember getting a toy seaview one christmas. loved that show

[@rsgulledge]

The flying sub was the best part of the show!

[@rmstitanic8163]

These are the days when TV was made for entertainment. Proper short films on a weekly basis, with good actors. Good special effects. Plenty of action. And usually a brilliant theme tune. I can't think of one show that I can't remember the theme tune for. It was a great time for growing up. What is on the TV screen now? Boring so called reality shows, and endless boring talent (talentless) shows. This is why so many shows from the sixties keep getting re-runs. Because they are brilliant. Just to name a few, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, Star Trek, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, and the list goes on. Not to mention all that came out of Britain during the same period....I feel blessed that I was born and grew up during the heyday of music and TV at it's best.

[@masudashizue777]

It was one of the few TV shows my dad and I always watched together in the 60s. Since we didn't have a color TV, we watched it entirely on our old black and white.

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We're happy to know that you and your dad enjoyed the show! Thank you for sharing this. Which cast member is your favorite?

[@robvangessel3766]

I love the 1st season of this series. The show was the 1st of its kind, both for the Star Trek type of sci fi and Mission: Impossible style of espionage. It started in the same year as MAN FROM UNCLE, both ushering a new era in early tv. In any effort to recruit a viewer unfamiliar with the show, I would recommend episodes The Mist of Silence, Doomsday, The Sky is Falling, Submarine Sunk Here, The Traitor (which is excellent), and The Enemies. Intrinsic to the Cold War era, character driven stories with excellent actors. Any espionage episodes during the later color seasons lacked one thing from the 1st season: characterization. The reason, I would argue, that the series became "underrated", as a more rigid, humorless formula took hold. At best it became a color-by-numbers set, aiming at suspense without a compelling theme. (Even though I DO love the flying sub, which, maybe, we'll finally really come up with one of these days). Oh, well: this is the "symptom" of being a hardcore fan. I couldn't talk abt this anywhere else in the real world!

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

My favorite shown in the sixties. I got the Aurora Seaview model when I was twelve and their Flying Sub a year or three later. Right now I'm building the much bigger and more detailed Moebius FS. It's got incredibly detailed lighting, including moving reds, blue and greens for the nuclear reactor, and even a small bed light in the bunk area!

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We're glad to know that you love the show. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. If we may ask, which episode did you like the best?

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

@@FactsVerse Graveyard of Fear. The rapidly ageing woman had a profound impact on my ten-year old imagination. And the giant jellyfish looked real - no actors in clumsy suits for once.

[@masterskrain2630]

Interesting how among the presumably hundred(s) of crew on the Seaview, only Kowalski and Patterson got 99% of the action...

[@12mrmajestic]

My favorite memory is when Crane would say something like, sir, I know this is hard to believe but I just saw a a ----- and Nelson would say, oh you're insane!

[@garyreid6165]

Of all the submarines on television and on the big screen, the Seaview was the Cadillac of submarines with the fins at the stern and the fixed wings on both the port and starboard sides. I love the first season Seaview it was a big boat. I guess it was as big as a WW2 era oil tanker with the space that it had for the missiles, torpedoes, mini sub, and diving bell. The third season introduced us to the Flying Sub(also a cool vehicle) and the Seaview’s design had changed with the four windows instead of the eight that first had. According to David Hedison, he was invited to Richard Basehart’s home and the two talked about the show. Hedison admired Basehart and agreed to work with him. Richard Basehart didn’t get along with everyone on the set and didn’t like working with actors who were taller than him, which was most of the regular cast. He came to blows with the production staff because of the direction of the show. Basehart wanted Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea to be a serious action adventure show with dramatic elements. He didn’t like the sci-fi elements of including monsters and aliens in every episode. But, it was work and a paycheck is a paycheck. Composers Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter’s music from the 1961 film was used in the show. I guess as a habit of Irwin Allen’s budget consciousness. Even Bernard Hermann’s music from The Day The Earth Stood Still was used(Hermann’s music was used in the first season of Lost In Space). Sawtell’s and Shefter’s earlier works from films like Kronos and It! The Terror From Beyond Space can even be heard in the first season. David Hedison liked the first two seasons. The leather bomber jackets that were worn on the Flying Sub were pretty cool. Harlan Ellison went by an pseudonym Cord Wainer Bird because of issues with the production staff that was one of the results of the fight that injured the production staffer. I was surprised that the Seaview sets were used in the Batman movie and the miniseries The Amazing Captain Nemo(also known as The Return Of Captain Nemo). Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was a gem of an adventure show that, I think, inspired the show Deepquest DSV with Roy Scheider and Stephanie Beacham. If the idea of a remake/reboot is being tossed around, the show/film will probably be more fixated on environmental issues affecting the world’s oceans and seas with an occasional fight against a terrorist, independent or organized. The crew will be as diverse as the crew of the starship Enterprise and more. The Seaview will have to be as advanced as it is huge. And an undersea base or research facility in various locations in the world will be necessary as is surface ships to bring much needed supplies. Such a production will cost a huge fortune. But, then again, looking back on Aqua-Man and Hunter Killer, anything is possible for a dedicated and imaginative writer and filmmaker to pull it off.

[@daveroche6522]

Plus it didn't use proppellers (Nelson refers to this in just one episode I think) - so presumably Seaview used either pumpjets or "magnito hydrodynamic propulsion" - thus using the 'Caterpiller' several decades before Red October.....

[@marcusjustice6165]

The Submarine SSRN Seaview had a diverse crew. Seaman Kowalski understood Russian. Marco Antonio Lopez was in Seasons 1 through 4. Starting in Season 3 episode Death From The Past through the entire Fourth Season a Black Crewman wearing the Red Jumpsuit served in Security Details, The Missile Room duty, In The Control Room various duties such as at the Helm/Planesman Station, Main Computer and on the Periscope Island, In Engine room and the Space craft launch station on board the Seaview. his given name was Rashaud Jones in an Internet fan fiction story.

[@michaeleasterwood6558]

My favorite character was Lt.Cdr. Chip Morton who was the Seaview"s Executive Officer. Bob Dowdell was a very good actor. The original Chief of the Boat was actor Henry Kulky who played CPO Curly Jones. Jones had to be replaced due to his death from a heart attack. He was found at his home with a copy of a season 2 script in his hands. Henry really was a Chief in the USN at one time, so his portrayal was true to form.

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[@daveroche6522]

Sourpuss Morton annoyed me - but the role of the XO was/is to ensure the ship & crew are ready to carry out every order from the Captain/O.O.D., NOT to be anyones friend. That's for COB.

[@zoppie]

Allen wanted to replace Kulky with James Doohan, but Doohan had decided to go with this new thing called Star Trek.

[@michaelalvarez8621]

The ones I remember the most were the scary monster episodes, so even if they were ridiculous they left a permanent impression on my young mind. It's hard to pick a favorite, but "The Monster From Outer Space" is one that immediately takes the lead.

[@MrGchiasson]

We watched this show every week. My dad was retired US Navy. Every episode when the Seaview was being hammered, attacked or just basic mayhem & chaos.. my dad would say the same thing, "Time to get transferred off that sub!"

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[@robertphillips6296]

I liked the Flying Sub!

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Us too! Which episode is your favorite?

[@GDJ1957]

As a young kid I loved this show and all of Irwin's shows...I was a young sci-fi fan.

[@dondee5439]

They are replaying this series on ME-TV network. I am always amused by how wide and spacious the rooms and hallways are on the submarine SEAVIEW. A real submarine is very tight quarters. Most walkways are just wide enough for two people to pass if even that wide. A common phrase heard often in the Navy is, "make a hole". This was a directive to move aside so that a crew member could squeeze past in the narrow confines.

[@williamjones7163]

I was visiting my Grandfather in 1965. He was BBQing while we were watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He got so involved in the show that he burned the BBQ. His famous line was You kids and your damn TV shows.

[@danielporter7773]

A great series still watched today, Richard Basehart RIP really suited the part, his great acting lives on, David Hedison RIP also did well, never to be forgotten

[@Clell65619]

My personal favorite Voyage cliche is that their computers were evidently built by the Red Devil fireworks company. They blew up pretty much every episode with a shower of sparks, which is pretty much something computers don't do with any regularity. Then you have to consider that pretty much the only reoccurring enlisted men were Chief Sharkey and Seaman Kowalski, who fixed everything that broke, and some things that didn't.

[@stevekitt52]

And the Circuitry Room must have been a Health & Safety nightmare!

[@gracekostelnick5242]

I recently saw a few minutes of the movie. In it is a very young Barbara Eden and her husband Michael Ansara. As a kid my brother had a model of the flying sub which was always the coolest part of the show!

[@johnmarx3919]

You forgot the REASON that Hedison finally accepted the role of Crane - even though he did not like Irwin Allen (after having worked with him on The Lost World) after doing a guest role on Roger Moore's series the Saint, both he and Roger struck up a friendship and it was on his advice that Hedison finally accepted!

[@Rebel9668]

I always thought it was funny how in almost every episode how the Admiral, the Captain or the crew would always act incredulous when one of them reported seeing a strange creature/alien/monster etc. and getting the impression they thought the guy telling them about it was a nut while I'm sitting there thinking "You just had giant iguanas that Irwin tried to pass off as dinosaurs last week, or, you guys just dealt with a ghost of a u-boat captain for the second time, but you're having trouble believing THIS"? LOL!! Even as a young child watching reruns of it in the early '70's I'd think, "How can they be so naive?" And even back then I couldn't even watch one of his other series' "Lost in Space" because it was just too mind numbingly stupid. After a couple of episodes of that mess I was like, "They all deserve to die because they're too dumb to bump off Smith."

[@AUTISTICLYCAN]

My favorite Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea memory were fun I had watching it Sunday evenings after dinner on our 25 inch Black & White TV. Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was broadcast Sunday right after The Wonderful World of Disney. I marveled at how unrealistic the Seaview's nuclear reactor looked. What's sick is I loved the flashing lights and reactor sound effects on the flying sub. The prettiest reactor in an Irwin Allen series powered the Time Tunnel. I'm 60+ and the Time Tunnel's Reactor still takes my breath away. The way Time Tunnel's reactor pulsed and sounded just made the Time Tunnel Reactor look the part of being powerful and huge! Also knowing the Time Tunnel complex was 800 floors deep.

[@FactsVerse]

Fun stuff, thanks for sharing! We're happy to know that you're a fan. Be safe and enjoy the rest of your evening ♥

[@Lurker1954]

My favorite part of the series was the ludicrous things that came up. Homicidal puppets are the first thing to come to mind.

[@stevesmith6236]

The actors involved with the "Seaview rock & roll" were instructed to do this by someone off camera banging a wooden spoon on a metal bucket. I prefer the eight window Seaview. Was a member of the David Hedison fan club back in the day. Some episodes showed the Seaview firing torpedoes from the front of the sub, even though it only had a torpedo room aft.

[@miguelcastaneda7257]

The sea view surfacing from the ocean like a missle then plopping down

[@gerrywoody4301]

I used to eagerly await in each episode for the bit where kowalsky would get hit on the head with a huge red wrench

[@kencooper2059]

Loved that show, it was amazingly cool for it's time.

[@FactsVerse]

We agree and are glad to know that you love the show. Which cast member is your favorite?

[@kencooper2059]

@@FactsVerse Barbara Eden, she was gorgeous. Haha, yes I know she was not a regular.

[@marcusjustice6165]

Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea was exceptional with the prop models 3:01The Redesigned seasons 2 to 4 USS Seaview SSRN1. USS Neptune SSRN2 USS Angler SSRN3 2:31 SS Polidor lower left picture. The Atomic powered Test Sub 4 episodes: The Monster's Web 6:08 to 6:09 6:50 to 7:03 Deadly Waters No Escape from Death The Edge of Doom 2:31 The Submarine Vulcan middle picture. 2 episodes: The Lost Bomb Rescue The Jet Bandit Attack Bomber Drone appeared in 4 episodes: Eleven Days To Zero Mist of Silence The Human Computer The Edge of Doom 2:31 The Flying Sub FS1 top picture. 2:52 The Minisub The Apple 1 Diving Bell. William J. Creber L B Abbott Howard Lydecker

[@kepler186f4]

As I recall built models of the Seaview, the Flying Sub, the Invaders UFO, the Spindrift from Land of the Giants, the B9 robot from Lost in Space, the Enterprise and her common opponents.

[@daveroche6522]

Fun fact - the diving bell was called 'Apple 1' (just mentioned/referred to in 1 episode, S1, if memory serves).

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

Now I gotta watch that episode just for that. I’m a big diving bell guy, every time the bell got lowered you knew something was going to go sideways!

[@daveroche6522]

@@unassistedsuicide2243 Aye - who knew the average whales insides were mostly plastic - with the occasion stegosaurus wandering around [while Mr. Pem caused all manner of bedlam in the background......]. Still great viewing!

[@jeffstone2136]

Other weird Voyage facts: 1) As with Lost In Space, the stupider the stories got, the higher the ratings climbed. 2) Richard Basehart was drinking heavily during the show's first season, but sobered up as the show went on. You'd think it'd be the other way around with how the story quality declined. 3) One colour episode reuses several minutes of footage from a black and white episode, only tinted red. Which would be fine, if the footage didn't feature a character who was dead by that point in the show. 4) The sub's poor old Circuitry Room gets trashed by monsters almost every week, yet Nelson and Crane never think to get a proper security door for it.

[@FactsVerse]

Fun stuff, thank you for sharing this. You're a true fan. Which episode is the most memorable for you?

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

EXCELLENT

[@bb22602]

My favorite is the MAD Magazine title of the series "Voyage to See What's on The Bottom". That thing sank EVERY week, I swear - and not the kind of sinking it was supposed to do, like sink and come back up. It wanted to STAY sunk.

[@nurse824]

On the east coast the show aired at 7pm on Sunday. Usually by 7:15 someone on the bridge was yelling into the intercom, "damage control, damage control, what happened." I enjoyed watching the show as a kid.

[@williebowen2965]

My favorite episode was The Mermaid. I couldn't stand the rubber monster. The Mermaid was very beautiful & the under water scenes were awesome.

[@mahatmarandy5977]

Hi. I was friends with Harlan Ellison. He was never the 'lead writer' on VTTBOTS. He only wrote one episode, and he took his name off of it because he was unhappy with the many many many revisions Irwin Allen made him make. Also, the story about breaking someone's pelvis while beating the crap out of a guy is....wildly exaggerated. There was this guy named Adrian Samish who was in charge of looking over scripts for the network, and was widely regarded as just a horrible, horrible guy to have to work with. He was insisting on changes to Harlan's script, and finally Harlan snapped and jumped the table. Exactly why he jumped over the table, I dunno. Was he gonna punch Samish? Maybe. Was he gonna grab him by the collar and yell in his face? Maybe. Was he gonna grab him and slam him into the wall to intimidate him? Maybe. I honestly don't know. In any event, Harlan didn't clear the table, hit the miniature of the seaview that was on the table, and it slid out of control and hit Samish in the pelvis, breaking it. There was no fight. Samish went down screaming, Harlan fell off the table with a thud, and - importantly - the Seaview miniature didn't break. It was one of the 8-windowed shooting miniatures, so it was very heavy and very sturdy. You could ram it through the pelvises of a dozen men and it wouldn't break. :) They continued to use the miniature whenever they needed any FX scenes for the remainder of the first season.

[@scottmcintyre4950]

Thank you! That's the version I always heard. Also Basehart didn't have to audition, he was asked to do the series. I Love that Voyage is still getting some props, but a little fact checking is always a help.

[@mahatmarandy5977]

@@scottmcintyre4950 People always like to make Harlan out to be this lunatic that was always like 30 seconds away from arrest for violent assault, and, yeah, he did have a temper, definitely, but he was aghast at some of the stories people told about him. "No, I never dropped a chandelier on people at a convention. That would have killed people, My God, what is wrong with people that they'd believe something like that?" Which isn't to say he didn't do outrageous, and occasionally violent things, but...well, there's no 'but' there. He definitely punched a few people in his day, that's wrong under most circumstance, but never to actually permanently injure someone.

[@Tiberius291]

I watched 'Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea' and 'Lost In Space' as a kid in the 60s, but my favorite science fiction show was 'Star Trek'

[@jackwiseman1832]

The collar device on the right collar is the Officer version of the Transportation school and completion of transportation school in Fort Eustis. Also at Fort Eustis is the USA/Canadian AVRO flying saucer.

[@mikegrossberg8624]

One of the things I noticed. Every time the Seaview was supposed to be in arctic waters, and had some kind of problem, you would always see huge blocks of "ice" falling on it. Somebody apparently forgot that ice, even giant bergs, FLOATS, or decided that being assaulted by ice cubes while deeply submerged was more cinematic

[@Caje-zf8md]

Overall, I enjoyed watching the series back in the sixties but honestly, I couldn't get over the cheesy-looking monsters, especially the "lobster man" (played by Vic Lundin from "Robinson Crusoe on Mars). Toymaker Remco brought out a playset at about the same time featuring the Seaview, two divers, a sea chest, an octopus and two underwater vehicles that were never featured in the series. A complete, boxed set can bring $$$ nowadays.

[@FactsVerse]

We're happy to know that you're a fan of the show. In your opinion, what is its best episode?

[@jasonsmith9082]

They should do a reboot of this show!

[@williebowen2965]

As long as it's done right.

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

I disagree. They’d butcher it up.

[@anthonybilotta5713]

My Alltime favorite show.

[@FactsVerse]

We're happy to know that you're a fan of Secrets of Voyage! Which episode appealed to you the most?

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

Me too!

[@mxbishop]

The Voyage theme song from Paul Sawtell is really quite lovely - especially if you can hear it in its entirety. A portion of it even sounds like the something used by John Williams for Close Encounters over a decade later. Check it out.

[@kathleencummings8081]

I've always loved the Voyage theme, very lyrical. Ironically, Williams wrote both themes for Lost in Space, and music for the other shows, Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants (not to mention Allen's many disaster films), but not Voyage.

[@CharlesGates-v6n]

😎 Cool information. Thanks!

[@centurionknight]

When I was a young boy I would go on many jet flights with my family. I was never afraid of flying because I would always imagine I was flying the Flying Sub.

[@danjohnston9037]

Harlen Ellison BEAT UP A Censor ?? That in itself is worth a 👍

[@billstraub7860]

Why was Bob Dowdell as Chip Morton (Commander) always listed last in the credits, when he was clearly the #3 character in this series?

[@nycdweller]

I wish they focused an episode an episode on Chip Morton!

[@glenminnick3724]

I watched this show as a kid in the 60s, it was among some of the shows we liked, 12 o clock high, the invaders, man from uncle etc.

[@larrymiller3849]

I loved this series as a kid . The later episodes were like a form of Star Trek under the sea. I can't understand why the original episodes, are not more widely available on sci Fi channels . There should definitely be a reboot or updated movie version.

[@FactsVerse]

We're happy to know that you love the show. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. If we may ask, which episode did you like the best?

[@larrymiller3849]

@@FactsVerse The one about captain Nemo or the resurrected pirates . It's literary been about 40 - 45 years , since I've seen any of the VtBS episodes . So I may be very messed up in some of the details now . Lol. But I seem to recall these pirates ,with super human powers taking over the Sea View . And the crew valiantly trying to fight back. With Admiral Nelson eventually developing some sort of high tech forcefield , to weaken or keep them at bay ?! I just love the fantasy of legendary figures ( pirates ) of yesteryear , somehow being technologically rejuvenated . And the ensuing struggle by the hero's , also using modern technology to stop them. As said earlier , my memory may be messed up. And I plan to check out some of these episodes in full , on you tube soon..if available, just to refresh my memory. But the show in general , just seemed so interesting and magical , at the time .

[@davidnieve6444]

I still fall asleep to all the E Allen classics at 62 its old! When I can not sleep. Also The Outer Limits O.T.S. One Step Beyond and The Twilight Zone. The Veil and Tales of Tomorrow

[@craigsavarese8631]

It is a very cheesy show, but I watched it as a kid in reruns during the 70’s. Often my dad would watch some of them. He loved the over the top shuffling they did. He would join in swaying to and fro almost tipping his recliner. That is my favorite memory of the show.

[@davidwesley2525]

The show was serious in season 1 , got Campy in season 2 , 3 , & 4 .

[@RetiredSailor60]

I remember watching it as a kid in the 60s. The episode I remember most was of the giant whale. It still comes on on METV on Saturday nights.