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

Would you consider yourself to be a fan of the classic science fiction series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, or do you think that the show hasn't aged very well in the last half century? Let us know in the comments.
▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - It Took Place In The 70s and 80s
01:18 - "The Sky is on Fire" Episode Reused the Feature Film's Footage
01:46 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
02:29 - Renowned Sci-Fi Writer Harlan Ellison Allegedly Broke Someone's Pelvis With A "Voyage" Prop
03:01 - The Planet Of The Apes Connection
03:38 - "Voyage" Star Richard Basehart Became A Sought-After Narrator
04:08 - The Seaview Crew Wore Keds
04:32 - David Hedison Turned Down The Part of Captain Crane For The Feature Film
05:09 - Robert Dowdell Was A Western Star Before Playing Commander Chip Morton
05:55 - Richard Basehart Was Out Sick For Several Season Two Episodes
06:35 - The Seaview Rock And Roll
06:58 - Outro
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is arguably one of the most underrated television shows of the 1960s. The underwater adventure series was created by the late Irwin Allen, a legendary action producer that would go on to eventually create Lost In Space. Impressively, "Voyage" ended up becoming the longest-running sci-fi series that Irwin ever worked on.
Since it aired four seasons, that means that it even out-ran Gene Roddenberry's era-defining science fiction masterpiece, Star Trek, which only managed to last for three seasons before getting canceled. Granted, Star Trek would ultimately birth one of the most significant sci-fi franchises of all time.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea got its start as a black and white thriller that tapped into Cold War-era spy themes but it did a great job at evolving with the changing times and eventually transformed into a full-color fantasy series featuring everything from aliens to time travel and even werewolves.
More than half a century later, "Voyage" is still a super fun series to watch. If you consider yourself a sci-fi fan and you've never seen this groundbreaking show, then you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. But even if you're the biggest Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea fan around, there are probably more than a few behind-the-scenes facts that you're completely oblivious to.
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.

[@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! 🙏🌷🌿🌍💜🐠

[@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.

[@bcgrittner8076]

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

[@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 !

[@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.

[@FactsVerse]

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.

[@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.

[@evancortez2]

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

[@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'

[@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.

[@FactsVerse]

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!!! 😂

[@gordonjustin4787]

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

[@FactsVerse]

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

[@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.

[@FactsVerse]

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]

@@FactsVerse Cave of the Dead

[@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?".

[@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!

[@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!

[@dapdne4916]

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

[@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.

[@kevinogill6726]

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

[@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 🤣🤣🤣

[@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!

[@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....."

[@masterskrain2630]

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

[@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.

[@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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[@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! 😊🇺🇸

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

My absolute favorite is from Season 2: episode 16, “Deadly Creature Below”, with guest stars Nehemiah Persoff ( he died April 5th at age 102 ) and Paul Comi as penal colony escapees Dobbs and Hawkins, who are rescued from the sea by Seaview ! While the story centers around the attempts by the pair to sabotage Seaview and escape in the FS-1, there’s a mountain-sized ( and immobile ) undersea monster with giant red eyes who alternately interferes with an escape try in the Flying Sub, and later with the Seaview itself. Captain Crane uses the laser beam on the monster at one point - the monster ROARS it’s disapproval! There’s an excellent moment of discontinuity in this episode: after momentarily holding the control room crew at gunpoint after sabotaging a diving bell descent ( Admiral Nelson & Chief Sharkey in the bell), Dobbs and Hawkins force Commander Morton from the control room into the Flying Sub - immediately followed by a shootout in which Admiral Nelson wounds Hawkins in the leg! At no point do we ever see how or when Commander Morton exits the Flying Sub ( which had to occur, since Dobbs & Hawkins later hijack FS-1 for an escape attempt ). There are a LOT more details to this episode that make it worth watching. I was a 4-year old boy during the middle of this series run, so being 58 now and owning the series on DVD, believe me the 4-year old in me is delighted! My favorite character is Admiral Nelson, he was the leader and always able to figure out a solution to every problem. He has a moment with Captain Crane in the observation nose during this episode that is, for me, the single best moment of the series, when he keys up the microphone and says “Go ahead, Dobbs”. 😁😁😁

[@FactsVerse]

Thank you for sharing your favorite episode! We remember it all too well. Be safe and have a great day ❣

[@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?

[@xray86delta]

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

[@FactsVerse]

We're glad to know that you love the show. Which episode appealed to you the most?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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."

[@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!

[@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.

[@FactsVerse]

Yes, we vividly remember it too! Thank you for bringing back memories. Who is your favorite cast member?

[@darrylruiz2573]

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

[@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".

[@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"... 🤪

[@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.

[@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.

[@rebeccaabraham8652]

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

[@FactsVerse]

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[@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!

[@FactsVerse]

Glad to know that you love the show! Which cast member is your favorite?

[@daveroche6522]

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

[@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.

[@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.😆

[@mattlauer3323]

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

[@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."

[@masudaharris6435]

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.

[@FactsVerse]

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

[@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!

[@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!"

[@FactsVerse]

We're happy to know that you watched this show. Which episode appealed to you the most?

[@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

[@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.

[@FactsVerse]

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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.

[@robertphillips6296]

I liked the Flying Sub!

[@FactsVerse]

Us too! Which episode is your favorite?

[@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

[@wightangel]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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.

[@rsgulledge]

The flying sub was the best part of the show!

[@Fa_Qx2]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@GDJ1957]

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

[@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.

[@FactsVerse]

We're happy to know that you love the show! Which episode appealed to you the most?

[@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❤😊

[@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.

[@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!

[@Lurker1954]

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

[@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

[@Greyteam4291]

Still on late night on METV

[@FactsVerse]

Fun stuff, thanks for sharing this! What other types of videos would you like to see?

[@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.

[@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!

[@Jackcrow955]

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

[@FactsVerse]

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[@Jackcrow955]

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

[@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 !

[@FactsVerse]

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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....

[@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]

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[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@joedefelice7001]

To this day I still remember this show vividly! Especially when Crane used to crawl through the air ducts! So many great memories of this show! I have the whole DVD set, and still watch them!

[@FactsVerse]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@masterskrain2630]

It was notable that in the Movie version of "Voyage", the crew had to go quite a ways forward and down several decks from the Control room to get to the observation lounge with the windows in the bow, but in the T.V. series the windows were only about 20 feet forward from the control room...and on the same level.

[@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."

[@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.

[@jeremycunningham7897]

Love this show! Thanks

[@WayneKeen]

It took me a while, but I slowly became aware that every time the flying sub crashed to the bottom, it crashed into the same rock the same way. Tht is how I became aware of the term "stock footage". :-)

[@zoppie]

I remember that. Also, whenever the Seaview was supposed to be in deep waters, underside shots always showed the sub as just below the surface.

[@fredkelbert1913]

The “cold war elements” were appealing to viewers at the beginning of the series. However, the later change to ridiculous “rubber-suited creatures,” and implausible characters like “dolls” and a “vanishing pirate,” eventually helped to doom the series. Apparently, even the stars of the show were upset about those changes!

[@rongendron8705]

I agree completely!

[@williebowen2965]

Same here I'm biased towards the SSBN Seaview Submarine with the 4 front windows and the Flying Sub underneath the front bow.

[@robvangessel3766]

You brought to my mind a comparison: What's interesting is that most of the goofy episodes in Voyage's later seasons were really no goofier than the contemporary series, Wild, Wild West. What made the difference in the latter was the humor and chemistry between the leads, while Voyage kept repeating the straightfaced formula of the crew battling another rubber suit. Artemus Gorden gave West the illusion of freshness episode to episode; but Richard Basehart and David Hedison keeping stonefaced every week made for monotonous viewing. (God - do I feel like a geek!)

[@LLandP]

Oh yes, you've got that right. I watched it as a kid and loved it. When I watched it as an adult, I loved the first season and as the seasons progressed, I felt silly watching all of the completely crazy things happening. I was embarrassed to watch later episodes. They should have kept it more realistic.

[@robvangessel3766]

@@LLandP I never caught it as a kid. First caught it in syndication in my teens, but looked at it very closely online in my adult years out of curiosity. Because I'm old enough to remember the Cold War era, I could immerse myself in the handful of tense 1st season shows, which I love. Even Eddie Asner with a barely passable Russian accent, as the shitfaced Soviet stuck on a raft with Nelson : great show. For a time I THOUGHT the 4th season was returning to the quality of the 1st (e.g., the one with the time shifting equipment, torturing Captain Crane), but looking them all online I guess not so much.

[@paulhudson8321]

Richard also narrated the Vietnam documentary the 10,000 day war. Voyage was me and my brothers favourite show until Star Trek came out.

[@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.

[@whiteknightcat]

I had a yellow plastic Seaview as a kid, but I could only play with it outside using a washtub with water in it.

[@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

[@NegdoshaManido]

"Voyage" was my gateway drug to a life-long addiction to sci-fi. I discovered it as a first grader, and could not get enough of it. I built the Seaview and Flying Sub models several times, and I hated the diving bell, because you always knew something bad was going to happen in that thing! It would be interesting to see how a modern version of the Seaview would look if Voyage was re-done today. Actually, never mind. I'm glad no one has put their "spin" on my memories of this one.

[@FactsVerse]

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

[@rongendron8705]

I saw the original movie at age 15 in 1961 & loved it! The first year of the show, 1964, shot in B/W, was terrific & almost seemed like watching a short feature film each week! However, when the series started getting into fighting aliens, monsters, ghosts, etc, they lost my interest! p.s. I did love how the show was shot in the 'near future', though!

[@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!

[@FactsVerse]

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.

[@hankmessaros6700]

Wow I was born in 68 living in philadelphia this would come on at 5 on uhf 17 before cable ( lol )I was about 8 and loved it. I have it all on DVD? This show great it had every thing. Who wouldn't want to fly the flying-sub.

[@danielweisman496]

When the Seaview is swaying left and right, notice that the sub’s microphone handset cable doesn’t move-it would sway in real life.

[@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 .

[@joeblow9210]

I loved that show as a kid, had the toy Seaview and flying sub. Always remember Basehart in Moby Dick and this show and I mentally typecast Hedison for it, couldn't really accept him in any other role.

[@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'

[@Foowowee]

Richard Basehart, who played Admiral Nelson, always looked like he’d rather be someplace else, only in it for the paycheck. But recently I saw a couple of movies he did in the late 40s early 50s, where I saw he was really a good actor. I guess time just caught up with him.

[@lesleyhughes4969]

Apparently he agreed to the show because he had to pay for alimony . He saved that show

[@setlik3gaming80]

My favorite part was building the model.

[@montigobear]

agreed